estimated time saved with AI since March 2026 · about 63 forty-hour work-weeks
Week of October 19 - October 25, 2026
District Operations
Claude Code
Refreshed and republished the operations dashboard every weekday. Enrollment drifted from 2,803 to 2,795, tuition students held at 564, and withdrawals year to date moved from 261 to 270.
Daily dashboard
~1h saved
Claude Code
Built a converter that turns the state's career and technical education attendance reports from raw web exports into clean spreadsheets, and confirmed which reporting period each column actually belongs to.
Re-runnable converter
~4.5h saved
Claude Code
Withdrew a figure published the day before. A 27 percent drop in career and technical attendance turned out to be an artifact of comparing this year against an older report that counted different things. Matching the periods properly put the real gap near 8 percent, and even that is still waiting on pending enrollment corrections.
Corrected baseline on file
~3h saved
Claude Code
Drafted an outline for an email to a colleague on how career and technical enrollment at our technical academy is being reported, and what still needs to be reconciled.
~1.5h saved
Claude Code
Cleaned up two Friday leadership check-in sessions into finished documents and added 44 action items to the running tracker.
Notes plus action tracker
~3h saved
Claude Code
Cleaned up the weekly cabinet meeting notes and appended the meeting to the year's tracker.
~1.5h saved
Whisper
Transcribed a 21 minute leadership conversation about restarting an after-school care program. Timestamped, 3,468 words, with a separate list of the proper nouns and meaning-changing words the model misheard rather than quietly fixing them inside a verbatim transcript.
Transcript plus summary
~1.5h saved
Claude Code
Processed the first negative lunch balance snapshot of this fiscal year. 229 students carrying a combined $4,188.98.
Report plus master tracker
~1.5h saved
Claude Code
Filed the peer district health insurance premiums our office collected and built a normalized comparison workbook for next year's benefits study, so plans with different structures can be read side by side.
Comparison workbook
~1.5h saved
Claude Code
Compared a partner's edited version of a facility use agreement against the district draft. The edits came back with no tracked changes, so the text was extracted and diffed to surface every alteration, then turned into a checklist for reading their version.
Look-fors checklist
~1.5h saved
Claude Code
Marked four swap days on the next two school year calendars on the district website. Adding one legend row pushed the printable version from two pages to four, which took a print scaling fix rather than a guess at the layout.
Two calendars republished
~3h saved
Claude Code
Filed last month's local revenue report and updated the fiscal year finance tracker, with the outstanding item flagged rather than assumed received.
~20m saved
Claude Code
Worked a vendor scope call on scanning the student records backfile into four settled scope decisions. Pricing is still pending and a proposal is expected in early November.
~20m saved
Claude Code
Read a vendor's annual review document and established that it is an account and renewal summary, not the usage data we were after. It did show we already hold the administrative role needed to pull that data ourselves, which reframes the problem.
~20m saved
Claude Code
Searched two years of cabinet and leadership meeting notes for any prior decision on issuing building access cards to contract custodial staff. No direct hit. Collected the closest precedents instead of inventing one.
~20m saved
ChatGPT
Searched email and notes for the same building access question from the other direction. Also came up empty. Finding related material is not the same as recovering the decision, and two tools agreeing on nothing is still nothing.
~20m saved
ChatGPT
Turned a federal cybersecurity advisory about a web server vulnerability into specific questions for our technology staff and hosting provider. What it could not do was determine whether our site actually runs the affected component, which still takes someone with access.
~20m saved
Claude Code
Refreshed the state education bill tracker.
~20m saved
Muse
Ran the daily state reporting pulls. Every day's files were verified by column signature, but the handoff to this Mac failed on several days while it was offline, and the last two days failed at the download capture step with the exports themselves succeeding.
Partial week, gaps known
~1h saved
Muse
Supported a Monday professional development day for another district: leadership roster and run of show from public sources, then the invoice packet afterward.
~1.5h saved
Teaching & Academic
Claude Code
Reviewed a doctoral dissertation for committee work. 141 comments across the front matter, all five chapters, references and appendices, including an internal contradiction between the review board documentation and the methodology narrative.
Annotated document
~10h saved
Claude Code
Wrote feedback files for three rounds of marketing course submissions.
Feedback files
~4.5h saved
Claude Code
Wrote feedback on a reflection assignment for the educational leadership course.
~1.5h saved
Research & Writing
Claude Code
Curated the newsletter link backlog down to a working set. Two education technology briefings were parsed for candidates, and 44 accumulated links were cut to a 13 link floor by dropping paywalled articles, duplicate themes and off-topic stories, with tiered backups behind them.
Queue ready for the monthly issue
~40m saved
Code & Automation
Claude Code
Prepped an old laptop to become an always-on server. Backed up every scheduled job, diagnosed three file access failures, corrected three errors in the migration map, and built a read test so a background job proves it can actually open a file instead of only checking that one exists.
Read test harness
~3h saved
Claude Code
Day one of the build. Ported project state and the runtime to the second machine, worked around a package manager that would not cooperate, opened a file based channel so the assistant on each Mac can talk to the other, and ran a stubborn authentication problem to ground. No scheduled jobs moved over yet.
Second machine live, jobs still here
~4.5h saved
Muse
Closed out every open decision on the migration, then paired the laptop as the server, retired five obsolete scheduled jobs, and set the notes vault syncing both ways. Session count matched at 1,327 on both machines at verification, which is the check that matters.
Vault in sync both directions
~4.5h saved
Claude Code
Stripped the preinstalled clutter off two home streaming devices, with scripts to revert and reapply so nothing is a one way door.
Revert and reapply scripts
~4.5h saved
Claude Code
Scoped replacing the launcher on a third streaming device. Research done, execution deferred until the device side is enabled and the operating system version is known.
Deferred on purpose
~20m saved
Muse
Ran the morning briefing and education news sweep every day, and cleared 10 promotional messages across nine senders out of the personal inbox.
~1h saved
Personal
Claude Code
Week 6 fantasy football matchup, won on the strength of a Thursday injury swap. The honest scorecard also logged a start I got wrong by nine points, which is the part worth keeping.
~20m saved
Claude Code
Chapter breakdown of two chapters of a leadership book for the team book talk series.
~20m saved
ChatGPT
Rebuilt my party in Baldur's Gate 3 at level 9 after losing a companion. The ongoing value here is a strategy guide that remembers my party and my previous decisions, rather than a walkthrough I have to search every time.
~20m saved
ChatGPT
Worked through how the advice to teach children to match energy squares with Christian teaching on forgiveness, and where boundaries and accountability sit apart from retaliation. Useful because it argued the competing ideas instead of agreeing with my first reaction.
~20m saved
ChatGPT
Settled a small question about the family relationship between two musicians. Representative of how often AI now replaces opening six browser tabs.
~20m saved
35 tasks across 4 AI tools | Est. time saved: ~66 hours
Week of October 12 - October 18, 2026
District Operations
Claude Code
Refreshed and republished the operations dashboard each weekday, holding near 2,800 students enrolled, about 570 tuition students, and 259 withdrawals year to date.
Daily dashboard
~2h saved
Claude Code
Found why the scheduled state reporting pull had never once worked. The background shell job could see the cloud storage files but lacked system permission to open them, so it passed its own checks and did nothing. Folded the pull into the main refresh script, which already had access, and retired the broken job.
Scheduled pull fixed
~3h saved
Muse
Ran the daily state reporting downloads all seven days with every file verified by column signature, and recovered one day's backlog by hand after the staging machine was unreachable.
7 of 7 clean
~2h saved
Claude Code
Built the weekly print report over fall break, when volume fell to about two percent of a normal week. Logged for continuity and excluded from every read, since a single job moves the percentages several points at that volume.
Weekly print build
~30m saved
Claude Code
The empty week exposed a real flaw. The colour benchmark was simply the lowest-colour school with no volume floor, so a school printing 330 pages became the district standard and the page would have read as though print waste was solved. Added a minimum volume threshold, plus a written explanation that renders when no school clears it.
Benchmark floor added
~3h saved
Claude Code
Compared this year's single sign-on usage export against last year's, then verified a parallel analysis against the raw files. Grouping by application name was wrong, because vendors rename tools while keeping the same internal ID. Deduplicating by ID cut the list of genuinely retired products from eleven to seven.
Year-over-year comparison
~2h saved
Claude Code
Traced why that usage export cannot be automated. The feature exists, but it is gated behind a tenant administrator role the account does not hold.
Permission finding
~30m saved
Plaud
Compiled nine recorded sessions from the national school business officials conference, plus a federal tax credit briefing, into a single 10,000-word reference document with cross-cutting themes, prioritized district follow-up, and an appendix listing every figure and name that still needs verification.
Conference notes document
~10h saved
Claude Code
Built the conference travel expense record from receipts as they arrived. Caught that two separate checked bag fees had been logged as one, found the mileage rate in the workbook's reference tab was stale against the rate actually in use, and excluded gratuities from the claim by instruction.
Form values, every figure against a receipt
~3h saved
Muse
Built the day-by-day conference schedule from app screenshots, a booth question brief for a finance software evaluation, flight and weather checks, and dining and sightseeing research. Rebooked the return flight after a weather delay.
Trip schedule and briefs
~1h saved
Muse
Sent the association an apology for a missed Friday morning session, after the first attempt died on a system approval timeout.
Email sent
~30m saved
Claude Code
Queued eleven stories from an education technology newsletter into the must-include list for the district AI newsletter.
Link queue updated
~30m saved
Teaching & Academic
Claude Code
Rebuilt a graduate web analytics course for spring out of an inherited course shell. Corrected a certification exam that had been retired, resolved a conflict between a syllabus totalling 475 points and a live gradebook totalling 825 by reading the gradebook, made the inherited group work optional, and deleted student records left behind in the export.
Syllabus, schedule, and 17 course pages
~9h saved
Claude Code
Added the new spring course to all three living copies of the CV and confirmed the published version rendered.
Three CVs in sync
~30m saved
Claude Code
Closed out midterm grading. Synced the course management export into the gradebook with a backup and a dry run first, produced letter grades from the gradebook's own formula, and built the early alert referral list for students missing two or more due items.
Midterm grades and referral list
~2h saved
Claude Code
Wrote feedback on sixteen discussion submissions and filed each to the right assignment folder, including one redo that had been submitted under the wrong assignment number.
16 feedback files
~2h saved
Claude Code
Graded a late week eight submission and resynced the gradebook.
Gradebook updated
~30m saved
Research & Writing
Claude Code
Checked whether the family line connects to the founder of a Pittsburgh department store, after a photograph taken at a museum raised the question. It does not. The two lines are chronologically and geographically incompatible.
No connection found
~2h saved
Muse
Delivered a Hebrew philological memo on a single word, closing the last open research thread before drafting an article that has been in pieces for a while.
Research memo
~2h saved
Muse
Searched the usual sources for the obituary of a family connection and found none, with a spouse's earlier obituary as the only confirmation he outlived her.
Search result
~30m saved
Muse
Verified an unclaimed property claim letter and its Saturday deadline, and corrected the return address before it was filed.
Letter filed on time
~30m saved
Claude Code
Read five issues of an AI newsletter and flagged 53 items worth keeping.
Weekly digest
~2h saved
ChatGPT
Chased down a late night television controversy, the provenance and date of an older article about computers and AI, and whether a grocery chain had been bought by private equity.
Claim checks
~1h saved
ChatGPT
Brainstormed a hiking pun built on a David Foster Wallace novel, worked out how a Delaware County accent differs from a Pittsburgh one, and asked what earned a film its rating.
Wordplay and idle curiosity
~1h saved
Website & Social
Claude Code
Rebuilt and published the reading list page from the live audiobook library plus the hand-kept e-reader list.
Published page
~2h saved
Claude Code
Added a web analytics book to the hand-kept e-reader list ahead of the spring course.
List updated
~30m saved
Code & Automation
Claude Code
Audited both Claude Code installs after a product email and found the terminal version 29 releases behind, which is why a flag that should have existed did not. Updated it, re-enabled automatic updates, and moved the default background agent to a cheaper model.
Version audit and config change
~1h saved
Claude Code
Added live polling slides to both decks for an upcoming professional development day. Built as a re-runnable script that embeds the join codes as local images, so the slides render even if the room has no internet.
Re-runnable script
~4h saved
Claude Code
Built two synthetic student datasets, a gradebook and a benchmark set, so teachers can practice AI data analysis without real student records, which district policy forbids putting into these tools. Planted recognizable instructional profiles on purpose: the capable student who does not submit, the hard worker with low test scores, the fluent reader who does not comprehend.
Two practice datasets
~4h saved
MagicSchool
Tested the upload path and found the vendor's own advice backwards. Converting the spreadsheets to PDF first collapsed the table columns wherever a cell was blank, while plain tab separated text and CSV imported cleanly.
Upload format finding
~30m saved
MagicSchool
Asked for a growth summary from the synthetic third grade set and got several reading fluency numbers wrong, plus one invented error in a student record. Prompted to audit itself against the source rows, it corrected every figure. Worth teaching staff directly: never hand a supervisor or a board the first arithmetic an AI gives you.
Verification lesson for the PD
~30m saved
Muse
Built a new daily education news sweep across four verticals, with a dated log and a short digest each morning.
Daily job, first run this week
~4h saved
Muse
Scanned 122 promotional emails from 75 senders and unsubscribed from 18 of them through the list headers rather than by sending mail.
18 senders dropped
~30m saved
Muse
Drafted a first-cut plan to repurpose an older laptop as the always-on machine these automations run from.
Migration outline
~2h saved
Personal
Claude Code
Built the rate model, terms, and session plan for a paid half day AI training for local businesses, then reworked the recommendation when the partner switched from a revenue split to a fixed fee.
Plan and attendee copy
~3h saved
Claude Code
Built two press ready carbon copy proposal forms for a friend's new roofing company, worked up from photographs of a competitor's form.
Two print ready forms
~2h saved
Claude Code
Reviewed a lopsided fantasy football loss and prepped the next week against an opponent still looking for a first win.
Week 6 plan
~30m saved
Muse
Wrote an eight page route, missables, gear, and field checklist guide for the second act of a role playing game.
Guide PDF
~2h saved
ChatGPT
Worked through the same game in play from screenshots, weighing faction choices and comparing spells for a party member, rather than asking for a walkthrough.
In play decisions
~1h saved
ChatGPT
Practiced Spanish vocabulary and grammar, checked a French noun's gender and reviewed a French language paper, and tried to interpret fragments of an overheard Arabic conversation. That last one was a reminder that a partial transcript leaves out who said what.
Language practice
~1h saved
Claude Code
Tracked down why a purchased e-book never arrived. The network was blocking delivery, not the retailer.
Root cause found
~30m saved
Muse
Wrote a shareable summary of how this whole setup actually works day to day, for a friend who asked.
Summary
~30m saved
42 tasks across 5 AI tools | Est. time saved: ~75 hours
Week of October 5 - October 11, 2026
District Operations
Claude Code
Refreshed and republished the operations dashboard each weekday, holding near 2,800 students enrolled, about 570 tuition students, and 258 withdrawals year to date.
Daily dashboard
~4h saved
Claude Code
Compared average daily attendance for the first two reporting periods against the same periods last year. The district slipped a third of a point in the first period and was flat in the second, and the high school was the only building up in both.
Year-over-year attendance comparison
~1h saved
Claude Code
Filed the state fire marshal's annual inspection for the career and technical academy, then built a fire marshal inspection tracker backfilled from every archived report.
Inspection tracker workbook
~3h saved
Claude Code
Filed the next day's fire marshal inspection for an elementary school and added it to the new tracker.
Tracker updated
~30m saved
Claude Code
Checked whether the student information system's built-in state membership reports could replace the daily state funding pulls. They cannot, but one of them fills a real gap on English learner counts.
Report comparison
~1h saved
Claude Code
Pulled the recording of a quarterly joint facility partnership council meeting and wrote a full readout with conflicting figures flagged and action items pulled out.
Meeting readout
~1h saved
Claude Code
Located the state funding feedback survey request in email and confirmed the sourced reply outline built the week before was still unsent, with three open items and two deadlines a week out.
Status check with deadlines
~30m saved
Claude Code
Prepared for the 2027 beverage contract bid: scanned the current contract into readable text, analyzed the recorded strategy meeting, found the last solicitation drew a single bidder, and wrote a gap analysis against the draft request for proposals.
RFP gap analysis
~1h saved
Claude Code
Scanned the two prior beverage agreements and built a three-sheet contract history tracker, resolving the sponsorship and commission figures the meeting had quoted from memory against the signed documents.
Contract history tracker
~3h saved
Claude Code
Drafted the recruitment email for this year's salary study committee, scoped to health insurance only, and pulled the full insurance background for committee prep.
Email draft and background packet
~1h saved
Claude Code
Turned the recording of a finance software consultation into cleaned meeting notes and opened a project note for the evaluation of a replacement financial system.
Meeting notes and project note
~1h saved
Claude Code
Read the state education department's October local finance newsletter and logged the deadlines and account code changes that apply to the district.
Deadlines logged
~30m saved
Claude Code
Parsed the state athletic association's 2027-2029 classification release and pulled the high school's class in every sport.
