Teaching Insights
Research, practical strategies, and honest conversations about the work of teaching, from Ruby Smith and the Ivaro team.
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Most advice about saving teacher time is frustratingly vague. After 16 years in the classroom, here is where the time actually goes, and what genuinely helps.
Teachers are adopting AI faster than schools are giving them guidance on how to use it. Research shows unclear expectations are strongly linked to burnout. That's not just a technology problem.
For 16 years I watched my wife give everything to her students, and watched teaching follow her home. A teacher spouse on burnout, the mental load teachers carry, and why we built Ivaro.
I did everything right for sixteen years and the grading still followed me home every weekend. Why teachers need an AI grading tool that turns results into timely intervention, and why I built one.
You're not slow. Most of "grading" was never really grading. Five practical, research-backed ways to grade faster without cutting a single corner that matters.
Free almost never means free. When an app doesn't charge you money, there's a good chance it's getting paid another way, often with your students' data. A CISSP and CIO on how to tell the safe ones from the risky ones.
It's Sunday night, twelve tabs are open, and I still haven't started planning. The problem was never you. It's that none of your tools talk to each other.
I thought I'd lost my love of teaching. It turned out I'd just been running on empty for too long, and the research shows I was far from alone.
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