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Seven Questions Your Nonprofit Should Be Afraid to Ask This Summer, Part 7
7. What Will You Stop Doing? “We can change hearts and minds to change schools.” — Paul Fleming, Learning Forward New initiatives often pile onto existing work because ending a program, publication, meeting, or tradition
Seven Questions Your Nonprofit Should Be Afraid to Ask This Summer, Part 6
6. Is Your Change Process Protecting the Status Quo? “Be willing to try, learn from failure, and fail forward.” — Steven Priest, education innovation leader Committees, listening sessions, pilots, and phased rollouts can
Seven Questions Your Nonprofit Should Be Afraid to Ask This Summer, Part 5
5. Is One Big Event Carrying Too Much Weight? “A catalyst for the transformation our sector is ready to create.” — Umer Rupani, Independent Sector A major event can create community, visibility, sponsorship revenue, and
Seven Questions Your Nonprofit Should Be Afraid to Ask This Summer, Part 4 (July 16, 2026 edition)
4. Have You Mistaken Gen AI for an Email Assistant? “Association executives must move beyond efficiency plays.” — Tori Miller Liu and Tommy Goodwin, association leaders Using Gen AI to draft messages and summarize meetin
Seven Questions Your Nonprofit Should Be Afraid to Ask This Summer, Part 3
3. Are You Paying Premium Prices for Ordinary Technology? “Always focus on the educational purpose, not on the technology.” — Keith Krueger, Consortium for School Networking Nonprofits may debate one staff position for m
Seven Questions Your Nonprofit Should Be Afraid to Ask This Summer, Part 2
2. Is “Free” Undermining the Mission? “Without alignment to business goals, it’s impossible to justify investment.” — John Nawn, association community strategist Free articles, webinars, templates, and tools can help peo
Seven Questions Your Nonprofit Should Be Afraid to Ask This Summer, Part 1
Summer brings a rare drop in organizational noise. The major event is over, webinar attendance slows, and staff members rotate through vacation schedules. Instead of filling that space with another round of planning meet
Seven Questions Your Nonprofit Should Be Afraid to Ask This Summer, Part 4 (July 12, 2026 archive)
4. Have You Mistaken Gen AI for an Email Assistant? “Association executives must move beyond efficiency plays.” — Tori Miller Liu and Tommy Goodwin, association leaders Using Gen AI to draft messages and summarize meetin
Partnership is Key
Larry Cuban shares this perspective... In short, I learned that any successful district reform was as much building political coalitions within the system while mobilizing public
AI-Native Version of What You Do
In a LinkedIn post this
Analog, Not Digital
Is your business analog, not digital? Or put another way, anti GenAI rather than leveraging Gen AI to improve your work processes and workflows? If so, you may not deserve the role
When Is It Time
I found myself reading and reflecting...do you ever ask yourself this ques
AI Adoption Stalls: Too Easy, Training Unnecessary
Does this feel true to you? It does to me in nonprofit organizations I hav
Navigating Nonprofit Org Leadership Transitions: An Assessment Tool, Part 1
While cruising through my Flipboard readings, I stumbled across a fascinating article that connects a philosopher, Empedocles, to how to handle change. The article, [Empedocles,
Navigating Nonprofit Org Leadership Transitions: An Assessment Tool, Part 2
Welcome to Part Two of this short exploration of Empedocles' philosophy as applied to navigating nonprofit organizational leadership transitions
AI Adoption Readiness Checklist for Nonprofit Organizations
Thought this might be fun to cook up given interest in Ai from nonprofit organizations. I love how it's not about the tech or the innovation, but the change management process. If
The Window is Open. It Won't Stay That Way.
Note: I set up a Claude Project that combines StoryMaker, SlideMaker, and BlogAssembler (sets of custom instructions) to help me decipher the Anthropic labor research report
MyNotes: AI Job Impact Potential
This is fascinating. People losing their jobs over the POTENTIAL of GenAi's ability to do that work: ...findings suggest that the phenomenon of AI taking jobs and reducing hiring
TCEA26: Coaching Every Learner Through Universal Design and Equity
Welcome to my resources page for this session. You'll find everything (slides, supporting documents, infographics) below. If you are curious about my other sessions at TCEA 2
TCEA26: Coaching the Heavy Hitters of Instructional Strategy
Welcome to my resources page for this session. You'll find everything (slides, supporting documents, infographics) below. If you are curious about my other sessions at TCEA 2
TCEA26: Navigating Difficult Coaching Conversations with Confidence
Welcome to my resources page for this session. You'll find everything (slides, supporting documents, infographics) below. If you are curious about my other sessions at TCEA 2
TCEA26: Video-Based Coaching That Transforms Teaching Practice
Welcome to my resources page for this session. You'll find everything (slides, supporting documents, infographics) below. If you are curious about my other sessions at TCEA 2
Exploring 3x3x3
After reading this blog entry
TCEA Instructional Coach Certification teaching EdTech
Note: I thought you might like to see this linkshare.
Beyond the Pilot: 5 Stages to a Sustainable AI Strategy in Your District
As Benjamin Franklin said,
Costly Experimentation
What a powerful insight about Gen AI adoption by Clara Hawking via Linked In
The AI Proficiency Report
Over at section, they are doing an amazing job exploring how AI can fit into business. One of their publications, The AI Proficiency Report, is worth checking out. You can [d
TCEA Coaching Strategies for Teachers EduSky
At the TCEA 2025 Convention and Exposition, I had the opportunity to attend Diana Benner's and Peggy Reimers' session on Instructional Coaching. As you probably know, a lot of folk
Ed Tech Failures to Reflect On
A short reflection on past educational technology failures and the risks of overhyped AI tools in schools.