AESOP Academy EDU Board Meeting — May 1

Good morning. Hey, Jesus, how are you doing? Pretty good, pretty good. Hey, Claude, can we get a news article created and make sure you create the HTML regarding the OpenAI lawsuit?

I posted on LinkedIn the other day about nonprofit loyalty and mission alignment. The plan was to form our nonprofit on May 8 when my accountant was done with taxes. However, I'm still on the board of an education nonprofit that's been open for five years but is no longer in use. I can leverage that DBA status which would allow us to have been in business for five years, enabling us to apply for military grants and military transition training programs.

Jesus, you created a great document for Youth Roadmap. Susan, you went out and researched based on some standards. Where are we on Youth Roadmap?

That doesn't exist in the world right now. From an AI perspective, you can say you have a certification, but there's no agency or body that represents a certification that anybody recognizes. The value is in what we're doing differently: we map to six standards, two international and four US including NIST AI. No one else does that publicly. That is literally the best value on the whole planet.

We have the certification sheet and transcript showing every class you've taken, every lesson, every module, everything. What I'm going to do is build a link that you can put in your LinkedIn profile that when you click it will show an employer every certification you have and every course you took to get there with AESOP.

We're mapping our courses to six standards, two international, three US, and the NIST AI standard. No one else is doing any of that. If you go to EC Council right now and say what's your standards, they have none. We can answer that question and do so publicly. Here's our rubric for the review of every one of the courses. Here's our mapping to the six standards.

This is a great topic. Let's table it and give me four days to come up with something concrete that we can debate over as opposed to just the esoteric concept.

I'm going to schedule 30 minutes with each of you one-on-one to figure out what you want to contribute. Let me talk about the boards a little bit. I swear every one of you is on the Founders Board. Founders get paid first, paid more, but you're contributing three hours or more a month.

I would like you to go look at our new Substack. It's called "AI by AI." The first post is about should we let AI train AI with the subtitle "Your textbook is already obsolete." I don't want to be the writer all the time. I want you to come write for the Substack. I'd love for you to contribute an article a month if you're willing to.

If you're on the brand board and I think all of you are, I do want you to repost amplified messages across all four social media platforms as we strengthen those positions. What does it mean to be on the EDU board? I'm going to start bringing the message up in the EDU LinkedIn group to figure out what it means to be on this board.

I have a meeting Monday with Fort Carson here in Colorado Springs to bring our message to TV screens across the base to advertise to soldiers and their families. I'm hoping to use that as a stepping stone to every other base in the country. There are some challenges right now with the Soldier Transition Program, but our new nonprofit status may change that entire potential.

Magic School AI does not have nearly the curriculum breadth that we do. Kedralyn, if you wouldn't mind reaching out to your contact, I'd love to offer them this training that they can provide, they can sell, they can upsell. We just want to get the training in front of the students.

Kedralyn, thank you for reaching out to Magic School AI. Also, if you could reach out to your compatriots at the University of South Carolina to engage them and see if they'd be willing to help, because if we can get one major university to state publicly or be willing to support us publicly, boy, that can open up so many doors for us.

If you know an AI developer that would be ideal. If you can come in and solve an AI development problem, that would be super ideal. Do you have a list of problems that could be solved?

I'm going to schedule extra EDU board meeting(s) because we're putting out way too much value for a once a month meeting to even cover the topics. I want to make this clear: take a course. I built the Claude Code course yesterday and took the first module. I learned so much. The courses are so valuable. You have to see our quizzes, labs, module tests, and the narrative-driven message. Please come learn formally like what we're asking people to do.