Eric Sheninger - Digital Leadership: Changing Paradigms for Changing Times

Digital Leadership is a great one-stop shopping place to learn about all the key ingredients you will need for success in the digital age. Sheninger connects the dots with his seven pillars, his listing of obstacles and ways to overcome them, and the integrated solution that brings it all together. Comprehensive, clear, practicalget it and use it today!

Michael Fullan, Author, Motion Leadership, Dean and Professor Emeritus

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

Toronto, Canada

Digital Leadership is essential reading for any education leader trying to figure out how technology can strengthen schoolsand what pitfalls to avoid. Eric Sheninger masterfully makes the connections as to how technology can strengthen schools, providing an essential guide for todays leaders in education. This is a readable, practical book!

Cindy Johanson, Executive Director, Edutopia

The George Lucas Educational Foundation

San Rafael, CA

Eric recognizes that ongoing professional development is the key to helping staff meet the challenges of the future. He shares how to leverage technology to build a strong, school-based professional learning agenda when other resources are not meeting the needs of your faculty and students. His story and tools will be inspirational to others.

Stephanie Hirsh, Executive Director

Learning Forward

Dallas, TX

Digital Leadership is a focused guide to using the many new channels of modern communication to engage families, tell your schools story, inspire staff growth and connection, and bring new relevance to the classroom. If youre feeling overwhelmed by all the options out there, this book will give you a head start on mastering your social media strategy.

Daniel H. Pink, Author, To Sell Is Human

Washington, DC

This book is THE book on digital leadership. There is no one I can recommend more highly than the most connected educational leader todayEric Sheningerto help us navigate all of the changes taking place in classrooms, schools and districts. The book is perfect to help everyone initiate transformational change in a digital world. Whether you are a cutting-edge techie or a nervous newbie, this book is for you.

Todd Whitaker, Ph.D., Professor of Educational Leadership

Indiana State University

Terre Haute, IN

Eric has created a must-read book for principals seeking to bring their schools into the digital age. He has created the compelling case for the many ways digital tools can have a powerful, positive effect in our schools. From classroom practice to the way in which we create the digital footprint of our schools, Eric steps us through how school leaders can evolve to meet the challenges of our modern age.

Chris Lehmann, Founding Principal

Science Leadership Academy

Philadelphia, PA

Eric Sheningers new book is a red-hot, relevant guide to navigating the technology-driven, tectonic shifts taking place in education today. While education leaders of all stripes are groping for answers as the ground beneath them shifts, Digital Leadership provides a reliable, practical, and tested road map for leading in the digital age.

Errol St. Clair Smith, Executive Director

Academy of Education Arts and Sciences

Glendale, CA

There are books on technology that dont show you how to change. There are books on how to change that have nothing to say about technology. Then there are curmudgeonly commentaries that are dismissive about change and technology in equal measure. Eric Sheningers book alters all that. Through personal testimony, practical examples, and a commitment to clear professional learning, Digital Leadership opens your mind and shows you the tools that will make you think again about what twenty-first-century learning can really look like. If your iPads are used as notebooks, your SMART Boards are glorified whiteboards, and your school has an electronic ban on access to everything, this book will make you look at technology and learning with totally different eyes.

Professor Andy Hargreaves, BA, PhD, Hon Doc (Uppsala), FRSA

Thomas More Brennan Chair in Education

Lynch School of Education, Boston College

Chestnut Hill, MA

Digital Leadership is a must-read for every school leader. Filled with inspiring stories of transformation from real, practicing campus leaders, along with an appendix filled with resources anyone can take to campus and use today, Eric Sheningers work is certain to be one of the most valuable resources in your professional library.

Carrie Jackson, Principal

Timberview Middle School

Fort Worth, TX

Eric Sheningers book builds upon his impressive accomplishments as a digital leader. I have had a chance to learn from Eric through his involvement with Digital Learning Day, and I am thrilled that others can learn even more from him about leading schools to maximize the potential of digital learning and asking the tough questions to more effectively meet the needs of each student. Erics bold approach to school reform and the thoughtful pillars he lays out in this book provide important guidance for other education leaders striving to implement digital learning.

Bob Wise, President

Alliance for Excellent Education

Former Governor of West Virginia

Digital leadership is more than a catchphraseits how school principals must lead students, parents, and teachersand no one is better equipped to describe this leadership approach than Eric Sheninger.

Digital Leadership is a carefully crafted and highly readable book that simultaneously provides a view of digital leadership from 60,000 feet alongside a boots-on-the-ground realists view of modern schooling. From setting aside fears of technology to understanding the importance of communication, public relations, and even branding, Digital Leadership offers compelling recommendations not only focused on the need to change but also on best ways to sustain change.

Its possible that Eric saved the best for last when he put into words the concept of the networked teacher and how students must be engaged in new and exciting ways, for, truly, school leadership has always been about helping teachers engage students.

Finally, dont mistake this as a book on technology. From the first to the last page, Erics book is all about school leadership, one that I highly recommend to every school leader.

William Bushaw, Executive Director

PDK International

Arlington, VA

I loved this book! It is filled with many examples of how technology is impacting learning in classrooms across the country. Whether you are a technology guru or learning to embrace technology, every school administrator should read this book to learn ways to prepare their students to be successful in the twenty-first century. Leadership 3.0 is a mindset that every school administrator needs to embrace and lead with. I am going to request that my superintendent purchase it for my fellow administrators, along with the educators on our district technology team.

Jessica Johnson, Principal and District Assessment Coordinator

Dodgeland Elementary School

Juneau, WI

What a great read! Digital Leadership situates the trends in technology and education within a historical context and provides a blueprint to the reader for a navigable pathway for the future. And it manages to do so in a way that is empowering and energizing, while still addressing the very real fears and challenges facing any leader standing at this nexus of authentic educational reform. It is a very rare blend of philosophy, pedagogy, and practical, roll-up-your-sleeves how tos.

Natalie Bernasconi, La Paz Middle School NBCT Teacher