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This chapter had points on leadership and new tools with technology and education. It expressed the fact that students are learning new technologies and teachers need to learn those in order to communicate effectively with students. I couldn’t agree more. We need to make sure the students are interested and in order to do that we need to incorporate those technologies they find interesting. I also found it interesting that the chapter suggested that school and district administrators need to develop six specific qualities in order to better help students. Those qualities are individual excellence, organizational skills, courage, results (goal oriented), strategic skills, and operating skills. Most people may think its common sense until you actually stop to think about it. Sometimes we take these things for granted and just assume. Its important to make a conscious effort to do these things. Another point I really liked in the chapter was the suggestion to replace email with blogs. An entire class may have a question about an assignment. If the question is posted in a blog or discussion board, it is 1o times easier to post a detailed answer once instead of to all thirty students. That way, all students are on the same page.