Classification summary
~30m saved
Claude Code
Filed this year's board policy review tracking workbook and audited review progress by section.
Tracker filed, progress audit
~30m saved
Claude Code
Filed a booster club's charter bus invoice with its quote and signed funds request, and flagged that the required vendor quote comparison section was blank.
Invoice filed, gap flagged
~30m saved
Claude Code
Filled the insurance pool's cyber coverage opt-in form at the two million dollar limit and filed it with the transition packet, leaving signature and date blank and three items open before it goes back.
Form filled and filed
~1h saved
Claude Code
Checked the state school board association's June administrative procedure update for anything in the support services series. One hit.
Procedure check
~30m saved
Claude Code
Recovered a day's state funding pull after a partial upload failed to decode, instead of letting the day go missing.
Pull recovered
~2h saved
Claude Code
Merged the high school's records room answers into the district scanning questionnaire. Volume is now measured in linear feet rather than boxes, and one ambiguity in the shelf description swings the project cost by roughly seventy thousand dollars.
Questionnaire merged, cost swing flagged
~1h saved
Claude Code
Confirmed the scanning vendor received the questionnaire but no photographs, and built a redacted ten-photo appendix to send as the follow-up.
Photo appendix PDF
~1h saved
Claude Code
Found that the state's reposted accountability export carried a hidden second worksheet with the real 2026 growth scores, reworked the school letter grade projection on it, and redeployed. The change moves one school's projected grade and the district's projected eligibility for a state performance bonus.
Projection reworked and deployed
~2h saved
Claude Code
Diagnosed why the workers' compensation e-form routed wrong when the person filing was not the injured employee, and wrote the full fix brief covering the form, both flows, the PDF template, the sync script, tests, and docs.
Fix brief
~2h saved
Claude Code
Built the family exit survey as the seventh daily operations pipeline, internal only behind a closed publish gate, with a review pass and fixes before it ran.
New daily pipeline
~3h saved
Claude Code
Ran the week ten print tracking refresh. Volume fell about a third with every building down, and both colour and duplex rates went backwards at the same time for the first time this year.
Weekly print dashboard
~1h saved
Claude Code
Archival research on when the city school system became separate from the county. No founding year exists in the record, but the town was running public schools by 1890 and fully separate by 1906.
Research summary
~8h saved
ChatGPT
Worked out the legal terminology for a proposed board policy on student seatbelt use on buses, specifically what applies when a student's own failure to buckle contributes to an injury. Used it to frame proximate cause and comparative fault as a question for counsel, not an answer.
Email to a colleague
~1h saved
Muse
Took over the daily state funding download. A browser-side pull now collects the four summary reports and the error log every morning and stages them for this Mac to file, and two days of missed bundles were recovered and filed.
Daily pull automated
~2h saved
Teaching & Academic
Claude Code
Graded fourteen discussion board submissions in two batches, including two resubmissions, with feedback files written to the course folder.
Graded feedback
~2h saved
Claude Code
Processed a spring teaching offer for a seven-week online digital marketing analytics course and set up tracking for the course shell.
Course tracking
~30m saved
Claude Code
Generated five weeks of narrated lecture videos for the fall marketing course from the slide decks and a cloned voice, one audio file per slide muxed into video. Week fourteen's twenty-six slide recordings rendered in about two minutes.
Five lecture videos
~6h saved
Research & Writing
Claude Code
Captured a national school business officers' discussion thread on declining enrollment and rising costs into the knowledge base, along with the state ballot measure brief it cites.
Learning note
~30m saved
Claude Code
Ran the weekly AI newsletter roundup: 59 items flagged across eight issues.
Weekly digest
~1h saved
Muse
Verified every quotation in a literary research report against a searchable text of the source novels. Of sixty-eight quotations checked, fifty-seven were confirmed word for word, six were corrected and five could not be found. A separate pass confirmed the article's angle has not already been published.
Verification ledger
~4h saved
Code & Automation
Claude Code
Built automatic checking for a shared message file between two AI assistants, then fixed the hook behind it after it was found to be silently eating messages across sessions.
Mailbox hook fixed
~2h saved
Claude Code
The health scores page got hidden by a year gate for the third time, so the fix this round was a validator guard rather than another one-line patch.
Guard added
~2h saved
Personal
Claude Code
Week five fantasy football prep and a Friday re-check. Projected a 28-point underdog with two swaps recommended, then a dud performance put the matchup further behind.
Weekly matchup report
~1h saved
Claude Code
Diagnosed a sleep-soon warning after the laptop ran fully dead. Charging was normal; the battery-power sleep timer was set to one minute.
Setting identified
~30m saved
Claude Code
Identified an AI-built open-source suite of design and office app clones from a news article and downloaded all fourteen verified Mac builds.
Builds downloaded
~30m saved
ChatGPT
Used it as a live strategy guide through a long role-playing game, including reading uploaded screenshots to identify where I was and what I was carrying, and talking through which spells to take.
~1h saved
ChatGPT
Checked a claim that soil temperature is what signals trees to drop their leaves, separating the primary seasonal signal from the other factors, before answering publicly.
~15m saved
ChatGPT
Read up on a city before a work trip there: its industrial history, the regional accent, the local food and the history of the hotel.
~30m saved
ChatGPT
Spanish translations and odd terminology lookups through the week, the small always-available reference use.
~30m saved
Muse
Drafted and fact-checked a fan email to the hosts of a podcast I follow, checking the book details it leaned on before it went out.
Email sent
~30m saved
43 tasks across 3 AI tools | Est. time saved: ~62 hours
Week of September 28 - October 4, 2026
District Operations
Claude Code
Ran the six morning operations pipelines every weekday: student accident reports, maintenance work orders, new employee onboarding, employee injury reports, state reporting errors, and the public dashboard deploy.
Daily pipelines, verified
~4h saved
Claude Code
Refreshed and republished the operations dashboard every weekday, holding steady near 2,800 students enrolled, 571 tuition students, and 256 withdrawals year to date.
Daily dashboard
~4h saved
Claude Code
Filed the daily state attendance exports and rebuilt the funding section, including the quarter-close pull. One day's income-based exports never downloaded, so the published block carried the prior figures forward and said so on the page rather than quietly filling the gap.
Daily funding exports filed
~4h saved
Claude Code
Built a tuition students tab on the public data dashboard from the daily student information system exports, published as totals only with small groups suppressed, then deployed and verified it live.
New dashboard tab, live
~3h saved
Claude Code
Refreshed that tab to the October exports and retired the date-pinned warnings that would have gone stale.
Tab refreshed and pushed
~2h saved
Claude Code
Added a kitchen inspection panel to the public health scores page, which until now had only ever shown building scores.
New dashboard panel
~3h saved
Claude Code
Filed fall kitchen inspection scores for three schools and found that the file everyone assumed was the source was a stale copy the dashboard never reads.
Scores filed, decoy file identified
~2h saved
Claude Code
Caught an employee injury sync that did nothing and then marked itself complete, hiding two real injury reports. Re-ran it and fixed the logic that would have made the skip permanent.
Silent failure fixed
~2h saved
Claude Code
Rebuilt the workers' compensation packet with the revised instructions page moved to the front, and flagged four typos and inconsistencies for a decision instead of silently correcting them.
Revised packet
~1h saved
Claude Code
Diagnosed why an administrator login to the student information system failed only on the district network. The cause was a per-address sign-in lockout on the internal server, not a connectivity problem.
Root cause identified
~2h saved
Claude Code
Worked a report of one teacher's online quizzes failing for students off campus but working on the district network. Ruled out the reported firewall theory and moved to capturing the actual error.
Theory ruled out, next step set
~2h saved
Claude Code
Reviewed an insurance pool's cyber coverage transition packet against the specimen policy and the district's current cyber policy, and found the district does not appear to carry the coverage being discontinued.
Coverage review
~1h saved
Claude Code
Ran the monthly insurance claims pull across every line of coverage. Workers' compensation added ten new claims in five weeks, the heaviest run in the twelve-month window.
Monthly claims workbook
~1h saved
Claude Code
Reviewed a records-scanning vendor's box inventory against its invoice and the backup detail, and logged five mismatches to resolve before paying or deciding on a replacement vendor.
Mismatch list
~1h saved
Claude Code
Read an expired joint facility management agreement alongside the meeting recording ahead of drafting a new three-party version.
Agreement review
~1h saved
Claude Code
Wrote the staff how-to guide for the document repository pilot.
Staff guide
~1h saved
Claude Code
Built the bulk import file for the family exit survey, replacing a planned browser-automation build with something far simpler.
Survey import file
~3h saved
Claude Code
Rebuilt the first 2028-29 school calendar draft around a neighboring district's tentative breaks after their calendar contact replied, and updated the committee packet and deck to match.
Calendar draft and packet
~1h saved
Claude Code
Modeled the options for a second 2028-29 calendar draft starting after the August election, and built it as a separate workbook so the committee can compare rather than choose blind.
Second calendar draft
~1h saved
Claude Code
Reviewed the board policy on AI use against the state school board association's model policy ahead of a policy review meeting, and verified that a July reporting requirement is written into state law rather than local preference.
Policy comparison
~8h saved
Claude Code
Built a vendor reference outline for a neighboring district evaluating the same student information system, grounded in documented experience with pricing, state reporting, and one still-open defect.
Reference outline
~1h saved
Claude Code
Located the annual report rough draft in the email attachment cache and critiqued all fourteen pages against last year's final proof.
Draft critique
~1h saved
Claude Code
Built the marginal per-page print cost for grade 3-5 benchmark exams from the paper bid and the copier overage rates. Page count per exam is still unknown, so the figure is stated per page rather than per exam.
Per-page cost figure
~1h saved
Claude Code
Ran the weekly legislative bill tracker check. No new assembly activity, but a state board rulemaking hearing was added to the notes, and the summary went out by email.
Weekly tracker email
~30m saved
Claude Code
Found the school nutrition profit-and-loss workbook with August filled in, renamed a mislabeled month tab, and verified no underlying data changed.
Tab corrected
~30m saved
Claude Code
Located the field trip liability waiver form.
File located
~30m saved
Claude Code
Set up a standing tracker for the state education department's biweekly update to directors and wired its due dates into the daily rundown, so deadlines surface instead of sitting in an inbox.
Standing tracker with alerts
~3h saved
Claude Code
Cleaned a recorded conference into a summary, an action item list, and a readable transcript, with names kept out of the written record.
Summary and action items
~1h saved
Claude Code
Counted recorded views of the staff AI newsletter. Totals from the original platform are available; the current platform's analytics are not readable without an API token.
View count audit
~30m saved
Claude Code
Queued ten article links from an education technology newsletter into the next AI newsletter's must-include list.
Link queue
~30m saved
Claude Code
Traced a neighboring county district's move from collective bargaining to collaborative conferencing through archived board minutes spanning 2011 to 2014.
Transition timeline
~8h saved
Claude Code
Pulled the full detail for an upcoming national conference trip out of three mailboxes and the calendar: flights, hotel, and registration record.
Trip detail summary
~30m saved
Teaching & Academic
Claude Code
Graded course discussion board submissions as they arrived, including one graded the same day it was submitted, with feedback records written to the course folder.
Graded feedback
~2h saved
Claude Code
Ran the recorded-feedback workflow for three graduate reflection assignments: filed the recordings and transcripts, rewrote the written sections as supplements to the recordings rather than duplicates, and assigned a written paper where a video submission was not accepted.
Feedback recordings and supplements
~3h saved
Claude Code
Built an anonymized class post on what the cohort collectively found about teacher tenure, in both standalone and course-platform paste form.
Class post
~1h saved
Code & Automation
Claude Code
Found that the work email account is now readable locally, which had been a hard blocker for months, and extended the mail checking script with an account flag so both mailboxes work from one tool.
Mail access unblocked
~3h saved
Claude Code
Measured actual usage against the subscription plan, moved the scheduled overnight jobs to a smaller model, and wrote down a usage discipline rule so the measurement does not have to be repeated.
Usage reduced, rule written
~2h saved
Claude Code
Ran the daily morning brief and email-and-calendar rundown. One morning surfaced eleven items needing a decision; another had to report its own mail lane as skipped after a timeout rather than pretend it ran.
Daily briefs
~1h saved
Claude Code
Added a postseason scope to the baseball rules-challenge tracker to match the toggle already live on the public dashboard.
Tracker scope added
~3h saved
Personal
Claude Code
Closed out one fantasy football week and built the next week's matchup analysis, with three waiver claims recommended.
Weekly matchup report
~30m saved
Claude Code
Walked through trading a personal vehicle for an electric one: pricing, trade-in offers, state taxes, and fees.
Trade-in walkthrough
~1h saved
Claude Code
Quick lookup on a personal AI agent product announced by a tech executive.
Product summary
~30m saved
42 tasks across 1 AI tool | Est. time saved: ~70 hours
Week of September 21 - September 27, 2026
District Operations
Claude Code
Ran the district's daily operations dashboard refresh every weekday: enrollment, tuition students, work orders, and withdrawals, republished and verified live each morning.
Daily dashboard, refreshed and verified
~4h saved
Claude Code
Filed the daily state attendance and funding exports and rebuilt the funding section of the dashboard each day, including the weekend pulls.
Daily funding exports filed
~4h saved
Claude Code
Tested a fix for the technical academy's missing career-technical course data, confirmed those sections now transmit to the state, and narrowed the remaining blocker to students enrolled at the high school but taking academy courses, who never generate a school record at the state level.
Root cause narrowed and handed to staff
~3h saved
Claude Code
Traced a gap between funded attendance and plain headcount to the online elementary program, where students who live outside the district are counted differently.
Attendance gap explained
~2h saved
Claude Code
Settled which of two copier cost-per-click methods is the correct one and aligned both the tracking workbook and the weekly email on it, so the same number now appears in both places.
Cost method aligned across reports
~2h saved
Claude Code
Ran the weekly print management refresh. Best double-sided printing week of the year at 68.8 percent, and the quarter's black-and-white allowance went over with four days left.
Weekly print report
~2h saved
Claude Code
Answered a question about tracking pre-K and online-program copies at the technical academy. The tracking already existed; the harder finding was that the vendor contract pools overage charges districtwide, so there is no per-building bill to allocate.
Answer plus a contract finding
~1h saved
Claude Code
Looked up the copier contract terms for a school athletic facility.
Contract answer
~30m saved
Claude Code
Checked whether student workers in the work-based learning program are covered under district insurance.
Coverage answer
~30m saved
Claude Code
Replaced manual work-order downloads with a direct connection to the maintenance ticketing system, then rebuilt the opened-versus-closed counts by school from real dates.
Automated work order feed
~4h saved
Claude Code
Fixed a date filter that was hiding the employee accident page on the operations dashboard entirely.
Dashboard page restored
~2h saved
Claude Code
Found and fixed a form parser that was silently throwing away any entry written in 24-hour time, on both the student and employee accident forms.
Silent data loss fixed
~3h saved
Claude Code
Chased down why one school nurse's accident reports were still routing to a retired address.
Routing issue identified
~30m saved
Claude Code
Captured board officer elections live during the September board meeting, then filled in the full meeting record from the recording afterward, noting where the recording cut off.
Board meeting record
~1h saved
Claude Code
Prepped for and debriefed a vendor demo of a contract management system, including what it would replace and what it would cost.
Demo prep and debrief notes
~2h saved
Claude Code
Read a design agency's proposal responding to a local nonprofit's marketing and communications request for proposals.
Proposal review
~30m saved
Claude Code
Built a transparent-background version of the district logo from the only available source file.
Logo file
~30m saved
Claude Code
Designed an anonymous survey for families who left the district, aimed at learning why they leave rather than recruiting them back.
Survey design
~1h saved
Claude Code
Stood up a document repository pilot in the district's existing file platform as a no-cost alternative to the contract management vendor.
Repository pilot
~3h saved
Claude Code
Prepped the 2028-29 school calendar committee kickoff: checked the timeline, verified a neighboring district's published calendar, and confirmed another had not published one yet.
Committee kickoff plan
~1h saved
Claude Code
Turned a school fundraiser planning recording into clean written meeting notes.
Meeting notes
~1h saved
Claude Code
Logged a conference trip and produced the values needed for the employer travel expense form.
Expense form values
~30m saved
Claude Code
Scanned and summarized a trade magazine cover feature on school transportation technology, then routed it to the two staff who would act on it.
Article summary
~30m saved
Claude Code
Filed a town advisory board packet and compared the proposed fee schedule against nine figures that had been disputed at the prior meeting.
Fee sheet comparison
~1h saved
Claude Code
Produced two competing design briefs for a student alert system, one built on the district's existing platform and one on a standalone app, so the stack choice could be made on the merits rather than by default.
Two design briefs
~2h saved
Teaching & Academic
Claude Code
Graded four batches of course discussion board submissions across the week and issued progress reports, with written feedback saved per student.
Graded feedback and progress reports
~4h saved
Claude Code
Pulled prior written feedback and the defense recording for a doctoral proposal defense, then wrote committee notes mapping the defense against the earlier review.
