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How do we get K-12 schools beyond traditional, siloed “EdTech provision modes” into something human-focused, continuous and transformative?

Edtegration™ is a methodology that facilitates learning communities in finding and solving core EdTech value delivery problems within K-12 schools.

* It is evidence-based and people-focused, not technology focused.

* It examines how stakeholders are oriented, trained and supported in collaborative pattern recognition, peer learning, and contextually grounded strategic development to leverage learning technologies.

* It embraids lean-agile project and change management principles to practically and sustainably focus on delivering the benefits of collective efficacy– the #1 driver of student achievement growth.

Edtegration is NOT:

* A top-down EdTech initiative

* Focused on devices, systems, software or apps

* Only for schools with ideal conditions

Edtegration started with a question:

How do I turn core EdTech stakeholders (Admin, IT, Teachers & Integrationists) from reactive and acted upon NPCs, to being active collaborators in strategic learning ecosystem design?

The biggest challenge with any EdTech integration is almost always cultural– changing stakeholder behavior. The Edtegration project re-imagines EdTech integration as conversational and invitational– something done with people, not to people.

The core idea is to use questions around themes that act as "contemplates"—points of departure or prompts—that allow readers to examine their own reality and experiences through a new lens.

The aim of the contemplates is to help people "persuade themselves" by providing "analytic perspectives and straight information," rather than suggesting "this is how it should be," or “what to do”.

These provocative elements form a set of models, methods and mindsets that get at how to innovatively and sustainably ask and answer the question “Where can we get from here?”

I hope you find it interesting and useful enough to join in the conversation. Feedback always welcome.

Summary of a core piece of my work from submitting my research and writing to Google Notebook and lightly editing it’s Podcast output summarizing my work.

All organizations grapple with inefficient processes and lack collaborative literacy to varying degrees leading to what are termed "Process Behavior Jams" (PBJ). 

What if...

...a fundamental mechanism of innovation is a shared technology vision combined with the way things come together and connect and operationalizing them both together?