For the last year, I’ve given a lot away. The Forward Lens. The Intentional Technology & Screen Framework. The Intention Audit. Teaching Tech Without the Tech. Field guides, worksheets, full frameworks — published openly, free to use, free to share, no email gate, no catch.
That was on purpose. The case for intentional technology belongs in front of as many educators as possible. So let me say the most important thing first, before anything else:
That doesn’t change. Two free posts a week, every Tuesday and Thursday — the essays, the frameworks, the honest read on where the screen and policy debates are actually headed. The thinking stays free, and it always will.
But over this past year, the same note kept landing in my inbox and my comments: This is great — now how do I actually do this with my team?
That question is the whole reason for what I’m launching today. The free posts make the argument. Think Forward In Practice is where the argument becomes work you can do.
It’s a paid tier built for the practitioners — the IT directors, technology leaders, coaches, and administrators — who don’t need to be convinced anymore. You need the templates, the facilitation guides, and the step-by-step tools to take an idea from a post to a decision your team can defend.
Here’s what paid subscribers now get:
A new deep-dive resource every week, built from that week’s thinking and designed to be used, not just read. Where a free post makes the case, the paid resource hands you the worksheet, the agenda, the planning doc, the committee tool. Concept first — then the thing that puts it to work.
The resources cover the three areas I get asked about most:
1:1 recalibration. The committee worksheets, audit tools, and review processes to look honestly at your device program — what to renew, retire, or replace — and rebuild it around purpose instead of inertia.
AI implementation and access. Readiness checklists, policy scaffolds, and rollout guides for bringing AI into a school with intention — who gets access, on what terms, with what guardrails — instead of banning it outright or letting it in by default.
Digital health and wellness. Classroom-ready scaffolds and family-facing tools for the human side of all of this — the screen-time conversations, the active-versus-passive distinction, the practices that build healthy norms instead of just restricting devices.
Time with me, 1:1. Sometimes you don’t need another framework — you need thirty minutes with someone who’s done this. Paid subscribers get reduced rates on strategy calls: a 30-minute Strategy Call ($99, or $84 for subscribers) for one problem and a clear next step, or a 60-minute Deep Dive ($199, or $169 for subscribers) for a real decision — a rollout, a policy, a committee process you need to run. Book any time at calendly.com/andrewmarcinek.
Two signed books — for founding subscribers. This is the part I’m most glad to offer. Subscribe at the annual or founding level before October 1, 2026 and I’ll send you two signed books, free: Teaching Digital Kindness, and a signed copy of my new book, The School Leader’s Guide to Digital Wellness (Available October 2026). Both ship when the new one releases. It’s my thank-you to the readers who get in early — and it’s only here until the book is out.
$10/month or $100/year. Founding members ($250/year) get everything above, a yearly strategy call, and a direct line when they’re stuck. And the two signed books come with any annual or founding subscription started before October 1.
I’ll keep giving the big ideas away — that was never a loss leader, it was the point. But if you’ve ever read a post, nodded, and then stared at a blank agenda wondering where to start on Monday, Think Forward In Practice is the part that starts the work.
Restriction without instruction was never enough. Neither is a framework without the tools to use it. Let’s put these ideas to work.
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