ABSTRACT
Coaches are tasked with combining their strong instructional and pedagogical knowledge and skill sets with the world of educational technology. From an administrative standpoint, appointing the teacher to be the first technology coach in the building was a no-brainer. Like all professional development endeavors, successful instructional technology coaching programs live or die on the quality of the people who enact them. Further, technology coaches can also help bring educators together and model new norms of collaboration, curiosity, inquiry, and ongoing learning related to technology that can spread across an entire school or district. Tech coaches need to ask early about to whom they report and what they need to share, the levels of confidentiality around their work with teachers, and how much they can flex to authentically support each coachee. Coaching is not just a technical application of tools, but rather an agreement between people to really work together for a greater good.
