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Daily Prep: Monday, April 6, 2026

First day back from PTO (Thu-Fri camping + Knotts for Micah’s birthday). Last on-campus day was Wed Apr 1. Q2 kicks off this week.

Carried Forward from Last Week

Completed Last Week (Stanford Trip, Mon-Wed)

  • Tinkery Flash Lab with Gregory + 16 York Scholars (Mon)
  • End-of-month meeting (Tue)
  • Health Coach Bot meeting with Marily — Michele missed, will catch up with Marily (Tue)
  • Lake Forest Activation Stage sessions (Tue 3:30pm + Wed 9am)
  • Christine Bywater debrief (Tue)
  • Replied to Marisol Liu (UTC timestamp confirmation)
  • Let Crystal Springs team know — not attending Apr 15
  • PTO confirmed for Apr 2-3

Incomplete Action Items (carried forward)

  • Draft CRM survey questions — Josh waiting
  • Write tag analysis plan — 3-month rollout
  • Register for ISTE Live 2026
  • Follow up with Vanessa Monterosa re: Flash Lab partnership
  • Send Rachel AI + learning-by-creating tool recommendations
  • Respond to Isabelle re: DCI Celebration June 5
  • Cat Nostrand follow-up — “how did NCCE go?” (no reply since Mar 16)
  • Create Flash Lab inventory document (basic vs deluxe)
  • Send Moraima flight receipts — Egencia receipts now available (flight + hotel PDFs)

Open Questions/Blockers

  • Marily sent IRB draft to Caitlin — waiting on IRB feedback for Health Coach Bot
  • Brooke (OTL): still waiting on Geoff Cox + YouCubed contract precedent

Today’s Calendar

9:30 AM - 3:30 PM — Hold for Chris

Personal block. Not work time.

5:00 PM — Leon Furze — Flash Lab / AI PD CANCELED

Leon emailed yesterday (Apr 5): School holidays in Australia, has all three kids. Wants to revisit in a couple of weeks. Action: Reply to Leon confirming — “no worries, let’s reconnect in a couple weeks.” No urgency.

Email Action Items

Needs Response

  • Anthony Pollina (Apr 2+6): Lake Forest STEM teacher sent his AI lesson plan for 7th/8th graders asking for review from Reuben + Victor. Victor already replied (bias framing feedback). Reuben should reply with thoughts. [RIPPLE] from Lake Forest visit.
  • Leon Furze (Apr 5): Canceled meeting — reply to confirm, suggest reconnecting in a couple weeks.
  • Sergio Arango (Mar 27, carried from last week): Wants to schedule Zoom with Josh + Reuben about SofIA AI, week of Apr 6-10. Reply with availability.
  • Camryn Franke (Apr 6): LabGPT/AI Comic Studio data parsing feedback — colons splitting feedback incorrectly, missing space after periods not splitting, non-period endings (! ?) not splitting. Needs a code fix.

Needs Action

  • Egencia (Apr 2): Trip receipts now available for Stanford-Lake Forest visit (flight + hotel PDFs). Forward to Moraima — she’s been asking for these.
  • Wilson Wang / Efface (Apr 6): Stanford Privacy Office (Magdalena Ramirez) asking about Efface: internet connection? data sent to Reuben? contract needed? Wilson answered correctly (local-only, no data back). Reuben may need to weigh in on the contract/vendor question. Wilson deferred to you.
  • Joe Sherman (Apr 3): Quoted Impact Reminder — biweekly. Several candidates from Stanford trip: Lake Forest feedback (Dan Paustian thank-you), Gregory co-facilitating, Tinkery session engagement.
  • GPS Self-Narrative (Apr 3+6): PY26 annual performance review cycle is open. Self-narrative due by June 30. GSE workshop Thu Apr 9 12-12:45pm (same day as Josh 1:1). Consider attending.

FYI (Notable)

  • Josh → ISTE “Next steps” (Apr 2-3): Major. Josh emailed ISTE (Jessica Garner, Joseph South) Mar 31 with service agreement + ISTELive launch plan. Jessica replied: open to Flash Lab in the “Profile of an AI-Ready Graduate” stage space. Josh asked Alissa to schedule a meeting with Isabelle + Jessica Rami — Reuben included. Watch for that invite.
  • Isabelle FW: Thank you (Apr 3): Dan Paustian (New Trier HS Associate Principal) sent glowing thank-you to Matt Montgomery about the Lake Forest visit: “wonderful visit… thought provoking… a true pleasure to engage with your team from LF.” Quoted impact candidate [VALUE-VISIBLE] [BRIDGE-BUILD].
  • Gregory Wilson (Apr 6): Tinker Club is back! Every Tuesday 2pm, Spring Quarter. Topics: nudges toward active learning, divergent thinking, interleaving with AI.
  • Isabelle Hau (Apr 6): SAL All Hands meeting scheduled for June 2026 — ANKO 109, lunch provided. Calendar invite.
  • Moraima DiMare (Apr 2): Studio Services and CRISPRkit Zoom meeting — confirms Wed Apr 8 CRISPRkit meeting. Moraima set Reuben as alt host.
  • Christine Bywater (Apr 2): Google Docs comment on Lake Forest doc + Tinker Time Planning for META invite (Fri Apr 10).

