Leadership


 * For school leadership to promote and prioritize ICT in their schools by: AIP (Award Implementation Plan), appraisals and peer coaching
 * Employ staff based on ICT integration, key selection criteria
 * The leadership group will provide peer coaching to support staff
 * Ensure people 'walk the talk' and not 'talk the talk' inot 21st century
 * Leadership driving the move towards web 2.0 not specific individuals
 * Administration should work with the school leaders to promote the positives
 * Abolish the attitude that web related tasks are harder and not as educational valuable
 * Leaders who really want to use ICT and value it
 * Leadership that is visionary, proactive, supportive vs dictatorial
 * All principals and leadership team to do an ICT project, e.g. PLP
 * Upward management listening and understanding grass roots idea rather than prehistoric management managing down or telling
 * Leadership must be visionary, proactive, supportive, adaptuve, encouraging, knowledgable of the implementation and use of 21st century technology across the school
 * Lead from the front only, employ principals who can demonstrate visionary views of 21st century
 * More supportive principals
 * Make leadership aware that the ICT learning is part of their job
 * Support and encourage collaboration between teachers
 * Leaders with 'the' vision
 * Leaders who are brave
 * Structure
 * Supportive leaders who recognise and give merit to staff
 * Incentive programs
 * All school principals to promote and prioritize ICT to affect school culture and the need for progress
 * Create a culture where ICT and learning is valued throughout the school. Build it into the school structure, get rid of something else
 * RDO's for teachers, more flexible hours
 * PLP compulsory for all staff
 * Directives from leadership to improve ICT skills and implement in classrooms
 * Performance and development mandated for ICT integration
 * Performance and development mandatory ICT
 * Performance and development plans and ICT goals
 * Staffing
 * ICT peer coach in all schools to support effective integration
 * Employ new staff
 * Knowledge of how ICT fits into VELS so that teachers don't refuse ICT in their classrooms
 * More time for ICT coordinators to implement programs
 * Staff selection based on skill rather than process, e.g. headhunting
 * Classroom based structures need to be removed, online, offline, etc.