Matt Brady's portfolio

Leadership, Development and Integration 2017-2019

Amazon-style mock internal press release for Digital Learning Plan.
Backwards planning takes thinking ahead.

Click images below to view initial conditions coming in as a school's first Director of Digital Learning:

My job description

My initial SWOT analysis

My core work for Nishimachi International School, annotated

Leadership, Strategy and Communications

1 to 1 Roadmap and report created for NIS Board. Requested $165,000 in new devices.

Board approves my plan and roadmap for move to 1 to 1 device program.

Recognizing and Connecting my tech team. The more they succeed, the better the product.

Presentation delivered to leadership team outlining my first set of transformational recommendations. https://is.gd/6nqkHI

User data I collected being used to help tech department see urgency in wifi challenges.

Supporting IT colleagues and making sure they get leadership recognition for great work.

35,000 ft view @ the roadmap I introduced.

Portion of SWOT Analysis after first term on the job.

Working with IT dept. to optimize and balance performance and $ tradeoffs.

Handled huge volumes of email communicating to all stakeholders.

Intranet redesign project leader.

Letter sent to NIS alum and MIT head Joi Ito to request support.

I created the NIS learning hub and placed monitors strategically.

Staff feedback on digital" big leaps after year 1.

Milestone report for digital learning after year 1.

Integration project was setup and training all staff teams on Google Team Drives.

Feeding back to staff their growth in digital learning over the first year.

Created succinct parent communications for all digital platforms.

Used non-digital means to connect staff and drive peer to peer learning.

Lead our digital dashboard selection and rollout. Collaborative representative for NIS.

Lead the project implementation that tied all our siloed student data together in one place.

My project leadership resulted in a data platform customized for our needs.

Ghost wrote numerous newsletters for the Head of School @ technology.

Strategic plan outline for the digital learning plan I was responsible for.

Ghostwriting for head of school.

Leadership team shown communications workflow/app/process hobbling progress.

My "Daily Notes" solution of self-service Google slide decks. 2nd school to have this system installed.

What my system enabled was just in time training and info in a way that worked best for staff, where and when they wanted it.

Communicating early and often stopped this data protection problem before it happened.

Lead the schools first Digital Learning Plan team.

Summer school leader and marketing director.

Learning and Development

Integration and Design

Book written and self-published in 2017

Digital Ecosystem Leadership

Overcoming Obstacles to Technology Integration From a Position of Influence, Not Authority

“Why hasn’t educational technology transformed learning in the majority of schools who have spent millions on IT?”

Educational technology programs often struggle because integration challenges today largely stem from people/organization problems, not “technology” problems. The way technology leadership is often done in schools is akin to expecting crops to grow without farmers, only sharecroppers and migrants.

In Digital Ecosystem Leadership educator-technologist Matt Brady shares a blueprint for initiating and sustaining technological change from positions of influence only, outside of a school’s core leadership team. He identifies the common causes and effects of ineffective integration programs and lays out the leadership principles and obstacle avoidance strategies needed to empower others to use technology effectively for teaching and learning.

Bonn International School 2014-2017 mini whitepapers (my drone photo)

Bonn International School 2014-2017

Leadership & Communication

Digital Learning ecosystem created for 150 staff at 700 student International School

Integration

Technology curriculum for Early Learning through Grade 5. Integrates iPads and Computers

Student Learning & Staff Support

Digital Learning ecosystem training module for self-service access 24/7

Project lead to support Secondary school PE staff, Dean of Students/Development

Transformed the Digital Communications platform for Usability and consistency and trained all staff on use.

Saved 25,000 Euro on iPad storage by designing it myself

Designed and created the BIS Campus Tour

Ever-increasing adoption of Google platform based on my promotional work, training and setups

18-week inquiry driven, gamified and flipped classroom IT "information fitness course" integrating IGCSE/ITGS and MYP project based learning

Setup, organized and lead peer trainings for 160 staff

Designed and created empowering student communication system for Secondary school

Persevered through 6 months of effort to partner BIS with Free Software NGO teckids.org to host a makerspace onsite for students

Designed several types of internal training promotions

Set a foundation for Digital Learning at BIS for 2016-2017

Got Leadership Team buy-in for to implement my ideas for improvements to internal communications platforms

Utilized all available resources to ensure solutions were student, not IT admin centered.

Piloted our quadcopter to take marketing pics/video for school promotions.

IT course support for Grade 3-9 students in STEM skills run through Google Classroom.

Achieved Google Certified Educator status 2015

Created online systems for minimum basic IT literacy testing

First ever MYP Interdisciplinary exams at BIS. I lead the setup of the testing, the iPads, Google Drive and coordinating the ICT support

Lead 40 students in 2016-2017 in building their IT, media and leadership skills by providing differentiated STEM pathways

...and I lead from a position of influence only, outside of the Leadership Team

Brought Google Apps/Chrome into a German school

Largest staff feedback collection on IT systems in BIS history

I setup and lead a group of students known as "Tech Pilots". We shoot (livestream, etc.) and promote BIS sports and events

Personalized learning resources for staff and students made to be available 24/7

Further Back

2000-2005

Whitepaper written for Financial Services market/Enterprise Content Management.

A formal report, a change I made to Dow's executive communication systems and a video

A student newspaper and a successful grant request

Writing/Storytelling

Published in The International Educator, May/June 2019

Published in The International Educator, January 2020

Published in TIE online blog, January 2020

Short article written about Peace Corps. Published in 2000.

Fake advertisement made for a friend

First attempt at longform journalism from 2000. Visited a maximum security prison in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Interviewed Warden & several inmates. Unpublished.

Tech article written in 2005 on future of smartphones where I predict phones with BCIs as an eventuality. Unpublished.

Short article written for young people on squirrels. Never published.