Program management recordsPlanning records, Maryland judicial education, 2026
Fourteen courses, one status report
From course selection to the delivery of evaluation summaries to the faculty, there were dozens of steps, both visible and invisible.
The status report
I prepared this for my weekly one-on-ones with my supervisor. An assistant I built in ChatGPT briefed me daily on where each course stood and drafted it for my review. It let him see where I was, and it made it easier to ask the question I had most often: with this many courses in this many places, what should I prioritize this week?
Course status report, page 1Fourteen courses, each with its last confirmed step and its next one. At the foot is the rule: reported is not verified, and queued is not sent. The autumn 2026 snapshot, names removed.Course status report, page 2The key dates, ticked only when complete and supported. Same snapshot.
Day-of cheat sheet for the attorney-grievance courseTwelve polls, each with its slide, its answer and the source the panel could cite out loud. The rows needing a faculty decision at the summer 2026 meeting are flagged. The questions came from the faculty's decks and their meeting; I made the sheet. Prepared for faculty review.
For the attorney-grievance course, twelve proposed polls on one decision sheet, each with its answer, its source and a keep, revise or cut box.
Meeting zero
Meeting Zero with the coordinating judge was one of my favorite parts of the job: what the coordinator wants the day to accomplish, and the learning objectives. Sometimes I went in with the prior-year files already pulled. It depended on the course.
“I don't just lift full sections. If the objectives are different, I get really meticulous about what slides are lifted.”
Status
The status report is an autumn 2026 snapshot of fourteen courses at different stages. The dates after the snapshot are plans. The polls were prepared for faculty review.
My role
I was one of three program managers. Judges and faculty decided the substantive law in every course; I managed the program architecture across the portfolio, turning every planning call, run of show, decision sheet, and prior-year audit into a tracked deliverable with clear owners and deadlines.
The decision sheet and the readback
Faculty decision sheet, attorney-grievance courseThe twelve proposed polls with answers and sources, a keep, revise or cut box beside each, and the decisions needed that day listed at the top. Mine, built from the faculty's material; for the summer 2026 meeting.Faculty meeting readbackThe decisions from a late-summer planning call, captured during the call with a skill I built in ChatGPT, so I could close with "here's what I heard" and faculty could flag anything that didn't match. My record of the faculty's decisions; faculty review draft, 2026.
More planning records
Pre-meeting decision sheetThe decisions needed on an autumn 2026 traffic-course planning call, each with its owner and due date, and a column left open for the live notes. Mine; names removed.Faculty meeting recapThe record after a first faculty meeting for an AI course: the day-of structure as the faculty settled it. Mine; names removed.Faculty planning documentFor a hybrid course four months out and still in planning when I left: the next meeting, the materials deadline and what I needed from each faculty member. Working draft, autumn 2026.Working agendaThe same course, with my timing preference marked as a proposal.Direction and open choicesThe same document, page 3.Agenda at a glanceThe spring plan for the summer 2026 behavioral science course.
Meeting agenda