Dive Brief:

• Digital leadership is a critical element in improving digital learning for students, and administrators should be thinking about how to find and foster it through hiring and evaluation procedures as well as school culture.
• According to eSchool News, teachers should be leveraging digital collaboration and should get administrative support for innovating, even if that means failing, creating a culture that inspires teachers as well as students to adopt a growth mindset.
• Schoolwide reflection can help identify goals that everyone wants to work toward — and celebrations along the way can mark important progress — while university partnerships can expand local capacity for digital leadership.

Dive Insight:

Education technology is a massive industry in the United States. The options for incorporating digital tools and resources into classrooms are overwhelming. Digital leadership in schools can help teachers make sense of the quality differences across platforms and tools and ensure the best products are reaching students. What’s more, a key element of digital learning now is active engagement.

Teachers should not be giving their students screen time for its own sake, but developing innovative teaching techniques that encourage them to think in new ways. Digital leaders can help teachers identify the proper pedagogy for this next-generation classroom and lead them on their own professional learning journeys. Getting to the heart of an applicant’s digital leadership capacity should be among the key elements of interviews with prospective teachers today.