A call to imagination in transforming technology professionals/stakeholders from reactive staff to strategic learning ecosystem designers through collaborative pattern recognition, peer learning, and contextually grounded strategic development.
Instead of imposing external roadmaps, help people discover what's possible given their actual constraints, resources, and stakeholder dynamics. IT that is conversational and invitational versus planned. IT should be something done with people, not to people.
The Synergist Protocol & Edtech Synergist Project align stakeholders within K-12 learning communities to solve core EdTech value delivery challenges by creating a clear professional pathway, resources and a planning & accountability protocols to be used primarily by the 100+ role titles serving as integrationists whose work is largely invisible, often misnamed and undervalued as a “Tech Coach” or "IT person" in K-12 schools.
While built with integrationists in mind, the resources and methods can be used by anyone in a school, no matter their role/title.
The project work draws on established frameworks (ISTE, MIT Center for System Awareness, Senge's 5th Discipline @ learning organizations) and makes an original contribution by integrating and applying these to the specific archetypes & challenges in the K-12 technology integration space.
Through a discovery-based inquiry approach, it is possible to move culture alongside the technology by amplifying impact instead of effort, removing struggle, and co-creating the future (rather than reacting to it) through collaborative literacy—calling people in rather than calling them out.