Date
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
Time
3:00 PM - 3:50 PM
Location Name
RL 24
Name
Pedagogy First: Moving from "Whack-a-Mole" to EdTech That Actually Sticks
Description
Sound familiar? A new tool arrives. Everyone gets trained. Six weeks later, it's gone — and three more just hit your inbox. This isn't a teacher problem. It's a design problem.
Drawing on 26 years in education — including years coaching in a school where half of students are multilingual learners or have disabilities — this session gives teachers, coaches, and leaders a framework for EdTech that lasts. The Essential 5 Cs — Clickable, Choice, Curation, Collaboration, Connection — become a practical lens for every tool, every rollout, every PD decision.
Participants experience a live Tool Audit, analyzing real scenarios to distinguish pedagogy-driven from tool-driven adoption. This framework helps tools move from novelty to sustained, purposeful use — and teachers stop rescuing students.
Leave with a diagnostic, a decision framework, and one concrete next step. You don't need more tools. You need a better system.
Speakers
Session Type
Traditional Workshop
Track
Professional Development
Secondary Track
Instructional Practice and Coaching
Primary Audience
School and District Leadership
Secondary Audience
District Curriculum Leaders
Fall Conference Strands
Inspire
MA DLCS Strands
Computing and Society, Digital Tools and Collaboration