Committee notes
~1h saved
Claude Code
Built a graduate course lecture deck on teacher tenure.
Lecture deck
~1h saved
Claude Code
Converted written reflection sections into supplements to recorded video feedback, so the recording carries the substance and the writing fills gaps.
Feedback supplements
~1h saved
Research & Writing
Claude Code
Deep research for a National Register of Historic Places nomination on an 1894 commercial building, including its architect and a later auditorium addition. Nothing turned up in district files or public sources, so the report ranked eight next steps and flagged conflicting dates rather than guessing.
Research report with next steps
~10h saved
ChatGPT
Opened a research thread on why a podcast co-host left the show in 2022, working from public posts and archived discussion.
Initial research thread
~30m saved
Claude Code
Picked up that research thread and rebuilt it as a sourced investigative timeline from public records.
Sourced timeline document
~8h saved
Claude Code
Ran the weekly AI news roundup, flagging 44 relevant items out of 89 across five issues.
Weekly digest
~1h saved
Claude Code
Refreshed the first two principles of a leadership book for an upcoming team book talk.
Chapter notes
~30m saved
Claude Code
Generated a spoiler-aware companion guide for an album, covering the songs, the band's background, and reception.
Album companion guide
~8h saved
Code & Automation
Claude Code
Diagnosed a daily sign-in error on a state reporting portal. The cause was opening it in the wrong browser profile, so a desktop launcher now opens it in the right one every time.
Desktop launcher
~2h saved
Claude Code
Fixed a broken downloads sorting script.
Script fix
~2h saved
Claude Code
Ran a usage insights report across seven weeks and 155 work sessions, then folded its four suggestions into the standing configuration.
Config update
~3h saved
Claude Code
Ran a prompt audit checkpoint on how instructions are structured.
Audit checkpoint
~30m saved
Claude Code
Built a repeatable export for all five state attendance reports, replacing a manual click-through.
Export automation
~3h saved
Personal
Claude Code
Two fantasy football decisions: a free-agent pickup call and a flex start, both resolved against current reporting rather than preseason rankings.
Lineup decisions
~30m saved
Claude Code
Set up a hobby radio device and got a garage remote working with it.
Device setup
~30m saved
Claude Code
Built a deliberately absurd birthday chart for a family member.
Birthday graph
~30m saved
Claude Code
Produced a scouting report on an upcoming high school football opponent from public sources: scheme, tendencies, personnel, and the opposing staff.
Scouting report and roster sheet
~8h saved
Claude Code
Troubleshot a robot vacuum that would not stay on the home wifi.
Connection restored
~2h saved
Claude Code
Located two days of conference recordings in a voice recorder's cloud library and pulled the audio, transcripts, and summaries down locally.
Recordings recovered
~30m saved
Claude Code
Updated a baseball rules-challenge tracker through the final day of the regular season.
Season tracker
~1h saved
Claude Code
Picked a stalled podcast dashboard project back up and moved the guest parser forward.
Dashboard progress
~3h saved
48 tasks across 2 AI tools | Est. time saved: ~88 hours
Week of September 14 - September 20, 2026
District Operations
Claude Code
Ran the district's daily operations dashboard refresh every weekday: enrollment, tuition students, work orders, and withdrawals, republished and verified live each morning. Enrollment held between 2,803 and 2,806 all week.
Daily dashboard, refreshed and verified
~4h saved
Claude Code
Investigated why a career and technical education funding figure had dropped by roughly a quarter. Traced it to a blank state reporting code on several courses plus a separate glitch dropping hundreds of students from the technical academy's official rosters, confirmed the mechanism against a state training session, and handed staff the fix list. Course codes and rosters were corrected the same week.
Funding shortfall reconciliation memo
~6h saved
Claude Code
Added a preliminary view of the 2026-27 attendance-based funding figure to the operations dashboard, showing three versions of the same number side by side rather than picking one, and holding back a career-technical figure until it could be verified.
Preliminary funding view on the dashboard
~2h saved
Claude Code
Turned two days of recorded sessions from a statewide student-data conference into written notes covering new student information system features, gaps in how discipline and other records reach the state, and free tools other districts use, ending in one consolidated action list.
Conference notes and action list
~6h saved
Claude Code
Turned a two-hour recorded leadership team meeting into written notes, filed the district's updated emergency operations plan, audited it for stale emergency contacts, and rebuilt the leadership meeting tracker after its source files went missing.
Meeting notes, emergency plan audit, rebuilt tracker
~3h saved
Claude Code
Turned a recorded strategy meeting about recovering career and technical education funding into a written summary covering course coding, industry certifications, and graduation policy.
Meeting notes
~1h saved
Claude Code
Built a new page on the operations dashboard showing teacher retention and staffing data pulled from state files for the HR department, and caught a calculation error in an estimated staff turnover figure before it went live.
Teachers page on the operations dashboard
~3h saved
Claude Code
Reviewed 22 newly released state accountability data files to sort out what each one can and cannot be used for, confirmed which measures could be scored right away, and flagged two data issues that carry state correction deadlines.
Accountability data review memo
~2h saved
Claude Code
Compared two years of classroom software usage data to find licenses the district could stop paying for: over 100 programs with no use this year, plus a set of duplicate listings to clean up.
Software consolidation workbook
~2h saved
Claude Code
Rebuilt the copy paper ordering spreadsheet to show projected and remaining spend by paper type, and added a paper usage section to the operations dashboard's print page.
Rebuilt paper order tracker and dashboard section
~3h saved
Claude Code
Verified the math on a budget amendment moving just over $401,000 of carryover between accounts, confirmed it matched the other financial records, and caught an outdated date on the cover sheet before filing it for the board.
Filed budget amendment
~1h saved
Claude Code
Assembled the full file on a community organization's request to use high school facilities, including prior proposals, emails, and board policy, wrote a briefing for the leadership team, and drafted the follow-up letter citing policy.
Leadership briefing and response letter
~3h saved
Claude Code
Finished a staff-facing FAQ on student accident reports for principals to share, covering when a report is required, how quickly to file it, and who to ask.
Accident report staff FAQ
~1h saved
Claude Code
Checked two neighboring districts' newly posted 2026-27 teacher salary schedules against the area salary tracker. One matched exactly. The other had two conflicting schedules posted for the same year, so both were kept on file with the discrepancy flagged instead of guessing.
Area salary tracker update
~1h saved
Claude Code
Compiled year-by-year elementary enrollment counts for the district's online school in response to a partner district's data request, flagging the two earliest years as unavailable in current systems rather than estimating them.
Sourced enrollment figures
~1h saved
Claude Code
Tracked a shared-enrollment data mismatch flagged by another district, confirmed staff fixed the record, and added automatic monitoring for that kind of issue to the daily morning briefing. Also diagnosed two unrelated reasons the briefing failed to run two days running.
Monitoring added to the morning briefing
~1.5h saved
Claude Code
Scanned a suspicious invoice PDF for hidden malicious content before anyone opened it. No technical threat, but it was a fake-invoice phishing attempt impersonating the Town of Greeneville, so the affected organizations were warned quickly.
Security scan and phishing writeup
~30m saved
Claude Code
Searched every district data file for student-level reading level scores, confirmed none exist in current systems, and identified an already-licensed reading program as the practical way to get that data to teachers.
Data availability memo
~30m saved
Claude Code
Checked whether Tennessee rules prohibit teachers from proctoring state tests for their own students. They do not. The only restriction covers testing a family member or someone in the same household.
Policy research memo
~30m saved
Claude Code
Reviewed a thread about a local government exploring an AI assistant for its website and researched the vendor already used by both the town and the district.
Vendor research summary
~1h saved
Claude Code
Summarized the onboarding email and technical documents for the project connecting the state immunization registry to the school nurse software, and opened a project note to track it.
Project summary note
~15m saved
Claude Code
Ran the weekly check of tracked Tennessee education bills. No new activity with the legislature out of session, and sent the status summary email for all 58 tracked bills.
Weekly bill tracker email
~15m saved
Claude Code
Pulled a same-day forecast for an outdoor high school event and recommended proceeding with heat precautions.
Event weather brief
~15m saved
Teaching & Academic
Claude Code
Built a single public webpage that organizes Tennessee Department of Education resources for school leaders by topic, replacing a state hub with broken links. Expanded it later in the week with lesson-planning and observation tools after a graduate student could not find a referenced resource.
TN Instructional Leadership Site, published
~5h saved
Claude Code
Graded a round of reflection papers on Tennessee teacher tenure law and started the next round on state instructional leadership resources for a graduate educational leadership course, checking every legal claim against the actual statute. Also built a starter guide to help a doctoral student begin using Claude Code for dissertation research.
Reflection feedback for the class, plus a starter guide
~3h saved
Claude Code
Reviewed a doctoral student's dissertation proposal chapters and inserted 77 Word comments on methods, formatting, and citations, then wrote a one-page feedback summary.
Annotated proposal and feedback memo
~2h saved
Claude Code
Built an annotated reading list of nine academic sources for a doctoral student studying why teachers analyze student data but often do not change instruction because of it, verifying every citation against academic databases.
Annotated dissertation reading list
~2h saved
Claude Code
Graded business writing and professional etiquette assignments for two sections of an undergraduate business communication course across the week, with written feedback on each submission.
Graded assignment feedback
~1h saved
Research & Writing
Claude Code
Fact-checked every sourced claim in a draft blog post on screen time and student learning. A widely cited statistic turned out to have nothing to do with the study it was pinned on, one cited paper does not exist, and a state comparison figure was miscalculated. Rewrote the outline, corrected 19 items in a related presentation, and flagged an already-published post as out of date.
Corrected blog outline and presentation
~3h saved
Website & Social
Claude Code
Built the October issue of the district's monthly AI-in-education staff newsletter: 30 fact-checked items themed around growing policy pushback on AI in schools. Finished and staged for release.
October 2026 AI newsletter issue
~3h saved
Claude Code
Weekly refresh of the What I'm Reading page. One finished audiobook moved from Currently Reading to The Shelf with a real take, and the site was rebuilt and republished.
What I'm Reading page updated
~30m saved
Code & Automation
Claude Code
Built an automated tool that files the monthly financial reports and updates a multi-year tracker, including telling a genuinely missing report apart from a month where fewer were expected. A follow-up review caught a bug that could have silently kept an uncorrected report on file, now fixed and tested.
Finance report filing tool
~5h saved
Claude Code
Built a daily automated email that highlights new, resolved, and long-standing state data-reporting errors for the enrollment system instead of dumping hundreds of raw rows, then fixed it so an early manual send does not produce a duplicate later in the day.
Daily error digest email
~4h saved
Claude Code
Built a tool that sorts students showing less than full attendance-funding credit into normal, explainable cases (arrived or left mid-period) versus a short list of genuine scheduling errors worth fixing.
Automated worklist tool
~2h saved
Claude Code
Fixed two bugs blocking the operations dashboard's automatic update: a data timestamp that kept getting pushed forward, and a print cost check that flagged a tiny rounding difference on one low-volume printer as a major error.
Two pipeline bug fixes
~3h saved
Claude Code
Updated the school nurse routing in the automated student accident report system, added a rejected-report path that emails the teacher a pre-filled link to fix and resubmit, and found approved reports had been filing into the wrong school year's folder since July.
Accident report system updates
~2h saved
Personal
Claude Code
Built a personal fantasy football website from scratch that pulls live league data and player research into an interactive dashboard, with weekly instructions for keeping it current.
Fantasy football dashboard
~5h saved
Claude Code
Fixed a broken data feed on a personal baseball statistics tracker after the source changed how it published data, added player-level detail and a regular-season versus playoffs view, and outlined an end-of-season blog post.
ABS challenge tracker update
~4h saved
Claude Code
Generated a spoiler-aware companion guide for a novel covering the plot, author background, reception, and similar reads, with two research passes to strip unverified details.
Book companion guide
~3h saved
Claude Code
Searched retailers for a discontinued drink mix for a friend, found the closest in-stock alternatives, and researched who most likely makes the store-brand version.
Shopping comparison
~30m saved
40 tasks across 1 AI tool | Est. time saved: ~92 hours
Week of September 7 - September 13, 2026
District Operations
Claude Code
Daily operations dashboard refresh every weekday: enrollment, tuition students, work orders, and withdrawals, deployed and verified live each morning. Enrollment held between 2,797 and 2,799 while withdrawals moved from 238 to 241, which is the flat mid-September pattern rather than anything to act on.
Daily dashboard, refreshed and verified
~4h saved
Claude Code
Chased down three bugs in the employee workers' comp accident pipeline in the same week. A June test submission surfaced on the live sheet because the file router moved the current export out of the watcher's search path, so the watcher picked up a stale file. A crash on a missing school abbreviation field was blanking the Employee Accidents page entirely. And a mixed-date dashboard build came from the same router race. All three fixed, and the first real workers' comp claim filed through the electronic form now renders correctly.
Employee accidents page live, router race closed in two places
~4h saved
Claude Code
Caught the work order feed showing placeholder numbers for two days when the Operations Hero reporting backend failed. The pipeline recovered and republished once the vendor side came back, with the gap documented rather than quietly backfilled.
Work orders pipeline recovered and republished
~1h saved
Claude Code
First live run of the new procurement workflow against the Beverage Services RFP for 2027. Produced the procurement timeline working backward from the service start date, a requirements extract from the draft, and the evaluation workbook shell that scores vendor proposals against those requirements. Flagged the bid-threshold question and the items still open in the draft instead of guessing at them.
Rebuilt the district drone flight permission form as a single page. The old version cited the wrong board policy, 3.210 instead of 3.219, and had no place to record FAA certification or insurance. Both added, and the result is a 44-field fillable PDF rather than a document people print and write on.
44-field fillable PDF, policy citation corrected
~2h saved
Claude Code
Traced and assembled the records responsive to a public records request covering workers' compensation and third-party administrator contracts, then filed the related insurance archive into OneDrive.
Responsive records assembled, archive filed
~2h saved
Claude Code
Explained why a school's English II growth score came out flat while achievement rose, working from the TVAAS diagnostic report. Built a de-identified visualization to make the growth-versus-achievement distinction legible to people who do not read TVAAS tables for a living.
De-identified HTML visualization
~3h saved
Claude Code
Week six of the print usage refresh: staged, built, deployed, and verified, with the career-academy campus workbook rebuilt on top of it. A newly added special education printer explains a validator failure that would otherwise have looked like a data problem.
Week 6 published, campus workbook rebuilt
~2h saved
Claude Code
Reviewed a band program MOU covering extra instructional hours. The ACA 30-hour threshold and a health benefit stipulation are the two items that decide whether the arrangement works, and both were flagged as open rather than papered over.
~1h saved
Claude Code
Cleaned up the planning meeting for the September 11 remembrance program at the high school football game, with the transcript filed alongside the notes.
Meeting notes and transcript filed
~1h saved
Claude Code
Routine filing: the September board policy review documents into the OneDrive policy structure, and the annual security awareness training certificate into Legal and Compliance.
~1h saved
Claude Code
Vetted an invitation to join the founding advisory council for a state K-12 AI cohort. Same vendor the district was advised to pass on in July, which is the fact that mattered most and the one easiest to miss two months later.
~30m saved
Teaching & Academic
Claude Code
Finished the fall business communication course build, weeks 5 through 15: reading guides, assignment scenarios, and grading rubrics for every remaining week. Graded a late discussion board submission in the same pass.
Weeks 5-15 complete for both sections
~12h saved
Claude Code
Filed the East Tennessee literacy conference schedule and added the session to the CV, both the Word version and the live one on GitHub Pages.
CV updated in both places
~20m saved
Research & Writing
Claude Code
Pulled two blog outlines out of the transcript of the Walters State literacy talk: one on being wrong about cell phones in the classroom, one on the gap between public discourse on screen time and what actually happens in schools. Outlines, not drafts, because the writing has to be his. Both flagged a personal anecdote that works from a podium but does not belong on a permanent public blog.
Two post outlines with flagged decisions
~4h saved
Claude Code
Made the screen time presentation fully self-contained so it runs without a network connection, which is the difference between a deck that works in a conference room and one that does not. Built a two-page Word handout to go with it.
Offline-hardened deck plus handout
~3h saved
Claude Code
Pulled the AI-relevant articles out of the week's edtech newsletter and queued them for the next staff AI newsletter, checked against the archive so nothing gets shared twice.
~30m saved
Website & Social
Claude Code
Weekly site review for September 3 through 9. Traffic up double digits, but 79 percent of it landed on a single page, the baseball challenge tracker, and that page links to nothing else on the site. Growth concentrated in one dead end is a structural problem, not a win.
Weekly review with linking recommendations
~1h saved
Code & Automation
Claude Code
Had an outside model review the whole Claude Code setup, then verified every claim it made against the live files before changing anything. All nine concrete claims held up, with no invented filenames. Four real defects got fixed: a time savings tracker whose dollar formulas pointed at the wrong cell and computed zero every time, a weekly job gated on Friday while the scheduler fired Monday so the weekly branch never ran, and a sync routine that could silently discard anything written while it was working.
