How AI Is Transforming School Technology Planning ft. Robbie Cobbs | My EdTech Life Ep.342 - My EdTech Life

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Dr. Fonz Mendoza (00:13):
Hello, everybody, and welcome to
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only professionally, butpersonally too as well.

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And I am excited about today'sshow because we do have a
returning guest.
So I am excited because thisguest was with us in February.
And it's been a couple ofmonths since then.
We're now in November of thesame year.
Mr.
Robbie Cobbs is joining ustoday, but he's joining us today
to share some big news becausehe's got a great project that he

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has just released and isbringing to our CTO educating
educator world in our educationlandscape.
So I'm really excited aboutthat.
And I'll wait till he tells youa little bit more about that.
But again, let's welcome Robbieto the show.
Robbie, how are you doingtoday?

Robbie Cobbs (01:35):
I'm doing wonderful.
Thank you so much for havingme.
Glad to be back.
Um, the last time we saw eachother was actually, I think it
was ISTE over the summer in SanAntonio.
And I was just uh it was reallycool to see you up there just
doing your thing, you know,being a I think you're
moderating the panel.
You were uh showcasing somedifferent products, and uh I

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just made sure to give you somehype, some love on my socials,
and just said, hey, check themout, my ed tech live fonts, all
that stuff, my guy.
And uh yeah, it was greatcatching up you then.
But um, we've been busy, we'vebeen very busy, so uh really
excited about uh sharing allthings uh Tech My School and
Tech Plan Genie.

Yes, I well, I'm excited about that, and
you're right.
The last time we saw each otherwas at ISTE, and thank you so
much for sticking around thosesessions as I I moderated, and
it was a great, greatexperience.
But enough about that becausetoday or tonight is your night,
my friend, and I am so happythat you are here because I have
seen what you have been able todo for a while now, especially

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following you on social media.
And people don't know untilthey experience the Tech My
School experience, which you areall about, and the schools that
you're helping, because for me,it was an eye-opening
experience when I got to be partof this wonderful conference
and see the schools that you'reworking with.
And I was thinking to myself,oh my gosh, like I I can't

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believe that that schools likethis exist.
So it was a shock to me.
However, I'm just thankful thatthere are people like yourself
and the rest of the Tech MySchool team, and of course, all
the wonderful people thatsupport you in your endeavor to
just bring education to life forthe students there in Puerto

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Rico and all the teachers andthe way that you equip them, the
way that you treat them.
It's just something special tosee.
So I'm really excited for youto share all of that.
So before we dive in, for thoseof you that didn't get catch uh
episode 312, where Robbie wasoriginally on.
So uh Robbie, can you give us alittle brief introduction and
what your context is within theeducation space?

Yeah, so I was an educator for many years and I
went uh from teacher to teachertrainer, uh, tech integrator to
uh CTO or tech director ofschools.
And uh I was just kind of goingalong that path, minding my own
business, just living thateducator life, watching fonts on
the weekends.
And I came uh to Puerto Rico ona sabbatical.

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I wanted to write a book on edtech.
It was a 15-year in the makingexperience.
We're like, we're so excited,we're gonna go to Puerto Rico,
we're gonna write this book forone year and then head back.
And uh I put my kids in thelocal schools and I was
expecting maybe like Hawaiilevel education, something like
that, because it is America andeveryone's an American citizen.

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But um, I was coming in fromAfrica and I was like, this is
this is Africa, and uh I juststarted to serve one school and
it kind of blew up.
One school turned into two,turned into 50.
So we've been all over theplace.
We do a ton of differentthings, and like Fon said, check
out the uh that last episode umto hear more in detail about uh
Tech My School and how we serveschools in Puerto Rico and

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schools serves in this uh serveschools in the states.
But uh one thing I want to jumpinto is this new project we
started.
Um, so we had a Tech MySoolbooth at the FATC conference in
January.
And, you know, I'm there, I'mpromoting for my conference.
Uh we do this big ed tech, it'slike the biggest ed tech

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conference in the Caribbean,beautiful venue.
Please come to the to the show.
Fonz will be there, um, and allthat stuff.
We have George Kurios.
Uh, he's gonna be headliningfor us this year.
But I was promoting for ourconference last year's show,
trying to get teachers to come,trying to find speakers, trying
to find vendors.
I'm just anyone I talked with.
I'm just trying to network andmake it happen for Tech My

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School.
And this gentleman approachesour booth and he goes, uh, just
tell me about what you do, tellme your story.
And he he had his badge kind oflike hidden intentionally.
Um, and I would just, you know,just my spiel, hey, we're Tech
My School, we help schools inPuerto Rico.
They're the, you know,America's most underserved,
underprivileged schools.
Da-da-da-da-da.
We donate computers, we trainteachers, we do classroom

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observations.
And then he was like, hmm, Ireally like what you guys are
doing.
And I like how you go intoschools and do audits and then
create these tech plans, andyou're kind of like keeping them
alive.
Can you do that for a thousandschools?
And I was like, no, I cannot dothat for a thousand schools
because our team is limited andwe're doing a million other

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things.
Um, he's like, Yeah, because Ihappen to work with Google.
I'm in charge of GoogleEducation Uh, Florida, and I'd
love for you guys to come in toand do it at all of our schools.
And so I knew right then, I'mlike, I better turn this process
uh, you know, into a software.
And here we are a few monthslater, and we did.

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We we turned it into a process.
Uh the software is called TechPlan Genie.
As of today, November 6th,2025.
It is a one-of-one.
There's no other software likeit that I know of that I've
heard of.
I've looked around.
But essentially, this softwarewas built not just because this

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guy from Google is like, hey,can you do this?
But really the process that wedeveloped, you know, with tech
uh tech my school and all theexperience I had prior to
jumping into tech my school.
Um, when you work as either thetech director of a school or as
the head of school in charge oftechnology, you're kind of on

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an island.
You're by yourself.
People come to you, and yourpower, your superpower is
knowing about tech.
And unlike a third gradeteacher who you can just kind of
buddy with and like, hey, whatdo we do with this lesson plan
or whatever, you can kind ofcollaborate.
When you're the tech director,you really don't have anyone to
collaborate with in your school.
You usually have to go outsideyour school, go to forums, watch

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fonts, whatever, to try to getideas to answer questions.
And I mean, ChatGPT now isavailable and that's great, but
you really are on an island.
And so there are a lot of toolsfor kids.
There's a lot of tools outthere for, you know, curriculum
and all these different things,but there really isn't a tool
for us, for us tech guys inschools.
And so this tool is one thatwas built for tech directors by

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deck directors.
And if you're ahead of schooland you're in charge of parents
and teachers and all thesedifferent things, but you also
have to tackle technology aswell.
You throw in AI and all theseapps and buying interactive flat
panels, and this teacher wantsthis, and that teacher wants
that.
You're also on an island andyou don't even have the ed tech
background to really give youthat framework of like, okay,

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what do I even do?
I'm just gonna look at myneighbor's school.
What is what are they doing?
I guess I'm gonna buy itbecause they have it, or
whatever.
So this software kind ofstrategically walks you through,
whether you're an ed techexpert or you're a newbie, it
walks you through a process ofstrategic planning within your
school to help you build atechnology plan.

