New Job, Same Challenges

If you notice the dates, it's been quite some time since my last entry. This is because my wife and I moved from Maryland to Tennessee in June and I'm only now getting the chance to get back to my blog. The thing which has struck me most about my new job is the importance of humanware. In other words, the human relationships within a school, among the teachers, and between the teachers, administration, students, parents, and technology department. Having worked in several schools now, and visited many others, I am struck by how the culture of a school and the relationships among its constituencies will impact its success with using technology to improve learning. These relationships seem to me as important as the dollars spent on servers and software. Cultivating them and building a team-based approach to problem-solving is the challenge.