February 2016: School Administrator
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Editor's Note
Connectedness
Does anyone espouse the notion of “the connected educator” better at the moment than Michael Lubelfeld, superintendent in Deerfield, Ill.?
The day he came on board, July 1, 2013, one of his first acts was to unblock the district’s use of Twitter “to solve the problem of disconnection.” Through the district hashtag (#Engage109), teachers and administrators now show the public via photos, videos, text and links to other relevant content what learning looks like in his 3,000-student, K-8 district or, as he puts, “what innovation means in real life and in real time.”
Lubelfeld has become a champion of social media use by superintendents. He’s a comfortable user of tools unfamiliar to me (Remind or Periscope anyone?) and co-founder of the monthly “suptchat” discussion forum on Twitter.
He also doesn’t hold back when addressing colleagues. In a thoughtful essay for the Discovery Education blog last July, he wrote: “[I]n some school systems, the top leadership still does not understand or value current methods of communication. Their relative ignorance about social connectivity can become quite detrimental to a school system in search of change, innovation and leadership.”
Lubelfeld’s contribution in this issue is the lead authorship on a short article about the AASA Digital Consortium.
Jay P. Goldman
Editor, School Administrator
703-875-0745
jgoldman@aasa.org
@JPGoldman
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