Aug 17, 2026 · 42 min · 10 segments
Atlanta Public Schools serves 50,000 students across 80+ campuses. Natasha Rachell leads instructional technology for all of it, with a team that's shrunk from 39 people to 13.Her district is…
What is the scale of the work that this team was doing and is now doing with literally half the people? Give us a little bit of background of the school, where you're at, the size and the size of your workload.
That little asterisk at the end of your job description that says other job duties and responsibilities as assigned, it's huge.
I have myself as a director, and then I have 10 ed tech specialists that are in the schools.
So everything that we do from them being in the classrooms every day, modeling lessons, co-teaching lessons, helping teachers lesson plan, observing teachers for effective tech integration, all of these kind of things.
In addition, they get pulled to do things like a principal may say, we're having an award ceremony.
Can you come and live stream that for our parents that can't be here? We're having a PTA meeting.
Can you come and talk to our parents about social media and the dangers of social media or this whole conversation around screen time right now, which is so huge.
So we have an elementary and middle school esports program that we do every year.
What is the scale of the work that this team was doing and is now doing with literally half the people? Give us a little bit of background of the school, where you're at, the size and the size of your workload.
That little asterisk at the end of your job description that says other job duties and responsibilities as assigned, it's huge.
I have myself as a director, and then I have 10 ed tech specialists that are in the schools.
So everything that we do from them being in the classrooms every day, modeling lessons, co-teaching lessons, helping teachers lesson plan, observing teachers for effective tech integration, all of these kind of things.
In addition, they get pulled to do things like a principal may say, we're having an award ceremony.
Can you come and live stream that for our parents that can't be here? We're having a PTA meeting.
Can you come and talk to our parents about social media and the dangers of social media or this whole conversation around screen time right now, which is so huge.
So we have an elementary and middle school esports program that we do every year.
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