Educational leaders can use blogs in several ways. Blogs are an easy way for principals to
quickly write down their thoughts or findings in whatever research they are
currently undertaking. It also isn’t
difficult to add texts, images, and links.
If the blog is an open blog then other people can add information they
have found that might be relevant to the studies being done. They don’t have to be used only as a research
tool. Principals could use it as a
diary. It is an easy place to write down
daily events and daily thoughts from their school day. What a great way for a principal to see the
growth of their school and their ideas.
Since these blogs are a continuous flow of entries he/she can go back in
the past to see what has happened and what was done about it. Students look at many principals as someone who has an office on the
other side of the school and they don’t have much interaction during their
school day. The students know that the
principal is a person of authority so imagine if that principal is seen writing
every day. Imagine if that principal
expresses his love for writing and explains what can be gained through it. Principals can set in motion a practice for
every day writing simply because he/she is writing.
Dana, Nancy F. (2009).
Leading with passion and
knowledge: The principal as
action researcher. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.
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