Middle States Association

Think about the last time something new showed up at your school. A new tool, a new initiative, a new way of doing things.

What was your gut reaction? Jump in and try it? Wait to see proof it works? Watch what other schools do first?

We're curious where you land. Take our quick Innovation Adoption self-assessment and find out your psychographic profile when it comes to change: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/fb0a0455-4a2d-4825-a4b7-67ed9d562335

It's one of the ideas at the heart of Evolution Academy. Understanding how your team approaches change is the first step to actually leading it well.

Innovation Adoption Assessment Quiz Discover your innovation adoption profile with this interactive psychographic quiz. Get scored on a scale of 20-100 and learn if you're an Innovator, Early Adopter, or Laggard.

Most schools wrote their AI policy fast, and wrote it alone.

A small team huddled, drafted a stance, sent it out. Understandable, given how fast things are moving. But a policy written by a few people for everyone else rarely survives contact with a real classroom. Teachers work around it. Students find the gaps. The document sits in a folder while the real decisions happen in classrooms, group chats, and quiet moments nobody planned for.

The real work isn't writing the policy. It's building a process that lets a whole school community keep making good decisions about AI as it keeps changing.

That's what we're spending three days on this October in Cairo. More soon.

Most change efforts in schools have a strategy. A strategy is only half the story.

Story, strategy, and change are three distinct tools -- and wise change happens where they intersect. Strategy gives direction. Change responds to a real problem. Story connects purpose, people, and experience, and moves a community forward.
We're sharing this framework freely because school leaders deserve tools that match the actual complexity of their work.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/164GZLQSWcUtMItcJSaomFo8XtajM5Uii/view?usp=drive_link

This is one of the frameworks at the heart of Evolution Academy, a professional learning and implementation community for educators and school leaders navigating change by Middle States. We're launching a new Annual School Partnership this year — one priority, one year, your whole team learning together. Founding Partner pricing is available now for 2026-27.

Curious? Book a consultation: https://scheduler.zoom.us/tara-waudby/evolution-academy-consultation