Tech With Littles

I had the opportunity to talk with a first year teacher this past week. She is fresh out of college and is teaching first grade. As much as I planned to check in more with our "newbies" - any/all teachers new to our district - I have failed. This is a personal goal of mine & I ask you to make it a goal of yours, regardless of your position and years of experience. I met with her during her plan - I know how precious this time is - and I quickly realized how big of a fail it is that I've not focused more on supporting her and the other newbies. I long ago realized we do a really crappy job of on-boarding. Not because we intend to, but because a lot of assumptions are made, we are spread thin, and quite frankly, the newbies tend to be quiet and are just trying to survive so they don't make much noise. What brought me to her was not being sure how she'd use Google Classroom with her firsties. There is a practical side of this and a fun side of this. And the pract...