Practice What You Preach

A Reflection on Leading Professional Development… A brilliant colleague and I were fortunate enough to be invited to present at our district’s summer technology+curriculum professional development offering. We were given the opportunity to select our own topic based on what we have found to be most useful and effective for classroom instruction. After creating and … [Read more…]

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Supporting Teachers Using (or Not Using) Assistive Technology

Performance indicator d) of ISTE Coaching Standard 3 calls for teacher leaders to select, evaluate, and facilitate the use of adaptive and assistive technologies to support student learning. In my school building, where I am a technology leader and gen. ed. classroom teacher, we have 3 intensive support classrooms with students of all ages and … [Read more…]

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Which LMS is best?

ISTE Coaching Standard 3: Digital Age Learning Environments Technology coaches create and support effective digital age learning environments to maximize the learning of all students. To address this coaching standard, I have explored ways to model effective classroom management procedures for a technology-rich learning environment as well as coach and model the use of online … [Read more…]

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