First Year Reflections

By Thomas Hammerlund -

This post has been waiting to be written for a few weeks.

I call it my "first year" despite being in my fourth year at my current school for a few reasons. The first reason being each year has felt like a new year, but more relevantly because this was my first year as PYP Learning Support and Technology Coach.

Photo by Edi Libedinsky on Unsplash

This was a new position for both me and the school. I had been a technology coach before, but it was at a different school [KAS]-- and a completely different situation [K-12 vs K-6].


What worked for me at KAS was:

  • An open schedule (Well, only 10 hours of teaching a week)
  • Support - the person who hired me had a vision for what he wanted the coaching program to look like
  • Weekly meetings with my boss - the Tech Director
  • A group of teachers who would support teachers and meet once a month to talk about tech issues and ideas in the school
This year started:
  • Weekly meetings with PYPC
  • Weekly meetings with Tech Director
  • The role
  • Started Tech Tuesdays

Not everything worked -- the Tech Tuesdays will be rolled into the weekly faculty meetings and I will try meeting with teachers during that time when we have time to meet with specialist teachers.

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