Your district will have an AI policy eventually. "Eventually" is not a plan for the assignment you're collecting Friday. The good news: a classroom-level policy isn't a legal document, and you don't need a committee to write one. You need three
Turnitin says a paper is 98% AI. The student swears they wrote it. Now what? Now you have a problem the detector created and can't solve. AI detectors are unreliable in a way you can't wait out: they flag human writing as machine-written, and they
Most classroom handouts fail a student who uses a screen reader, and the teacher never finds out, because that student just quietly falls behind. The culprit is almost always the same: text saved as an image. The gorgeous worksheet you exported as a flattened PDF, the cute-font screenshot, the
Nobody handed you a system for documenting accommodations. They handed you a caseload and a compliance deadline and assumed the system would appear. It doesn't appear. It gets built at 9pm the night before a review, from memory, which is exactly when documentation is least defensible. The fix
Most time-saving teacher advice costs more time than it saves, because it asks you to build something elaborate you'll abandon by October. The systems that actually stick are boring, small, and set up once. Here are five that each take about five minutes to build and quietly
The self-care advice aimed at teachers is quietly insulting. Take a bath. Try a gratitude journal. As if the problem is that you haven't managed your feelings well enough about a workload that is, structurally, too large for the hours you're given. Burnout research is