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Ask The Tech Coach
Jeffrey Bradbury - TeacherCast Educational Network
Frequency: 1 episode/9d. Total Eps: 272

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Unlocking Professional Growth: Pursuing a Master’s Degree in Instructional Coaching with Suzanne Becking
Episode 269
lundi 7 octobre 2024 • Duration 31:41
- The importance of having qualifications in instructional coaching.
- The need for instructional coaches to support teachers effectively.
- Collaboration is key in the learning process for educators.
- The program at Fort Hayes State is designed for those looking to grow in their careers.
- ISTE standards play a crucial role in shaping educational technology programs.
- Real-world experiences enhance the understanding of instructional coaching.
- The program is flexible and caters to various educational backgrounds.
- Financial considerations are important when pursuing a master's degree.
- The future of instructional coaching involves adapting to emerging technologies.
- Continuous professional development is essential for educators.
Chapters
- 00:00 Introduction to Instructional Coaching and Technology
- 05:40 Developing a Master's Program for Instructional Coaches
- 10:54 The Ideal Candidate for Instructional Coaching
- 15:37 Collaboration and Learning in Instructional Coaching
- 19:09 The Future of Instructional Technology Coaching
- 23:11 Insights from Building the Program
- 27:40 Encouragement for Aspiring Coaches
About our Guest: Suzanne Becking holds a Ph.D. in Education Studies from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, emphasizing Leadership and Higher Education. Her doctoral research focused on the teaching practices of educators who incorporate technology into their instruction. Currently, she serves as a Professor in the Department of Advanced Education Programs at Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas, where she oversees the Master of Instructional Technology (MIT) program. Within the MIT program, students can choose from three concentrations: Instructional Design, Technology, and Coaching. With a decade of experience as a Google for Education Certified Trainer and five years as an ISTE Certified Educator, Dr. Becking is dedicated to supporting educators in integrating technology effectively. In 2011, she joined a team of Google trainers, offering Professional Development to Kansas school districts as they adopted technology in their classrooms and schools. Her primary goal is to empower educators and school leaders to utilize technology to enhance learning environments and student outcomes. In 2022, Dr. Becking’s team put together two new emphases within the Master of Instructional Technology program. These are Instructional Design (MID) and...
4 Ways To Build a Successful Instructional Coaching Program
Episode 268
mardi 3 septembre 2024 • Duration 19:45
- Welcome to Ask the Tech Coach Podcast!
- Episodes Drop Every Monday
- Audio and Video on TeacherCast.net/YouTube
- Supported by our Instructional Coaching Newsletter found at TeacherCast.net/Newsletter
- Topics on the show include
- Productivity Tips & Tricks for Instructional Coaches
- EdTech Application Reviews
- Advice on how to build relationships with teachers and administrators
- How to get your first … or next Coaching Job
- Tips for New Coaches!
- Guest Conversations with Instructional Coaches … just like you!
- Professional Development / Professional Learning Strategies for Coaches
- Coaching through the collection of Data!
- Working with the ISTE Standards
- Building a winning Instructional Coaching Department
- Back channel of over 260+ Coaching Podcasts found at AsktheTechCoach.com
- How to Contribute and Collaborate with the Podcast
- Join the Newsletter!
- Subscribe to the Podcast
- Join us on the podcast as a Co-Host (TeacherCast.net/Contact)
- Today’s Topic: 5 Systems that All coaches need to have set up this school year!
- Organizational System
- Microsoft Teams
- Google Workspace
- Notion Data Dashboards
- Productivity System
- How will you be taking notes?
- How will you be saving time through your Organizational System?
- Group Based PD System (Coaching Cycles)
- Resource Sharing System
- How will you collect and share:
- Websites
- Links
- Best Practices
- Procedures
- How will you collect and share:
- Communication System
- Coaching Website
- Newsletters
- Organizational System
Register for the ISTE Webinar
- September 10, 2024 at 5:00 PM Eastern
Contact the Podcast!
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- Twitter:
Crucial Organizational Systems that All Instructional Coaching Departments Need
Episode 260
lundi 29 avril 2024 • Duration 45:03
- What types of systems do you need to run a successful instructional coaching program?
- How do you build those systems?
- What tools are used to build Instructional Coaching systems?
- Microsoft vs Google
- Setting up Microsoft Teams
- Organizing through Microsoft OneDrive
- Utilizing Microsoft Bookings as an Instructional Coach
- Using Notion as an Instructional Coach
- Instructional Coaching Automation Tools
- How to build Organizational Systems for Coaches
Contact the Podcast!