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Is it cool if I show it?
Yes, absolutely.
Great.
So if you come to the uhwebsite, can you see this
website?
Not yet.
I think you just need to clickshare on your screen.
There we go.
Tech guy, let's go.
Let's see if it's popping up.
Yeah, there we go.
Okay, tech guy, forgot.
All right.
Can you see it now?

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There we go.
All right, so it's called TechPlan Genie.
Um Tech My School, ournonprofit, is the Puerto Rican
green parrot.
That's kind of the nationalsymbol of Puerto Rico.
Uh that's why we have thisorigami kind of pecky looking
parrot.
Um, this is a genie, but uh themascot is the cokey frog, which
is uh it's a coke frog geniebecause the cokeie frog is a big

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symbol of Puerto Rico as well.
But, anyways, um you can go tothe website techplangenie.com to
kind of look at stuff.
It's it's a lot to take onbecause as a tech director, it's
kind of hard to explain exactlyeverything we do within a
school.
But I'm gonna break it down foryou, and hopefully when you
watch this, it'll make a lotmore sense.
Um, so there is an FAQ, FAQhere, which kind of answers the

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questions of like, who is thissoftware for?
It's for tech people inschools, it's for ed tech
people, for ed tech enthusiasts,is for heads of schools, um,
it's for people who want tobuild a database plan and then
see it through.
So uh to get started, uh yourub once to register and rub

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twice to log in.
But I'm just gonna click overhere because I've already got
one logged in.
Um when you log in, you can seethere's these different modules
here.
And each module you're gonna gothrough to build your genie's
power.
Um, I have some kids and uhthey love Pokemon, so you kind
of have this Pokemon effect asyou go through it, essentially.

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Your genie gets uh stronger, Iguess you can say in in morphs.
Um, but I also wanted to makeit a fun kind of a little bit
retro Super Nintendo look to itas well, because a lot of really
tech, you know, LMS's SIS, it'sso boxy.
You know what I mean?
So I wanted to to make it alittle bit more fun and and add

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this uh tech genie character.
But essentially, you go throughit by adding in information
about your school.
Now there's a video with eachmodule that explains what it is,
how to do it.
So um I'm gonna skip throughthat.
But essentially what you'redoing is you're you're
aggregating data for your schoolso it can help you build this
great plan.
So it's gonna put in yourschool information, your bio,

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all that kind of stuff.
You're gonna put in your logo,your brand colors, or whatever.
And then you click next.
Then what you're gonna do isyou're gonna build your task
force team.
So your task force team isessentially um the leaders on
your team who the voices thatmatter, who you want to be part
of your team.
So it's gonna be your obviouslythe tech director or head of

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school, maybe your DTL, yourcurriculum director, uh,
principals.
And then I also like to havethree types of teachers, kind of
like a tech leader, thosetechie teachers.
We want their voice.
We want the kind of just liketech familiar teacher, the
normie tech teachers.
And then we also, which isalmost the most important voice,
is the tech reluctant teacheror you know, that staycationer,

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the teacher that I call thebreaks.
Because we as tech enthusiasts,we're always like, let's do
this, and let's do that, andlet's do this.
And that breaks is going to belike, we're the gas, they're the
brakes.
They're like, uh, no, right?
So you fill it out, you inviteyour team.
Uh, you know, you can choose ifyou want them to be able to
view or edit depending on theirrole.
And then you go forward.

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As you can see, it starts likethis when you start it.
You start as this little smoke,and then your smoke gets a
little bigger, and then itstarts to turn into the genie.
But you go through thesedifferent modules to ultimately
build you this tech plan.
Now, there's a couple thingswithin uh leadership teams that
tech directors and and techleaders um struggle with.

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One of those things issometimes you'll be in a school
where you have a lot of greateducators, but these educators
all have kind of egos andbackgrounds and PhDs and
whatever.
And so they all have their owninitiatives they're trying to
run in the school.
And you as a tech guy, you'retrying to run your initiative in
the school, whatever that is.
And so you have these competingideologies, and sometimes they

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don't align.
And sometimes these people canbe, I'm not gonna say combative,
but competitive within yourschool.
So you feel like they're doingtheir own thing, they're not
really listening to me.
I'm trying to push this, butI'm not getting the support I
want.
And what this plan does, thetech plan genie, as you go
through the modules, you'reinviting people to the process.

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So all those different people,those siloed groups, they're
part of your task force team.
So they're gonna be buildingthe plan.
Their input matters, it's gonnadetermine what the plan looks
like.
Also, um, you're going to themand you're saying, hey, you what
you're doing is super importantto the school.
It's important to me.
And I want to make sure my techplan reflects what you're
doing.
So we have um this module, mylearning path.

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And so my learning path is allabout connecting with the
professional uh developmentteam, your strategic planning
team, your director of teachingand learning, and asking them
and just interviewing them,like, hey, you know, how do you
how do we define success withinprofessional learning?
And you start really digginginto these questions about the
ethos of the school and how itall works.

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And ultimately it's going tobuild into your tech plan so
that way you have a great techplan for your school.
Um, another really cool thingabout this is the checklist.
So um within AI, we're tryingto build this plan.
And you can go to ChatGPT andwrite in, make me a tech plan,
and it'll make you something,right?
But the power of AI really isasking the right questions and

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getting the right data.
And that's what this is.
It's like the power isn't theAI part.
Most of this isn't AI.
Most of it is your team havinggreat conversations that are
guided through these frameworks.
So you're really digging in toget really excellent data.
So as you go through this, welook at uh schools through three
lenses educational systems,building capacity, and student

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empowerment.
And so through those threelenses, we're aggregating data
and we're looking like, okay, doyou have a professional email?
Yes or no, present oropportunity, is it a priority?
And you can write in notesabout like, we have this thing,
but we want to upgrade it andpossibly, or we don't have this,
or whatever.
So you're gonna go through andjust write in all the things
about your school, about whatyou have, what you don't have.

