By Steven M. Baule, CIO Advisor
As educators are being fed the mantra of being data driven, I have to express some concerns about the focus on good sound bites about test scores, standard deviations of the values added, etc., as the single focus of educational practitioners in America. It is important for leaders to realize there are other types of data to gather, some of which don’t fit neatly into spreadsheets or databases. Take a morning and leave your office and go to visit schools to gather some random qualitative data about the schools in your district. Spend some time walking through classrooms and visiting with students and teachers actually engaged in using technology or—possibly—not using technology. Try to see what is going on at their level from the student perspective. The classroom is the front line in our war on ignorance. All leaders need to spend time on the front line. It is the only way to know what is really going on in the schools.
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