Final Recommendation

Did the candidate describe their next steps or recommendations to the school or district for whom you planned the educational technology solution and implementation?

Candidate described their practical and actionable next steps and/or recommendations for their school or district in detail.

Moving forward, I have two primary recommendations. First, I recommend creating a Google Drive folder collection from examples of the Learning Solution that teachers generate in their classrooms. This would create a resource for other educators to either use in their own classroom or create inspiration for their own solution. Second, I recommend using that collection to expand the Learning Solution to every high school and middle school in the district as part of the in-service training for the 2021-2022 school year. Based on results from the Teacher Survey of Technology, this would account for teacher desire to more time in their schedule to learn and plan how to use technology tools as well as structured training to learn how to better integrate the technology into lessons.

In the end, I believe that providing teachers with the resources to use Google Apps for Education in their classroom will help them and their students overall. The tools used can help students in ways that would seem impossible 20 years ago. As we progress into the 21st century in education, we as educators need to climb out of the 20th century standards we are used to, and meet our students where they are at and educate them using tools that will help them succeed in today's world.