Written by: Dan Maas
9/4/2009 

For the past three years, the staff in the ITS department have contributed to, edited and most importantly, adopted a set of guidelines and principles for our work with technology in schools.  I am a big fan of Stephen Covey's Principle-centered Leadership approach and have tried to embrace these ideas in my efforts to provide leadership here.  It is clear to me that the combined intelligence, experience and innovation that exists in our staff far exceeds the capacity of the few of us who have the duty of leadership can provide LPS.  By empowering our team, we become more effective.  But empowerment can be scary for some leaders and the way I have been able to feel confident that the decision-making the ITS staff make on a daily basis is aligned with my vision is codified in this document.

We call it a doctrine because verbally it is too easy to confuse principles with principals [;-)  This is the latest version but is a living document.  I share this because I am proud that our team upholds these tenets and ideals on a daily basis.  The doctrine is divided into two parts: guidelines for the team and guidelines as professionals.  Each section has a short phrase that we can use to remind ourselves of our commitments followed by a sentence or two that confirms what we mean by each phrase.

The ITS Doctrine

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