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Another really important thingis you don't know what you don't
know.
We've gone through the vettingprocess of schools, of like a
hundred schools.
So we know so many things tolook for within a school.
Plus, I've like interviewed 50tech directors from around the
world to just make sure thislist, which continues to grow,
is gonna have everything thatcould be in a in a tech plan

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within a school.
And so you're gonna come acrossthings and you're just like,
oh, what is the the intranet?
What is that?
And when you click on this,it'll explain what it is.
And you're like, oh, that's socool.
We don't have that.
We should probably have that.
Or we do have that.
I didn't know that was the nameof it.
So it's a professionaldevelopment in yourself in
itself, going through thisprocess, not only with your
team, but you as a techprofessional, because you're

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gonna see a lot of things onhere.
And then anytime something'smissing, they're gonna email me
and be like, hey, you forgotthis.
And then we'll just add it in.
And it just kind of grows tothis aggregate of different uh
data points that go into yourschool's tech plan.
So eventually you go throughthe rubrics, which is a really
fun experience.
Uh, your team has to decidewhere your school fits, you

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know, on this lens of, you know,behind aspiring, emerging,
proficient leading, you know,where do you fit on this rubric?
And then uh with those threelenses, and then as you're going
through it, you're writing inplus delta, justifying why
you're a three or a four orwhatever.
And all this data just gets uhbunched up into finally your

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tech plan.
So once you've gone throughthis process, you've asked all
these questions, you'veaggregated all this data, you're
ready to do the tech plan.
You go through it and you justput in pictures of kids doing
stuff.
So pictures of students workingwith tech, pictures of the
campus, and you go through it.
You put in a bunch of pictures.
Then you click next, and thenyou click generate plan.
Well, I click regenerate plan,and it's gonna go through and

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it's gonna take all your data,and then it's going to build you
this tech plan that you canthen edit or modify based off
that.
I kind of wish I didn't dothat.
Okay, because it takes a littlebit for it to aggregate the
data.
Ah, it's already started.
Um, so it goes through and itbuilds you this tech plan that

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you can then uh I mean, it'sgonna give you suggestions based
off what you're what you'veinputted, but you ultimately are
going to determine, you know,what is uh what is what what you
want and what you don't wantbased off your for your school.
Once your tech plan is created,uh you click on my roadmap.

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So this tech plan is for oneschool year, but every year you
used to be re you know,recalibrating your school,
reassessing where are you at,and you know, putting yourself
on this roadmap.
So there's this roadmap module,and it tells you which mod like
which stage you're on.
And then there's differentelements of like, you know,

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what's in the stage, what areyour big focuses, where are
schools in this process, andthen what do you need to do to
get to the next stage, right?
And if you want to peek and seewhat these stages are, it kind
of gives you a sense of wherethat is.
And then um one of the thingstoo with with tech plans in
general is making a tech plan isgreat.

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It's a fun process.
You're with your team or you'reby yourself, you you make this
beautiful document, you share itwith your share, your your uh
you know, your yourconstituents, and then it kind
of just sits in like a drive.
And then like six months later,you're like, oh yeah, we have
that tech plan.
Let me look at that thing realquick.
And you're like, oh yeah.

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And I okay, yeah, we're good.
And then maybe you take it liketwo years later, like, oh yeah,
the tech plan.
Remember that?
With tech plan genie, what itgives you is it's actually a
project management tool.
And so uh when you click myprogress, you're gonna go in
each month and you're gonnawrite in all the things you did

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for system improvements, forcapacity building, for student
empowerment, or financialinvestments.
So you can be like, okay, uh,you know, we uh added a new uh
AP in the library because it wasit was getting funky over
there.
Um we gave an all-stafftraining about our sponsor, uh

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book creator.
Um, you know, we did the uh anesports for the kids, and we
bought Tech 19.
And then you do a little recapof this is what we did this
month, blah blah blah.
And you do it for each month.
You'll get a little emailsaying, hey, what'd you do this

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month?
What'd you do this month?
So you go through and do all ofyour project management
throughout the throughout the uhthe year, and you can see I
can't access these monthsbecause this hasn't happened
yet.
And then uh at the end of theyear, it's the same thing where
you add pictures, and then onceyou add the pictures, you're
gonna generate a plan, and thenit's gonna populate all the

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things that you've done.
There's nothing in here becauseI didn't I don't have any
pictures, but I haven't doneanything according to this
because I've I didn't put it in.
But uh it's gonna make thisbeautiful, downloadable, edible
PD, and you can share this workwith your constituents, your
your board members, yourparents, whoever, because a lot
of times we get a bad rap astech people.
Like we're working so hard,we're working with teachers,

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we're working with kids, andthen all the the kind of general
sentiment is okay, theinternet's working.
Like, what else do you do allday?
You're just in that office allday, right?
Like, what are you even doing?
And so it's like by having thisNVIDIA report that gets
automatically generated from allthe work you've been inputting,
it's just such a great capstoneto your year.
And that gives you suchqualitative and quantitative

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data that you can share yearafter year after year as you're
going through your roadmap.
Um, so yeah, and then the lastpart of it is called Tech Plan
Genie.
Uh, we have the genie itself.
So your genie is gonna knowyour plan.
And so you can say, uh, youknow, the science teacher just
came to me and she really wantsme to um build in FET, you know,

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those FET simulations.
When would be the best time todo that?
What month should I do that?
So, like what month should wefocus on a science app like FET
this year?
And then the genie is going touh give you an answer based on

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your technology roadmap.
The most appropriate time tofocus on the science app is
during the fall.
Da da da da.
So it knows your spoolintimately because it knows your
plan.
Well, build it.
It has all these different cooldata points that ChatGPT is
never gonna get because you'renever gonna put those answers
in.
You're never gonna ask thosequestions.
And now you have a little buddywhere when someone comes to you

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and says, hey, you know, whatabout XYZ?
You can talk to your genieabout it.
And yes, I know there's alsoChatGPT or Cloud or Groc, but
it's like this one knows yourplan.
It knows how it knows how itfits in your school.
And so it just gives you thatlittle bit of a boost uh when
you're working uh in your job.
So again, this is a tech guidetool for tech people.

