Flipping the Focus

10/05/2026

📢 The organizations that navigate AI well may not be those that automate the most.

They may be those that learn most deliberately what should and should not be automated.

❗My newest article explores that possibility.

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10/05/2026

For the past few months, I’ve been deliberately watching how the conversation about AI in education is evolving.

The educational AI conversation is moving beyond questions of access, adoption and capability. Increasingly, the harder questions are organizational:

- How do we learn from implementation?

- How do we retain agency as the technology becomes more capable?

- How do we determine whether AI is actually improving learning rather than simply improving performance?

And perhaps most importantly:

- What should we deliberately preserve while everything else is changing?

My latest article explores an idea I increasingly believe educational leaders will need to wrestle with: responsible AI leadership will not only be about deciding where AI belongs. It will also require deciding where human judgment, relationships and responsibility must remain. The organizations that navigate AI well may not be those that automate the most. They may be those that learn most deliberately what should and should not be automated.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-should-we-preserve-while-everything-changes-chris-stewart-6874c

The Question Is Changing For much of the early conversation about generative AI in education, the questions were understandably practical. What can these tools do? Where should they be used? Where should they not? How do we help educators and students use them responsibly? Those questions still matt

08/26/2026

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08/26/2026

08/14/2026

As another school year approaches, I keep noticing a shift in the conversation about AI in education.

The question is becoming less “What can AI do?” and more “Do our organizations have the capacity to learn, adapt, and make good decisions with it?”

In my latest article, I explore why organizational capability may be the visible challenge but organizational learning and leadership are increasingly the conditions required to meet it.

Perhaps the most important question for leaders entering 2026–27 is this:

If we cannot yet know exactly where AI will take education, have we built organizations capable of learning their way forward?

I’d welcome your perspective.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-leadership-feels-fundamentally-different-age-ai-chris-stewart-sjeic/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_detail_base%3BdqA1%2B0IUR9Se4x7xAW%2BVRw%3D%3D

07/21/2026

📢 Learning to code helps students develop resilience, logical thinking, and creativity while bringing ideas to life.

💪By increasing their own coding confidence, educators can create engaging learning experiences that prepare students for a rapidly changing future.

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07/18/2026

📢Coding equips young people with problem-solving, creativity, and computational thinking skills that extend far beyond computer science.

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07/16/2026

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💪Empowering educators with confidence in coding ensures more learners have the opportunity to succeed.

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07/07/2026

📢From Adoption to Impact: Building Learning Organizations in K12 Education

Throughout this series, I have explored a deceptively simple question:

❓How do organizations learn❓

At first glance, the answer appears obvious. Schools and districts invest heavily in professional learning, collaboration, innovation, implementation, and improvement efforts. Learning happens every day.

Some organizations seem to continuously improve. They adapt to new challenges, build upon prior successes, and sustain learning despite changes in staff, leadership, and priorities.

Others repeatedly encounter familiar challenges. Knowledge remains isolated. Initiatives lose momentum. Valuable expertise disappears when people move on. Lessons learned must be rediscovered.

🌟The difference, I would suggest, is not the amount of knowledge an organization possesses.

🌟The difference is how effectively knowledge moves.

Throughout this series, I examined five actions that appear to support organizational learning...

❗Check out the final article in this series to find out more

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https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-adoption-impact-chris-stewart-mmfyc

07/05/2026

📢Check out the latest in the "From Adoption to Impact" Series: How Organizations Build Organizational Memory | Part 5 - Remember

In Part 4, I explored how learning organizations improve by examining evidence, reflecting on experience, and refining their practices over time. Through feedback, collaboration, and continuous improvement, organizations can strengthen what they know and how they operate. But even when valuable learning occurs, another challenge remains.

-People retire.
-Staff change roles.
-Teams reorganize.
-Leaders move on.
-Priorities shift.

Without deliberate effort, valuable knowledge can disappear. This leads to the fifth and final action in the organizational learning cycle:

🌟Remember🌟

If ‘Create’ asks how knowledge emerges, ‘Share’ asks how knowledge moves, ‘Apply’ asks how knowledge changes practice, and ‘Refine’ asks how organizations learn from experience, then ‘Remember’ asks a question that may be even more important:

❓How does learning endure❓

Check out my latest article to learn more! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-adoption-impact-how-organizations-build-memory-chris-stewart-whz4c