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Since the dawn of the assigned essay, educators throughout time have been chasing their white whale. An essay assignment that students cannot find a way to cheat on, regardless of how the assignment is constructed. Image generated using Google's Nano Banana 2.0 From students copying encyclopedia pages at their local library, to copy/pasting in full Wikipedia pages and forgetting to remove the hyperlinks, to now AI, teachers just want to get their students to write, without ch

So, the vibes at school are very weird today. Students know that after today, they only have four days until break. The weather is supposed to be stormy this morning, beautiful this afternoon, and stormy again after dinner. There's also a lot of buzz surrounding our Girls' Basketball team making it to the next round of the playoffs, and they play tonight. So an idea with very little context popped into my head during my planning period, so I embraced the chaos and weird vibe

If you've ever met me in person, you know I'm a strange guy. I'm also authentically strange. The me you see online, in public, presenting at a conference...that's me baby! My weirdness is probably biological (the woman dyed her hair vibrant colors until the day she died). My academic weirdness stems to a core memory from my senior year of high school (class of '02 baby). I tried to find one of my senior pictures, and this was the best I could do. Also, 2026 me is jealous of h