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Celebrating its 13^th year, the ISTE Leadership Symposium held a special two-hour luncheon on July 7, in conjunction with NECC 2006, at the San Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina.

This year, invited education leaders engaged in a fast-paced tactical planning session with colleagues to develop strategies for moving toward a 20/20 vision of the future.

They divided into table work groups with five tables sharing one of four assigned challenges. Each table only had 30 minutes to work together, in which time they:

• Developed an aggressive strategy for addressing their challenge, with all barriers removed. In other words, their strategy was developed without regard for the need of money, time, courage, or access to decision makers;
• Created a 2 minute “elevator” speech to "sell" this strategy; and
• Presented this speech very quickly to the other groups sharing their challenge, as if they only had their ear for a short ride.

To identify the most compelling strategies, each group had a set of resource cards representing MONEY, TIME, COURAGE, and ACCESS TO DECISION MAKERS. After listening carefully to all the elevator speeches in their group they made an informed decision as to how to distribute their resources. The strategy awarded the most resource cards was chosen to represent to the full symposium group.

Finally, the entire room heard the two-minute presentations of each of the four most compelling strategies. Click on the links below to listen to what was said:

Note: these audio files are in MP3 format, and will open with your designated media player.

	Strategy for applying technology to raising achievement in science, technology, engineering, and math disciplines. Facilitator: Lynn Nolan—ISTE Senior Director of Education Leadership  Presenter: Mike Eason—FETC Executive Director
	Strategy for harnessing technologies used outside of school to enhance education. Facilitator: Don Knezek—ISTE CEO Presenter: Steve Andrews—Intel® Innovation in Education
	Strategy for raising level of awareness of relevance and importance of technology in education. Facilitator: Mary Ann Wolf—SETDA Presenter: Helen Padgett—AzTEA Faculty Arizona State University
	Strategy for developing an educator work force that is highly qualified to integrate technology to meet important instructional aims. Facilitator: Christine Fox—SETDA Presenter: Nette (Jeanette) Meade—South Dakota Department of Education

ISTE wishes to thank our friends and colleagues at SETDA (http://www.setda.org/) for their partnership in bringing the Leadership Symposium to NECC 2006.

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