A Week in Motion: How ETCN Shows Up Across Our Schools

If you tried to draw the ETCN team's weekly route on a map, you'd end up with something that looks less like a bus schedule and more like a living thing — expanding here, contracting there, always bending toward wherever the need is greatest that week.

That's by design. ETCN shared positions don't sit in one building. They move.

Mornings and Evenings, Every Month

For Matt, our Digital Learning and Professional Development Coordinator, the month begins with a promise: every school, morning and evening, at least once. VAS, PAS, and EAS anchor that rotation—the early shift, when teachers are still setting up their rooms, and the late shift, when adult learners are just arriving after a full day of work. Two very different buildings, sometimes in the same twenty-four hours.

From there, the schedule opens up. RAS and SMAS get visits based on need, as does Palomar. A new EdTech rollout or update, a teacher or staff member who wants to think through an EdTech or AI tool, a site lead who says, "Can you come sit with us for an hour?" — those requests reshape the calendar, and that's the point.

A Set Schedule That Still Flexes

Julia, our Disability Coordinator, works from a set schedule — students and staff need to know when she'll be there. But a fixed schedule isn't a fixed ceiling. When a school's caseload spikes, when a difficult accommodation question surfaces, when a team needs her in the room rather than on email, Julia finds her way to that site. The schedule is the floor, not the limit.

Partnership, One Building at a Time

Laurie Zamora, our Partnership Coordinator, aims for every school every month — and beyond that, she comes whenever she's asked. A school leader with a community partner idea. A staff member with a question about a referral pathway. No request has to clear a threshold. If you want the meeting, Laurie will be there.

Data, and the People Who Live In It

Tan Stowell, our ETCN Data Coordinator, works the same way: a monthly presence at each school, plus an open door for any leader or staff member who wants to sit down and talk numbers. Tan also joins Data Dialogues when invited and meets with our data techs on a regular cadence—and again as needed, because data questions rarely arrive on schedule.

The Common Thread
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Four roles, four rhythms, one operating principle: demand drives the calendar. The baseline is a monthly presence at every school. Everything past that baseline is yours to ask for.

So ask. Email, call, grab someone in the hallway. If your site needs more of us this month, that's not an imposition on the schedule — it is the schedule.