Reflections & Writing
Thoughts on making, teaching, building, and the spaces where learning happens.
I connected a capable AI agent to my school's learning management system through an MCP server — and eliminated hours of weekly tab-toggling. Here's what happened next.
How I built an agentic teacher's assistant that connects to Canvas LMS — and discovered that the best software isn't built, it's grown.
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.