In many secondary schools today, ICTs are regular features and fixtures in the teaching-learning process. Blended instructional strategies have become part of the teaching and learning process, with some schools combining in-person teaching with online learning. Moreover, technological devices have been employed to enhance the teaching-learning process for students and teachers, making it easier for them to conduct research, improve access to online learning resources, as well as greater ease in completing and submitting assignments. Therefore, school leadership, in particular principals, must become competent and comfortable in the effective utilisation and management of such technologies.  More specifically, the integration of ICTs in curriculum delivery and the daily administrative functions of the school system.

This research focuses on leadership strategies that school principals may utilise to incorporate technology for curriculum delivery and school improvement. It aims to extricate the successes, challenges and possibilities regarding ICT integration as experienced by secondary school principals in Antigua. The research intends to use a mixed method convergent design to investigate the multiple facets of this education phenomena. This research design will be anchored by leadership and an ICT integration theoretical framework. Moreover, data will be gathered from school principals, teachers and students, through the use of online questionnaires and semi-structured interviews.

The researcher intends to employ descriptive statistics, independent Samples T Tests, and One-Way Anovas, to examine levels and relationships between factors in the quantitative data. The qualitative data from school principals and teachers will be subjected to thematic analysis as a means of identifying the critical factors that facilitate or impede ICT integration as explicated above. In keeping with the mixed method convergent design, the quantitative and qualitative data will be combined at the stages of interpretation, discussion and reporting in order to capture a global, in-depth and insightful understanding of the issue. This research seeks to fill the gap in the area of school principal leadership strategies in the integration of effective technology use in academic institutions.

Wednesday 25th October 2023 at 1:00 p.m.

Mr. Anthony Donaldson, a native of Antigua and Barbuda, has been in the teaching profession for the past 22 years. He has taught at the Holy Trinity School in Barbuda, the Boys Training School and the Clare Hall Secondary School. While at the Clare Hall Secondary School, he was department head for the Social Sciences, where he was responsible for monitoring, coaching and providing feedback to novice and experienced teachers on teaching and student learning. He is now attached to the St. Mary’s Secondary School where he teaches Social Studies. Mr. Donaldson has also lectured part-time at the Antigua and Barbuda Hospitality Training Institute and the West Indies School of Theology, Antigua Extension.

He holds a teaching certificate from the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, a Bachelor’s degree in Theology from the West Indies School of Theology, Maracas Valley, Trinidad, a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Criminal Justice from Ashworth University and a Master of Education in Advanced Teaching from the University of the People.  Mr. Donaldson is presently a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) student with a concentration in Education at The University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT)