Prompt & Pedagogy

Field Notes & Walkthroughs.

Weekly breakdowns of real instructional moves: a lesson stress-tested before the bell, a coaching conversation rehearsed, a set of walkthrough notes turned into a plan. Every entry ends with something you can try this week.

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The AI Stress Test

Auditing Tier 1 instruction before the bell
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Take one lesson plan, single day or multi-day, through a three-pillar audit. See who is doing the thinking in each segment, find where questioning levels off, and predict the three misconceptions most likely to surface, with a quick check for each.

Then push one pillar a layer deeper with a follow-up prompt, and make the AI argue against its own audit until only the strongest recommendation stands.

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Teacher TrackArticle

Recall Is Not Rigor: Read the Verb Before You Prompt

A standard's verb sets its cognitive demand. Here is how to name it before you ask AI for anything, so the task matches the standard instead of the textbook.

6 min readComing soon
Coach TrackTemplate

Low-Inference Notes: The First Step to a Non-Evaluative Debrief

A simple sort for separating what you saw and heard from what you concluded, with a prompt that does the first pass for you.

4 min readComing soon
Leadership TrackArticle

Walkthrough Data Without Surveillance

How campus teams can read patterns across classrooms without ranking teachers, and why the unit of analysis should always be the system.

8 min readComing soon
Teacher TrackVideo

Make It Your Own: Five Pillar Swaps for the Stress Test

Retarget the audit for accessibility, discourse structures, real-world relevance, intervention, or standards alignment with one swap.

Est. 10 min watchComing soon
Coach TrackVideo

Rehearsing the Hard Conversation with an AI Sounding Board

A live run of the pre-conference rehearsal: drafting questions, catching evaluative language, and planning for the teacher's pushback.

Est. 8 min watchComing soon
Leadership TrackTemplate

From Thirty Snapshots to Three PD Priorities

A team planning protocol for turning anonymized walkthrough trends into professional learning that teachers help design.

5 min readComing soon