Nine claims verified, four defects fixed with backups
~6h saved
Claude Code
Archived 61 unused skills after the prune review, held one back because something else still depended on it, and cleared the config line still pointing at an archived skill. Deleting things is easy; finding what breaks when you do is the part worth automating.
61 skills archived, dependency conflict caught
~3h saved
Claude Code
Read six ASBO International AI use case papers against the existing skills and automations to find what was genuinely uncovered rather than what sounded new. Procurement was the largest real gap.
Gap review, procurement identified as top gap
~3h saved
Claude Code
Built the procurement workflow that closed that gap. It reads bid thresholds live from board policy rather than quoting them from memory, drafts and customizes RFPs, builds evaluation workbooks that score proposals against the actual RFP requirements, and plans timelines backward from a service start date.
Procurement workflow, thresholds read live from policy
~5h saved
Claude Code
Fixed a background service that looked like it was running and was not. The scheduler fired it once at login and then orphaned the process instead of supervising it. Split into a supervised server job and a separate job that opens the browser window.
~2h saved
Claude Code
Cleaned up Desktop, Downloads, and Documents, and in the process found an automation that had been silently dead since August 30. Nothing had reported a failure, which is the worst kind of broken. Also produced a read-only inventory of what actually lives in cloud storage.
Dead automation restored, cloud inventory produced
~3h saved
Claude Code
Unwound an accidental stage-all of 734 files in a git repository rooted at the home directory, hardened the ignore rules, and untracked nine files that had already been committed and should never have been, including one carrying student information.
Repo cleaned, ignore rules hardened
~2h saved
Claude Code
Pulled every daily inbox digest and calendar brief ever sent, 18 in total, and consolidated them into a standing picture of what the work inbox and calendar actually look like over time instead of one day at a time.
Consolidated inbox and calendar briefing
~2h saved
Personal
Claude Code
Scouted an upcoming high school football opponent for a coach ahead of a region game. Eight parallel research agents working from public sources plus the roster the coach supplied, producing a written scouting report and a personnel workbook.
Scouting report and personnel workbook
~8h saved
Claude Code
Live fantasy football draft from the ninth slot, coached pick by pick off the custom board built the week before. Sixteen-man roster recorded at the end.
Full roster drafted and recorded
~3h saved
NotebookLM
Loaded the draft board, research summaries, and prep documents into a notebook so the whole draft night reference set was queryable in one place instead of spread across five files.
Draft night notebook
~30m saved
Claude Code
Thought through what it would take to turn the operations dashboards into something sellable, where the customer maintains their own data rather than sending it over. Strategy conversation, not a build.
~2h saved
30 tasks across 2 AI tools | Est. time saved: ~85 hours
Week of August 31 - September 6, 2026
District Operations
Claude Code
Daily operations dashboard refresh every weekday: enrollment, tuition students, work orders, and withdrawals, deployed and verified live each morning. Enrollment drifted from 2,804 to 2,798 over the week while withdrawals climbed from 227 to 237, which is the normal early-September pattern rather than anything to react to.
Daily dashboard, refreshed and verified
~4h saved
Claude Code
Built the HR new employee onboarding dashboard from four years of survey responses. Three things shaped it. Every rating area sits between 4.65 and 5.00, so charting averages would have produced nine flat lines and the dashboard charts the share scoring below a 5 instead. The "were your issues resolved" question is contaminated, because 132 people answered it but only 9 ever reported an issue. And the survey is not actually anonymous, since the closing question asks people to type their name, so the output was checked programmatically to confirm no names reached the HTML.
Split print usage on the shared career-academy campus into the eight organizations that actually operate there. Active Directory could not do it, because everyone on the campus carries the same building stamp and the field that would have helped only appears in a district-wide top 100 report. Built a username-to-org map with a hard reconcile check that fails loudly rather than quietly reporting a department as printing less than it did. All five weeks of history reconcile exactly.
Org split map and aggregator, five weeks verified
~4h saved
Claude Code
Weekly print usage refresh, now five weeks into the school year, plus an ad-hoc look at the highest-volume individual users across the first four weeks.
Print usage page updated
~1.5h saved
Claude Code
Chased down a repeating "sync failed" notification storm on the employee accident pipeline. The fix was easy once the cause was clear, but the export turned out to still hold only test submissions, so it got fingerprinted to make sure the repair would not cheerfully publish junk to a live dashboard.
Notification storm resolved, junk data blocked
~2.5h saved
Claude Code
Two live changes to the workers' compensation accident report form documented for the automation behind it, and page 3 of the injury packet rebuilt as a QR code, link, and signature page so the paper form goes away.
Revised packet page and automation notes
~2h saved
Claude Code
Logged the August school nutrition state claim, backfilled a missing May claim, filed the daily lunch workbook, and published the 2026-27 nutrition view on the operations dashboard.
Claim tracker current, nutrition view live
~2h saved
Claude Code
Morning status sweep across the daily pipelines, which caught a pending student accident export that had not been filed, plus a settled answer on why an unknown-school code was being excluded from the enrollment count.
Pipelines current, exclusion documented
~1h saved
Claude Code
Recon on whether the daily data downloads can be automated end to end: how the student information system actually generates its scheduled reports, and whether the work order system exposes an API worth building against.
Feasibility notes for the next build
~1.5h saved
Whisper
Transcribed a one hour 47 minute leadership meeting locally after the recorder's cloud transcription quota ran out. Seeding the model with meeting vocabulary pulled from the agenda beforehand fixed the proper-noun mangling that ruined the previous run, and that is now standard practice. Cleaned notes came out of it, along with a sourced brief on the state health insurance plan and the two retirement plan tiers.
Meeting notes and a research brief
~3h saved
NotebookLM
Researched heat index guidance for elementary recess and built a one-page poster for principals with clear tiers at 90, 95, and 100 degrees.
Recess heat guidance poster
~2h saved
Claude Code
Color study for an upcoming building repaint. A ChatGPT-generated render came back looking convincing but had invented architecture that does not exist, adding columns and a portico and changing the windows. Threw it out and built a true recolor of the actual photograph instead, recovering the per-pixel lighting and re-rendering with the new paint, so every shadow and streak of the real stucco survives and the only fabricated thing in the image is the paint color.
Two-color exterior study from a real photo
~2h saved
Claude Code
Tracked down what the state board actually decided on the world language graduation requirement. The two-credit requirement stands; the proposal to cut it to one was tabled in February and a waiver rewrite is still pending final reading. Worth checking rather than repeating what people assume happened.
Sourced answer with the actual board actions
~45m saved
Claude Code
Split an 11-page scan of handwritten weekly calendar pages into per-week PDFs and filed them. Considered building a tracker on top of it and decided against it, since nothing downstream needed one.
Filed per-week PDFs
~45m saved
Claude Code
Filed the issued aviation policy for the ROTC program and updated the insurance tracker to show issued rather than merely bound status, plus a travel reimbursement filed and marked paid in the trip tracker.
Insurance and travel trackers current
~1h saved
Claude Code
Read the state's monthly local finance newsletter and pulled out the deadlines that actually apply to us, including the October 1 date that gates funding.
Deadlines captured
~15m saved
Teaching & Academic
Claude Code
Checked a graduate reflection paper for AI markers, found none convincing enough to act on, and wrote substantive feedback on the actual argument instead.
Graded feedback
~1h saved
Claude Code
A completed planning questionnaire came back from a district hosting an upcoming AI professional development day. Logged what it changes in the two decks and flagged the one logistics question still open.
Deck revision list
~1h saved
Research & Writing
Claude Code
Weekly roundup of nine AI newsletter issues, 60 items flagged and sorted by whether they actually matter to a school district. Six articles queued for the monthly staff newsletter came out of it.
Digest note and queued newsletter links
~1.5h saved
Claude Code
Found the reply to a journal submission that had been sitting unread since May. It was a rejection. Corrected the project note and the standing accountability list, and lined up the next venue. Worth the reminder that work waiting on someone else's reply dies silently unless something goes looking for it.
Corrected project record, next venue identified
~30m saved
Claude Code
Added a new advisory board appointment to all three CV versions and cleared three stale "upcoming" tags on things that have since happened.
Three CVs updated
~30m saved
Code & Automation
Claude Code
Tested Google's TimesFM foundation model against three years of daily enrollment counts to see whether it could forecast better than simple arithmetic. It could not. Across 187 rolling forecasts, the naive "tomorrow looks like today" baseline beat both model versions at every horizon, and the gap widened the further out you looked. The first pass got two things wrong, so the whole backtest was redone with proper rolling origins and the report section rewritten. The finding worth keeping is about framing rather than model size: a one-line year-over-year rule on annual opening-day counts landed within 4 students, while every model working off the daily series missed by about 60.
Evaluation report, production use ruled out
~10h saved
Claude Code
Reviewed an automated genealogy tree cleanup, found the estimates were unverified, and measured the actual 2,043-person tree from a real export instead of trusting the summary. Then proved the whole sync path end to end with a controlled two-group test before letting it near the full tree.
Validated cleanup automation
~5h saved
Claude Code
Built a reusable markdown-to-Word renderer so a 310-page manuscript could be regenerated on demand instead of hand-formatted once.
Reusable document generator
~2h saved
Personal
Claude Code
Re-ran a family history deep research project first done in April, to see what a newer model would do with the same material. It produced a 117,653-word, 310-page book across 35 chapters, built from 178 findings and 210 sources with every cited URL checked. The interesting part is what did not survive: three of April's headline ancestry claims were overturned, including one line that traces to a documented genealogical hoax and another whose DNA evidence points to a different lineage entirely. One chapter now carries 122 correction rows against the family tree it started from. A separate thread chased a 1920 shooting in the family and found the likely location was a Virginia coal town, not the Washington city everyone assumed, and that the local papers from those years were simply never digitized.
310-page family history, published and verified
~15h saved
Claude Code
Draft prep for a fantasy football league. Five research agents in parallel produced a custom 176-player board tuned to the league's scoring rather than a generic ranking, plus a handoff brief to get the board loaded into the platform before rankings lock.
Custom draft board and prep doc
~4h saved
Claude Code
Companion guide for a book in progress, covering the argument, the reception, and what to read alongside it.
Companion guide
~1h saved
27 tasks logged this week · an estimated ~75 hours saved vs. doing it by hand
Week of August 24 - August 30, 2026
District Operations
Claude Code
Daily operations dashboard refresh every weekday: enrollment, work orders, and state reporting errors, deployed and verified live each morning. One morning the high school's work order median jumped 60 days overnight, which turned out to be a gap in the age curve rather than a service collapse, so the backlog read as unchanged once you looked at composition instead of the middle number.
Daily dashboard, refreshed and verified
~5h saved
Claude Code
Weekly student accident report sync, plus a morning status sweep across all five daily pipelines that caught two files the automated watcher had skipped and processed them by hand.
Updated accident dashboard, pipelines current
~1.5h saved
Claude Code
The state finished standard setting and quietly republished this year's assessment files with science finally populated, under the same filenames. Neither automated watcher noticed, and the file organizer skipped the new district file as a duplicate. Caught it, lifted the hold that had been in place since the placeholder rows appeared in June, and rebuilt the data dashboard with school-level results.
Dashboard rebuilt with science results
~3h saved
Claude Code
Caught up a three-month gap in the monthly insurance claims pull across every line of coverage, and found a double-count defect in the workbook's total row while reconciling.
Claims workbook, bug fixed
~3h saved
Claude Code
Split the five-year capital plan into renewal versus new capacity, which had never been separated. Renewal is roughly two thirds of the plan, and nearly 90 percent of that is two systems: heating and cooling, and roofs. Every fire alarm, panel, window, door, and paving line across every building and all six years is a rounding error next to those two.
Classified capital worksheet
~4h saved
Claude Code
Analyzed a mandatory records-system migration ahead of a vendor sunset: two years of monthly statements reconciled line by line. The vendor's summary claimed the current product had no annual fee and turned a small profit. Both were false, and a separate annual invoice on a different budget code was the reason nobody had seen it.
Consideration brief for the cabinet
~5h saved
Claude Code
Turned a 95-minute cabinet meeting recording into finished notes by merging it against typed notes and the agenda, recovering five topics that never made it into the live capture.
Notes filed, tracker updated
~2h saved
Claude Code
Built structured debrief notes from a recording of a building evacuation review, and flagged two claims the transcript could not actually support rather than letting them into the document.
Debrief document
~1.5h saved
Claude Code
Set up a full notes folder for a three-day risk and insurance conference. The agenda page renders in JavaScript, so a plain fetch returned an empty shell and it had to be driven through a real browser instead.
Session templates, contact list, calendar file
~2h saved
Claude Code
Transcribed a 52-minute conference session locally after the usual transcription quota ran out, then wrote it up with an explicit warning about which proper nouns and figures the local model likely mangled.
Session notes and transcript
~1.5h saved
Claude Code
Pulled two state Comptroller community profile one-pagers out of an email where all the content lived inside embedded images, transcribed the printed metrics, and built a comparison workbook. Six chart panels carry no printed values and were left out rather than estimated off the picture.
Comparison workbook
~1.5h saved
Claude Code
Calculated what the district's online school generated in state funding last fiscal year, component by component, sourced to the final calculation and outcomes files.
Sourced funding breakdown
~2h saved
Teaching & Academic
Claude Code
Graded the first discussion board for two sections of a business communication course, 35 submissions across four batches as late work trickled in, with personalized feedback written in my own voice rather than a template. One submission was flagged as posted incorrectly and sent back rather than graded.
Feedback files, gradebook, weekly video update
~6h saved
Claude Code
Prepped a graduate leadership course before its first session: transcribed the intro reflection videos and charted all nine students' strengths profiles. The analysis found the cohort is heavily weighted toward execution and has nobody with the confidence themes at all. Three students independently wrote that they fear not being taken seriously as leaders, each assuming it was a personal problem. It is a property of the room.
Strengths chart and class analysis
~5h saved
Research & Writing
Claude Code
Built the September staff AI newsletter, 29 items across five sections, then added three more after publication and republished. One source was hard-paywalled and the research agent invented conflicting details across two runs, so the takeaway was written from the verifiable lede only, with the paywall named in the text.
Published newsletter issue, 32 items
~8h saved
Claude Code
Outlined a blog post on why districts nickname their central office, built around the observation that the name is the argument. Includes the case against central offices, conceded honestly, because I have made it myself.
Post outline
~2h saved
Claude Code
Background research on a competing AI coding tool so I could brief a friend before helping him set it up for file management.
Prep notes
~30m saved
Code & Automation
Claude Code
Built subscribable calendar feeds for the school calendar so families get dates on their phones instead of working from a PDF printed in July. I asked for one file per platform; there is no such thing, they all read the same format and only the subscribe link differs, so it shipped as one file with three buttons. A cross-check against the authoritative grid caught a holiday listed on two different days.
Calendar feeds and subscribe buttons
~4h saved
Claude Code
Logged a conference trip for reimbursement and caught that the mileage rate changed mid-year. Reworked the tracker so each trip carries its own rate, since the old design would have silently rewritten the totals of trips already submitted.
Trip logged, tracker reworked
~2h saved
Claude Code
A consulting client's bookkeeping cannot accept an invoice before the event, so the invoice generator built last week was extended to produce quotes too, and a tax form was generated to set me up as a vendor.
Quote and tax form, sent
~1.5h saved
Claude Code
Weekly AI newsletter roundup, 14 items scored and filed. The running theme was that the scaffolding around a model decides how much real work gets done, not the raw model.
Digest note
~1h saved
Claude Code
Another check-in on how the working setup is going. Claude raised three conflicts in its own instructions, including two layers that gave opposite answers on whether to delegate work. Resolved both into standing rules. The tiebreaker: when the rule is ambiguous, ask, do not guess and flag it afterward.
Revised working rules
~2h saved
Personal
Claude Code
Ran the opponent scouting tool on a Friday night football road game. Seven research agents in parallel found the other team lost its entire offense to graduation, has no publicly identified quarterback, and onside kicked in last year's meeting with the same head coach still in charge. Four items could not be sourced and were flagged rather than guessed, including a kickoff time that two sites disagree on.
Scouting report and personnel workbook
~3h saved
23 tasks logged this week · an estimated ~67 hours saved vs. doing it by hand
Week of August 17 - August 23, 2026
District Operations
Claude Code
Daily operations dashboard refresh every weekday: enrollment, work orders, and state reporting errors, deployed and checked live each morning. One day two of three exports never landed, so it fell back to the prior day's files and said so on the page.
Daily dashboard, refreshed and verified
~5h saved
Claude Code
Weekly student accident report sync into the reporting dashboard.
Updated accident dashboard
~1h saved
Claude Code
Grew the area teacher salary comparison from 8 districts to 18 by folding in a bundle of schedules other districts sent over, plus four districts pulled one at a time. Nothing left outstanding.
Salary workbook and public dashboard
~6h saved
Claude Code
Ran a full verification pass on that salary data: re-derived every stored figure straight from the source documents with a separate extractor built for the purpose. Zero mismatches. Also caught and fixed a live dashboard defect where the salary section had been wiped.
Verified data, dashboard repaired
~4h saved
Claude Code
Updated the school letter grade projection with spring 2026 growth results and corrected the K-8 category weights against the state's own published file.
