S2:E9 - Take AIM at Digital Learning: Activate, Innovate, Motivate

As a Digital Learning Coach in Walpole, Massachusetts, Jed Stefanowicz provides job-embedded professional development and instructional coaching for academic technology. Through conferences, workshops, and coaching, Jed aims to engage and build staff/student digital learning capacity, keeping the focus on practice over product. As a 25 year elementary educator, speaker, blogger, and current Massachusetts Teach Plus Policy Fellow, Jed shares his passion for effective tech integration to transform teaching and learning, creating engaging and equitable digital learning environments and experiences that activate, innovate, and motivate digital learning. He is the Author of Take AIM at Digital Learning: Activate, Innovate, Motivate.

Key Takeaways:

It's important to take an empathic approach if you are to support all teachers. Building diverse teams is essential to successfully innovating in your school. Learning is the intersection of 3 things and that is what creates activation: meaningful, measurable, and memorable. It's important to prioritize experiences, showcase moments, and highlight events to memorialize student learning. The new four Cs are compassion, connection, culture, and climate. These build motivation and student agency. Drop the D when talking about shared and distributed leadership. Those should not be destinations but instead processes. For example share the leadership, distribute the leadership If kids don't care that's not their problem, it's the teacher's problem. If teachers don't care, that's not the teacher's problem that's the leader's problem.

Get In Touch:

Twitter: @Stefanowicz135

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