Teacher Laura Asher: "It Took Me 2 Seconds to Generate a Worksheet"
by Roel Concepcion
Middle school teacher from Washington, D.C., Laura Asher was in a department meeting where everyone needed to create lesson materials about subordinating conjunctions. While her colleagues started drafting sentences by hand, she had a different approach.
"I pulled up the Pathway on another tab and I typed in exactly everything we had discussed and I hit generate."
Two seconds later, she had a complete worksheet. Her team's reaction? "Oh my gosh, this is perfect." When they asked how she made it so fast, she introduced them to The Writing Pathway.
"It basically will do exactly what we've been talking about for us, and they were like, ‘There's no way.’ And I was like, ‘Yes, there is a way.’"
The practice included everything they wanted — it was about the right section of A Raisin in the Sun, the character they were focusing on, the skills they wanted students to practice. Asher just exported the practice to a Google doc and shared it with her team.
When Teachers are Hesitant
Asher gets why some teachers worry about using AI for planning, but she's found a practical middle ground:
"With the time constraints that we have, sometimes it's so nice to have an AI like the Writing Pathway that can just spit out exactly what we need without us having to go through the process of creating it ourselves."
The tool saves time on the parts that eat up hours — like creating materials — letting teachers bring their expertise to the actual teaching.
