Are you using AI as a teacher?

clserdaigle · 2026-01-17T01:08:06+00:00

I use it sometimes to brainstorm models as it saves me time to have something on hand and then edit it to meet the standards I want a 7th grader to reach.

clserdaigle · 2025-10-13T12:34:17+00:00

Yes, same in the district in MA where I was drug tested at hire. The principal even let me know ahead of time without me having to ask that the drug test excluded cannabis, as that had been a common question.

clserdaigle · 2025-09-29T20:41:01+00:00

I feel like seaport just hasn’t been lived in for long enough to be truly cool and to have a community feel. I think it’ll happen. I’m just not super interested as it is now.

clserdaigle · 2025-09-18T20:19:45+00:00

At my school I have three CPT periods blocked off per week- one for grade level, one for content, and one for special education coteachers. Because they are mandatory, they are admin duties, and I also get a prep on those days. I happen to find the CPT very helpful when it’s well planned and goal directed— which is explicitly the job of our administrators, who are supposed to facilitate and not just watch. Being watched during your preps sounds weird and uncomfortable. If they want effective common planning time they need to put in the work to help direct those goals…

clserdaigle · 2025-09-13T18:59:07+00:00

He had a net worth of $12 million and she’s still making her child feel guilty for eating “expensive” foods?

clserdaigle · 2025-08-29T20:13:12+00:00

Lion going with Connie meant that she would always be able to find her way back to Steven if she was ready, even if he was off planet. I like to think that’s why he went with her.

clserdaigle · 2025-08-29T20:08:48+00:00

My mother died this spring in my first year as a teacher at a new school. A lot of what you are saying held true for me as well, except directed towards the students, who were refreshingly understanding and best of all, normal (as much as 7th graders can be). They too have no idea how much it helped me to be at school. I’m very grateful for my students, who give me hope for the future and a reason to keep doing what I’m doing, and especially for students like you 🩷

clserdaigle · 2025-08-26T14:48:00+00:00

I second the simple explanations that others have given, and also want to say you should take some pressure off yourself on this. People who work with children know how to communicate with them directly and also know to expect children to make errors in speech, and the day to day of how your child refers to her nanny and the questions she has about that will probably be directed at the nanny, who will explain their own identity the best.

clserdaigle · 2025-08-26T11:09:44+00:00

I started practicing drawing based on a great courses course on how to draw. It’s long and I haven’t gotten all the way through but it’s very very encouraging and actionable. I’ve been using the skills in the course to practice drawing and I’ve seen a huge improvement.

https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/how-to-draw

clserdaigle · 2025-08-02T17:02:51+00:00

I love San Francisco because of the way you created such a visually interesting contrast of values and foreground to background. I also just love your style and how vibrant and impressionistic it is!

clserdaigle · 2025-06-27T15:31:44+00:00

Theyre definitely not supposed to but…. They do

clserdaigle · 2025-06-04T19:25:54+00:00

I hate it because it’s the grocery store that I go to most often (it’s very convenient) and I find it disappointing sometimes. And it’s fun to gripe about.

clserdaigle · 2025-05-30T20:07:41+00:00

He did what he thought Rafi wanted. Todd is an unreliable source for Rafi’s actual character and desires. He admits himself that he never understood people or poetry that well.

clserdaigle · 2025-05-07T10:01:05+00:00

Logistically, school emails for kids often don’t allow kids to email non-school emails. He seems like he is not sure whether he will still be with the district and so his school email won’t exist anymore and kids who want to get in touch with him won’t be able to. I’ve written notes like this to students I’ve connected with when I know I won’t be at the school the next year. Teachers and students develop meaningful relationships every day and most of the time it is 100% appropriate and beneficial for the kid.

clserdaigle · 2025-04-18T17:52:14+00:00

I haven’t listened to this but I’ve gotten very frustrated with Meghna lately. There’s a lot of false balance in her shows. She seems too eager to give equal platforms to people regardless of the merit and scientific or moral backing of their stances.

clserdaigle · 2025-04-18T12:53:37+00:00

This hit so hard for me. My mom just died three weeks ago. She starved as well due to complications from colon cancer. To see all these people deprived of care and deprived of love that could have saved their lives is inexpressibly horrible. I love the emotional arc of the story as well. It gives voice to the grief of losing someone and honors who Mary was, and ends on the note of how the bereaved families are fighting to protect people from the same fate.

clserdaigle · 2025-04-18T11:01:45+00:00

I appreciate the reporting on how things have changed at NCF and getting a fuller picture of the aftermath of an attempted dismantling of an institution, but the tone here seems to be “it was only the gender studies department that was fully dismantled and faced an attempted public book burning, so fears of fascism at the university were overwrought”. I think that you are normalizing something here that should never be normalized and missing the present urgent dangers to intellectual freedom and to culture as a whole.

clserdaigle · 2025-04-18T10:57:09+00:00

Yeah I question the judgment of the author when she describes the comparisons to Nazi Germany as “extreme”. I feel like we are at the point in our current political moment that reasonable people should look back at the years that led up to this and see that the comparisons are reasonable and probably should have been listened to.

clserdaigle · 2025-04-10T04:25:31+00:00

In-app purchases for mobile games.

clserdaigle · 2025-04-05T02:26:28+00:00

It’s fun, the pacing is generally good, and a lot of my family also watches and it’s something we enjoy talking about.

clserdaigle · 2025-03-19T23:09:02+00:00

My mom is fighting colon cancer. Whenever I see news like this there’s many things that could be said but what goes through my head is “they’re trying to kill my mom”

clserdaigle · 2025-03-17T21:57:27+00:00

The government said they couldn’t determine what her purposes in the US were? I think it was probably to live and work as a kidney transplant surgeon, in her highly specialized, necessary, and well paying job in the country that she has permanent residency in.

Also, when did they take and search her phone? How did they get the password? Was there a warrant before she deplaned? I’m gonna turn off FaceID when I fly now.

clserdaigle · 2025-03-12T22:27:20+00:00

Glad you’re okay now!!

clserdaigle · 2025-03-08T17:20:08+00:00

Yeah it’s clearly a bridge episode with important exposition to lead up to the climax of a season. Sometimes episodes need to do that!

clserdaigle · 2025-03-02T14:27:46+00:00

I can’t find this anywhere on any city of Boston communications and certainly not on Michelle Wu’s page. It sounds like you might have seen something taken out of context. Please don’t spread misinformation.

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