Tech Coaching is about Relationships not Tech
Most tech coaches end up in the role of tech coach or Tech TOSA (Teacher On Special Assignment) because they are good at using…
Author: Jeff Utecht
I started blogging in 2005 and found it such a powerful way to reflect and share my thinking about technology, this generation, and how we prepare students for their future not our past.
Comments vs Compliments – a mini lesson
Last week I had the pleasure of running a lab site in an Enumclaw 5th Grade class as part of my work with the…
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I hear it all too often from teachers, administrators, and school board members. “Who’s training the parents?†Well….we are! It’s true that if we’re…
Chromebooks in Band Class
As I start my second full year working with Auburn School District educators in what they call their Auburn Teacher Leadership Academy 2.0Â (ATLA), it’s…
Changing the T&L Culture of a District – SXSWedu
I’m excited to be partnering with Becky Berg, Superintendent of Marysville School District #25 (MSD25) and Scott Beebe, MSD25’s, Chief Technology Officer, as we are…
School Work needs to be meaningful research shows
A new survey released from ADP looks at what millennials (age 18-35) and right behind them “Generation Z” (for lack of a better name…
A Year in Review 15-16
I haven’t made much time to blog this semester…..OK….this year. But what a year it has been! I am currently writing this sitting at…
Doing The Work
If learning something new was easy everyone would do it. One of the reasons I love working with school districts and teachers over a…
The power of disconnecting
I sit here….on a piece of driftwood wondering where this log came from. For sure somewhere here off the Washington coast…I think. For two…
Google I/O: The machines are learning
I always look forward to Google’s I/O conference to see where the future of technology and innovation is headed and today, once again, didn’t…