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Um, no one else has doneanything like this that I can
think of.
And I'm really hoping thatpeople like it because uh tech
my school is uh you know alife's calling for me.
I'm working with these schools,I'm helping these, the poor
schools in America, and I'm youknow building relationships with
all these teachers.
But, you know, if we don'traise enough money, I have to

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say goodbye to them.
And part of the proceeds ofwhat uh Tech Plan Genie is gonna
do is another income stream forus so that we we can keep
serving schools and we can keepuh fulfilling our mission.
So that is that uh I'm gonnastop sharing and then uh uh one
of the things I want to do is Iwant to regenerate that plan uh

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that way you guys can see it.
Because it's pretty cool.
There's like uh Gantt charts inthere and uh oh here we go.
Okay, it's it's on air.
Let's see.
Just so just so the people cansee, okay.

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Uh uh.
All right, so when you haveyour your plan here, uh it's got
your pictures and all thatstuff, your school colors, um,
you know, all this, like you'reabout us, that was written in uh
that intro.
Blah, blah, blah.
It's built out for you.
Um, then it talks aboutfinancials.

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Um, with financials and all thedata, because some people asked
about that.
They're like, what about thedata?
Where is it hosted?
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
So we have AWS servers thatit's hosted on, but we also
created it so each account isits own, it's in its own walled
garden.
So that way none of the data isgetting trained on the whatever
the LLM that we're using.
And so it's just within yourpocket.

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So you can ask it questions andit'll be like, I don't know,
because it doesn't reach out tothat LLM.
Um, and also you don't have toput in all the data.
Like you can be selective interms of what you want to share
or don't share.
But, anyways, it'll comethrough and say, okay, based off
improving your systems, you'vegot your area of focus here.

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It says standardized and deploya robust learning management
system across all grade levels.
I must have put that we don'thave one.
So I can be like, you know, wedo have one of those.
So I can change this and belike, we want uh, I'm gonna say,
improve our LMS based onresearch, blah, blah, blah.
Right?
So we can go in and type inwhatever we want.
Uh, it takes these areas offocus, these are like the big

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ideas for systems improvements,and then breaks it down into 10
like strategic objectives withthe most important at the top,
right?
So we put LMS as the topbecause if your school doesn't
have an LMS, you probably shouldhave one.
Or upgrading the network fordead zones of whatever.
Then it comes down here and itgives you your Gantt chart.
So this is kind of like yourscope and sequence for the year.

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Um, and you can say, okay,audit current map.
You can be like, you know what,maybe we don't want to do that.
We want to change that.
You can type in whatever youwant.
Um, then we look at um buildingcapacity.
So how does adult learning looklike?
Same thing.
And then it gives you arecommended professional
development schedule.
So it's gonna break down, like,okay, here's what you should be

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teaching based off your techplan, based off each month.
And so you can be like, okay,October, we're looking at SAMR
in action, transforming lessonsin SAMR, blah, blah, blah.
You're like, you know what?
Maybe we should push SAMR toNovember and switch it or
whatever, but at least it givesyou something.
Like you may not want any ofthese, but at least it gives you
an idea of like, well, I reallylike this one.

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Let's push this, let's movethis around a little bit.
And again, all these leadersare a part of this tech plan.
It's not your plan, it's theschool's plan.
Whether the a new leader comesor goes, it's all based off your
school's data, what you'refeeling, what you're thinking.
We incorporate Robert Dilt'swork in terms of the Mostov's
hierarchy of needs for howschools are feeling, rather than

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just being it strictly, youknow, do you have computers, do
you not have computers, thatkind of thing.
Um, not so binary.
And so it incorporates everyoneand it's going to, again, tap
into what does the curriculumdirector care about?
They care about this.
Well, my plan's based off whatthey care about.
So we're teaching it in a waythat fits everyone's kind of

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needs.
And then at the end, uh we havethe Gantt chart for all three
facets.
We've got a little tech roadmaphere, and uh, you can see which
stage you're on.
And then if what you can do isat the top, you can download it
and just pass it out once you'redone.
Again, saving you a bunch oftime.
Or you could let's say you'relike, I like the plan, but I

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think something's missing.
Some of the data we put inthere, I'm not really seeing it
in the output.
I just feel like we should havemore.
But I'm at a place where Idon't have a real tech
specialist, you know, on myteam.
What you can do is you canclick ask for human eye.
And then by doing that, we cancome to your team and we can we
can work with you.

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So there's three different waysof doing this.
There's like you build the techplan yourself, you're a tech
guy, you're smart, knockyourself out.
And that's great.
The second thing is we willbuild it with you.
So you can say, hey, we want torun it, but we just want you to
check on stuff.
Or we're stuck on this module.
Can you just help us throughthis one module?

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Great.
Or you can do a whole whiteglove where we just come to your
school or we work with youremotely and build the plan for
you with you with your team.
So you have those three optionswith it.
Um, and yeah, we try to priceit at uh a price point that is
any school can um any school canbuy this.

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Because again, we're thinkingequitably about many schools.
I know, I know the the kind ofAlex Hermosy way of doing
business is sell to the rich andjust attack these wealthy
schools, and then eventuallyonce you made all this money,
you can start to serve the thepoor people.
And uh being a nonprofit, I'mlike, no, I want it to be
something where you know uhanyone can uh have a chance at

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this.
So I'm I'm hoping this workshere.
I don't remember the password.
Got it.
Let's put it here.
Did it work?
No.
Oh, I already created it.
So I'm trying to I'm trying toregister.
The only thing is when youregister, it's gonna ask to look
at your email, blah, blah,blah.
And it's gonna go into theprice of it.
The price of this product, andI put it in a way where as soon

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as you see it, you can just buyit.
You don't have to call a salesteam and like they look at your
school's demographics and howmany students you have or
whatever.
I just put it at like 83 bucksa month or a thousand a year.
So that way it's like, youknow, it's not like one of these
LMS systems that cost you30,000, 80,000, 50,000,
whatever.
For a wealthy school, I want itto be like the tech directors

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is just like, this is likebuying coffee.
I don't even have to get a POsign off on this.
Like my budget I had at myfirst, my last school in Africa
was actually a million dollarsjust for the tech department.
So I was managing a million.
I was, you know, I can buythat.
I wouldn't even write a PO forit.
I was put on the credit card.
But for another school that'skind of like a St.
Catharine's Catholic schoolwith, you know, one principal,

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10 teachers, and they're justtrying to figure it out.
A thousand isn't.
Nothing, it's something, butit's not gonna like kill them.
They're still gonna be able toafford it.
It's not gonna be like 10,000or 20,000 or whatever.
Um, but if they want more, wecan price it and base it based
off that school's demographic.
Um, so yeah, and I also didthis.
You don't know this, but I Imade a code.

