What is an ISTE Certified Educator?

<div id="i4c-draggable-container" style="width: 0px;height: 0px"> <div class="resolved" data-reactroot=""></div> </div> Welcome to "Ask the Tech Coach," a podcast for Instructional Coaches and Technology Integration Specialists. In this episode of “<a href="https://www.teachercast.net/episodes/ask-the-tech-coach/">Ask the Tech Coach</a>,” Jeff welcomes ISTE Certification Trainer Rick Ballew on to the podcast to discuss the ISTE Certification program. If you would like to be a part of future podcasts and share your thoughts, <a href="https://www.teachercast.net/podcastguestform">please contact the podcast</a>.  We would love to have you join the show. <h2>Question of the Week</h2> Our favorite part of recording a live podcast each week is participating in the great conversations that happen on our live chat, on social media, and in our comments section. This week’s question is: <em><strong>Question Topic: How do you become ISTE Certified?</strong></em> <h2>The ISTE Certified Educator program.</h2> <ul> <li>What is the program?</li> <li>How do you become ISTE Certified?</li> <li>Cost / Time Commitment</li> <li>The three phases of the ISTE Certification Program</li> <li>The ISTE Certification Portfolio</li> <li>Building your PLN through ISTE</li> <li>What can you learn through the ISTE Certification program?</li> </ul><br/> <h3>Links of Interest</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.iste.org/professional-development/iste-certification" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ISTE Certification Website</a></li> </ul><br/> <h2>About our Guest: Rick Ballew</h2> Frederick (goes by Rick) is an ISTE Certified Educator and Trainer, Google for Education Certified Innovator (#NYC19 cohort), Trainer, Coach, the founder and leader of GEG Minnesota Metro Area, a GEG Mentor for US - Midwest, a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert from 2020-2023, a Microsoft Innovative Educator Fellow, and an Adobe Education Leader that is passionate about leveraging technology to make the daily work of educat