K12
Related to primary and secondary education, encompassing kindergarten through 12th grade.
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An Ethos With a Changelog
Part 7 of an ongoing series on vibe coding in EdTech. Nobody asks a vendor what they believe about teaching. Procurement asks about seat cost, data handling, integration with the student information…
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Surveillance Refusal – Chrome Extension for Canvas
Canvas records a great deal about students that has nothing to do with their schoolwork. It logs when a student last logged in, how long a session lasted, how many times they…
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Teaching Realism
I’ve been noticing something in the way AI tools market themselves to educators. The pitch varies in specifics, but the underlying structure is almost always the same: teachers are overwhelmed, teachers are…
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Who Pays for the Free Tool?
Part 6 of an ongoing series on vibe coding in EdTech. In a recent article, I wrote about the ethics of building automation tools for educators, using Mary Doria Russell’s concept of…
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Decision Rights Mapper
A note before you start The Decision Rights Mapper is released as a free, open tool under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. That openness is intentional, and it carries a corresponding responsibility for…
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I Know a Grackle
My dad kept a bird book with a life list penciled inside the front cover. I don’t think he updated it very often. It was one of those things that surfaced years…
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Scope and Sequence Builder
The Scope and Sequence Builder is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license, which means you’re welcome to copy it, modify it, and share it with colleagues as long as you…
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Staff Rounding Dashboard
“Rounding” is a practice borrowed from healthcare leadership where administrators make regular, structured check-ins with their staff. Rather than waiting for annual surveys or hoping problems surface on their own, rounding gives…
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Danielson Framework Walk-Through Observation Form
Version note: Updated September 2026 for v3.1, which adds teacher pre-observation input. If you are already running v3.0.x, you do not need to make a new copy. See “Already running an earlier…
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Accommodation Tracker and Classroom Snapshot Generator
A Note on Data Privacy and Compliance Before anything else, this needs to be said clearly: this tool stores student accommodation data in Google Workspace (Google Sheets and Google Docs), and depending…