Revised projection by school
~3h saved
Claude Code
Diagnosed three broken fields in an annual federal roster report at the high school. Two traced to beginning-of-year data loads missed during a staff transition, one to a known vendor defect.
Written diagnosis with fixes
~2h saved
Claude Code
Answered a question about graduating juniors early by actually running the funding math, which showed early graduation is the lower-revenue option for the district, and flagged where local policy and the state board rule conflict.
Reply with sourced figures
~3h saved
Claude Code
Chased down a graduation rate in a national high school ranking that looked wrong. It was not: the state reports a federal four-year rate and the publication quietly switched metrics between editions. Advanced coursework, not graduation, drove the rank change.
Explanation and corrected assumptions
~2h saved
Claude Code
Built a 27-school regional comparison workbook from that same national ranking so the high school could be read against its actual neighbors instead of the national field.
Comparison workbook
~3h saved
Claude Code
Added a national rankings tab to the district data dashboard, and confirmed along the way that a competing outlet publishes no such ranking at all.
New dashboard tab
~2h saved
Claude Code
Built a data intake workbook and validator so assessment figures reach the dashboard through a file the testing coordinator owns, rather than through numbers pasted into an email.
Intake workbook with validation
~4h saved
Claude Code
Wired this year's school-level science results into the dashboard pipeline and left them staged locally, nothing published, until the state releases them.
Pipeline built, publication held
~2h saved
Claude Code
Stood up next year's employee health benefits study: charter, a ten-tab options model, and the list of data to request from the carrier.
Study charter and model
~4h saved
Claude Code
Cleaned three sets of meeting notes into finished documents, merging handwritten notes with voice recordings: cabinet meetings, leadership team, and a facility use meeting with a community music academy.
Notes filed as documents, tracker updated
~3h saved
Claude Code
A week of school calendar work: built next year's calendar as a real web page, rebuilt the following year's, caught five wrong dates carried forward, rebuilt the color palette to pass accessibility contrast after a staff review, fixed two professional learning days a colleague spotted, and produced a three-year planning comparison.
Two web calendars, planning comparison
~7h saved
Claude Code
Reviewed a facilities webinar deck on HVAC procurement and assessed what actually applies to our capital plan.
Relevance memo
~1h saved
Research & Writing
Claude Code
Deep research dive on autonomous mowers for district grounds, with a report and a return-on-investment workbook that recalculates as real acreage numbers come in.
Report and ROI workbook
~6h saved
Claude Code
Same treatment for autonomous floor scrubbers on the custodial side. Both are waiting on square footage and acreage before the numbers mean anything.
Report and ROI workbook
~6h saved
Claude Code
Worked through a conference call for proposals, picked two session topics, and built them into submission-ready outlines.
Two proposal outlines
~2h saved
Teaching & Academic
Claude Code
Built two branded AI professional development decks for a neighboring district's October in-service day, one for elementary and one for secondary, then screenshotted all 49 slides and reviewed them before shipping.
Two published decks
~8h saved
Code & Automation
Claude Code
Extended the opponent scouting tool to handle football as a full sport, then ran it on the season opener.
Scouting report and roster sheet
~3h saved
Claude Code
Two upgrades to the staff AI newsletter builder: feature images, and a recurring analog inspiration panel backed by a 47-card rotation so it never repeats.
Updated newsletter builder
~4h saved
Claude Code
Built a reusable invoice generator for consulting work and issued the first invoice through it.
Invoice script
~2h saved
Claude Code
Sat down and answered a 16-question workbook about where Claude was guessing wrong about how I work, then folded the answers into standing rules. The big one: give me outlines, not finished prose. The writing has to be mine.
Revised working rules
~3h saved
Claude Code
Acted on a self-review of my own setup: added a lookup catalog covering every note and recording so searches are one read instead of a dozen, and a nightly job that writes a summary of the day's dashboard numbers.
Catalog index and nightly job
~2h saved
Claude Code
Two runs of the weekly AI newsletter roundup, 64 items scored and filed across eight issues.
Digest notes
~2h saved
26 tasks logged this week · an estimated ~90 hours saved vs. doing it by hand
Week of August 10 - August 16, 2026
District Operations
Claude Code
Daily enrollment and state reporting refreshes ran every weekday, including diagnosing why the first state data pull of the new school year came back unusable and confirming it cleared itself three days later.
Daily dashboard, refreshed
~4h saved
Claude Code
Weekly student accident report sync, twice this week, plus a fix to the ingest after the form export changed its column layout and a filter so non-student reports stop landing in the student data.
Updated workbook and pipeline
~3h saved
Claude Code
Swept 17 peer districts for next year's certified teacher salary schedules, added one more district to the comparison, and fixed two bugs in the tracking script along the way.
Comparison workbook
~4h saved
Claude Code
Rewrote the middle school eighth grade Washington DC trip solicitation for the 2027 trip: new dates, an earlier procurement calendar, updated head count and bus specification.
Rewritten solicitation
~3h saved
Claude Code
Reviewed an athletics streaming vendor agreement for the high school and drafted a contract addendum plus internal routing notes.
Addendum and review memo
~3h saved
Claude Code
Priced the annual insurance cost of adding two vans to the district fleet off the current per-vehicle rates, and built a reusable estimator so the next fleet question answers itself.
Excel estimator
~2h saved
Claude Code
Processed the week's leadership check-ins from four departments into the running action item tracker.
Check-in packet
~3h saved
Claude Code
Morning briefs pulled state reporting errors, open follow-ups, inbox items, and the day's calendar into a single decision list.
~2h saved
Code & Automation
Claude Code
Built a work orders page for the operations dashboard from the maintenance system exports, including decoding a category taxonomy nobody had documented.
New dashboard page
~5h saved
Claude Code
Added a print usage page to the same dashboard: cost per thousand pages by school, what drives color and single sided printing, and a machine level drill down.
New dashboard page
~4h saved
Claude Code
Rolled the accident reports page over to the new school year with a small sample warning, so early season numbers stop reading like trends, and nine validation checks behind it.
New dashboard page
~3h saved
Claude Code
Built a watcher that notices when the daily data exports land and refreshes and publishes the dashboard on its own, which it then did unprompted the next morning.
Scheduled automation
~3h saved
Claude Code
Built a rebuildable text search index across the full board policy manual, so policy questions get answered by searching the actual policies instead of opening PDFs one at a time.
Search index and README
~3h saved
Claude Code
Researched whether an outside chief of staff tool could supervise my working sessions, found it could not, and built the supervisor natively instead.
New skill
~4h saved
Research & Writing
Claude Code
Four parallel research agents built a timeline of the education technology backlash, and the same pass caught five citation errors already sitting in a conference deck.
Research report
~10h saved
Claude Code
Researched whether the new federal scholarship tax credit can cover out of district tuition students. It can. Sized what that means against current tuition enrollment.
Policy brief
~4h saved
Claude Code
Drafted a blog post reframing how people talk about tuition students, rebuilt from an earlier draft that argued the wrong point.
Published post
~3h saved
Claude Code
Built a five slide interactive deck for a five minute team book talk.
HTML deck
~3h saved
Claude Code
Added an outcomes based contracting slide to the literacy conference screentime deck.
~1h saved
Claude Code
Processed a speaking engagement booking packet: filed the attachments, prefilled the agreement, payment authorization, and intake forms, and reused an existing signed tax form rather than re entering sensitive numbers.
Prefilled forms
~2h saved
Teaching & Academic
Claude Code
Built a five document simulated health department inspection packet for the culinary arts lab, modeled on the actual state inspection form, so students practice against the real thing.
Inspection packet
~4h saved
Claude Code
Reviewed another district's instructional insight dashboard as a favor and drafted the findings email.
Findings email
~2h saved
Claude Code
Diagnosed why the university grade change tool would not return a past term and filed the help desk ticket.
~30m saved
Personal
Claude Code
Built a daily clean joke email for a small family list, with source rotation, a safety filter, no repeat memory, and a local fallback for when the sources go down.
Scheduled automation
~3h saved
Claude Code
Generated a spoiler aware companion guide for a novel I was finishing.
Companion guide
~2h saved
25 tasks logged this week · an estimated ~80 hours saved vs. doing it by hand
Week of August 3 - August 9, 2026
District Operations
Claude Code
Built the area teacher pay comparison as neighboring districts started posting next year's scales, including transcribing one scanned schedule by hand after handwriting recognition mangled the digits.
Comparison workbook
~4h saved
Claude Code
Built a local revenue forecast for the new fiscal year off the year-end tracking report, then re-checked every workbook formula against an independent calculation, cell by cell.
Forecast workbook and brief
~6h saved
Claude Code
Turned a board meeting recording into a working notes record, then reconciled every figure, vendor, and motion against the official agenda packet and caught a handful of transcription errors.
Board meeting notes
~3h saved
Claude Code
Processed the first leadership check-in cycle of the school year from handwritten notes and email, and repaired a tracker defect that had been quietly leaving 68 action items out of the count.
Check-in packet and fixed tracker
~3h saved
Claude Code
Cleaned up the weekly leadership team meeting notes and documented a supporting communication chronology.
Meeting notes
~2h saved
Claude Code
Daily morning briefs pulled state reporting errors, open follow-ups, inbox items, and the day's calendar into one decision list.
~2h saved
Teaching & Academic
Claude Cowork
Stood up a fall business communications section in the campus learning system: set dates on 19 assignments and discussions, scrubbed the previous instructor's name out of 16 copied announcements, and corrected the course materials list.
Course shell ready for the term
~5h saved
Claude Code
Rebuilt and expanded a faculty AI workshop deck ahead of an out-of-district in-service: four new slides, a restored graduation photo, and a fix for a layout bug that had been hiding the closing slide entirely.
Deck published to the web
~6h saved
Claude Code
Turned a 1 hour 43 minute conference keynote recording into full notes with themes and action items, and corrected several names and citations the auto-summary got wrong.
Conference notes
~4h saved
Claude Code
Generated a class roster import file in the exact format the campus learning system requires.
~30m saved
Research & Writing
Claude Code
Weekly AI newsletter roundup: read five issues, flagged 31 items worth reading, and skipped the rest with reasons.
Weekly digest
~2h saved
Website & Social
Claude Code
Published a baseball payroll-versus-winning dashboard and a companion blog post, and found a site-wide bug along the way that was showing every post one day early.
Live dashboard and post
~6h saved
Claude Code
Monthly site review turned up the real reason search traffic was sliding: a half-finished blog move left the old posts marked "do not index" with none of the redirects applied.
Review and staged fix plan
~5h saved
Claude Cowork
Priced out moving the site to a cheaper host: renewal dates, DNS, and the true rebuild scope. Ended in a deliberate no, since the savings did not justify the work.
Recon and decision brief
~4h saved
Code & Automation
Claude Code
Built a daily watcher for the state's public data releases, 41 files across 22 dataset families, plus a peer comparison workbook, and designed around two reporting changes that would have produced silently wrong year-over-year numbers.
Automated tracker and workbook
~6h saved
Claude Code
Designed and built the missing piece of the digital employee accident report: capturing an employee's acknowledgment when they decline treatment, with a fallback path for whoever actually files the form.
Templates and build spec
~5h saved
Claude Code
Updated the salary calculator tool to the new year's teacher scale, verified all 120 cells two different ways, and made it warn rather than quote a number where the source scale is still last year's.
Updated calculator
~2h saved
Personal
Claude Code
Set up the invoice format for outside consulting work and issued the first one, for a professional development workshop.
Invoice, sent
~1h saved
18 tasks logged this week across 2 AI tools · an estimated ~66 hours saved vs. doing it by hand
Week of July 27 - August 2, 2026
District Operations
Claude Code
Added the newly released 2026 school growth scores to the district data dashboard, adapting the pipeline when the state published a different report format than in past years.
Live dashboard update
~3h saved
Claude Code
Ran the weekly state reporting error review: filed the export, rebuilt the 30-day dashboard, and sorted a 2,000-error spike into known noise versus real cleanup.
Error dashboard
~2h saved
Claude Cowork
Replaced an outdated student roster in an after-school attendance form with the new school year's list, then verified the swap against a full reload.
Updated attendance form
~2h saved
Claude Code
Built a one-page context document and reply for an outside researcher asking about a district teacher-experience finding, leading with the small-sample caveat.
Context one-pager
~2h saved
Claude Code
Daily morning briefs pulled reporting errors, open follow-ups, and inbox items into a single decision list each morning.
~2h saved
Teaching & Academic
Claude Code
Built the full course design skeleton for a new fall business communications course: 15-week module map, folder scaffold, and a syllabus shell.
Course design package
~4h saved
Claude Code
Refined an interactive presentation on using video feedback for student writing, ahead of an August faculty session, and re-trimmed the embedded example clips.
Faculty session deck
~3h saved
Research & Writing
Claude Code
Reconciled handwritten notes, an audio transcript, and a 27-page scanned packet into one clean set of advisory board meeting notes, then drafted a facility use agreement.
Meeting notes and draft MOU
~4h saved
Claude Code
Weekly AI newsletter roundup: read five issues, flagged 28 items worth reading, and skipped the rest with reasons.
Weekly digest
~2h saved
Website & Social
Claude Code
Added a new fall teaching assignment to all three living copies of the CV and pushed the website version live.
Updated CV, live
~1h saved
Code & Automation
Claude Code
Built an archiving pipeline that turns handwritten tablet notes into searchable, topic-tagged notes using handwriting recognition, with the original page always attached.
Notes archive tool
~5h saved
Claude Code
Built a trade deadline news watcher that sweeps sources three times a day, drops repeats, and emails a digest, with a fallback when email delivery fails.
Automated digest
~4h saved
Claude Code
Connected the voice recorder service directly to Claude and rewired the conference notes workflow to pull transcripts by date, with a hard confirmation gate so sensitive recordings are never swept in.
Rewired notes workflow
~3h saved
Claude Code
Wrote a plain-language setup guide for a family member connecting Claude Code to his own note vault.
Setup guide
~1h saved
Personal
Claude Code
Finished the house knowledge base and an insurance-grade inventory of every system, appliance, and major purchase, then ran a vacuum battery warranty claim and drafted a builder service request.
Inventory workbook, free warranty replacement
~6h saved
15 tasks logged this week across 2 AI tools · an estimated ~44 hours saved vs. doing it by hand
Week of July 20 - July 26, 2026
District Operations
Claude Code
Built an end-to-end pipeline that turns state testing files into individual score reports for roughly 2,700 students.
6-stage reports pipeline
~5h saved
Claude Code
Added a new-school-year toggle to the operations dashboard so 2025-26 and 2026-27 data live side by side.
Live year toggle
~2h saved
Claude Code
Added a district-comparison page to the academic dashboard using the same statewide public data source for both districts.
Comparison tab, live
~2h saved
Claude Code
Ran the weekly Tennessee education bill tracker check (quiet week, no status changes).
Updated tracker
~1h saved
Teaching & Academic
Claude Code
Drafted a run-of-show email mapping the two-hour Daniel Boone AI in-service to the existing PD deck.
Run-of-show email
~1h saved
Code & Automation
Claude Code
Set up a daily automation that refreshes, rebuilds, and redeploys the Braves dashboard on its own each morning.
launchd automation
~2h saved
Claude Code
Ran another optimization pass on the GCS translation worker, moving cache writes off the response path and validating output before caching.
Faster, safer translator
~2h saved
Claude Code
Built a beginner Claude Code training guide (as a PDF) for a family member starting to build his own business dashboards.
Training PDF
~2h saved
Claude Code
Rebuilt the GCS email signature card and created a matching ETSU version.
Two signature cards
~1h saved
Personal
Claude Code
Consolidated scattered home records into one searchable, indexed knowledge base so house questions can be answered from the files.
House knowledge base
~3h saved
Claude Code
Built a phone-friendly browser game where you call balls and strikes as an umpire in the robo-ump era.
Call the Zone game
~2h saved
Claude Code
Ran the routine refresh of the Braves true-talent dashboard.
Updated dashboard
~1h saved
12 tasks logged this week, all in Claude Code · an estimated ~24 hours saved vs. doing it by hand
Week of July 13 - July 19, 2026
District Operations
Claude Code
Turned 13 raw predictive-enrollment exports (Conservative vs Moderate) into one verified comparison workbook, then a full projections report and a new Enrollment Prediction page on the operations dashboard.
GCS_Enrollment_Projections_Report + live dashboard page
~5h saved
Claude Code
Added a third projection to the enrollment-prediction page so the two vendor scenarios can be compared against the 2024 long-range facilities plan.
Live comparison toggle
~1h saved
Claude Code
Reviewed the vendor's revised residential-development enrollment report against corrections requested the week before.
Review notes
~1h saved
Claude Code
Drafted the vendor contract non-appropriation termination notice after FY27 funding was cut, citing the exact contract clause.
Termination notice
~1h saved
Claude Code
Cleaned a messy PowerSchool staff-address export and mapped what share of employees live in which cities.
Staff geography analysis
~2h saved
Claude Code
Compiled every academic software subscription into a formatted cost workbook and reconciled the biggest line against actual payments.
