The Standards-Based Digital School Leader Portfolio: Using TaskStream, LiveText, and PowerPoint
Hauser and Koutouzos fill the chasm that currently exists on the use of digital portfolios for school leader preparation. The authors address issues related to portfolio use with school leaders, education leadership candidates, and those responsible for preparing the next generation of leaders. They illuminate clearly, through a critical review of theory and extant literature, that digital portfolios can act as teaching, learning, communication, and leadership tools to become the genesis of change at the local level. (Christopher Tinken, assistant professor, department of Education Leadership, Management, and Policy, Seton Hall University and editor of three peer-)Hauser and Koutouzos have mapped out not only a direction for moving the educational administration curriculum forward but a process to document the quality of student outcomes—for students and programs—through a standards-based digital portfolio. (professor of educational administration, Eastern Michigan University; executive director, National Council of Professors of Educ)