Newsletters (skipped)

TLDR AI, Stanford Report, Hechinger Report, ASU+GSV, Stanford Venture Studio, Stanford Continuing Studies, Head Start Assoc, CrashPlan

Slack Catch-Up (Past 7 Days)

No urgent unreads from key people. Slack is quiet over PTO period.

FYI

  • Gregory Wilson (#gsecommunity): Tinker Club back Tuesdays 2pm — same as email
  • #cop-ai: LiteLLM compromise (old — Mar 24), free Stanford AI tools (Gemini, NotebookLM, Copilot Chat)
  • #gse-data: Data Working Group session happened Mar 31. Jack Dieckmann (Youcubed) joined. Wilson sharing IRiSS resources.

Reminders

Personal (Claude list)

  • Ask Chris at Ascendant Aviation re: tax questions
  • Buy echinacea herb for cold
  • Godwin trip planning — talk to Christyl about timing
  • Dentist (Tiffany) — May 11 at 9am
  • Pick premium seat on SJC→ONT flight — Done (can mark complete)

Claude-ToDo (mobile capture)

  • “Need to ask for 4/2 and 4/3 off for Micah’s bday and camping” — Done, PTO taken
  • Already in action-items: Google Workspace CLI, personal exec assistant (personal laptop), SQLite (done)

From Inbox Processing

INBOX.md is empty — nothing to process.

Cadence Checks

  • GPS SELF-NARRATIVE: PY26 review cycle is open. Self-narrative due by June 30. GSE-specific workshop Thu Apr 9 at 12pm — consider attending (right before Josh 1:1 at 1pm… wait, Josh is at 10am). UHR employee workshop also Thu Apr 9 1-2pm.
  • QUOTED IMPACT: Joe’s biweekly reminder came in Apr 3. You have several strong candidates from the Stanford trip:
    • Dan Paustian (New Trier) thank-you email to Matt Montgomery (forwarded by Isabelle)
    • Lake Forest session engagement
    • Gregory co-facilitating Tinkery Flash Lab
    • Any direct quotes from attendees?
  • AS QUARTERLY PLANNING (Wed): This needs prep. Consider running /meeting-prep AS Quarterly Planning before Wednesday.
  • CRISPRkit MEETING (Wed 1:30pm): First meeting with Belinda Yeung. Prep: review CRISPRkit project, Alex Choi connection from Studio Services meeting.
  • ISTE LIVE: Still need to register. Josh is actively moving the partnership forward — ISTELive launch session being planned.

This Week’s Key Dates

Day Date Key Events
Mon Apr 6 Hold for Chris, Leon Furze 5pm canceled
Tue Apr 7 Chiropractor 8am, AS:DE 11am, AI Collective workshop 3:30pm, CAP 6:30pm
Wed Apr 8 AS Quarterly Planning 10am, CRISPRkit 1:30pm
Thu Apr 9 Josh 1:1 10am, GPS Workshop 12pm, VFT Seed Grantee Monthly 1pm
Fri Apr 10 Tinker Time Planning (Christine) 1pm, Weekly Review 2pm
Sat Apr 11 [HOLD] AI Show, ClaudeStanford Buildathon at Tinkery 10am

Today’s Priorities

Monday afternoon — first day back from PTO. Personal hold until 3:30pm, Leon canceled. Light work day.

  1. Reply to Leon Furze — confirm reschedule, no hard feelings. Quick.
  2. Forward Egencia receipts to Moraima — she’s been asking. Unblock this.
  3. Reply to Anthony Pollina — review his AI lesson plan, give feedback. Nice [RIPPLE] from Lake Forest.
  4. Reply to Sergio Arango — suggest availability for Zoom with Josh, week of Apr 7-10.
  5. Scan the Efface/Privacy Office thread — decide if you need to weigh in on the contract question.
  6. Start thinking about AS Quarterly Planning prep — Q1 retro: wins, challenges, tags, capacity. This is Wednesday’s big meeting.

Session Notes

Out Sick

Out sick all day. No work done. Carried items all move to Tuesday.

Generated: 2026-04-06 3:50 PM PDT (Monday — first day back from PTO)

Source: daily/2026-04-06.md