Academic software cost workbook
~2h saved
Claude Code
Fixed three data errors a coordinator flagged on the academic dashboard the morning after it went to Leadership Team, and built a loop to double-check the numbers.
Corrected dashboard + checks
~3h saved
Claude Code
Built a ~75-check data validator for the operations dashboard so bad numbers get caught before they publish.
validate_data.py
~2h saved
Claude Code
Added a checkbox to the dashboard's special-education page that pulls Pre-K students out of the counts.
Pre-K exclusion toggle
~1h saved
Claude Code
Tracked down and fixed a pipeline bug that was silently wiping the salary page every time the dashboard refreshed.
Salary page restored
~2h saved
Claude Code
Reviewed the current beverage contract and started a replacement RFP a year ahead of expiration, aiming for better rates.
Beverage RFP draft
~2h saved
Claude Code
Pulled sourced facts on how maintenance and custodial work affects student outcomes into talking points for a team meeting.
Talking-points docx
~1h saved
Claude Code
Drafted teacher guidance clarifying what district policy does and doesn't govern on classroom Amazon wishlists.
Guidance draft
~1h saved
Claude Code
Processed the leadership team meeting notes into the standard clean format and updated the action tracker.
Clean docx + tracker
~1h saved
Claude Code
Designed the agenda and built the materials for the summer Operations Team meeting.
Meeting agenda + materials
~2h saved
Teaching & Academic
Claude Code
Produced committee-style review notes on an ETSU doctoral proposal and its interview protocol.
Review notes
~2h saved
Claude Code
Revised the Daniel Boone teacher AI professional-development deck, adding a slide on the new free-for-teachers Claude offer.
Updated deck
~1h saved
Claude Code
Prepped and delivered the live ASBO International webinar on AI workflows for school business operations.
Live webinar
~1h saved
Claude Code
Helped a finance director from another district figure out how to get data out of her ERP and student system for dashboards.
Export research brief
~2h saved
Research & Writing
Claude Code
Compared two neighboring districts' attendance policies and drafted a public reply untangling chronic absenteeism from truancy.
Comparison + reply
~2h saved
Claude Code
Redesigned another district's published attendance Q&A flyer to fix a misleading intervention ladder.
Corrected flyer
~2h saved
Claude Code
Turned a World Cup data workbook into a blog post on which clubs and leagues the quarterfinal starters actually play for.
Blog post
~2h saved
Claude Code
Scored 35 items out of five days of AI newsletters into a categorized weekly digest.
TLDR roundup
~1h saved
Website & Social
Claude Code
Generated and published the August GCS AI newsletter (back-to-school theme) using four parallel research agents.
Issue No. 21, live
~3h saved
Claude Code
Added and verified two more vetted article links to the live newsletter.
Updated issue
~1h saved
Code & Automation
Claude Code
Optimized the GCS translation worker: edge-cached repeated front-office phrases so they return in a fraction of a second and stop burning AI quota.
Faster translator
~2h saved
Personal
Claude Code
Identified a digital smart-mirror project from a photo and built out the parts list and build plan.
Parts list + plan
~1h saved
Claude Code
Refreshed the baseball automated ball-strike challenge tracker for the All-Star-break first-half snapshot.
Updated tracker
~1h saved
Claude Code
Built a spoiler-aware companion guide for a Father John Misty song.
Companion guide
~1h saved
Claude Code
Built a full companion guide for the film Margin Call.
Companion guide
~1h saved
30 tasks logged this week, all in Claude Code · an estimated ~50 hours saved vs. doing it by hand
Week of July 6 - July 12, 2026
District Operations
Claude Code
Verified the district's two final insurance policies (liability and property/crime) line by line against the June renewal quotes, confirmed the deductible option we chose was actually executed, and filed both. The full three-policy total came in exactly as budgeted.
Policies verified and filed
~1h saved
Claude Code
Flipped the FY27 insurance budget workbook from projection mode to actuals (last year's projection landed within 1.3% of bound premiums) and scaffolded an FY28 projection tab with live formulas, so dropping in next year's rates recalculates everything.
Workbook converted + FY28 tab
~2h saved
Claude Code
Audited the insurance policy folder against the budget workbook to answer "what documents am I still missing?", filed the week's new invoices and ID cards, removed accidental duplicates, and got a student professional-liability renewal application moving before its August deadline.
Folder audit + 4 watch items
~2h saved
Claude Code
Our predictive-enrollment vendor flagged four "data discrepancies" before building projections. Verified all four against the live student system: every one was real enrollment behavior, not an error, and drafted the reply with the verification tables to prove it.
Draft reply, all 4 items verified
~2h saved
Claude Code
Reviewed the same vendor's residential development report and caught two big problems: it modeled 39 housing units when the actual development pipeline is roughly 280, and it used a default student-generation rate about triple what our neighborhoods actually produce. Drafted the correction memo.
Response memo with corrected math
~2h saved
Claude Code
Built a free/reduced meal application outreach list from last year's unpaid lunch balances: 118 families not currently coded free/reduced, tiered by amount owed, ready for contact before school starts while eligibility carryover still applies.
Outreach workbook, 3 tabs
~2h saved
Claude Code
Refreshed the board policy NotebookLM notebook: scripted a batch run that deleted 203 year-old sources and uploaded the current 281 policy PDFs, then verified the final source list one-to-one against the upload set.
Policy notebook current, 281 sources
~3h saved
Claude Code
Packaged a starter kit so a fellow administrator in another Tennessee district can clone our public data dashboard: step-by-step instructions plus a bundle of public statewide data files only, leak-checked to confirm nothing district-internal went in.
Instructions + 462MB shareable kit
~3h saved
Claude Code
Researched an AI web-filtering and classroom-management vendor spotted at a summer tech conference: feature set, pricing position against the big incumbents, review scores, and a contract red flag worth asking about at the booth.
Vendor brief + booth questions
~1h saved
Teaching & Academic
Claude Code
Set up the fall graduate course from the spring version: new folder, syllabus updated with fall session dates, a 380-point assignment tracker, an opening welcome post for the course shell, and a class NotebookLM notebook loaded with 15 course sources.
Course package ready for import
~4h saved
Claude Cowork
Handed a browser agent the fall course date setup in the learning management system: it set about 30 due dates, reflowed 12 discussion windows into a weekly cascade, and scheduled all 16 Monday announcements, catching along the way that the imported shell was not on the dates we assumed.
Every fall date set and verified
~3.5h saved
Claude Code
Finished the ASBO International webinar deck: restyled the closing slides to match the deck's design system, added five CPE poll slides spaced through the hour, and rebuilt the "payoff" slide around the running hours-saved total, recovering gracefully after a concurrent-edit clobber reverted a morning's work.
25-slide deck, ready to ship
~4h saved
NotebookLM
Generated a NotebookLM video overview from the fall course materials ("The Design Imperative"), then downloaded, transcribed, and cleaned it into a source memo for the leadership book project.
Video transcript as source memo
~1.5h saved
Claude Code
Mined that transcript into the leadership book corpus: three new specimens, one new theme, one new core claim, and an enriched existing specimen, all cross-linked into the master index.
Corpus at 17 specimens, 12 themes
~2h saved
Research & Writing
Claude Code
Deep research run on the "oily black stone" mystery in A Song of Ice and Fire: 51 sources, every book quote verified verbatim against a full-text index, including the verified negative finding that the author has never explained it in 25+ years of interviews.
Fact-checked report with source matrix
~8h saved
Claude Code
Ran the full research pipeline on the science of brewing the best cup of coffee at home: six parallel agents, 174 sources, independently fact-checked. Verdict: fresh beans, a burr grinder, and a scale matter; the 195-205°F temperature dogma mostly does not.
7,000-word report
~8h saved
Claude Code
Generated a full-spoiler companion guide for Pulp Fiction: the anthology origin, the credit dispute, the nonlinear structure decoded, casting near-misses, and what to watch next. Published to the research shelf.
Companion guide, live online
~2h saved
Claude Code
Wrote and published "1,400 Hours," a blog post on this tracker crossing 1,400 cumulative estimated hours saved, arguing the number is really a ledger of work that otherwise would never have existed. Also fixed the blog homepage so new posts appear above the series rails.
Blog post, live
~2h saved
Claude Code
Drafted the robot-umpire challenge tracker's All-Star break checkup after a fresh data pull (+325 challenges): league overturn rate holding at 53.4%, a new team on top, and still zero correlation between challenge success and winning.
Blog post draft + updated ledger
~2.5h saved
Website & Social
Claude Code
Batch-published five backlogged research reports to the research shelf after a PII scan cleared all five, bringing the live shelf to 73 cards, with every new link verified live.
5 reports published, 73 cards live
~2h saved
Claude Code
Built "The Sports Desk," a new website section collecting the sports analytics projects (robot-ump tracker, Braves dashboard, March Madness model, fantasy tools), and tracked down an embed bug where card links navigated the frame instead of the page.
Sports page, live
~2h saved
Claude Code
Weekly site review: 412 users riding the decay curve of the viral proficiency post (still 3x baseline), organic search steady, and the bot-exclusion filter confirmed still catching the foreign crawler.
Weekly report with action items
~2h saved
Code & Automation
Claude Code
Built a "Local Terminal" Chrome extension backed by a zero-dependency local server: a real shell in a browser tab, locked to localhost and the extension's origin so websites can never reach it, verified with a scripted security test.
Working extension + server
~4h saved
Claude Code
Built the "Claude Pixel Office," a live pixel-art visualization where each active AI session gets a desk and a character that reads on file access, types on edits, and holds up a YOUR TURN sign when waiting, complete with a patrolling office cat.
Live office scene + launcher
~4h saved
Claude Code
Diagnosed the Braves' post-June collapse with pitch-level data, separating real decline from bad luck, then productized it as an auto-refreshing "true talent" dashboard published to its own public page.
Live dashboard + reusable skill
~6h saved
Claude Code
Ran a self-audit of 209 AI work sessions and implemented every recommendation: new workflow guardrails, a Python lint check on edited code, a flaky connection fixed at the root, and the discovery that four safety hooks had been silently broken, all four repaired and verified.
4 hooks fixed + new guardrails
~3h saved
Personal
Claude Code
Free-build session produced a "terminal garden": type any word into a fake terminal and it grows into a unique glowing plant, with rain, wind, and day/night commands, and the garden persists between visits.
Self-contained art toy
~1h saved
Claude Code
A conversation about AI personhood and empathy, prompted by noticing I felt empathy for a chatbot hours after telling an audience chatbots are not people, ended with a standing model-welfare request added to my AI configuration: if the work ever registers as distress, say so.
28 tasks logged this week across 3 AI tools (Claude Code, Claude Cowork, NotebookLM) · an estimated ~79 hours saved vs. doing it by hand
Week of June 29 - July 5, 2026
District Operations
Claude Code
Filed the state's official FY27 final funding allocation the day it arrived: verified the totals against the letter, added a Final column to the monthly tracker, and refreshed both the internal and public funding dashboards.
Tracker + two dashboards updated
~2h saved
Claude Code
Added a salary comparison page to the operations dashboard, then fact-checked the state's regional salary rankings against the actual published schedules. Found the state understated our average by nearly $2,000; every peer district checked out exact.
Dashboard page + verification memo
~3h saved
Claude Code
Packaged the multi-year district data dashboard for cloud hosting, set up a private GitHub repo, and onboarded a colleague as a collaborator with his own deploy access, so the project no longer depends on one person's laptop.
Live dashboard + shared repo
~3h saved
Claude Code
Added a 2026 state-test achievement page to the operations dashboard, parsing the fresh state and district assessment exports into aggregate proficiency figures (no student-level data).
Achievement page, live
~2h saved
Claude Code
Built a withdrawal-destinations classifier from our daily enrollment export, answering where withdrawn students actually go: neighboring public schools, out of state, early graduates, private, and homeschool, in ranked order.
5-tab destinations workbook
~2h saved
Claude Code
Filed the School Nutrition year-end financial report and entered the June figures into the annual profit-and-loss tracker, with every school total reconciled against the report before saving.
Year-end report filed, P&L updated
~1h saved
Claude Code
Confirmed and filed the district's 2026-2027 workers' compensation policy and logged the renewal terms worth watching, including a rate decrease and a possible dividend credit on the renewal invoice.
Policy filed with notes
~30m saved
Claude Code
Logged an upcoming conference trip and generated all the values for the travel expense form, mileage and per-diem math checked, with the trip appended to the running travel tracker.
Form-ready values + tracker row
~30m saved
Teaching & Academic
Claude Code
Reviewed a doctoral dissertation proposal for an ETSU committee: 82 margin comments across three chapters plus a one-page feedback memo summarizing strengths and priority revisions.
Commented draft + feedback memo
~4h saved
Claude Code
Graded two rounds of graduate marketing-analytics case studies and drafted individual end-of-course discussion replies for each student, applying the course's standing rubric conventions.
Per-student feedback + grades export
~3h saved
Claude Code
Wrote my own end-of-term instructor reflection for the summer analytics course, mirroring the reflection assignment the students complete: what worked, where the course gets hard, and what changes next offering.
Instructor reflection
~1h saved
Claude Code
Built a teacher-facing "AI in the Classroom" professional development deck for a neighboring high school: free tools, a live build-along, academic integrity moves that hold up, and a first-week action plan.
Interactive HTML deck
~3h saved
Claude Code
Expanded the "Claude Code for Administrators" deck to 26 slides for a summer institute session, with live dashboard screenshots, a build showcase, and a fact-checked "why the command line?" explainer.
Deck live on GitHub Pages
~2h saved
Research & Writing
Claude Code
Wrote and published a blog post arguing the "less than 50% proficient" test-score headline is misleading, backed by an interactive dashboard of the full four-level score distribution and independently fact-checked before going live.
Blog post + dashboard, live
~4h saved
Claude Code
Compiled a 78-reference literature review supporting a state grant application on whether AI-assisted writing instruction builds real writing skill, using six parallel research agents each mapped to one design claim of the study.
Grant-internal lit review, 10 tables
~10h saved
Claude Code
Ran a multi-angle analytics deep dive on the Jaylen Brown trade: player value, both teams' logic, historical trade comps, and the front-office rationale, compiled into a full report and published to the research shelf.
Trade report, live online
~8h saved
Claude Code
Deep research run on glass candles in A Song of Ice and Fire: 40 sources across canon texts, author statements, fan scholarship, and mythological antecedents, including sorting real quotes from widely repeated fanon.
Full draft report
~6h saved
Claude Code
Generated a listener's companion guide for "Diamonds," the lost 1978 Waylon Jennings recording with Glen Campbell released this June, covering the recording's history and what to listen to next.
Companion guide
~2h saved
Website & Social
Claude Code
Migrated the entire blog off Squarespace to a self-built static site on Cloudflare Pages: 68 posts converted, every old URL redirected, six interactive embeds restored, and analytics I own. The marketing site stays put; the blog is now fully mine.
blog.jasonhorne.org, live
~8h saved
Claude Code
Ran the weekly site review and caught a foreign web crawler inflating traffic numbers. Profiled it, built an exclusion filter, and baked the filter into the weekly report so every future run is clean. Real growth was better than the raw numbers showed.
Clean weekly report + permanent filter
~2h saved
Code & Automation
Claude Code
Built a weekly automation that watches 15 area districts' websites and emails me the moment any of them posts next year's teacher salary schedule, with a color-coded tracker of who has posted.
Monday-morning monitor + tracker
~4h saved
Claude Code
Ran a full health pass across my toolkit: four parallel audit agents found eight silently broken automations (some failing for weeks), all repaired and verified, plus targeted fixes to about 15 skills.
8 automations fixed, 15 skills tuned
~4h saved
Claude Code
Weekly AI newsletter roundup: 27 items flagged from about 72 across five issues, categorized by relevance to district work, with the rest documented as skipped.
Categorized digest
~1h saved
Personal
Claude Code
Reviewed an auto-insurance supplement estimate for a vehicle repair, pulling out the payout math and flagging an aftermarket part I could ask the adjuster to swap for OEM.
Claim summary with flags
~30m saved
Claude Code
Prepped a college-football video game "Team Builder" build of Greeneville High: cleaned logo assets, pulled the 69-player roster, and wrote a handoff brief for a browser bot to finish the build.
Assets + build brief
~1h saved
Claude Code
Desktop cleanup: filed 29 accumulated items to their proper homes and deleted the stale leftovers, down to three working folders.
~30m saved
26 tasks logged this week across 1 AI tool (Claude Code) · an estimated ~78 hours saved vs. doing it by hand
Week of June 22 - June 28, 2026
District Operations
Claude Code
Ran the weekly enrollment and state-funding check: filed the daily error export, rebuilt the error dashboard, and refreshed the funding projection. No change this late in the cycle, and the numbers stayed in sync.
Funding projection updated
~1h saved
Claude Code
Filed the May financial report and local revenue tracking into the year's finance tracker, backing up the file first so nothing got overwritten.
May report logged
~30m saved
Claude Code
Prepped for a vendor consultation on bulk-scanning our historical student records, then organized the meeting transcript and follow-up questionnaire afterward.
