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Mar 31, 2026
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The Tools Aren't the Point

Eight weeks into my first teaching job, I realized report card comments for 450 students were impossible. Twenty years and twenty AI tools later, I stopped asking how to grade faster and started asking what teachers should actually be doing with their time.

#AI#teaching#Claude Code#automation#reflection
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