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much of it voluntary-and created an online
course for professional development.
It also has provided a position on the school
campus called "a technology-integration champion," who supports both students and teachers
around the technology.
"Our district is very forward-thinking in
knowing that all the teachers aren't ready and
each teacher is coming in at a different place,"
Sniffin said.

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Erich Schlegel for Education

WHEN GUERRERO, THE PRINCIPAL OF NORTHBROOK
Middle School, got the opportunity to do a digital expansion at her school, she only had four
days to decide whether to sign on. The school, in
which nearly all students qualify as low income,
had just recently cycled off the list of those penalized by the state for poor performance, and
she knew there would be a huge learning curve.
But Guerrero said she had already put in place
a management structure that allowed for a
"quick pivot."
"We could quickly identify whether we were
ready or not and had ways to get feedback from
teachers," she said. In fall 2017, the 1-to-1 iPad
initiative, funded by a grant from the Verizon
Foundation, launched. Each of the devices has
a data plan, and students take the iPads home.
During the planning and roll out, Guerrero
harkened back to the Kotter article, ticking
off the need for a vision, a guiding coalition of
champions for the project, the ability to communicate her vision-and felt the school could
tackle it. She also used lessons from a negotiation class she took through her MBA program.
Verizon typically requested that schools receiving the technology grants unveil the devices in a large community event to pass the
iPads out to students and families. Guerrero
didn't think that would be the most effective
way to highlight the value of the technology to
parents, students, and teachers.
Instead, she negotiated with Verizon for special permission to give the students the iPads
first, teach them how to use the technology,
and then hold a community event in which the
students highlighted for their parents the power
of the technology.
"It was such a powerful opportunity for
everyone," she said. And, Guerrero said, the
event also allowed her to take control of her
school's narrative around the ed-tech initiative.
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if you're not telling your story, someone else
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