How Do You Successfully Plan Your Professional Development … Backwards?

Welcome to "Ask the Tech Coach," a podcast for Instructional Coaches and Technology Integration Specialists. If you would like to be a part of future podcasts and share your thoughts, https://www.teachercast.net/podcastguestform (please contact the podcast).  We would love to have you join the show. Join the TeacherCast Tech Coaches Network! Are you a Tech Coach or looking to become one this year? Are you searching for support in your position? The https://www.teachercast.net/TCNForm (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. https://www.teachercast.net/TCNForm (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 projec