AI Builds the Site. Humans Build the Curriculum.

NOTE — Placeholder text. This is AI-written to build the site. All blog posts will be fully written by Chad.

If you're reading this, you're looking at a website built almost entirely with artificial intelligence. The layout, the code, the way the pages connect to each other — I didn't write that by hand. I'm a 20-year English teacher, not a software developer. AI tools helped me build something I couldn't have built alone, and I think that's worth being honest about.

But here's what AI didn't do: it didn't decide which books to teach. It didn't write the journal prompts. It didn't sequence the reading assignments or choose when to introduce an anticipation guide versus an informal writing task. It didn't spend two decades watching kids light up when they finally see themselves in a character, or shut down when a writing prompt feels pointless. That's the work that matters, and that's the work that's mine.

I think there's a version of this conversation where people feel like they need to hide the AI part, like it somehow cheapens the product. I see it the opposite way. The fact that a teacher can now build a professional-quality platform — for free — and put real curriculum in front of families who need it? That's the whole point. The technology is the delivery truck. The curriculum is what's inside.

So yes: AI builds the site. A human builds the curriculum. And I think that's exactly how it should work.

— Chad Kurzawski