National Education Technology Standards for Administrators

Submitted by Sandy Lathem on Sun, 10/08/2006 - 09:50.
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NETS for Administrators
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The National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) for Administrators developed through the Technology Standards for School Administrators (TSSA) Collaborative identifies knowledge and skills constituting the "core" of what every P-12 administrator needs to know about and be able to do with technology regardless of specific job role. ISTE has embraced the TSSA standards as the national standards and extended the "core" skills and knowledge to include the specific provisions for administrators in three job roles:

  • superintendent and executive cabinet,
  • district-level leaders for content-specific or other district programs, and
  • campus-level leaders including principals and assistant principals.



An underlying assumption of these standards is that administrators should be competent users of information and technology tools common to information-age professionals. Explore this NETS-A site for more on the standards and profiles for technology-using administrators.