AP Macroeconomics and Global History teacher
I plan each school year end to end, build the review games my students play, and lead AI at my school with faculty demos and one-on-one coaching. Outside school, I build AI tools for small businesses.
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In classrooms since 2016. I teach 106 students a year in AP Macroeconomics and Global History, and I design both courses.
I plan each school year with AI: every AP Macro topic on a named class day, tests on the school's exam days, and sub-ready plans for sick days. See the AP Macro plan
Seven AP Macro games, a whole-class trading-floor game, a 3D review game with 213 voiced lines, and AI tools that two small-business owners used. See the work
As a first reader on 87 essays, AI scored one a 79 that earned a 96. I check every score, every fact, and every number before it reaches a student.
I run AI demos for my whole faculty and coach teachers one-on-one. Two small-business owners say I showed them how their tools work. Read what they said
Student names come out before anything goes to AI. The Econ Arcade has no accounts, and scores stay on the device.
On my school's AI Task Force, I run demos for the whole faculty and coach teachers one-on-one. I also wrote a step-by-step guide so colleagues can build their own year calendar with AI.
I helped write our school's AI rules. My sample guidelines cover students, teachers, and a privacy check before any new tool. Read the sample
Every class meeting of the year on one calendar, tests on the school's exam days, and sub-ready plans for sick days, for both of my courses. See the AP Macro plan
Progress report comments in 85% less time. Essay first reads in 63% less time. Grades go from Schoology to Veracross without retyping.
Names come out first, my games have no student accounts, and every fact is checked before class.
Schoology, Veracross, and Google Workspace. Tools that run on shared Chromebooks and print in black and white.
Try it yourself
Two short demos: a round of Open Outcry, my whole-class trading-floor game, and the AI check I teach other teachers.
Breaking news 1 of 4
Frost destroys a third of Brazil's coffee crop
Market: coffee
Which curve shifts?
AI draftAnswer key: inflation and the Fed
0 of 2mistakes found
This AI draft has two mistakes. Click each sentence you think is wrong.
Selected work
I build with AI, then check every fact and every picture. The live ones are free to try.
AP Macroeconomics
Seven games for the skills the AP exam grades. Shift the curve a headline moves, run the Fed through 1975, 1980, 2008, or 2021, and find the mistakes on a graph. A one-line why follows every answer. A readiness panel shows each student a heat map of the six units and what to play next.
Global History
A 3D review game, 1649 to 1789. Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau teach inside the world.
AP Macroeconomics, whole class
A trading-floor review game for the projector. Teams read a headline, decide which curve shifts, and flash one to four fingers for their answer. The answer key comes from the graph itself, so the two can never disagree.
Curriculum design
Global History 10: 127 class meetings on one calendar, with tests on the school's exam days and a tracker for sick days. AP Macro: all 42 College Board topics on a named class day, with sub-ready plans. I build both with AI and keep them current all year.
Global History
Four days, four research roles, a source bank, and a rubric. Students may use AI to present their work, not to do it, and a Q&A checks that they understand every slide.
AP Macroeconomics
16 new lesson decks on real events and FRED data, and AP-style quizzes with answer keys, all planned backward from the May exam.
At my school
On the AI Task Force, I help the whole faculty use AI well.
47 practice questions and 25 short lessons on the financial sector, in one browser game.
Play itPast Global History Regents exams turned into a searchable question bank with a test builder. A prototype on my own computer.
Four narrated videos for my French Revolution unit, made with AI tools, with every picture credited.
Watch themA talking 3D Earth for ages 3 to 5. Every line is spoken and checked with speech recognition.
Play itHow I work
AI makes the first version of the plan, the game, or the worksheet. It is fast, and it is a starting point. A teacher makes the call.
AP Macro answer key
A price ceiling set crossed out: above, corrected to: below the equilibrium price causes a shortage.
Checked before it reaches a student.
Essay score, AI as first reader
AI score, crossed out: 79, my grade: 96 out of 100
A 17-point miss. I check every score.
What does the person need at the end? A student needs to explain a graph on the test. That comes first, not the tool.
I check facts against real sources, and I check every number and every picture. Nothing goes out before that.
Spoken lines and big type when students need them. For everyone: it works on a phone, prints in black and white, and fits the systems people already use.
The tool does the busywork. Students still draw the graph and write the why. People still make the call.
Time back for teaching
I use AI as a first draft for the paperwork around teaching. Student names come out first, and nothing goes out until I check it.
106 reports. AI drafts each comment from my notes, and I edit every one.
85%less time
87 essays. AI reads first, and I check every score.
63%less time
Teaching teachers
On my school's AI Task Force, I run demos for the whole faculty, coach teachers one-on-one, and helped write our AI rules.
I also wrote a step-by-step guide so colleagues can build their own year calendar with AI. These four work samples show how I explain things to teachers.
A sample, not my school's policy
Rules for students and teachers, what to do when a teacher suspects AI misuse, and a check before the school approves any AI tool.
Read the guidelinesA plan for a one-hour session
Laptops open, your own curriculum. Teachers make something for Monday and check it like a grader before they leave.
Read the workshop planCase study
The problem, who it is for, the design choices, student privacy, and what I would do next.
Read the case studyTeacher guide
The AP topics each level covers, a class plan, an exit ticket, and AP-style practice questions.
Read the guideIn their words
"I was spending hours every week just organizing new client information: pulling details out of emails, phone notes, and intake forms into our case management system. David built us an AI workflow that handles the extraction automatically. What used to take my paralegal half a day now takes minutes. But the best part is he actually showed us how it works so we're not dependent on him."
"I was keeping track of everything in my head: customer calls, job estimates, follow-ups. David built me a system where I just talk into my phone after a call and it does the rest. Names, addresses, job details: it all goes straight into the database. I'm not a tech guy at all, but he walked me through everything so I actually understand how it works."
An AI workflow that pulls case details from emails, phone notes, and intake forms into the case system.
Talk into the phone after a call, and the names, addresses, and job details go into a database.
A call system that turns a phone call into a CRM deal in under a minute, with Twilio, Whisper, an LLM, and Pipedrive.
FinAid Dashboard adjusts the federal aid formula for regional cost of living and K-12 tuition, and shows each step of the math.
At home
A Mac mini at home runs my own AI setup around the clock. It is where I try new tools before I use them for real.
A personal AI agent I talk to on Discord, with skills it improves over time.
I organized 5,000+ curriculum files and built a chatbot that answers questions from them. It runs on local models, so nothing leaves my computer.
News briefings read aloud each morning, nightly health checks, and more.
When something works, like a review game or a talking explainer, I turn the steps into a reusable AI skill, so the next one starts from a checked recipe.
Claude and ChatGPT debate each trade with play money, so I can see how two AI models reason about the same news.
One dashboard that tracks every agent and scheduled job, what each one cost, and whether it ran.
For the chatbot, I tested AI for sorting the files and went back to plain rules, because they did better.
About
Teacher who builds
M.S. in Education, Pace University
B.A. in History, Baruch College
Where I have worked
Resume
Both versions tell the same story. They lead with what each kind of team needs.
Get in touch
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