How will CCA meet the challenge of teaching 21st century skills to 21st century learners using 21st century tools?

We are at the early stages in everything but 21st century tools and learning content. The MILES assessment rates us as transitional in the area of learning and teaching, and that may be partially accurate. Perhaps the strongest thing we have going for us is a young teaching staff unafraid of technology. We also have an administrator who wants to make us a better, stronger school, and sees technology as a big part of that.
Critical factors to making progress: teaching the teachers. We are a young school, so young, in fact, that we don’t have documented curriculum. We are in the process of writing our scope and sequences and one day will move on into standards and benchmarks. This is a beneficial process, but it’s meeting lots of resistance from our young staff, partly because they are confused and frustrated (lack of experience), partly because it’s forcing us to define what we will teach and what we think is important rather than simply teaching what we like, which was the MO up until a year or so ago. The challenge will be presenting the need to teach 21st century skills using 21st century technology in a way that isn’t overwhelming. Since there’s so much transition happening already with the curriculum process, I think it might do them in.
One obvious area of concern would be the director and the board, but I’m not sure this will be a huge challenge. I passed several of the articles we read for this course on to my director, and I think she’s wise enough to see the need. Our board, too, is made up of business people, so I think they’ll be supportive. But our priority at this point is to get organized and functioning, THEN we can start thinking 21st century. I think we’re three years away from being able to really rethink things. It’s never too early to start people thinking, but to look top-to-bottom at the program and make revisions, too much for now.
A major barrier is our location. Our teachers will need professional development, and probably some cheerleading, to get through the major transitions this kind of overhaul will entail. There’s nobody else down here thinking 21st century in the way these articles describe. We have few, if any, local models. Yes, the internet puts the world at our fingertips, but is anyone doing online mentoring to walk people through the process of 21st century skill implementation? Where will our professional development come from? Additionally, who on our staff will be the advocates for change? Will it be possible to get that one teacher whose passionate about changing to get the others on board?