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Uh, so if you type in fonts,uh, you get a discount.
There you go.
F-O-N-Z.
Um, so yeah, that's that's TechPlan Genie in a nutshell.
Oh my god.
It's a lot to say.
I can't say that in like asentence.
I'm having trouble with themarketing of it.
It's like you kind of have tosee it and then experience it

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and also be in administration tobe like, oh my gosh, that would
save me so much time.
That would be so awesome.
Um, not to say it's it's it's abeta product.
It's it's it's uh it was justreleased um this month.
So um it's gonna only getbetter from here.
And as more users use it, um,they're going to you know put in

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suggestions and we're gonnamake it better.
We're gonna keep investing intoit.
So um if you love to support uhgreat technology, buy
technology, teachers forteachers, all that kind of
stuff.
And obviously, for you know,helping our nonprofit, we'd love
for you guys to support us oreven at the very least, take a
look at it when you buy it.
It's uh the first seven daysare free.
So, I mean, if you reallywanted to hack it, you could go

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through it real quick and thendo the tech plan and or
whatever.
Uh, but I think the the powerof it is really doing it with
your team and having thoseconversations, and it takes a
little bit, a little bit of timeto kind of plan that all out.
Um, I also didn't mentionthere's downloadables and
there's some other stuff inthere as well.
So, yeah, that's tech plangeniein a nutshell.

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I'm hoping it does well.
If it doesn't do well, it'sstill going to be used because
all the schools that are withTech My School are gonna be
using Tech Plan Genie.
And um, we already have schoolsthat are using it.
We have schools that uh have acolleague of of mine, uh Kyle
Summerow, a phenomenal tech uhdirector and educator.
Um, he was at Episcopal HighSchool in Texas and then now

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works with us at Tech My School.
Um, he and I went to uhIstanbul.
So we were at Nisa um in twoweeks ago, something like that.
And so we we had a booth and wewere talking about Tech My
School, we're talking about TechPlangini, and um people really
didn't get it.
They didn't get it.

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They liked the logo, they'relike, oh, the logo is cute.
But then when we presented, weactually presented at a at the
at the conference.
We had uh about 12 people inthe room, so it wasn't a huge
one, but uh we had 12 people inthe room and all 12 were just
like wow, we need this, we wantthis, and then they they they
took it on.
So it's very easy to sell ifsomeone like watches this and

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sees the process and does allthat, still kind of working the
kinks on the marketing becauseit is a mouthful.

Yeah.

No, but you know what?

Like I am just blown away.
Yeah, and you're absolutelyright.
This would have been very hardto just simply describe in
words.
So I'm glad that you shared.
But I want to get back to likewhat I mentioned earlier prior
to even starting the chat.
I have never seen anything likethis on the market.
One of one, and what I like thebest is like I mentioned to
you, everybody is creating forstudents, student-facing,

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teacher facing.
But now we have a tech directorfrom Tech My School, former
tech director at various schoolsglobally, worldwide, with that
experience, now building fortech directors pretty much
essentially everywhere.
Or if you are part of a schoolthat may not have somebody that

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may be as tech savvy or at leasthold that role, this is
something where you can bringyour community within the
school.
Like you said, you've got, Icall them your uh speedboats,
tugboats, and anchors.
You know, you've got that'sthat's a lot.
Yeah, because you've got thebrakes, and and I get it.
Those are my tugboats, thoseare the ones that you're kind of
like, okay, let's let's kind ofget you going and everything.

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But I love the inclusion of allof those facets, all of those
people that are involved,because now everybody feels
seen, everybody feels heard,everybody's got different ideas,
but you're working towards thatone goal, and this is something
that can help all thosemultiple ideas that people
popcorn around, but kind ofreally bring it together for one

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big vision to come to fruition.
I didn't mean it to rhyme likethat, but it just came around
that one-pin vision to come tofruition to build something for
a school that is specificallymade for that campus, or it
could be specifically madespecifically made for a district

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because this is somethingthat's wonderful.
Like I can see myself being ina role as a CTO and saying,
okay, I've got 14 schools, I'vegot eight elementaries, not
every elementary is the same,but I can create a specific tech
plan for them depending onfunding, depending on what we've
got.
Then I've got my junior highs,then I've got my high schools,

(36:18):
and we can each work towardsthat goal of providing for them
what they need, but at the samepace that they're at with the
teachers they have, and so on.
And now we can focus ourenergies on those specific
campuses that may need moreteacher training, or those
specific campuses that may needmore network infrastructure or
more devices and things of thatsort.

(36:41):
So, and for the price, oh mygoodness.

I'm still making that price, but I was just
thinking like I want everyone tohave an opportunity to use it.

Yes, yes.
And I think that this issomething fantastic, Robbie,
that you're you're on to.
And I remember being over therein Puerto Rico with you.
And I know that the you'relike, oh, I've got a meeting
with these guys, we're coming upwith something.
But just to see that your workcome to life and being out there
now in the world to help uh,you know, CTOs and to help, you

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know, tech guys like ourselvesand uh or non-techy people to
help them develop a plan.
And more than anything, goingat it step by step, it shows
you, it walks you through, itgives you, sends you emails, and
at the end, you have somethingthat is tangible.
And what I liked about this isthe way that you can put

(37:32):
pictures in there, thoseartifacts for your campus or
those artifacts for yourdistrict, where at the end you
have a nice report to give toyour stakeholders, to show to
your board members, to show toparents and show them the work
that you have done and that isongoing to be transparent.
And this is something that Ithink is a great tool, not only

(37:55):
for just developing that techplan, but also in being able to
be transparent with our learningcommunity, our parents, and
say, hey, this is this is wherethe funds are going and this is
what we're developing, becauseoftentimes they don't see what
is happening within theinstitution, within the school.
It's just really what they hearabout, and that can affect the

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school in a great way becausethis is marketing for the
school, also as well, andshowing what we have done and
what we intend to do and howwe've changed things and
evolved.
And I think that this isfantastic.
So I'm really excited aboutthis.
And aside from that, the easeof use, the the user experience
and uh the user interface.
I mean, to be able to go inlike you did and then just say,

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okay, I've got this editabledocument here that, well, I
maybe I want to change thisnumber one to something else,
and you can just change it rightthere on the spot before you
print it out and you don't haveto print it out and then go to
another app to edit it.
But man, Robbie, this issomething that is great and that
I know that this is going to besomething that is useful and
beneficial for, I mean, schoolseverywhere that just need a

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plan.

