Practical AI for real ELA classrooms
Cut hours from the work that isn’t teaching—without handing back anything that doesn’t sound like you.
Made for the work on your desk
AI Teacher Tools
AI Teacher Tools
AI Teacher Tools
AI Teacher ToolsInteractive classroom quest
Assign the grammar, morphology, or vocabulary skill students need. They choose mystery, science fiction, horror, fantasy, adventure, or dystopian challenges while every completed trial uncovers evidence.
Syntaxia is in teacher pilot testing. Students join with a class code and display name—no student email account required.
Where the hours go
Start here
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
Three mornings begin with meetings. The afternoons are a mix of planning, collaboration, classroom setup, and prep. Let’s make every usable hour count.
The honest math, the four buckets every back-to-school 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.
ELA Innovator Membership
A practical course behind a subscription paywall, built for teachers who want repeatable AI workflows—not one more folder of prompts.
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, pick one build, and make your back-to-school week lighter.