In this special episode, I’m bringing you behind the scenes of a presentation I gave to graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania — a room full of future teachers wrestling with the fear, excitement, and chaos of AI in education.

If you don’t know my story, here’s the short version: I’m a dyslexic CTE teacher who can barely spell “accommodations,” yet somehow AI became the most powerful tool I’ve ever used in the classroom.

In this episode, I share:

• the real backstory I told U. Penn students
• how AI helped me overcome a lifelong writing struggle
• the mindset shift: AI isn’t cheat — it’s chat
• how I build a full one-week project in minutes
• why AI makes teaching more human, not less
• and how ANY teacher can use AI to make life easier

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