You think about it.
I mean, how many schools havelike an IT guy, like the network
guy who, like, okay, networkguy, you're now the ed tech
coordinator of the school, andthey've never been a teacher
before.
They've never worked in theclassroom and they're being
asked to make teacher typedecisions, like what software
should be we, what should we beusing for our kids?
And they're like, I knownetworks, I know internet, but

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I'm not an educator.
Do you have tech plan genienow?
So you can just aggregate withyour team all that information,
and then it's going to come upwith this tech plan.
And then you also want to talkabout job security.
So, again, thinking about whatis that IT guy even doing?
Well, let me show you.
I would love to show you whatI've been doing this year.
Here's the monthly progression.
The here's the projectmanagement every single month,

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and then the end of your report,and then year after year.
I mean, how many years have youworked where you had a yearbook
of just your work as an ed techdirector or as an integrator?
Like all that work justcompiled in a nice, you know,
polished PDF that you can say,here's this year, and here's
this year, and here's this year.
So those are the kind of thingsthat I think are pretty much a

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no-brainer for schools whenthinking about the product,
because again, a lot of these edtech products that get made,
they get made by companies.
They get made by investors andthey're making investor
decisions because they want tomake money and they're like,
this is the best way to makemoney.
And and it's always about thatbottom line.
But then you take on the tooland you think, like, who made
this?
Like, who is this for?

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Like some weird IT guy, or youknow what, you know what I mean?
It it's not made by an educatorfor an educator.
And the reason is because mosteducators don't have a
programming background, theydon't have the funds to finance
something, they don't have thetime.
And so uh yeah, I really hopethis product can can help
schools and yeah, just helpschool districts and uh, you

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know, work across the world.
We're we're implementing anapp, so any language, so
anywhere across the world withHeyGen, any language for the
tutorial videos and all thatkind of stuff.

Oh, that's fantastic.
And I think it's a hugebenefit.
And like you said, I mean, itreally takes uh somebody that is
not familiar, like youmentioned, with the the teacher
day-to-day to be able to workwith the teachers and working on
planning those day-to-days andworking on that that plan, but
also, like you mentioned, seeingthat growth and actually having

(41:24):
a documented process and againbeing able to check that
periodically and going from yearto year because teams may
change.
You may have new teachers onthe team, you may have, you
know, some growth and things ofthat sort, and all of that is
documented in this wonderfulartifact that you can show all
of your stakeholders.
But more than anything, too,Robbie, I want to I want to talk

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to you a little bit about thistoo, as well, because uh you
mentioned, you know, the theprice, but this is to really
help that vision of tech myschool.
So I want to give you a littlebit of time, you know.
I know you told us a little bitbriefly, uh, you know, what
Tech My School is doing, but Iknow that I've seen a lot of
great things.
You're working with a lot moreschools now, and you're really

(42:07):
bringing, you know, these plansto fruition and helping schools
grow.
So talk to me a little bit,just uh expand a little bit on
what I got to see when you tookme to the specific school, and I
saw four of those pods that fitabout eight students in there,
and that was a full-onclassroom.

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And what is it that you'redoing to help education?
Because many people, if you cangive us some background, may
think, well, you know, PuertoRico is a US territory, so they
think, well, it's part of theUnited States.
The education system should bethe same.
But tell us a little bit aboutreally the way that education is
set up there in Puerto Rico.

Yeah, no, thank you for that uh intro.
I'm gonna share screen againjust because uh I think pictures
do a better job than justwords.
Um so if you come to ourwebsite, you can find us and
find all of our information,techmyschool.org and how we
serve.
Uh, as the story goes, I wasuh, like I said, coming to
Puerto Rico to write a book oned tech.

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Um saw how bad the schoolswere.
I looked at the PISA scores.
We're the worst in the world,worse than every European
country, worse in Mexico, worsein Cambodia, everything.
We're just the worst of theworst.
We're about five grade levelsbelow uh, you know, the US
standard.
And so um, yeah, we we got towork serving one school and then

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it's turned into other schools.
Um, if you go to our Instagrampage, you can follow us and
you'll see we're in schoolsevery single day, constantly
working.
Um, I hope if I play this, itdoesn't go crazy.
We have a mix of differentschools.
So, like here's a video.
Uh, hopefully the sound's notgonna kill you.
Okay, so I can narrate this.

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So uh this was a school.
Uh I call it the jail school.
Uh they're a great school.
It's just there's a lot ofbars.
There's just like it just lookskind of like a prison.
But, anyways, they didn't haveuh they had a computer lab, but
it wasn't a real computer lab.
So we went in, we uh were ableto partner with some great
partners to help us procure uhsome uh MacBooks and uh iMacs

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for the kids, and uh then uhjust set up the lab.
But really the expense isn'tnecessarily the iMacs, it's all
the software you're buying.
So we're buying a ton ofsoftware and then also training.
So we're training every singlemonth the teachers on how to do
this because it's hearts andminds.
Anyone can grab computers andgive them to someone, but the
real kind of value is is the uh,you know, getting these

(44:37):
teachers who may or may not bequalified and getting them to
buy into what we're doing.
I mean, I don't think I've evenseen this one.
Okay, so here's a school, Idon't know, there's a public
school.
Um, our team going in, trainingthe teachers about different
things.
So we go through, we createtheir tech plan.
From their tech plan, we thenfulfill it.

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So every month we're inschools, training them on
different um professionaldevelopment and all those
different kinds of things.
Um, we also do a bunch of uhexploratory work.
So we do after school coding,we go into schools and we buy
all the equipment and then wegive kids these opportunities to
try out VR headsets, uh, LegoSpike, KaiBot, like all these

(45:18):
great products that we've allseen or experienced or um know.
Uh we've been able to do that,and that's that's been awesome
uh doing that for them.
So there's the donation part.
Um, there is the training part,uh, the planning part with the
leadership, um, the partnershippart, one of one of your
buddies, snorkel, we lovesnorkel.

