How to Stay Connected with Teachers … When You Can’t Physically Meet with Them

<div id="i4c-draggable-container" style="width: 0px;height: 0px"> <div class="resolved" data-reactroot=""></div> </div> Welcome to "Ask the Tech Coach," a podcast for Instructional Coaches and Technology Integration Specialists. In this episode of “<a href="https://www.teachercast.net/episodes/ask-the-tech-coach/">Ask the Tech Coach</a>,” Jeff sits down with Instructional Coach Michael Thomas to discuss his passion for supporting teachers, podcasting, and his advice to Instructional Coaches during the cold days of winter! If you would like to be a part of future podcasts and share your thoughts, <a href="https://www.teachercast.net/podcastguestform">please contact the podcast</a>.  We would love to have you join the show. <h2>Question of the Week</h2> Our favorite part of recording a live podcast each week is participating in the great conversations that happen on our live chat, on social media, and in our comments section. This week’s question is: <em><strong>Question Topic: How can a coach successfully support every teacher when trying to support a large number of school buildings?</strong></em> <h2>Weekly Topic</h2> <ul> <li>Transitioning from Teacher to Instructional Coach</li> <li>First presentations as an Instructional Coach</li> <li>Covering a 62 School / 25,000 student school district as an Instructional Coach with a 3 Coach Team</li> <li>A Typical Day as an Instructional Coach</li> <li>Supporting Teachers</li> <li>Creating Training Videos</li> <li>Supporting/Promoting Computer Science Lessons</li> <li>Creating Digital Learning Newsletters in SWAY and pushing through the LMS</li> <li>22 Tools for 2022 (District Badging System)</li> <li>Communicating with district coaches through Teams Chat</li> <li>Favorite Applications for Instructional Coaching <ul> <li>Microsoft Presenter Coach</li> <li>Microsoft SWAY</li> </ul><br/> </li> <li>Why it's important to spotlight teachers</li> <li>How to connect teachers despite not being able to visit their