Digital Leadership Week 2

     In working through this weeks readings ,I really wanted to find something new and exciting as a framework. Many of them aligned with how I thought. Trying to put into the perspective of something I would want to implement, a lot of them seemed way too complicated. In the end, good ole Triple E from Kolb seemed to be the most aligned with my thoughts, as well as easily sold to a staff. The simplicity and rememberability of it makes it something that can catch and stick in the minds of teachers, as it did with myself. I really think this model would be effectively implemented as it can be the practice of a whole day PD, as well as a printout to reference for teachers when lesson planning. I find the ease of this important as the school I work at is very disorganized and hectic on a day to day basis

    If I was in a role of digital leadership, teachers and students would be my main stakeholders. I would want to try and find a wide array of people to survey this model to. You would not only want strait A students. They will complete their assignments with a scroll and quill if we needed. Technology is something should be a tool to bring up the C average student who is just getting by. The same thought can be applied to teachers. My teachers who are implementing the most technology, are probably falling into some version of this framework already. I would want to hear from the teacher who uses little to no technology, or the teacher that only breaks out the chrome book for the plop the student in front of a chrome book platforms. . 

    This framework, or really any framework, models perfectly into a qualitative goal that our principal speaks about very often. It is our goal as a school to be the premier academic school in region 3 of Columbus City Schools. The simple fact is, worksheets and packets are not premier. You can definitely be a good teacher with these tools. However, in the year 2026, technology is essential to being a premier space of academia. Kolbs triple E framework gives us a clear path to use technology to go from good to premier through enhancing, engaging, and extending the already good work we are doing.

    The first way I would try to leverage current practices is to look at the Triple E framework against the simple things we are already doing with the computers we do have. As stated earlier, a lot of the technology use is plopping students in front of Alecks, StudySync, or Achieve3000. The district tells us we have to use these, and they are used. Trying to leverage PLC time with subject area teachers together to try and see how we can modify what we are already doing to better fit into using these programs to expand, extend, or enhance would be a good entry point. I think this takes away a lot of fear from adding another thing to a packed curriculum.

    The outcome I would be looking for and providing feedback on would that the teacher could articulate what they are doing differently with technology to better answer a specific question from the triple E framework. I think to bridge the digital divide I would spend some time finding local (in-district) experts of these programs and find out how they use these things effectively. Learning myself and passing along this information will provide some much needed training to bridge that inequity gap. I think this is something that is reasonable as it only includes finding three people and learning more about 3 things. 

Reference:

Kolb, L. (2020). Framework models. Triple E Framework. https://www.tripleeframework.com/framework-models.html