Project Management
The practice of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria at the specified time.
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Tracking and Reminder System
A Google Sheet that tracks one item across a group of people and emails them about it on a schedule until they are done. Also shared under the name of “Communication Manager”…
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FAQ Chatbot: A Configurable Help Desk You Actually Control
Version: 1.0.0 What and Why If you’ve ever managed a program, a department, or really any group of people with questions, you know the pattern. The same questions come in over and…
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Biomimicry in Learning: Coyotes & Adaptive Funding Strategies
This piece has been folded into Biomimicry as a Lens: Coyotes, Pine Cones, and Prairie Grass, which consolidates the four-part series into one essay. The coyote section is there.
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You Should Offer PD as a Gift
Revised September 2026. The original version of this piece started from Robin Wall Kimmerer and ended up making a business case, treating free help as relationship capital that turns into contracts. That’s…
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Thought Technology: The Arguments Inside Our Frameworks
Revised September 2026. The original version of this piece treated concepts, symbols, and frameworks as neutral tools and recommended a handful of them, including “pipeline” and “return on investment,” without asking what…
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Homegrown Learning Book (Preview)
Working as a learning designer across the Great Plains, I’ve found that conventional instructional design approaches often wither when they’re transplanted into rural and otherwise unusual contexts. That’s what started Homegrown Learning:…
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The Push and Pull Communication Approach
This article has moved into Homegrown Learning, where push and pull communication is now part of the Develop phase’s material on keeping a team aligned. You can find the book, free and…
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Course Design Documents: Detailed & Digestible
I’ve continually refined my approach to course design documentation. The two documents presented here represent different stages in this evolution, showcasing a shift from comprehensive, text-heavy documentation to a more streamlined, visually-focused…
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Implementing a Statewide Professional Learning Platform
The launch of a statewide professional learning platform that replaced an outdated system with a unified LMS, and what the implementation taught about centralizing professional development at scale.
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Understanding the LXD and SME Partnership in E-Learning
Most of the writing about e-learning development treats the subject matter expert as a source: you extract the content, you build the course. That is not how it works when the course…
