AI tools, grown for the classroom.
Over the past few years I've been building agentic AI tools for my classroom. They handle planning, grading, and reports. They give me back time with my students. I help other teachers and schools build their own.
What I do.
Everything I grow starts as a tool I needed in my own classroom. Then it becomes something I can hand to another teacher or school.
Teaching assistants
An agentic teacher's assistant that lives inside your LMS. It can plan, post, grade, give feedback, and run reports. Student data is anonymized before anything hits the model, and it never publishes anything without a teacher's final review.
Teacher workshops
Hands-on sessions where your team builds its own tools alongside me. No slideshows. Teachers leave with software they made, and the skills to keep cultivating it.
Custom agents
Bigger projects, built to order. Automate compliance and reports. If your school has a recurring administrative task that eats hours, I can probably grow something for it.
How it usually goes.
Start with your workflows
A remote conversation about what's eating your teachers' hours, what your LMS looks like, what you've tried. I'll show you what's working in my own classroom and we'll figure out which pieces could transplant to yours.
A workshop, remote or at my school.
A hands-on session where your team builds tools alongside me. No slideshows. We can do it over video, or your team can come spend a day at Franklin and see the work in its native habitat. Teachers leave with software they made and the skills to keep cultivating it.
Then leave you with it.
You own everything we make together. You can maintain and extend it. I'm here if you want me for follow-up consulting, new tools, or troubleshooting.
Why work with me.
You can ask me about any of these.
I use these tools myself.
I teach full-time at Franklin School in Jersey City. I use these tools every day, with my own students. I can only recommend what I already rely on.
Grown, not pitched.
I leave you with software, not a slide deck. It's been running in my own classroom. Your team gets the skills to keep it running in yours.
Teachers learn by building.
Seymour Papert taught me that people learn by making things. Watching a webinar about AI is not the same as making something with it. My workshops put the tools in your team's hands. The understanding stays after I log off.
You own everything.
No vendor lock-in, no proprietary platforms. I build on open standards so your team can keep maintaining and extending the work on their own.
I started building these tools because I was tired. Teaching takes more hours than a day has, and too few of those hours go to the parts of the job I love. The first tool I made was small. Then there was another, and another. At some point I noticed they'd grown into something I couldn't have planned from the start.
I am planting seeds and wondering what they will become.