I realized I haven’t really blogged much at all this semester. While there are a few reasons for that, one of them is that I’ve been putting a lot of time into my M.Ed. So here’s what I’ve been up to lately!
This semester I started my M.Ed in School Technology Leadership from the University of Kentucky. With 12 graduate credits and 7 weeks teaching MYP French (on top of my actual job), it has been one of the most challenging semesters of my career. However I cannot gush enough about how much I have valued everything I’m learning in the UKSTL program. I wanted a legit Masters program and I got one! Enormous amounts of reading, discussion boards, quizzes and homework, live classes with Adobe Connect (half of them in the middle of the night), learning APA, my first literature review…whew!
I took 2 classes for UKSTL: School Technology Leadership (EDL 661) with Jayson Richardson and Quantitative Methods (EDL 771) with John Nash. I’m officially done with 661 and have a few more assignments to finish this for 771 before I head to Sri Lanka for winter break :). Quantitative Methods has given me the vocabulary and skills I need in order to become a data-driven leader. School Technology Leadership has given me a basis for the things I believed about technology in education and really pushed me to research and define my ideas. If the rest of this program (I still have 4 semesters) is as fulfilling as this one has been – let’s go!
A few highlights:
- I was introduced to the ISTE NETS-A for the first time.
- Data has become much more important to me.
- I read Open Leadership by Charlene Li (highly recommend!).
- I wrote a School Technology Vision at the beginning of EDL 661.
- I read Influencer: The new science of leading change and LOVED it.
- I suggested some ed tech blogs to my classmates.
- I reviewed 2 tech assessment guidelines.
- I wrote my first literature review.
- I interviewed a (pretty awesome) school technology leader.
- I finished up 661 with my Post School Technology Vision….
- …and a recruiting video.
te(a)ch french 
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