Leadership Initiatives for Cyberlearning in STEM Education

在这个项目中，NSDL资源中心与学校网络联盟（CoSN）合作，开发和实施一项K-12技术领导力认证计划，重点关注首席技术官（CTOs），即各州和学区内负责教育技术系统愿景、规划和运营的专业人士。该项目的智力价值在于它认识到，为了利用信息和通信技术（ICT）的进步，鼓励国家教育系统的变革，迫切需要在K-12学校中培养领导力，以创新和有效地利用STEM学科的网络学习工具和资源。此外，CoSN是K-12技术管理领域的关键领导者，其工作建立在CoSN在帮助美国学区技术cto建立能力方面的18年经验，以及其在确定和制定K-12技术cto基本技能框架方面的实质性工作。通过建立严格的认证体系，为地区技术领导者提供必要的技能和能力，使他们成为教育领导者（不仅仅是技术领导者），NSDL和CoSN提供了一种在州和地区学校系统现有框架内工作的机制：i)有效地运用CTO的领导技能，ii)提升和认证CTO的专业敏锐度和专业知识，以及iii)帮助K-12教育的管理者、教师和学生创新和有效地使用网络学习工具、资源和能力建设技能。该项目通过帮助识别获得人际关系、技术和教育技能和能力的领导者，帮助实例化有效和创新的技术使用，对CTO专业社区产生了广泛的影响。此外，该项目为课程主管、图书馆和媒体专家、职前教育教师以及完整的K-16 STEM教育企业的其他关键组成部分开发和评估类似的领导力项目提供了一个潜在的模型。

In this project the NSDL Resource Center is partnering with the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) to develop and implement a K-12 Technology Leadership Certification Program focused on Chief Technology Officers (CTOs), the professionals within states and school districts most responsible for the vision, planning, and operations of educational technology systems. The intellectual merit of this project lies in its recognition that to take advantage of advances in information and communications technologies (ICT) that encourage transformative-enabling changes in the nation's education systems, there is a critical need to develop leadership within K-12 schools for innovative and effective use of cyberlearning tools and resources for STEM disciplines. Furthermore, CoSN is a critical leader in the field of K-12 technology administration and the work builds on CoSN's 18 years of experience in helping to build capacity for US school district technology CTOs and its substantive work in identifying and developing a Framework of Essential Skills of the K-12 CTOs. Through the establishment of a rigorous credentialing system that equips and empowers district technology leaders with the skills and abilities needed to position them as educational leaders (not just technology leaders), NSDL and CoSN are providing a mechanism that works within existing frameworks of state and district school systems: i) to effectively operationalize the leadership skills of the CTO, ii) to elevate and certify the CTO's professional acumen and expertise, and iii) to help administrators, teachers, and students in K-12 education integrate innovative and effective use of cyberlearning tools, resources, and capacity-building skills. The project is exerting a broad impact on the CTO professional community by helping identify leaders who are gaining interpersonal, technical, and educational skills and abilities that help instantiate effective and innovative technology use. Furthermore, this project offers a potential model for developing and evaluating similar leadership programs for curriculum supervisors, library and media specialists, pre-service education faculty, and other key constituents of the full K-16 STEM education enterprise.