Day 3 on becoming a better Ed Tech leader.

Day three is titled “Find a Non-Specialist Geek”. I really like the idea of making connections with the specialists.

Once, in doing PD with a school for several weeks I found that upon leaving the principal said to me. “What do we do now that you are going?” I had recommended to this principal in the planning stages that a leader from the school be brought forward so that I could train that person on the particulars of that project. I wanted the project to carry on without me not just because of the benefits it would provide to student expression but also because it involved some big $$.

No one was selected and I wasn’t able to coax a leader out of the staff. My new goal in planning with school communities is to find that leader who can champion the projects so that things don’t dry up when I leave.

It is sad for me that things won’t continue when I am gone. The schools have the tech tools and the software. The students know what to do but because the teachers don’t have the know how these things don’t evolve. It is a waste of money and often a blow to the student motivation at the school.

So as you go out to plan make sure there are leaders who believe in the things you are doing and use them and their skills to make things stick. The specialist doesn’t need to be a geek just a leader.

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