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JEFF BRADBURY, YOUR DIGITAL LEARNING COACH The Impact Note Simplified systems. Strategic insights. Greater impact in the classroom. 🧭 Today’s the Day — ISTE+ASCD 2026 Is Officially Here It’s here. ISTE+ASCD 2026 kicks off today at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando — four days (June 28–July 1) of keynotes, hands-on playgrounds, and the kind of hallway conversations that stick with you long after you fly home. Whether this is your first ISTE or your fourteenth (it’s mine!), the...

JEFF BRADBURY, YOUR DIGITAL LEARNING COACH The Impact Note Simplified systems. Strategic insights. Greater impact in the classroom. 📚 Two summer reads to reset your coaching practice If you’ve ever felt like the school year becomes: “great PD → polite nods → no real shift,” you’re not alone. Summer is one of the few windows we get to step back, reflect, and rebuild—so I’m sharing two books that work especially well as a pair because they solve both sides of the change equation: The human side...

JEFF BRADBURY, YOUR DIGITAL LEARNING COACH The Impact Note Simplified systems. Strategic insights. Greater impact in the classroom. 🎙️ New Episode of Digital Learning Today Podcast Hi everyone, If you’re an instructional coach (or you support coaches), you’ve felt this tension: You know the work matters… but when someone asks “What impact are we seeing?” it’s hard to answer without drowning in spreadsheets and test scores. In my newest Digital Learning Today episode, I’m joined by Chrissy...

JEFF BRADBURY, YOUR DIGITAL LEARNING COACH The Impact Note Simplified systems. Strategic insights. Greater impact in the classroom. If the only AI tool you’ve tried is ChatGPT, you’re missing the one Google quietly built for teachers. NotebookLM looks like a research tool. It is a research tool. But under the hood, every feature is powered by Gemini — the same engine you’ve been hearing about — wrapped in an interface designed for the way teachers actually work. The difference is grounding....

JEFF BRADBURY, YOUR DIGITAL LEARNING COACH The Impact Note Simplified systems. Strategic insights. Greater impact in the classroom. 💻 Summer PD Featuring 25 Outstanding Coaches! How do you make an impact with coaching communication… when teachers aren’t opening your emails or responding to your outreach? You’ve done the work. You’ve built relationships. You’ve got strategies ready to go. But if your newsletters, emails, and outreach aren’t landing — coaching never reaches the classroom....

JEFF BRADBURY, YOUR DIGITAL LEARNING COACH The Impact Note Simplified systems. Strategic insights. Greater impact in the classroom. 🍎 This Week from TeacherCast Hello Reader, Every year around this time, I do a full audit of my tech stack. Every app, every subscription, every tool sitting in my browser toolbar. The question is always the same: Did I actually use this? This year, I got ruthless. And my entire setup — for teaching, grading, and content creation — came down to just 6 tools. I...

JEFF BRADBURY, YOUR DIGITAL LEARNING COACH The Impact Note Simplified systems. Strategic insights. Greater impact in the classroom. Hello Reader, Let me ask you something: How many hours did you spend planning last week? Not teaching. Not grading. Not connecting with students. Just… planning. Prepping. Organizing. Searching for that one Google Doc you know you saved somewhere. If you’re like most educators, the answer is: way too many. I’ve been there. For years, my Monday mornings started...

JEFF BRADBURY, YOUR DIGITAL LEARNING COACH The Impact Note Simplified systems. Strategic insights. Greater impact in the classroom. ➡ Are You Sharing Your Impact In Your Classrooms? Hello Reader, It’s June. Your principal stops you in the hallway and asks: “So what impact did coaching have this year?” You know the answer. You lived it. But all you’ve got are stories. No surveys. No data. No documented feedback. Good news — it’s not June yet. I just published a new playbook with 5 ready-to-use...

JEFF BRADBURY, YOUR DIGITAL LEARNING COACH The Impact Note Hello Reader, Quick question: When was the last time you were genuinely surprised by a Google tool? Because Google Forms just surprised me. I recently discovered that Forms can now automatically close based on a date or response limit — no more scrambling to shut down an RSVP after the room fills up. And that’s not even the best part. Did you know you can now: ✅ Generate an entire form from a plain-English description — just tell it...