Welcome!
I am a Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Colorado Denver and the Founding Director of the UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE), the only university center in the U.S. dedicated to school leadership, innovation, deeper learning, and technology. I’ve worked with hundreds of schools, districts, universities, and other organizations and blog regularly here at Dangerously Irrelevant.
Where’s Scott?
Below are some upcoming adventures. I am working in these key areas right now. Please get in touch if I can be of support!
- December 7 – Manhattan Middle School, Boulder, Colorado
- December 7 – Bardstown City Schools, Bardstown, Kentucky
- December 7 – Ellicott School District, Calhan, Colorado
- December 8 – Commonwealth Learning Partnership, Virginia
- December 13 – OtterCares, Fort Collins, Colorado
- December 15 – Thompson School District, Loveland, Colorado
- January 11 – Manhattan Middle School, Boulder, Colorado
- January 12 – Rocky Mountain Deaf School, Denver, Colorado
- January 21 – InnEdCO Innovation Academy, Colorado
- January 27 – eDCSD Online, Englewood, Colorado
- February 15 – InnEdCO Innovation Academy, Colorado
- February 27 – Decorah Community Schools, Decorah, Iowa
- March 18-23 – Reggio Emilia, Italy
- March 29 – InnEdCO Innovation Academy, Colorado
- April 29 – InnEdCO Innovation Academy, Colorado
- May 17 – InnEdCO Innovation Academy, Colorado
- June 11 – InnEdCO Innovation Academy, Breckenridge, Colorado
- June 11-14 – InnEdCo Annual Conference, Breckenridge, Colorado
- June 24-28 – ISTE Live, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- July 12-15 – NASSP Ignite, Denver, Colorado
- October 26-28 – EARCOS Leadership Conference, Bangkok, Thailand
Podcast with Matt Rhoads
I had the pleasure recently of appearing on the Navigating Education podcast with Matt Rhoads. Episode 59 was titled Leadership and Instructional Design for Deeper Learning. Matt and I had a wide-ranging discussion about the design and leadership decisions that foster...
Thinking about NAEP in Colorado and the Denver Public Schools
[this blog post is a follow-up response to the Twitter exchange with Van Schoales posted below] Hi Van. Although I’ve admired your work for years, you and I have never met, which means that we don’t have a relationship to lean into. Seth Godin reminds me that ‘if your...
Much ado about NAEP
Scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) are down after the pandemic. Surprise! Four big thoughts on all of this... 1. Below is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) graph of daily COVID cases in the U.S. Note the huge spike in...
Congratulations, Silver Lining for Learning!
In March 2020, some world-renowned university faculty invited me to help launch a new website and podcast initiative, Silver Lining for Learning. Although I eventually bowed out due to other time commitments, the weekly live conversations and guest posts were super...
Technology for the purpose of WHAT?
This year I am serving as both an ISTE Ambassador and an ISTE Community Leader (in addition to some other ISTE volunteer work). Recently I had the pleasure of publishing a post on ISTE’s blog titled Before Using School Technology, Know Your EdTech Purpose. In that...