Help Send a Kid to Camp Jorn — and Double Your Impact
Kids need unplugged outdoor experiences more than ever. Here's how you can help send one to YMCA Camp Jorn — and double your impact while you're at it.
Latest
The Teacher's Guide to Building an AI Assistant: Claude vs. ChatGPT vs. Gemini
Claude Projects, ChatGPT Custom GPTs, Gemini Gems — all three let you build a persistent AI teaching assistant. Here's how to pick the right one and actually set it up.
Stop Starting Over: How to Build a Permanent AI Teaching Assistant with Gemini
Learn how to use Google Gemini's Gems feature to build a persistent AI teaching assistant that already knows your classroom — no re-explaining yourself every time.
Stop Starting Over: How to Build a Permanent AI Teaching Assistant with ChatGPT
Learn how to use ChatGPT's Custom GPT feature to build a persistent AI teaching assistant that already knows your classroom — no re-explaining yourself every time.
Stop Starting Over: How to Build a Permanent AI Teaching Assistant with Claude
Learn how to use Claude's Projects feature to build a persistent AI teaching assistant that already knows your classroom — no re-explaining yourself every time.
The March Energy Audit: Where Your Teaching Energy Actually Goes
Not every task deserves equal energy. Some deserve more. Some deserve less. Almost none of them deserve the amount you're currently giving them at 9 pm on a Sunday.
The Provocation
Your Mind Is Complicit
March Restlessness: Using Movement to Reclaim Your Classroom
When teachers try to manage March restlessness through behavioral means—reminders, consequences, redirections, raised voices—they're using the wrong tool for the problem. It's like trying to fix dehydration by telling someone to think more clearly. The intervention doesn't match the cause.
The 80% Lesson Plan Will Teach Just Fine
The lesson plan you stayed up until midnight perfecting teaches about as well as the one that was 80% ready. Here’s what perfectionism is actually costing you.
The Spring Break Permission Slip
Go Rest. That’s the Whole Newsletter.
The System Isn't Broken. It Just Wasn't Built for You.
A lot of what exhausts teachers isn't a personal failure — it's structural. Here's what Stoicism says about protecting yourself inside a system you can't fix.
Why You Started
It's okay to recalibrate.
Why Edify Podcast
Persistence Isn't What You Think It Is
Teachers are told to push through everything. But persistence and endurance aren't the same — and confusing them is what's burning you out. Here's the Stoic take.
Strong Teacher
Teaching Through March Chaos: Planning for the Disruptions You Know Are Coming
How teachers can plan for surprise disruptions before they occur.
Strong Teacher
Teaching for the Test Without Selling Out Your Classroom
The problem with panic-driven test prep isn't just that it's unpleasant. It's that it doesn't work. Here are some things that will work for teachers.
Strong Teacher
How to Keep Students Engaged Before Spring Break
Learn how teachers can make the most of the time leading up to Spring Break.
Why Edify Podcast
Push Through Is Not a Strategy
"Just push through" is the worst advice in education. Here's what Epictetus figured out 2,000 years ago — and why it matters on your hardest teaching days.
Strong Teacher Pep Talk
You Don’t Need a New Career. You Need a Better Tuesday.
Here’s what that actually looks like for teachers who are tired of big promises and small results.
STRONG Teacher Newsletter
The One-Thing Week
What If You Subtracted One Thing This Week?
Strong Teacher Pep Talk
You Don’t Earn Rest. You Schedule It.
Teachers are told rest is a reward for finished work. But the work is never finished. Here’s what sustainable teachers figured out instead.
Why Edify Update
WHY EDIFY: February Update
March feels closer to the finish line than it is. This guide helps you get there without burning what you'll need for the final stretch.
Strong Teacher
Good Luck, Sailor
Most teachers don't leave because they're bad at the job. They leave because they're doing it alone. On isolation, community, and who builds the harbor.
Teaching
The Problem With the ‘Tech vs. Paper’ Debate in Education
The debate over technology in classrooms isn’t as simple as screens vs. pencils. After 26 years in education, here’s why data—not opinion—should drive how we use tech in schools.
STRONG Teacher Newsletter
The Worst Advice You'll Hear This Month
February's loudest advice is "just push through." It's also the worst. Here's a 2,000-year-old Stoic framework for choosing where your limited energy actually belongs.