- TeacherCast.net/VoiceMail
- Twitter: @AskTheTechCoach
- Email: feedback@teachercast.net
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- Jeff Bradbury | @JeffBradbury
Join our PLN Are you enjoying the TeacherCast Network, please share your thoughts with the world by commenting on iTunes today? I enjoy reading and sharing your comments on the podcast each week. The Teach Better Podcast Network The Teach Better Podcast Network is dedicated to supporting the entire school ecosystem through in-depth conversations around topics you care about. Covering a variety of areas in education, each podcast aims to support educators in the field toward creating and maintaining a progressive, student-focused classroom. Check out the recent episodes, subscribe, and learn more about the variety of shows! Let’s Work Together
- Host: Jeff Bradbury @TeacherCast | @JeffBradbury
- Email: info@teachercast.net
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Are Your Digital Literacy Resources … META?
Episode 169
lundi 15 novembre 2021 • Duration 17:20
- Are you a Tech Coach or looking to become one this year?
- Are you searching for support in your position?
The TeacherCast Tech Coaches Network, is a brand new Professional Learning Network designed specifically for Tech Coaches and designed to provide weekly support for all Instructional Coaches. Click Here to Join! About our Guest Jennifer Hanley is the North American Head of Safety at Meta where she handles safety policy for the U.S. and Canada. She works with internal teams, external partners, and government stakeholders on issues including women’s safety, child safety, bullying, digital well-being, and suicide prevention. Prior to joining Meta she served as Vice President for Legal and Policy at the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) where she directed FOSI’s government outreach and policy strategy. During her time at FOSI, Jennifer built relationships with government officials and external partners, led research projects, and advised leading technology companies on best practices, policy developments, and emerging issues around online safety. Jennifer is a magna cum laude graduate of the Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law and is a member of the Maryland Bar and District of Columbia Bar. Jennifer graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from the George Washington University where she studied political science. She resides in the District of Columbia with her husband, a U.S. Diplomat and son. [Social: LinkedIn] About Meta Platforms Inc. Meta Platforms Inc, previously Facebook, is the parent organization of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, among other subsidiaries. Together, our products Facebook & Instagram are the leading social media platforms connecting over a billion people worldwide. People, and young individuals in particular, come to Facebook and Instagram to share their stories, connect globally and maintain connections with friends and family. Our mission is to give people the power to share and to make the world more open and connected while ensuring that everyone feels safe when using our platforms. This vision will remain our priority as we expand into the Metaverse. Links to resources:
- Child safety hub: https://www.facebook.com/safety/childsafety
- Get Digital: https://www.facebook.com/fbgetdigital
- Both accessible from the Safety Center: https://www.facebook.com/safety
Contact the Podcast!
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- Twitter: @AskTheTechCoach
- Email: feedback@teachercast.net
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LEGO Education and NASA Team Up to Help You Skyrocket Your Students into Space!
Episode 168
lundi 15 novembre 2021 • Duration 18:05
- Are you a Tech Coach or looking to become one this year?
- Are you searching for support in your position?
The TeacherCast Tech Coaches Network, is a brand new Professional Learning Network designed specifically for Tech Coaches and designed to provide weekly support for all Instructional Coaches. Click Here to Join! About LEGO Education LEGO® Education offers a range of playful, hands-on STEAM learning experiences based on its comprehensive learning system for students in early learning, primary and secondary education, as well as through after-school programs and competitions. From the Early Learning portfolio to the LEGO® Learning System, these solutions create an active and collaborative environment where learners of all levels and abilities build their confidence, future-proof their skills, and spark a lifelong love of learning. LEGO, the LEGO logo, the Minifigure, and the SPIKE logo are trademarks and/or copyrights of the LEGO Group. ©2021 The LEGO Group. All rights reserved. Links Of Interest
- Twitter: @LEGO_Education
- Instagram: @legoeducation
- Facebook: @LEGOeducationOfficial
About Our Guest: Dr. Jenny Nash Dr. Jenny Nash serves as the Head of Education Impact Team for LEGO Education in the US, where she provides direction and leadership in delivering meaningful education opportunities for students. With previous experiences as a professional development provider and Middle School Science teacher, Jenny is an advocate for hands-on, inquiry-based learning for students and building confidence in teachers to provide this type of learning. Contact the Podcast!
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- Twitter: @AskTheTechCoach
- Email: feedback@teachercast.net
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How Do You Successfully Plan Your Professional Development … Backwards?
Episode 167
lundi 15 novembre 2021 • Duration 16:57
- Are you a Tech Coach or looking to become one this year?
- Are you searching for support in your position?
The TeacherCast Tech Coaches Network, is a brand new Professional Learning Network designed specifically for Tech Coaches and designed to provide weekly support for all Instructional Coaches. Click Here to Join! What Should Your EdTech Integration Plan Look Like? What is a EdTech Integration Plan?
