Where it started
Built from the ground up, with the people who teach.
- Fifth grade
His principal stayed with him after school, when nobody else did.
That day, my vision of a father figure died. But it got healed.
It is where Brayan learned what this page is about:No AI can replace someone who talks to you.
- Seven years later
Teaching AI in public libraries, Brayan emailed that principal to say thank you. He remembered him, and five months later invited him to a professional development day.
- The ask
“Don’t prepare anything,” they told him. He ended up running the whole day. Then the curriculum director pointed at him:
I need your help with AI.
- Before
A new high school built around academies, and a curriculum that lived in a forty-page Google Doc, copies of copies. When a teacher left, their Google Drive left with them. Nobody could promise unit six would be as strong as unit one, and none of the off-the-shelf tools fit.
- The turn
He closed his laptop and said: tell me what’s wrong. And they told him.
- Four weeks
Side by side with the district’s five best curriculum builders, with one brief: help the rest of the department catch up to these five. Inside four weeks teachers were writing real curriculum in it. Not testing it. Writing in it.
- After
Reviewing a unit went from 90 minutes to 15. Teachers who had braced for another pilot built it themselves, so they stood behind it, and they became the ones who brought the next colleague in.
Why it has to be built this way
Some ninth graders arrive reading at a fourth-grade level. A curriculum has to bend right there, and only the people who teach it know where.
