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Google Teacher Academy for Administrators
 The Google Teacher Academy for Administrators is a FREE professional development experience designed to help K-12 educational leaders get the most from innovative technologies. Each Academy is an intensive, one-day event where participants get hands-on experience with Google's free products and other technologies, learn about innovative instructional strategies, receive resources to share with colleagues, and learn how to apply examples from our innovative corporate environment. Upon completion, Academy participants become Google Certified Teachers who share what they learn with other K-12 educators in their local region - and around the world. This GTA will be held in San Antonio, Texas, right before the ASCD conference. If you're already planning to attend ASCD, we hope you'll also consider applying to the GTA for Administrators.
About the Academy 50 innovative educational leaders are selected to attend the GTA for Administrators based on the merits of their online application. Potential applicants include educational leaders or decision makers including (but not limited to) school principals, assistant principals, state, county or district superintendents, technology directors or coordinators, and CTOs who actively serve K-12 teachers and students. Participants are selected based on their professional experience, their passion for leadership in education, and their successful use of technology in K-12 settings. Since the program relies on a "train-the-trainers" model, we are particularly interested in administrators who actively provide technology-related mentoring or training for other educators. Participants must provide their own travel, and if necessary, their own lodging. We've changed our format based on past feedback, so that we may include interested applicants from regions all around the world. This Academy is designed to create a strong professional learning community of administrators who support each other over the course of a year, so if you are not local, you must be willing to be resourceful with all technologies to facilitate communication and collaboration with your fellow Google Certified Teachers. Educators who attend a Google Teacher Academy for Administrators become Google Certified Teachers.
Google Certified Teachers are expected to:
In addition to a free day of training, Google Certified Teachers get:
Application Requirements All applications to the Google Teacher Academy must be submitted using our online form. Only completed applications submitted before the deadline will be considered, and you may only apply to an Academy in your local region.
NOTE: Each applicant to the Google Teacher Academy for Administrators is REQUIRED to produce and submit an original one minute video on the following topic: "Innovative Education Leadership in the Age of Google." Be as creative as you like. This video is a very important part of your application. The task is designed to demonstrate your technical ability, your resourcefulness, your commitment, and your unique personality and interests. We realize that you may have never produced a video before and that you may not own video equipment, but through perseverance we are confident you can find a way to meet this requirement. You do not need to be in the video, but please do not submit videos produced for another project or videos created by others. We're specifically looking for leaders that creatively address the above topic in an original way. WHO QUALIFIES AS AN ADMINISTRATOR?
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