- plan and roadmap that a district will use to guide them in meeting the needs, goals, and recommendations of a school district's Strategic Plan.
- shows off not what but how technology is going to be used in a district
Planning Process
- Step 1: Review and discuss the district Strategic Plan and once again ask the question, “How do we want to respond to these goals and meet the needs of our students?”
- Step 2: Review and discuss the findings in the District Snapshot. Make a list of everything that someone says is great about the district and everything that has been identified as needing improvement.
- Step 3: Identify each key member of the district and assign them a task based on their areas of expertise and if possible, partner them up with another member of the district to collaborate on future tasks in this process.
- Step 4: Assign groups and committees to compose the remaining steps of the process.
- Step 5: Create an Outline of what the district would like to see in the final Educational Technology Integration Plan.
- Step 6: Set short-term and long-term goals for planning, communicating, and create a meeting calendar to assist in project management.
What does the outline look like?
- Overall questions
- Materials required
- Essential questions
- The guiding force behind decisions
- What should the staff members know?
- Supporting standards
- Baseline of knowledge
- What does PD look like?
Contact the Podcast!
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- Twitter: @AskTheTechCoach
- Email: feedback@teachercast.net
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Creating a District Snapshot: Essential Steps for Long-Range Educational Planning
Episode 166
lundi 8 novembre 2021 • Duration 25:13
Welcome to "Ask the Tech Coach," a podcast for Instructional Coaches and Technology Integration Specialists.
In this episode of “Ask the Tech Coach,” Jeff and Susan discuss creating a district snapshot and why this is a place to start as you begin to make long-range plans for where your district is heading.
If you would like to be a part of future podcasts and share your thoughts, please contact the podcast. We would love to have you join the show.
Creating A District Snapshot- Creating a roadmap for your district employees to follow over the coming years has to begin by deciding who you are at the beginning before you proceed to where you want to be.
- Think Before Picture & After Picture beginning with the before and your District Snapshot
- What is a District Snapshot?
- Document, report, graphic to showcase where a district is at any given time
- Simple or more complicated as you desire or dependent on the information requested
- How Does A District Snapshot Work?
- Self-Assessment tool for looking and analyzing data based on specific criteria
- Data collected from various stakeholders
- Clear and easy to understand by all stakeholders
- Creating A Single Focused Question
- This is the heart of the district snapshot as it is focused on where the district is and wants to go
- Examples:
- What is the overall makeup of our school district?
- How can we properly redistrict our students due to the increase of low-income housing?
- How do we want to effectively distribute next year’s budget funds across all our school buildings to meet the needs of our Title I students?
- Formulating Your Instructional Technology Focus Question
- Create a broad overview of how technology is used (hardware/software) to support students.
- Examples:
- In what areas of my school district is Instructional Technology being used effectively?
- In what areas of my school district is Instructional Coaching being seen as Successful?
- Is there a correlation between the amount of technology (hardware) funding provided to a school building and the amount of professional development provided?
- Who Should the questions be addressed to?
- Normal coach/teacher interactions; coach/admin interactions
- Central Office staff
- Non-school personnel
- Students
- Parents
- How Can Your District Snapshot Support Instructional Coaching?
- What is Beyond the District Snapshot?
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The 4 Pillars of a Successful Instructional Coaching Program
Episode 165
lundi 1 novembre 2021 • Duration 32:08
- Are you a Tech Coach or looking to become one this year?
- Are you searching for support in your position?
The TeacherCast Tech Coaches Network, is a brand new Professional Learning Network designed specifically for Tech Coaches and designed to provide weekly support for all Instructional Coaches. Click Here to Join! What are the 4 Pillars of Instructional Coaching? What is the impact of a successful instructional coaching program on student achievement? Having a District Identity?
- A Strong Self Identity based on Historical Use of Educational Technology
- Strategic Plan
- Mission & Vision Statements
- Logos and Self Identifiers
- Digital Learning Systems and Platforms
- SAMR
- 4C’s
- TIMS
- TPAC
The EdTech Integration Plan
- District Tech Plan vs. EdTech Plan – What you have vs. What are you going to do with (or implement) what you have?
- Create by including stakeholders mentioned below using the district mission, goals, learning systems, etc.
- Include how the supportive programs will be carried out with the technology that you have.
Supportive Staff Members
- Digital Learning Department
- IT Department
- Curriculum Department
- Central Office Administration
- Central Office Staff
- Building Administration
- Library Media Specialists
Supportive Programs
- New Teacher Orientation
- Parent University
- Student Tech Teams
- Day Time Professional Development / On Demand Professional Development
- Building Evaluation Programs
Contact the Podcast!
- TeacherCast.net/VoiceMail
- Twitter: @AskTheTechCoach
- Email: feedback@teachercast.net
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- Jeff Bradbury | @JeffBradbury ...