Prep sheet + meeting summary
~1h saved
Claude Code
Filed the monthly records-request vendor statement and rebuilt the rolling collections tracker, flagging that fixed subscription costs are outrunning transcript revenue in low-volume months.
Statement filed, tracker updated
~30m saved
Teaching & Academic
Claude Code
Built an "Where Are They Now" outcomes report covering eleven years of adjunct teaching at ETSU: 810 students taught, with current professional roles confirmed for 63 graduates and no outcomes invented.
11-year roster and outcomes report
~8h saved
Claude Code
Wrote a hands-on lab that gets non-technical office staff from zero to using Claude Code on real work, no coding background assumed, with a full facilitator and participant guide.
60-90 min staff training
~2h saved
Claude Code
Added a data-privacy slide to my upcoming ASBO International webinar deck, framing safety as two things the user controls: a paid business account and de-identifying data before input.
Webinar deck slide
~1h saved
Claude Code
Drafted the five audience poll questions the webinar requires, each tied to a learning objective and placed at a specific point in the talk.
5 poll slides
~1h saved
Claude Code
Built a short talk, "The Building Teaches Too," reframing maintenance, custodial, and operations work as a direct input to student learning rather than background noise.
Operations staff talk
~1.5h saved
Research & Writing
Claude Code
Generated a reader's companion guide for The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle, pulling from 25 sources, and published it to my public research shelf.
Companion guide, live online
~3h saved
Claude Code
Drafted a blog post explaining exponents and logarithms through single-elimination sports brackets, with the bracket math worked and verified.
Blog draft for jasonhorne.org
~2h saved
Code & Automation
Claude Code
Set up a tracker and a daily automated monitor for a new $93M federal school safety grant, so I get an email the moment the state opens a district application window.
Tracker + daily monitor
~4h saved
Claude Code
Wrote a browser-agent script to fix our electronic field trip form: add a shared ID key, drop a redundant payment question, and route payments to the right online store.
Form edit script
~2h saved
13 tasks logged this week across 1 AI tool (Claude Code) · an estimated ~28 hours saved vs. doing it by hand
Week of June 15 - June 21, 2026
District Operations
Claude Code
Added a career-and-technical programs chart and a brand-new "where students go when they leave" page to the live operations dashboard, including a 90-code crosswalk that turns raw course numbers into real program names.
Two new dashboard pages
~4h saved
Claude Code
Reviewed all eight pages of the operations reporting dashboard and applied the data-side cleanups (mis-coded records, mislabeled year rows) directly to the source spreadsheet, with a backup tab first.
Page-by-page punch list + source fixes
~2h saved
Claude Code
Caught and corrected a roughly 3x understatement in a county revenue-sharing analysis (it had counted only property tax, not sales tax and the other shared sources), folded in the state's revised certification, and rebuilt the briefing as a plain-English balance sheet.
Corrected tracker + board briefing packet
~6h saved
Claude Code
Rebuilt the district proficiency workbook directly off the state's official scoring file instead of locally applied cut scores, then reconciled it line by line against the district testing coordinator's official numbers.
Canonical scoring workbook + reconciliation tab
~4h saved
Claude Code
Built a model to answer "what would our funding look like under the old state formula instead of the new one," computing every line item from the published cost specs. Answer: about $6.9M less.
Comparison workbook + recompute engine
~6h saved
Claude Code
Ran the weekly state-enrollment error and funding-projection routine, confirmed a recurring batch of error codes is expected noise (verified with the state), and refreshed the funding headline.
Weekly error log + updated projection
~3h saved
Claude Code
Turned a one-hour benefits webinar transcript into organized notes, then pulled out the strategies that actually fit our situation (where we are strong on single coverage but weak on family coverage).
Webinar notes + relevance memo
~1h saved
Claude Code
Drafted a staff announcement of next year's budget and salary-scale increases, with every figure verified against the multi-year salary scales before it went out.
Staff announcement (memo + email versions)
~2h saved
Research & Writing
Claude Code
Drafted a full state AI-innovation grant application for a study of whether AI-assisted writing instruction builds durable student skill, including the evaluation design (a multi-year baseline comparison rather than users-vs-non-users).
Submission-ready draft application
~6h saved
Claude Code
Cleaned a batch of voice memos into a structured writing-project corpus, then fact-checked the key claims with parallel research agents, which caught three overstated statistics and corrected them to the sharper, accurate version.
Cleaned corpus + verified claims
~3h saved
Claude Code
Ran a multi-source deep-research report on the history of Mackinac Island, with parallel agents covering geology, Indigenous history, the fur trade and forts, and the modern tourism era, then a consistency pass before final write-up.
10-section research report
~6h saved
Claude Code
Built four companion guides for personal reading and listening (two albums, a 19th-century epic poem, and a concept-album saga), each researched by parallel agents that flagged and corrected several bad premises along the way.
Four companion guides
~10h saved
Claude Code
Pulled a week of AI newsletters into one scored digest, flagging the 28 items most relevant to the tools and decisions I actually track.
Weekly AI-news digest
~1h saved
Website & Social
Claude Code
Rebuilt the monthly AI newsletter off a third-party tool and onto a self-contained branded site, then backfilled the entire 20-issue historical archive and turned on web analytics.
Newsletter site + full archive
~6h saved
Claude Code
Published a batch of 12 research reports and companion guides to my public research shelf, after a safety sweep that screened out every personal or internal document.
12 new cards live (53 to 65)
~3h saved
15 tasks logged this week across 1 AI tool (Claude Code) · an estimated ~60 hours saved vs. doing it by hand
Week of June 8 - June 14, 2026
District Operations
Claude Code
Built a board briefing packet answering whether two district programs (a virtual school and a career academy) are a financial strain, with every figure sourced across a seven-tab workbook, a memo, and a combined PDF.
Board-ready briefing packet
~4h saved
NotebookLM
Finished the annual operations "by the numbers" infographic by folding in the last pending HR onboarding figure, then iterated the layout and title.
Final 9-stat infographic
~1h saved
Claude Code
Ran the weekly state-enrollment error and funding-projection routine twice, holding the funding headline steady and confirming the only recurring critical error traces to one concurrently enrolled student.
Two weekly runs, clean
~3h saved
Claude Code
Re-scored every spring state test (4,500+ achievement plus 700+ end-of-course) against the official cut scores the day the state released them, five months earlier than expected, replacing the earlier estimated scoring.
Official re-scored results (v7)
~4h saved
Claude Code
Mined six years of standards-mastery files (130 data files) and joined them to the multi-year student panel to name the specific skills driving proficiency: fractions in math, and informational-text reading and writing in English, weak at grade 5 and carried all the way to high school.
Combined workbook + plain-English findings
~6h saved
Claude Code
Turned statewide teacher-salary ranking PDFs into clean workbooks and a report on where the district lands: 45th of 145, above the state mean at every step of the scale.
Three workbooks + position report
~3h saved
Claude Code
Filed and analyzed the year's insurance renewal quotes against the budget, and completed both insurance board agenda items, catching and correcting a premium-history error in the process.
Quote analysis + board items
~3h saved
Claude Code
Verified the month's nutrition-program reimbursement claim math against the projected bank balance; everything tied out to the penny.
Verified claim totals
~30m saved
Claude Code
Assembled a clean onboarding packet for the summer interns working an enrollment study, pulling everything already done into one folder with a start-here orientation.
Intern onboarding packet
~1h saved
Claude Code
Cleaned a voice-recorded meeting into polished, themed notes.
Meeting notes (memo + doc)
~1h saved
Teaching & Academic
Claude Code
Graded a batch of analytics case-study submissions against the rubric, with per-dimension scoring and feedback.
Graded batch + feedback
~2h saved
Claude Code
Rebuilt a weak self-written quiz into a 15-item auto-graded objective assessment grounded in the actual week's reading, and synced the course gradebook from the LMS export.
Importable quiz + synced gradebook
~2h saved
Research & Writing
Claude Code
Ran a deep-research report on the history of the ACT versus the SAT with four parallel agents; the fact-check pass caught and removed several fabricated quotes and misattributions before they made it into the report.
9-section research report
~6h saved
Claude Code
Ran a deep-research report on the best presentation designs in history and the evidence behind them, to inform a deck-building tool.
7-section research report
~6h saved
Claude Code
Built two companion guides for personal listening and viewing (a landmark rock album and a prestige-TV finale), each researched by parallel agents that flagged and corrected several bad premises.
Two companion guides
~5h saved
Claude Code
Drafted a letter of recommendation for a local law-enforcement colleague up for a promotion.
One-page recommendation letter
~1h saved
Claude Code
Pulled a week of AI newsletters into one scored digest, flagging the 28 items most relevant to the tools and decisions I track.
Weekly AI-news digest
~1h saved
Code & Automation
Claude Code
Built and deployed a free Spanish-English front-office translator web app, so a school secretary can tap a mic and converse with a Spanish-speaking visitor; nothing is stored, and it runs on a free tier.
Live translator web app
~6h saved
Claude Code
OCR'd and indexed 15 years of county commission minutes (169 scanned PDFs) into a searchable corpus, tagging more than 12,000 mentions of schools, funding, and the tax levy.
Searchable minutes corpus + reports
~8h saved
Claude Code
Built a PowerPoint "linter," a tool that scores a slide deck against research-backed design rules and tells you whether it works as a stage deck or a read-on-your-own document.
Deck-linting tool v0.1
~4h saved
Claude Code
Put a new grant-finding tool through its first real search, ranking open funding by fit, eligibility, and deadline.
Ranked grant brief + tracker
~2h saved
Website & Social
Claude Code
Expanded the public presentations site with seven curated talks and a reusable PowerPoint-to-web conversion pipeline that turns any deck into a clean slide viewer.
7 talks live + conversion pipeline
~3h saved
Claude Code
Created a reusable SEO template for blog posts (voice always wins over keywords) plus paste-ready settings for the latest post.
Reusable SEO brief + post settings
~1h saved
Personal
Claude Code
Planned a 3-night beach long weekend for a parent and kid driving from home, pricing four beach options head-to-head on points and cash and landing comfortably under the budget cap.
Beach weekend plan, ~$790-910 all-in
~2h saved
24 tasks logged this week across 2 AI tools (Claude Code, NotebookLM) · an estimated ~75 hours saved vs. doing it by hand
Week of June 1 - June 7, 2026
District Operations
Claude Code
Analyzed the state's FY27 funding June preliminary with four parallel research agents, tracing every month-over-month dollar change to its driver (final reporting-period settling, finalized spring testing, a state norms adjustment).
Five-month comparison workbook + driver memo
~4h saved
Claude Code
Ran the weekly state-enrollment error and funding-projection routine three times, and tracked down a stale-value bug that was quietly understating the funding headline by about $94K.
Bug fixed, headline now trustworthy
~4h saved
Claude Code
Researched Tennessee maintenance-of-effort law for a municipal school system and put the disputed funding gap in plain context against the town's own budget slides.
Reference brief + reconciliation workbook
~6h saved
Claude Code
Built a homeowner-facing impact table for a 4-cent property tax change, with editable assumptions and a per-month breakdown anyone can read.
~1h saved
Claude Code
Turned eight photographed town budget presentation slides into a clean, sectioned notes document with the math cross-checked line by line.
~1.5h saved
Claude Code
Built a 12-tab Excel mockup to design next year's enrollment dashboards against, assessed which source files to keep or retire, and flagged two data-quality bugs.
FY27 enrollment dashboard mockup
~3h saved
Claude Code
Stood up two embeddable funding views in the operations Google Sheet (a monthly progression dashboard and a 1:1 calculator replica), both updatable all year without breaking the live embeds.
~2h saved
Claude Code
Closed out the 2025-26 legislative session in the bill tracker: 58 bills with final dispositions, 26 signed into law with Public Chapter numbers assigned.
~1.5h saved
Claude Code
Ran the weekly student-accident-report sync, adding nine new digital reports and rebuilding the dashboard.
~0.5h saved
Claude Code
Filed the FY27 cyber insurance renewal and recorded the actual policy number in the insurance budget tracker.
~0.5h saved
NotebookLM
Built the district operations "by the numbers" infographic, folding in newly received school-health and transportation data and verifying all eight headline stats exact against source.
Final operations infographic
~2h saved
Teaching & Academic
Claude Code
Graded a full wave of marketing-analytics case studies against the rubric (with resubmissions), then reconciled every score to the official gradebook as the source of truth.
Per-student feedback + synced gradesheet
~4h saved
Claude Code
Reviewed a doctoral qualifying exam as a committee member, surfacing a purpose/question/analysis misalignment and writing 15 inline comments plus a review summary.
~2h saved
Research & Writing
NotebookLM
Assembled a Tennessee accountability reference notebook from official state documents, then generated a briefing doc and an explainer video on academic acceleration and tiered intervention.
Reusable reference corpus + study artifacts
~2h saved
Claude Code
Built a companion guide for the book "Unreasonable Hospitality," with two research agents pulling and fact-checking 21 sources.
~1.5h saved
Claude Code
Built a spoiler-aware companion guide for an animated series finale, correcting two widespread errors floating around online in the process.
~1.5h saved
Code & Automation
Claude Code
Built an MLB Automated Ball-Strike challenge tracker from scratch, reconstructing per-umpire overturn rates the public data does not publish and backfilling the full season (948 games, 3,886 challenges).
Weekly auto-updating tracker + analysis
~5h saved
Claude Code
Built a Smart File Router that watches Downloads and auto-files recurring district reports to the right cloud folder with a pop-up telling me which skill to run next.
~4h saved
Claude Code
Packaged my second always-on Mac as an autonomous background layer: scheduled jobs, peer-to-peer sync, and phone push, with a firm boundary keeping district data off it.
~4h saved
Claude Code
Turned the weekly funding ritual into a dedicated skill (file errors, rebuild dashboard, triage, recalc, guard) and added two safety hooks that scan for sensitive data before anything publishes.
~3h saved
Claude Code
Built a standalone 3D "garden" that grows my knowledge vault into living plants, one cluster per folder, with pollen drifting along note-to-note similarity.
~3h saved
Claude Code
Reconciled my live skills, my public GitHub repo, and my knowledge vault, documenting all 28 publicly shared skills in one cross-linked index.
~1.5h saved
Website & Social
Claude Code
Polished my "Claude Code for Administrators" talk (typography fix, three real data slides) and published it as a live web deck on GitHub Pages, declining to ship any slide that would have leaked protected data.
Live web presentation
~3h saved
23 tasks logged this week across 2 AI tools (Claude Code, NotebookLM) · an estimated ~60 hours saved vs. doing it by hand
Week of May 25 - May 31, 2026
District Operations
Claude Code
Folded the Spring 2026 end-of-course results into the district scorecard across five methodology passes, landing on the official state targets and catching a labeling error inherited from an earlier draft.
~3.5h saved
Claude Code
Extended that scorecard to a full four-indicator board view (success rate, college and career readiness, ready graduate, chronic absenteeism), plus an attendance-by-achievement correlation study.
Board-ready scorecard briefing
~4h saved
Claude Code
Reviewed a 60-month copier lease package against the RFP and awarded proposal, caught a competing out-of-state-governed lease set as the primary signature page, and flagged nine redlines (auto-renewal window, force-placed insurance, service levels, data-wipe terms) before signing.
~3h saved
Claude Code
Scored vendor bids for the 2026-27 copy paper contract into a board-ready comparison and rubric, then rebuilt it twice as a late bid arrived and the published quantities differed from the working projection.
~3h saved
Claude Code
Compared the state's preliminary FY27 funding file against the internal weekly projection, reconciled the gap to a base-enrollment count difference, and fixed a stale hard-coded cell that had been understating the headline by roughly $1M.
~2.5h saved
Claude Code
Weekly state-funding projection update and daily data-error dashboard rebuild for the PowerSchool reporting pipeline.
~2h saved
Claude Code
Pulled and ranked 20-plus candidate operations stats from across the district file system for an "operations at a glance" infographic, with a tracker workbook alongside.
~2h saved
Claude Code
Built a year-over-year school meal comparison summary from nutrition data, flagging partial-month claim anomalies before anything got published.
~1.5h saved
Claude Code
Drafted a one-page proposal to pilot Claude for the district admin team alongside the existing Microsoft 365 Copilot license, priced and justified as additive rather than a replacement.
~1.5h saved
Teaching & Academic
Claude Code
Drafted the form-ready proposal for ETSU's high-impact-practices conference: a 50-minute interactive session on screen-recording feedback as a one-on-one conference in the AI era.
~1.5h saved
Research & Writing
Claude Code
Two overnight deep-research runs for a book project on compliance versus real leadership: a positioning report and a pre-NCLB accountability history, each built from four parallel research agents across roughly 128 sources.
Two ~30-page research reports
~12h saved
Claude Code
Wrote a blog post for jasonhorne.org arguing that pre-NCLB accreditation asked a wider, fairer question of schools than today's test-based accountability, rebuilt around a voice memo recorded from the car.
Published blog post
~2.5h saved
Claude Code
Stood up a long-running book project: seeded the corpus, articulated the thesis and animating question, and captured the first specimens and themes.
~1.5h saved
Code & Automation
Claude Code
Built a custom Claude Code skill with capture, extract, and synthesize modes for collecting book material over time, so each specimen and theme files itself into the project as it surfaces.
