Talent Talks Blog
Insights on compensation strategy, performance evaluation, workforce planning, retention, and effective organizational leadership for education, mission-driven, and nonprofit organizations.
Leading in the Tension: What It Takes to Support Teams Amid Uncertainty
Leading through uncertainty means showing up with steady communication, consistency, and care even when answers are incomplete, helping teams feel grounded and supported.
Who Gets to Grow? Rethinking Fairness in Team Development
Nicole Pratt | November 2025 As the year wraps up—or reaches its midpoint for those in schools—it’s a natural time to reflect on how we support and grow our teams. At EdFuel, we believe strong organizations grow from within. When we invest in developing our people for future opportunities, both within and beyond our walls, […]
Leading Through the Hardest Moments
Kerri-Ann Nesbeth | April 2025 Dear EdFuel Community, You may have noticed in our last newsletter that our team has gotten smaller. Like many nonprofit and educational organizations recently, we have had to navigate reduced funding, which ultimately led us to implement a reduction in force last year. While this is something no organization ever […]
Learning to Embrace Ambiguity
Rachel Nozari | July 2022 As a society, we’ve experienced immense ambiguity in the last two-plus years. We lived through a global pandemic and managed day in and day out uncertainty with fast-changing needs to respond to. We grappled with personal and family health concerns, sustained disruption to schooling and childcare, “the great resignation”, and […]
A Personal Reflection on Job Embedded Professional Learning
Cortney Graham Ameckson, Manager | June 2022 I became a high school civics and economics teacher the semester after I graduated from college. As a former educator, I have lots of memories of spending hours in professional development sessions intended to help prepare myself and colleagues for the school year, only for the learnings to […]
Register Today! Join EdFuel’s 2019-20 Peer Learning Community Cohorts in Washington D.C.
Kerri-Ann Nesbeth June 20, 2019 Join us for an 8-month in-person peer learning community designed to accelerate education leaders who are change agents for the future Each school year, EdFuel offers Peer Learning Communities (PLCs) that are designed to allow participants to dive deeply into various themes and functional areas. In monthly sessions, participants convene […]
DC Bilingual: EdFuel DC Talent Cohort Partner in Action
As we enter a new year, many people are taking the time to reflect on the past and to set goals for the future. At EdFuel, each year we strive to build capacity for individuals and organizations to develop stronger internal talent systems. In 2017 EdFuel was awarded the Scholarships for Opportunity and Results (SOAR) […]
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