Moviemaking in the Classroom: Lifting Student Voices Through Digital Storytelling
Episode 164
mardi 26 octobre 2021 • Duration 26:54
- Are you a Tech Coach or looking to become one this year?
- Are you searching for support in your position?
The TeacherCast Tech Coaches Network, is a brand new Professional Learning Network designed specifically for Tech Coaches and designed to provide weekly support for all Instructional Coaches. Click Here to Join! Weekly Topic
- Why do stories appeal to us? Why does storytelling matter?
- The potential for storytelling in the classroom as a powerful instructional strategy
- How teachers can design storytelling opportunities that make efficient and effective use of instructional time
- The impact of storytelling on my classroom
- Where storytelling fits into pandemic or post-pandemic education
About our Guest: Jessica Pack Jessica Pack is a California Teacher of the Year (2014) and CUE Outstanding Educator who has been teaching middle school for 17 years. She has used digital storytelling as an instructional strategy for most of her career and regularly presents on the topic at both regional and national conferences. In addition to her role as a classroom teacher, Jessica co-hosts a podcast called Storytelling Saves the World, available on iTunes and SoundCloud. She is currently serving as an ISTE PLN Leader and her upcoming speaking engagements include ISTE Creative Constructor Lab Virtual and California STEAM Symposium presented by the California Department of Education. You can connect with Jessica @Packwoman208 on Twitter and Instagram, as well as at jessicapack.com Links of Interest
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/packwoman208
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/packwoman208
About the Book https://amzn.to/3EdWn0MOur world hinges on storytelling and the ways in which stories can be told are always evolving. For students to become future-ready, confident creators of original content, they need opportunities to share their stories. Moviemaking helps students showcase their learning, process their lives and connect with others in a meaningful way. Moviemaking in the Classroom breaks down the process of digital storytelling to help teachers plan efficient and effective instructional sequences. The book provides guidance on how to purposefully build visual and audio literacy skills to improve student work and increase student efficacy in the creative process. Also included are practical suggestions for removing barriers from the storytelling process, such as how to provide more opportunities for students to tell their stories during a single academic year. About the Book: Moviemaking in the Classroom
- Shows teachers how to create efficient and effective lesson sequences with digital storytelling in mind, particularly in a blended learning environment.
- Supports teachers who are new to digital storytelling by showing the impact and importance of providing students with multiple opportunities to tell their stories.
- Offers project ideas for teachers already implementing digital storytelling in their...
How to Use Project Based Learning Strategies to Get Students Excited About Face-to-Face Learning.
Episode 163
lundi 25 octobre 2021 • Duration 43:28
- Are you a Tech Coach or looking to become one this year?
- Are you searching for support in your position?
The TeacherCast Tech Coaches Network, is a brand new Professional Learning Network designed specifically for Tech Coaches and designed to provide weekly support for all Instructional Coaches. Click Here to Join! About Tract Tract is the world’s first peer-to-peer learning platform that provides kids ages 8+ with project-based learning activities to ignite their imagination and help them develop creativity, independence, critical thinking skills, and skills in problem-solving. Tract content can be used in school or at home in a 100 percent ad-free environment that is moderated and curated by a team of education experts led by Esther Wojcicki. Learn more at tract.app. https://teach.tract.app/ Links of Interest
- Instagram: @tractlearning
- Twitter: @tractlearning
- Facebook: @tractlearning
- LinkedIn: @tract-learning
- TikTok: @tract.app
About our Guests Esther Wojcicki - Tract Cofounder + Chief Learning Officer Esther Wojcicki is known as the GodMother of Silicon Valley because of the number of highly successful students coming out of her program at Palo Alto High. She is co-founder of TractLearning, Inc (2020), founder of the largest scholastic media program in the US at Palo Alto High (1984), the 2002 California Teacher of the Year; a 2009 MacArthur Foundation Research Fellow. Dr. Wojcicki was Chair of Creative Commons, Chair of PBS Learning Matters, and on the Board of the Freedom Forum, the Newseum, & the Alliance for Excellent Education. She co-founded the Journalistic Learning Initiative at the University of Oregon, is CEO of GlobalMoonshotsinEducation.org (2019) and holds three honorary doctorates. She is the author of Moonshots in Education (2014) and How to Raise Successful People (May, 2019). She is mother of CEO of YouTube, Susan Wojcicki; CEO of 23andMe, Anne Wojcicki, and Fulbright Scholar, Janet Wojcicki. Ari Memar = Tract Cofounder + CEO Ari Memar is the CEO and Co-founder of Tract - the world's first peer-to-peer learning community - which he started with his former high school teacher, Esther Wojcicki. Prior to starting









