Defined by Schoemaker, Krupp & Howland (2013) as anticipate, challenge, interpret, decide, align and learn.
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Strategic Leadership: The Windham Elementary Chromebook Initiative
Marcus Paul Howell (Auburn University, USA) and Ellen H. Reames (Auburn University, USA)
Copyright: © 2017
|Pages: 12
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1049-9.ch115
Abstract
Windham Elementary School underwent a wholesale shift towards student and teacher leadership, student centered instruction, and the adoption of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) based best practices. The use of strategic leadership was instrumental in facilitating the changes undergone at Windham. This article explored how strategic leadership was used to facilitate the development of the Chromebook Initiative. The six essential skills of strategic leadership: anticipation, challenging, interpreting, deciding, aligning and learning were used to lead school faculty through planning, implementation and evaluation of the initiative (Schoemaker, Krupp, & Howland 2013). Anticipation, challenging and interpreting, brought about faculty utilizing action research to uncover the fact that low cost Google Chromebooks would provide an easily managed, electronic environment. Using the essential strategic skills of deciding, aligning and learning, Windham Elementary established an educational account and implemented a 1:1 Google Chromebook initiative in grades 3-6 to meet the collaborative 21st century needs of students and faculty.