After our school leaders started using OneNote they improved their leadership just by making their meetings more organized and effective. Margie Hohepa (2009) found that school leaders have twice the impact on the students, if they promote and/or participate in effective teacher professional learning. Research shows that it is important for school leaders to be engaged with their teaching staff. So everyone knows what to do and when they are expected to be done with the task. Outlook also lets you create tasks and assign them to a specific team member. As a team leader, I can send emails directly from Outlook to our shared OneNote notebook and keep the team updated at all times. By doing so, staff can prepare for meetings or follow the meeting virtually when unable to attend in person.Īnother nifty tool is the “Send to OneNote” feature. School leaders maintain “Administrative-meetings” notebooks to share agendas, notes and documents for upcoming meetings. School leaders gain administrative efficiency, time to impact learning The leaders at our school use OneNote to maximize their time, thus they can spend more time on the core business-teaching and learning. Since Office 365 is cloud-based, the school leaders can share OneNote notebooks to administrate the school in real-time collaboration. Not only are OneNote notebooks easily shared, through Office 365, but OneNote also has a lot of nifty collaboration and assessment features no matter what device you use. However, I would also like to bring the school as a whole into this educational use of OneNote. However, at Skjetten Primary School we all have one secret weapon- OneNote!įrom my perspective, OneNote is the best educational tool, with so many useful tools just waiting to be discovered and used in new and exciting ways. And I can understand why school leaders, educators, students and parents feel overwhelmed when they are introduced to new tools, programs, apps and so forth if the main focus is on the shifting to the new technology, rather than implementing the right technology. Living in the 21st century, the use of technology plays an important role in education.

This post was written by Steffi Svendsen, teacher and Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert at the Skjetten Primary School in Norway.

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