Key Concept 10

10.1 Candidates will be able to create a technology vision for a school.

In ET680, Dr. Marcovitz asked us to create a technology vision for our school. Little did we know that this would align with another of Dr. Marcovitz's class, ET690, where we discussed narratives and what exactly schools should be. In crafting this technology vision, I entitled it Planning for a Plan, because I thought we needed to start with a new way of doing things at my school. In the below report, I imagined something called Personalized Professional Development, and this germ of an idea became my eventual internship. I imagined a system where each teacher was given what he or she needed through screencasts, 1:1 workshops with in-house tech leaders, and small group sessions on technologies that multiple colleagues were interested in using. One of the great stregnths of this program is evident in this report, as though my internship began here, it morphed in Dr. Hunter's ED608 course after studying convergent and divergent thinking, and then really grew into its own in ET691, where I chose to work with MSJ colleague Edward Schultheis and we began collaborating on the ultimate realization of the original idea, MSJEdFest. But to think it all began with this artifact in ET680 is really quite amazing, and it shows the power and connectedness of classes in this program and my own personal growth through semesters of reflection and perseverance.

10.2 Candidates will be able to demonstrate the ability to lead technology initiatives at the school or district level.

My internship project with Edward Schultheis is my best example of my ability to lead technology initiatives at my school. Our MSJEdFest, cited throughout this pre-internship portfolio, and which you can read extensively about in my internship portfolio, was the true culmination of everything that this program is about. It began with the proposal below, and it grew into something that we think will revitalize professional development at our school. You will see pictures of the event and a Wakelet archive of tweets sent concerning the event in Key Concept 11, but I have added responses to an evaluation of the day that we asked participants to complete. This experience was stressful, full of doubt, and full of camaraderie, but like Hannibal, the leader of the A-Team always used to say, "I love it when a plan comes together," and, indeed, together it came. Not nly will we follow up on this day during the school year, but we are anticipating holding another MSJEdFest in the summer of 2019.