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So we we get a partner withsome great uh tools where they
love our mission and they'rehelping us push uh you know the
their tool into schools inPuerto Rico and those kinds of
things.
Um so yeah, it's it's it's areally great experience.
I also the last thing I want toshare here, it's been a a while
since the spring, but becausewe do have esports and all that

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kind of stuff.
Um, esports is there not justbecause it's tech, but um, they
don't do sports the way we do inthe states where you're playing
the schools aren't playing 50sports, you know, Jefferson High
School this week and we'replaying Valhalla the next week.
Um they they do sports, theydon't have the money for it or
the the logistics for it.
So they don't travel it reallyanywhere.
They do like once a monthtournaments.

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So I create esportsopportunities for them to play
against each other just so thatthey can know each other's
names.
But I wanted to share a coupleof things about the conference.
So one of the things we do isuh something we call the tech
disruptor.
So the tech disruptor withinour conferences uh when uh an
educ any educator can apply toshowcase what they've been doing

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in their school, and ourpanelists choose uh the winners,
and then we donate a thousanddollars and give them a trophy
and then give them a platform toshare that cool thing they did.
And we we have five differentcategories uh for that.
Uh, you know, we haveinnovative educator, we've got
entrepreneur, we have one forart.
Um, so lots of cool stuff.

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And they've come up with someexcellent projects.
Um, Fonz, you were part of theuh you were part of the judging
panel last year.
We also do just raffles anytimewe can just uh give give away
uh technology.
We do, you know, directors ofthe year within uh uh Puerto
Rico.
And uh yeah, we we just do areally great show.

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Um last year we had, I mean, wedo the the cultural thing.
So we've got the dancers, theplana.
Uh this was during lunch, sothey the dancers came out and
you you get that Puerto Ricanculture.
Uh it's a really fun uh funexperience.
We've got the panelists heregoing.
Um hope to see you there againuh next year.

(47:46):
Um, and then we have a bunch ofbreakout sessions and stuff
like that.
So um we're hoping this year wecan hit uh last year we had
350.
We're hoping um this year wecan uh hit uh either 500.
It's either gonna be 500 or1,000 because there's a a group
here, a group of internationaluh private schools that love

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what we're doing and they'rejust like, you know, we want to
be a part of this.
We want to uh, you know, youguys do the best conference in
Puerto Rico, so we've got to go.
And they've got a lot ofteachers.
They've got like 500 teachers,so that would, you know, double
our impact there.
But this conference isbilingual, so it's English and
Spanish, but you get to chooseuh, you know, who you want to

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see speak and in which language.
So this year we've got GeorgeKiros, really excited about him
headlining for us.
If you watch a little videohere, you can see it's a
beautiful conference.
Okay, let's turn this off.
It's got uh it's at the WyndhamRio Mar, so it's literally
right on the water.
As soon as you walk outside,you're on the beach.
Um, but uh it's a a great venueand uh kind of looks like the

(48:54):
White House a little bit.
But yeah, it's it's awesome,uh, great food, all that kind of
stuff.
And then if you look at theagenda from the year before, uh,
this was last year's, you cansee our speakers and um the way
we structured it.
So we have our keynotes here,and then uh there's this guy.

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And then uh when we have ourbreakout sessions, you can see
like if it's a red circle, it'sin English.
If it's green, it's in Spanish.
And so uh if you're a speakerand you want to come to our
conference and help America'smost underserved,
underprivileged conferen uhstudents, please come because
these teachers could neverafford to attend a conference
like this.

(49:35):
Uh, we put up about $100,000 tohost this event.
And for our teachers that wethe that are in our umbrella,
it's free for them.
So uh the idea of this wassimply prior to this, I had gone
to conference as a speaker andI was thinking, oh, it'd be nice
if I spoke and talked abouttech my school.
But then I thought a littledeeper about it and I was like,

(49:57):
you know what?
Like these teachers here don'thave a conference that's like
awesome, that they canexperience that the that
conference experience that Ilove.
And because they can neverafford it, the teachers here are
making between $1,500 to $1,800a month.
And it's still, you know,America.
So milk's still gonna cost youseven, eight bucks, especially

(50:18):
being on an island.
So it's like you have thesereally high prices with really
low wages, and everyone'sAmerican.
So they can go to Florida orTexas or wherever to go teach,
especially if they're bilingual,and most do.
So the people who we have hereteaching are either in love with
Puerto Rico and they care abouttheir community or they're just
emerging teachers, let's callthem.
And so they need all thetraining they can get, uh, they

(50:41):
need all the the support theycan have.
So if you're listening to thisand you're a great speaker, you
you have a uh a company, or uhyou're just a a principal or
something like that, or a techdirector, we'd love to have you.
We want this to, we want to putPuerto Rico on the map in a
positive way and just make itworld class.
I think it's pretty good.
Um, when our staff, we tookthem to ISTE, no offense to

(51:02):
ISTE, but they were kind oflike, they're like, Robbie, why
is this conference not as goodas ours?
Like, why why is why is ourconference like almost as better
than this conference?
Not in size, but just in thequality of speakers and the food
and all that kind of stuff.
And I'm like, well, that's Itake that as a compliment.
But um, we want to make itawesome and we want people to

(51:22):
come and and add to the culturehere because this this is your
fellow citizens and they're theyare getting completely ripped
off.
It is it's grossly ribbed off.
And so it's it's it's so badthat I stopped my 15-year
planned sabbatical to just worknonstop to serve.
So it's it's one of those typesof situations.
And yeah, we love to have you.

(51:43):
And then also for vendors,we've we were able to get bring
in uh magic school.
So we pushed magic school toall of our teachers and showed
them this new tool, how to workwith AI in a fun way.
And then we got magic school tocome to Puerto Rico, and the
teachers were so jazzed becausewe're like, oh my gosh, no one
ever comes to Puerto Ricobecause it's poor and no one
cares.
And so they were just likeecstatic to meet the team at

(52:05):
Magic School, get the swag.
Like, and that's why for ourvendors, we don't charge the way
ISTE charges.
Like, if you try to get a boothat ISTY, if you try to get a
booth at FETC, if you try to geta booth at bet, you know, it's
$10,000, $20,000, $50,000.
For me, I'm like, we'll giveyou the booth, just pay for your
own food.
So what do we get before orthat?
Or if you're gonna give away agiveaway to the teachers like

(52:28):
free licenses, we'll pay foryou.
Just because we want theseteachers to experience what what
they could never experience ifwe weren't there.

