B.S. Elementary Education
M.S.Ed. Instructional Technology
Ed.D. Instructional Technology & Leadership
1.b. : Engage in an ongoing process to develop, implement, and communicate technology-infused strategic plans aligned with a shared vision
Artifact:
Description:
In the summer of 2017, I took the course GDIT 701: Professional Leadership in Instructional Technology taught by Dr. David Carbonara. As our final project and presentation of the course, we were partnered with another student to create a portion of a strategic plan. The prompt for the assignment was, “Imagine you are the leader of an institution and you want to add computational thinking tools into the curriculum.” I was partnered with Ms. Kim Nath, and we were responsible for the portion of the plan focused on leadership. Though I had never worked with Ms. Nath before, this was a positive group work experience where we used GoToMeeting to collaborate and work on our project together. As a result, I can’t pinpoint exactly which parts of the PowerPoint that were “mine” versus “hers.” It truly was a team effort, and we discussed everything that was included while I typed it onto the slides.
Reflection:
This artifact was the culmination of weeks of looking at what makes a leader and how that impacts organizations within the course. After writing documents detailing the creation of organizations and their missions, visions, and goals, this was an opportunity to put all of that together. Because of that, I think it clearly displays my ability to participate in the development, implementation, and communication of strategic plans.
I can see myself using the skills necessary to create and fulfill a strategic plan quite frequently in the future. Ideally, I would like to work in a position where I am able to influence technology purchasing to better benefit teachers. Understanding the needs of the different stakeholders was so important to our planning process. During the creation of this presentation, we made sure that we looked at the strategic plan from all sides in order to include all those involved and make sure the plan would positively affect the stakeholders.
Immediately, we discussed the necessary steps of developing a strategic plan from the beginning from the leader’s perspective. As you can see in our PowerPoint, all of our statements are open-ended. Being that we were looking at the development of the strategic plan from the leadership side of things, we chose to outline the different components that should be included but didn’t want to “pigeon-hole” anyone, so to speak. Looking at the bigger picture, I feel fortunate that we had the topic of leadership because I can use our PowerPoint as a framework for strategic plan development when I am part of that process.