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Only a Month In, This 4th Grade Teacher Is All In on Instructron
Sometimes, the best discoveries happen at the very end. That’s what happened for Shawn H., a 4th grade teacher in San Marcos, CA, who started using Instructron with just one month left in the school year, and quickly realized he’d found something special. “Instructron is the most useful AI website to use in the classroom I have found to date,” Shawn said. Even in a short window, it saved him time, supported his students, and made some of the most stressful tasks feel manageable. Smarter, Stud
The Necessary Evil: Why We Built Instructron for the World of High-Stakes Testing
Let’s just say it plainly: we don’t believe high-stakes tests paint a full picture of what our students know or who they are. As teachers, we’ve watched brilliant kids freeze up on a test day. We’ve seen creative thinkers, budding writers, and natural leaders reduced to a few percentage points and acronyms. And we’ve sat in too many meetings where “data” is used as the only lens through which a child is evaluated, ignoring the nuance, the growth, and the humanity that lives in every classroom.