So, no, and it is a great conference.
Like I said, I attended uh thisyear, and it was fantastic.
And again, uh Robbie and theteam, you know, have done a
fantastic job and they continueto grow.
And it's just really exciting,just how this kind of you know
took off, and it's just been anamazing experience to see the
growth and how you give back tothe community.

(52:59):
And it's fantastic.
So thank you, Robbie, foreverything you and the rest of
the Tech My School team aredoing.
And I'm so excited about yournew project.
And I definitely will bepushing that because there are
many schools that need this.
And even if you think youyou're okay, this is a great way
for you to just say, hey, arewe on the right track?

(53:19):
Just something that can keepyou in check and continue to
grow.
Because one of the things yousaid, you we can all make plans,
but then later on they justfall by the wayside and then you
forget about those things.
So this is something that canhelp you with uh your projects
that you've got coming up andeverything.
So I'm just really excitedabout that.
So, Robbie, we will definitelymake sure we tag all the
information for tag my uh fortech my school.

(53:41):
We'll make sure we put it inthe show notes.
We'll make sure that we put inyour profile on LinkedIn too as
well, and on all socials, andwe'll definitely put in that
discount code F O N Z Fonds, soyou can get a discount on your
plan as well.
And so I'm really excited aboutthat.
So thank you, Robbie, forjoining us this evening and the

(54:01):
work that you continue to do.
But before we wrap up, Robbie,I always love to end the show
with the last three questions.
And I know you've been on theshow before, so you kind of know
the format, but I know thatsome things might have changed
from then till now because we'renever the same, you know, after
a couple of months and so on.
So I want to ask you right now,as we know, every superhero has
a pain point or a weakness, andfor Superman, kryptonite was

(54:23):
his weakness.
So, Robbie, in your case and inyour experience and everything
that you've seen from the lasttime you were on the show till
now, what would you say would beyour current edu kryptonite?

Marketing my product.
Uh in schools, it's it's uh italways starts at the top.
It's leadership.
So it's uh ensuring thatbecause we're we're givers, so
we'll donate $50,000 to $80,000per school on average.
And we want that that money,that those resources, those

(54:59):
those goods to to be stretchedout and to go.
And um depending on the leader,that's what's gonna determine
the success of the program.
And it doesn't matter howwealthy a school is, how
established they are, whetherthey're the most reputable
school or a brand new schoolthat just started this year, the
mindset of that leader is gonnadetermine everything.
So I really, really care aboutkids, and that's what I'm doing

(55:23):
all this for is to help thesekids.
And so when working withdirectors who are kind of like,
oh, that's free.
We want free stuff, but I'm notgonna do the follow-through.
I have to like push through,work with these directors to
make sure that they'remaximizing tech my school and
all of our software that weprovide and the the the
technology as well, because Iknow I'm serving kids.

(55:43):
So I'm not I'm not sure ifthat's a kryptonite or not, but
it's still it's it's a hurdle ora challenge.
Um but I but I but I'vecontinue to push through because
um it's it's I know at the endof the day we're serving kids
and that's the most importantthing.

Excellent.
Great answer, Robbie.
All right.
Next uh question is if youcould have a billboard, you
know, and you it could haveanything on that billboard, what
would your billboard say orhave on it?

Um it's a great question.
Uh if I think deeply about it,I'd probably give you a
different answer.
But for today's sake, I'm gonnasay check out Tech Plan Genie.
Uh and I challenge you to uhit's it's not a good billboard,
it's it's a big text, a lot oftext in this billboard.

(56:36):
I challenge you uh to take ontech plan genie to see if our
tech plan uh is better thanyours, or uh if it's worth
having.
Or if you're going throughaccreditation, see how good I'm
at marketing.

Yeah.
I was gonna say tech tech plangenie, bring your vision to
fruition.
Thank you.
Hey, I told you marketing is myreal kryptonite.
Hey, that my I'm a marketingmajor's.
There you go.
Okay, and last question,Robbie, is if you could trade
places with anyone in the worldfor a single day, who would that

(57:09):
be and why?

Hmm.
I know who I said last time.
So I'm gonna skip that.
If you want to know who I saidlast time, I gotta watch last
last time's episode.
Um, if I could change uh withanyone, I'm gonna say uh my son.
And here's why.
I would change places with myson because I would like to know

(57:34):
what it's like from thestudents' eyes, what it's like
to go to school in Puerto Rico,uh, what their experience on
their end, because I I can seeit from my end, my vision, my
view, my experiences, but Iwould love to see what his
experience would be like.
And then also, what's it likehaving me as a dad?
And how do I make him feel?

(57:55):
Because I'm trying to be thebest that I can be.
I'm trying to like be there forhim and be supportive and be
helpful and do all those thingsthat like I took all those
parenting classes and you know,psych psych classes I took, you
know, in college and being aneducator for all these years.
But is it really landing?
Is it really landing?

(58:16):
How am I really making himfeel?
Does he really feel supported?
Does he really feel loved?
Does he really feel like um Iunderstand him and uh, you know,
and that he's he's happy, youknow, he's happy in his life and
those kinds of things.
I asked him that all the time,but he says, Yeah, dad, I'm I'm
good.
But you don't know for sureuntil you're unless you're that

(58:37):
person.
So I guess this time there'llbe another one next time I'm on
the show, but this time I'mgonna go with my son because
last time I said someone a lotmore famous.

Hey, well, that's a great answer.
Thank you, Robbie, for thatmoment of vulnerability and
sharing that parent side of you.
I mean, I know that tech is iswhat we do, but it's not who we
are, and for yourself, and Iknow for a fact, you know, just
see meeting you and your lovelywife, you are great parents, and
I see you that you guys do somuch for your kids too, as well.

(59:07):
And not only for that, but Imean just for the youth in
Puerto Rico, also with all thework that you're doing with Tech
My School.
So thank you and the rest ofthe Tech My School team that are
fantastic, like John that I gotto meet, and everybody else,
and the flock continues to grow,and so really excited about
that.
So I'm looking forward toseeing you back on my show maybe

(59:29):
in a couple of months when thenext big project shows up and
the next big thing.
And so I'm really excited aboutthat, Robbie.
Absolutely.
Thank you so much for joiningus.
Yes, absolutely.
Thank you.
Thank you, thank you forwatching.
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