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S2 - E11 - Rough Year: How AI Helped Me Survive the Worst Class of My Career - (CTE) - Career And Technical Education Professional Development

From That "CTE" Guy - CHAT-CTE: Finally—PD That’s Personal · Hosted by Steven Bross

2025-12-10·994

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In this episode of That "CTE" Guy - CHAT-CTE: Finally—PD That’s Personal: After 23 years of teaching art and design, I faced the most disengaged, unbothered, creativity-resistant group of students I’ve ever had. Basic figure drawing? Nope.

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After 23 years of teaching art and design, I faced the most disengaged, unbothered, creativity-resistant group of students I’ve ever had. Basic figure drawing? Nope. Participation? Hard pass. Failing? Totally fine by them. In this episode, I’m telling the full story — the frustration, the accountability pressure, the moment halfway through the second marking period when I realized I wasn’t just failing one student… I was failing twelve. But it’s also about the shift. The moment I realized this…