Role Evolution

Three growth vectors, one per R

Reach

Today (May 2026):

• Two named programs live (Flash Lab, Build-a-Bot)
• Four independent facilitators
• Multilingual Build-a-Bot shipped (DE/ES/FR/EN)
• Cost sheet drafted and sent
• One-pager drafted
• ISTE Live 2026 locked in. The live test case for the licensing model.

Outputs

• ISTE Live delivered and debriefed. Cost sheet finalized
• Facilitator quality bar formalized (rubric, materials version control).
• IP integrity playbook drafted.
• Two-plus external case studies published.
• Synthesis. Year-end story: “Flash Lab and Build-a-Bot are running in places we’ve never been, run by people we’ve never met.”

The Robust vector

This is the vector that holds the seed-grant work and the operational scaffolding

Today (May 2026):

The portfolio:

• Learning Through Creation cohort: Fan/Chu Math Games, Forssell-Ramirez Makery
• Joyful Learning cohort: DeVeaux Dancing through Time, King Our Voice
• tEquity cohort: CRISPRkit (transitioning to Belinda handoff), SofIA (medium-high touch, the canonical vibe-coded-MVP case).
• Plus, outside the my seed-grant leads but in the same advisory mode: Health Coach Bot (Marily Oppezzo), MyBook (Wen), AI Comic Studio (Dan Schwartz’s lab + Cathy Chase), HarmonAI (Elizabeth Schumann), VFT Special Projects (Rachel Wolf), the Oman special-ed thread.

The scaffolding to manage it:

• Lifecycle framework (SPARK → BUILD → SHARPEN → SCALE) and the Three C’s (consultation / co-creation / commission). Both calibrate the level of touch per project.
• High / medium / low-touch language (Joe’s “support-o-meter,” introduced at Apr 27 EOM). Not yet applied portfolio-wide.

Resonance

Today (May 2026):

• ISTE Live 2026 locked.
• designkit.stanford.edu and bot101.app available and used both internally and externally.
• Workshops delivered (Legal 101 most recent)

Outputs/Outcomes

• ISTE Live debrief created, next steps taken.
• Additional seed grantee-focused workshops.
• Two case studies published.
• High visibility event: ISTE 2027, SXSWedu or ASU+GSV, one foundation event.

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Key Capabilities

1. Seed-grant portfolio leadership. Lead the technical-advisory portfolio across SAL seed grantees in Learning Through Creation, Joyful Learning, and tEquity, plus adjacent sounding-board relationships outside the formal cohorts. Build prototypes, advise on tech and pedagogy, and decide where to invest capacity. Calibrate high / medium / low-touch per project. Hold three to six high-touch threads at any given time without losing the wider sounding-board layer.
2. Program stewardship. Own the curriculum, standards, and quality bar for the Studio’s named offerings. Maintain IP integrity, materials version control, and the facilitator certification pipeline. Most formats originate in seed-grant work; the stewardship role keeps them coherent as they scale.
3. Partnership leadership. Lead authorized-provider conversations. Scope licensing deals. Serve as the primary point of contact for external partners running Studio formats.
4. External representation. Publish case studies, deliver talks, sit on panels selectively.
5. Internal capacity architecture. Own and evolve the Studio’s operating system. Tagging, lifecycle framework, EOM cadence, cross-cohort programming. The whole system exists to make the seed-grant portfolio manageable.
6. Strategic framing. Produce frames and language that propagate inside and outside the Studio.