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Syllabi, course policies, parent letters, sub plans, procedures.
Hand off: aggressivelyPractical AI for real ELA classrooms
Cut hours from the work that isn’t teaching—without handing back anything that doesn’t sound like you.
Where the hours go
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Before you automate anything, know what you’re automating.
Syllabi, course policies, parent letters, sub plans, procedures.
Hand off: aggressivelySeating logic, forms, folders, gradebook setup, and routines.
Hand off: partlyBell ringers, rubrics, pacing, scaffolds, and first units.
Hand off: with a hand on the wheelLearning names. The student who won’t look up. Standing in your doorway.
Hand off: neverThe blog · 7 posts
You’re going to sit through fourteen hours of professional development anyway. You may as well leave with your year built.
The honest math, the four buckets every August task falls into, and the eight things worth handing off first.
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The kit
Feedback and parent emails in your actual voice, on a full class set, in the time it used to take to do five.
Calibrate it to your voice once, then keep using it.
About
I spend my days in a high-school ELA classroom and my nights building novels, software, and systems that make room for the work that matters.
Everything here assumes you still want the work to sound like you when it reaches a student, a parent, or a colleague.
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Print it, work down it, and get your August back.