literacy, and more—based on each school’s needs. Advanced Teaching Roles have evolved from a simple ladder into a lattice of possibilities: educators can lead, specialize, or expand their reach without leaving the classroom.“Everyone gets coached up,” Bennett says. “Coaching is not remediation; it’s how professionals grow.” TECHNOLOGY AS TOOL, NOT TETHER Chief Officer of Instruction and Innovation Destiny Ross-Putney has watched classroom technology evolve for nearly two decades. She remembers when one-to-one devices were a frontier; now they’re a baseline. What the district has learned in that time is that access alone is not the goal. Deliberate use is. “We teach digital citizenship explicitly,” RossPutney says. “Students need to evaluate sources, cite properly, and distinguish quality information in a world that is flooded with it.” At the same time, the district has embraced a balanced return to the basics in certain settings. Some schools remain one-to-one; others purposefully structure device 394 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 06, ISSUE 12
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