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 3 critical things that tech coaches should be doing before the school year begins.

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3 Ways To Start The School Year Off

Get Yourself Organized

Clean Your Online Hard Drives

OneDrive
Google Drive


Clean Your Inbox

Undo Favorites
Undo Tags
Delete Conversational Emails
Archive or Delete Unwanted Emails


Create a New Google Classroom for Trainings
Set up your calendar – Dana's Google Sheets Calendar Template
Set up your To-Do Lists


Set up meetings with your administration

District Admin

District Goals
Curricular Goals
New EdTech Programs and Projects
Coaching Goals


Principal

Building Goals
Teacher Goals
Creating PLN’s
Coaching Goals


Lead Teachers

Grade Level / Department Goals


Start Creating Tech Coach Templates

Newsletters
Website
Intro Emails
Thank You Emails
Impact Tracking Tools

Results Based Coaching Tool (D.Sweeney)
Automated Record Keeping


Feedback Forms
https://www.templatesforteachers.com/ - (Sarah Keifer)


Bonus: Update Your Training Slide Decks and Resources

What’s New in Edtech?
Develop your own PLN of other tech coaches
What will Teachers be Learning during Orientation PD?
New Curricular Adventures





About our Guest
Dana Bingham-Cruz
Dana Bingham-Cruz is an educator of 15+ years, coach, blogger, presenter, Flipgrid Student Voice Ambassador, Screencastify Certified Genius, Seesaw Ambassador, Kami Certified Educator, Google Certified Educator Level 1 and 2, Google for Education Certified Trainer, and VVSD Golden Hashtag Award winner. She is currently an Intervention & Enrichment Coordinator in a K-5 public school in a southwestern suburb of Chicago, IL.

She has gained a variety of unique perspectives from her experience as an elementary and middle school special education paraprofessional, middle school ESL teacher, middle school reading specialist, middle school language arts teacher, 5th grade teacher, literacy coach,...