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By JEFF BRADBURY, YOUR DIGITAL LEARNING COACH The Impact Note: Mid-Week Update Simplified Systems. Strategic Insights. Greater Impact! Over the summer, TeacherCast hit a major milestone ... the website turned 15! TeacherCast now includes 15 years of educational blog posts, podcast conversations, lesson plans, classroom technology tutorials, and EdTech news. That’s a lot of useful material. But useful content can’t help you if you can’t find it when you need it. Over the last few weeks, I’ve...

By JEFF BRADBURY, YOUR DIGITAL LEARNING COACH The Impact Note: Weekly Digital Learning Strategies Simplified Systems. Strategic Insights. Greater Impact! 🚀 Impact Systems Bonus Edition What's New in Google Classroom? This summer, Google Classroom went through a major overhaul. Learn what is new and share our new video series with your staff this week! Walking into your classroom on day one is already a sprint. The last thing you need is opening your screen during first period and wondering...

JEFF BRADBURY, YOUR DIGITAL LEARNING COACH The Impact Note Simplified systems. Strategic insights. Greater impact in the classroom. 🎂15 Years of TeacherCast — A Birthday Thank-You Fifteen years ago this week, I hit record on the very first TeacherCast episode with a cheap microphone and zero idea what I was doing. Today, thanks to you, we’ve crossed 2,000 episodes and reached educators in 180+ countries. For the last 15 years, I have done my best to build TeacherCast as a "Place for Teachers...

JEFF BRADBURY, YOUR DIGITAL LEARNING COACH The Impact Note Simplified systems. Strategic insights. Greater impact in the classroom. Hello Reader, Fifteen years ago today, I did something that scared me half to death: I hit record. How it started The idea for TeacherCast was born on a drive up the New Jersey Turnpike. My wife and I were talking about how teachers almost never get the chance to learn from each other — that all the best ideas were locked inside individual classrooms. So I bought...

JEFF BRADBURY, YOUR DIGITAL LEARNING COACH The Impact Note Simplified systems. Strategic insights. Greater impact in the classroom. Every teacher has heard it: “When will I ever use this?” For decades, that question has exposed the biggest gap in education — not a lack of technology or standards, but a lack of relevance. At ISTE + ASCD 2026, I sat down with Jamie Candee, President & CEO of Edmentum, to talk about their “Road to Readiness” — a vision that treats learning less like a forced...

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. 💻 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. 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 💻 Digital Learning News & Updates How do you make an impact… when you’ve built the vision, mapped the curriculum, coached the teachers — but still can’t tie it all together into a system that actually moves the needle? That’s the question I kept hearing from instructional coaches and digital learning leaders across the country. Talented educators with great ideas — but no framework to connect those ideas to district goals, standards,...