How educational leaders might use a blog.

Blogs are a very important way for educational leaders to communicate.

Blogs allow educational leaders the chance to collaborate with other member of their profession. Often there is only one principal on a campus and no one near them that shares their responsibilities. Through blogging principals and other leaders of the school can communicate effectively over the internet and shorten the gap between campuses, schools, districts, and even states. Blogs can be used by educational leaders to put their action research ideas out there and have others read and comment on them.  Many school issues can be worked on collaboratively through blogging.  This also allows leaders to reflect on their own thought process. It gives them a place to put their own ideas. Blogging gives leaders the place to start stringing their thoughts together.  Often times thoughts don’t make sense by themselves but when you put strands of thought together they become a complete idea. Blogging not only give the leaders a chance to do this but allows people from all over the world to comment on these thoughts to further them.

Dana, N.F. (2009). Leading with passion and knowledge: The principal as action researcher. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.