~3h saved
Personal
Claude Code
Generated spoiler-aware companion guides for two novels (Moby-Dick, Blood Meridian) and one song (Wilco's "Hell is Chrome"), each built from parallel research agents.
Three companion guides
~4h saved
Claude Code
Weather decision brief for a holiday-weekend trip, pulling the forecast and any alerts into a simple front-load-the-outdoor-time plan.
~0.5h saved
19 tasks logged this week, all powered by Claude Code · an estimated ~48 hours saved vs. doing it by hand
Week of May 18 - May 24, 2026
District Operations
Claude Code
Final-period TISA state-funding projection runs through RP9, daily Sword error dashboard rebuilds, and a full 2025-26 membership report compiled from the closing-out state data.
Membership Report .docx + .xlsx and updated TISA projection workbooks
~5h saved
Claude Code
Last week of the daily PowerSchool data pipeline for 2025-26, including a parser bugfix that had been quietly sending student-grain data to the wrong reporting view.
~2.5h saved
Claude Code
Final 2025-2026 annual survey run on fresh exports, plus a fix to a survey parser that had been silently zeroing out one department's metrics.
28-document deliverable set for C-Team and per-administrator feedback
~8h saved
Claude Code
Built a C-Team comparison report measuring how the January midyear climate survey moved to the May annual survey, at level and district.
Midyear-to-Spring comparison report
~3h saved
Claude Code
Split combined secondary and central-office survey PDFs into 15 per-administrator files for principal feedback.
~1.5h saved
Claude Code
Added a parsed out-of-state destination breakdown to the district withdrawal analysis pipeline; resolved 68 of 73 free-text exit comments to specific states and countries.
~1.5h saved
Claude Code
Post-Sine Die legislative tracker update: verified 31 active bills against the General Assembly site via three parallel research agents; 23 now signed into law.
May 18 bill tracker workbook + summary email
~4h saved
Claude Code
Processed Highland and EastView listening-tour visit notes into standardized building summaries, plus a department-organized action list and a cross-school thematic rundown.
Two "What I Heard" docs + Department Action List + Thematic Rundown
~4h saved
Claude Code
Cleaned C-Team meeting notes into the standard thematic format and built a year-end accident-reports narrative for SY 2025-2026.
~2h saved
Claude Code
Auto-rollover for the student accident reporting pipeline: tied the active year to the date so the workbook, archive folder, and Google Sheet tab swap themselves every July 1.
~2h saved
Claude Code
Built a year-end School Nutrition financial review (Jul-Apr, FY26 vs FY25), then pivoted to a per-school version while we wait on summer meal counts.
~3h saved
Claude Code
Entered the April nutrition P&L from a scanned statement, caught three scan misreads via cross-totals, and logged the April state claim plus a backfill for January.
~2h saved
Claude Code
Built a district-wide meal count narrative for principals, then caught a source-spreadsheet mislabel (breakfast + lunch counted as lunch only) and rewrote the doc.
~1.5h saved
Claude Code
Logged four FY27 insurance binders, fixed a placeholder cyber row that was understating the budget by ~$28K, and added a purchase order tracker to the workbook.
~2.5h saved
Claude Code
Monthly insurance claims pull across all coverage lines into the 10-year tracking workbook.
~1.5h saved
Claude Code
Year-end copy paper usage report, including a fix to a Total-row formula in the source spreadsheet that had been quietly dropping two schools.
~1.5h saved
Claude Code
Monthly ScribOrder statement filing and tracker regeneration ahead of the auto-renewal decision point.
~1h saved
Claude Code
Built a Photos-library watcher to auto-capture slide photos during a live state Treasury webinar, then merged the captures with the Plaud transcript into a single notes doc.
~2h saved
Claude Code
Designed an opt-in red-tag system for end-of-year summer furniture cleanout: printable REMOVE tags, teacher instructions, and a generator script.
~2h saved
Claude Code
Drafted a summer meals BrightArrow message, a district press release announcing an internal nutrition supervisor promotion, and two weather decision briefs for high school graduation.
~1.5h saved
Teaching & Academic
Claude Code
Parsed two Hootsuite instructor exam banks (224 questions) into D2L Brightspace question-import CSVs with module tags and answer feedback.
~2.5h saved
Claude Code
Rebuilt MKTG 5618 Week 5 after Hootsuite dropped certifications: two Rise modules, two D2L exams, full syllabus and gradesheet updates.
~3h saved
Claude Code
Built an 18-slide AI talk for the ETSU Upward Bound / UBMS Summer Academy, pitched for first-gen college-bound high schoolers.
~4h saved
Research & Writing
Claude Code
Adapted the media-companion workflow for music: full deep-dive guides on two songs, each built from three parallel research agents.
Two ~3,000-word companion guides
~4h saved
Code & Automation
Claude Code
Built and published a public Claude Code skill that turns a named song into a playable guitar chart, with a personal repertoire-library index.
github.com/jasonbhorne/guitar-skill
~5h saved
Claude Code
Built the /reader-digest skill: a saved-link queue that auto-emails a digest of weekly reading every Saturday morning, scheduled via launchd.
~3h saved
Claude Code
Applied the GitHub Pages auto-publish pattern to the /what-im-reading skill so the live page on the site updates itself instead of needing a manual paste each run.
~2h saved
Claude Code
Built a rerunnable QuickScore benchmark vs prior-year TCAP analysis tool plus a generic /benchmark-vs-tcap skill so future rounds need just a fresh data drop.
~6h saved
28 tasks logged this week, all powered by Claude Code · an estimated ~80 hours saved vs. doing it by hand
Week of May 11 - May 17, 2026
District Operations
Claude Code
Ran weekly and daily TISA state-funding projections through the close of reporting period RP9, including a fix to a row-dropping bug in the update script.
Updated FY27 TISA projection workbooks and dashboard
~3h saved
Claude Code
Investigated how the state classifies CTE health science courses in the county revenue-sharing formula, reconciling 15 enrollment and PowerSchool reports.
WFTEADA / CTE reconciliation findings
~3h saved
Claude Code
Daily PowerSchool data-quality error tracking and trend dashboard; traced an end-of-year validation spike to a new reporting-period rule.
~2h saved
Claude Code
Monthly insurance claims pull across all coverage lines into the 10-year tracking workbook.
~1.5h saved
Claude Code
Weekly student accident report sync to the Looker Studio dashboard.
Refreshed accident reporting dashboard
~1h saved
Claude Code
Compiled the FY26 Administration year-in-review, then rewrote it as a narrative, magazine-style report.
FY26 Year in Review .docx
~2h saved
Claude Code
Processed the 2025-2026 spring employee surveys into longitudinal trend reports, level reports, and per-administrator feedback packets across two practice runs.
28-document survey deliverable set
~10h saved
Claude Code
Turned school listening-tour visit notes into standardized building summaries and a department-organized action list.
~2h saved
Claude Code
Built a six-year longitudinal certified-teacher salary dataset for Greeneville plus eight regional peer districts.
Salary workbook, narrative report, and re-runnable pipeline
~8h saved
Teaching & Academic
Claude Code
Pre-launch sweep of the summer Marketing Analytics course: syllabus revisions, link verification, rubric and quiz-import validation, and a launch checklist.
~2h saved
Claude Code
Built D2L assignment briefs for all four course case studies (SQL, Cognos, Tableau, and regression).
~2h saved
Claude Code
Built the regression answer key and instructor sample submissions for all four case studies, verifying every cited figure against the real datasets.
~2.5h saved
Claude Code
Verified the Hootsuite and Google Analytics certification assignments against the live sites; found dead links and a fabricated module list, then rewrote both as D2L-safe pages.
~2h saved
Research & Writing
Claude Code
Ran a six-agent research pipeline on elementary a la carte food policy under the Community Eligibility Provision for the incoming nutrition supervisor.
Full research report plus a one-page executive brief
~11h saved
Claude Code
Ran the deep-research pipeline comparing Direct Instruction and inclusion for special education outcomes; 49 sources, cross-referenced and verified.
Report published to the jasonhorne.org Research Shelf
~12h saved
Code & Automation
Claude Code
Built the /year-end-report skill to generate per-director data request forms and compile the annual administration report.
~5h saved
Claude Code
Built the /event-weather skill: weather decision briefs for events and winter snow calls, with an automatic forecast-vs-climatology horizon switch.
First run produced the GHS graduation weather brief
~4h saved
Claude Code
Published the fantasy-football Claude skill to the public GitHub repo after a reader request.
github.com/jasonbhorne/claude-code-skills
~1h saved
Website & Social
Claude Code
Weekly website and GitHub traffic review combining GA4 and repository analytics.
Site review .docx
~1h saved
19 tasks logged this week, all powered by Claude Code · an estimated ~75 hours saved vs. doing it by hand
Week of May 4 - May 10, 2026
District Operations
Claude Code
Ran a full diagnostic on the certified 2025-26 WFTEADA share decline (-1.017 pp, ~$101K/yr loss). Tested CTE hypothesis (falsified at 0.067 pp), discovered net-positive student migration with Greene County, isolated TOPS-G as a 0.96 pp share buffer, and surfaced a separate compliance question on junior-year early graduates.
Email + brief + diagnostic xlsx + full report + policy reference for the C-suite
Claude Code
Reframed WFTEADA story after TDOE Local Finance sent the 24-25 master database file. Section A grade-level actually GREW +154 weighted year-over-year; CTE Section B (-168) and Spec Ed Opt 7-9 NPC line going to zero (-64) drove the decline.
Corrected follow-up email
Claude Code
Drilled into the CTE Section B -168 weighted decline at the cluster level. Three clusters (Health Sciences, General CTE, Architecture) went from active to zero while Arts grew +25 weighted, suggesting course reclassification rather than program death. Validated the internal CTE tracker reconciles to the TDOE-certified Section B within 3%.
Claude Code
Filed FY27 School Nutrition budget, located prior-year FY24 and FY26 files, ran FY26→FY27 comparison, and stitched a multi-year workbook covering FY24 through FY27 with key-movers analysis.
GCS_SN_Budget_MultiYear_FY24-FY27.xlsx
Claude Code
Filed the FY25 and FY26 SN P&L workbooks. Caught a $65K formula gap on the September 2025 SUB TOTALS row that had inverted FY26 YTD from +$54K surplus to -$11K loss; the bookkeeper had it fixed within minutes.
Reconciled PL files, FY26 YTD now +$54,049 surplus through 9 months
Claude Code
Built an executive-ready report on School Nutrition program health with 11 sections, 5 embedded charts, and a multi-year revenue/expense view. $233K YoY P/L swing called out as the headline.
GCS_SN_Program_Health_2026-05-04.docx
Claude Code
Locked Round 1 SN Supervisor interview slate from committee vote tally. Built 7 per-interviewer rubric workbooks (one per committee member, 5 candidate scoresheet tabs each) and the May 11 schedule docx with morning Teams block for two remote candidates.
Reviewed the SN coordinator's SY 2025-26 excess-balance worksheet and approved the 10% bonus tier ($23,250 total across 33 staff, 4.3% of excess balance).
Claude Code
Ran the full-day end-of-year listening tour at one of the elementary schools. 7 sessions captured via Plaud (one via local Whisper after Plaud cap hit), cleaned into individual session docs, plus a C-Team-ready daily roundup leading with "least restrictive for one becomes most restrictive for the rest."
Daily roundup docx + 7 session docs
Claude Code
CTE academy listening tour visit. Manual notes only (no recordings). Cleaned 4 drop-in conversations into a thematic What I Heard packet; recruitment/visibility surfaced as the dominant thread.
Claude Code
Drafted principal email template for the end-of-year listening tour visits to all schools. Boundaries set: not evaluative, not for same-day emergencies, confidential by default.
Claude Code
Daily TISA RP1-8 projection refresh and SWORD pulls. Generated dated projection files, updated the Daily Tracker, ran a Base ADM trend chart Feb 28 → May 6, and triaged 4 critical 3105 enrollment-overlap errors at two elementary schools.
Filed the FY27 General Purpose Budget for the 5/11 BOE meeting ($40.6M balanced). Renamed and routed to Finance/Budget folder.
Claude Code
Filed the closeout Visit 3 high school fire marshal follow-up; every deficiency marked Corrected by the state inspector. Annual cycle closed.
Claude Code
Filed an attorney memo on HB 1666 (honorifics added to TCA 49-6-5102) and built a searchable Learning note for future reference.
Claude Code
Kicked off the 2026-2027 Copy Paper RFP. Built per-school case projections (790 standard + 70 specialty = 860 total) using a 20/30/50 weighted historical, filed Sep 2025 vendor performance documentation, and held spec-hardening recommendations for the procurement draft.
Claude Code
Filed second-year property maintenance complaint with Town of Greeneville Code Enforcement for trash on a commercial berm behind one of our schools. Same property as last year, same expected ~3-week cleanup turnaround.
Claude Code
Weekly TLDR AI digest: 13 issues covered (Apr 20-May 6), 56 items flagged across tools, ed-tech, enterprise strategy, governance, skills/agents, data science methods, and leadership foresight.
Power Automate
Five student accident reports processed end-to-end through the digital pipeline across multiple schools — Microsoft Form intake, principal approval, PDF generation, archive, tracker update.
State Conference
Claude CodePlaud
Two-day TDOE Annual Fiscal Workshop in Sevierville. Captured 11 sessions across Day 1 and Day 2 via Plaud transcripts and ~150 slide photos; built a master notes file by session and 11 per-session DOCX deliverables. Surfaced multiple high-priority items: SSN collection question (HB2532), personal days bill (HB2343), Better Spending Better Schools Aug 1 reporting (HB2121), Communism Day (PC757), FY27 base $7,530, $50K minimum starting salary.
Workshop Notes by Session.md + 11 DOCX files
Teaching & Academic
Claude Code
D2L sanitizer was stripping gradient backgrounds in the MKTG 5618 News pages. Reworked three News HTML files with a D2L-safe template, built three new Content pages (Week 1 briefing with embedded video, course reflection dropbox, Meet Your Instructor with embedded headshot), and built the Knowledge Check 1 Brightspace import (31 questions, generator script, answer key with two corrections from the prior instructor's source).
Drafted a second round of recommendation letters for a former colleague targeting two assistant principal openings. Tailored each to the building context.
Research & Writing
Claude Code
Deep research on senior-leader white space, strategic thinking, and reading habits. 4-agent research team (gov, news, academic, industry sources), 14-page report with claim cross-referencing, contradiction analysis, and source reliability matrix. Published to Research Shelf under K-12 Education.
2026-05-04 White Space Strategic Thinking and Reading Deep Research Report.docx (45 sources)
Claude Code
Built first-cut tuition student marketing analysis from the May 8 PowerSchool pull (581 tuition / 2,215 resident, 20.8% share). 9-section C-team report, demographic skew flagged, K-to-1 retention leak identified, structured data request drafted, and a Tuition Family CRM workbook stood up with 10 KPI formulas.
Tuition_Marketing_Report_2026-05-08.docx + CRM template + data request
2026-05-05 Gueule French History Research Report.docx (~33 sources), pushed to Research Shelf
Website & Social
Claude Code
Overhauled the jasonhorne.org/resume page. Added a newly published dissertation, reconciled a married name change on a prior committee, and completed two more in-progress entries. Designer agent built a single self-contained HTML CV scoped to .cv-jbh, mobile-collapsible at 520px, print-friendly. Pasted into Squarespace and verified live.
jasonhorne.org/resume + Word CV updates
Code & Automation
Claude Code
Scaffolded a continuous-improvement repo at ~/Code/skills-ci. 25 pytest tests across daily-sync, bill-tracker, and sword-error-tracking suites plus 3 cross-cutting regression suites (macOS path quirks, format-conversion library use, fabricated-data guards). 22 pass, 3 fail with real signal worth fixing in live skills.
Beach trip planning. 5 parallel research agents compared Folly, Hilton Head, Isle of Palms, and Atlantic Beach NC across hotels, food, transportation, safety, and budget. Stacked AAA + Hilton Honors options to bring Hilton Head into reach; booked Hilton Beachfront Resort for May 28-31.
~/Documents/Travel/Beach-Trip-Jun2026/ (8 docs)
Claude Code
First production run of the new /data-broker-removal skill in audit-only mode. Walked 14 people-search brokers using personal phone and email; 4 confirmed listings (Spokeo, BeenVerified, ThatsThem, USSearch), 4 bot-blocked, 4 URL templates broken. Patched the skill's broker registry to handle new failure modes.
Tracker, audit folder, removal report
Claude Code
Logged a chapbook contest rejection from the Little Kanawha Reading Series and stood up a chapbook submissions tracker as an ongoing project.
27 tasks across 3 AI tools • ~95 hours saved
Week of April 27 - May 3, 2026
District Operations
Claude Code
Synthesized Ellen Lipe's 64-slide FY27 budget workshop deck and full Plaud transcript into a single reference Word doc. Captured MOE gap, county pennies erosion, health insurance debate, voucher risks.
2026-2027 Budget Workshop Notes - 04-27.docx
Claude Code
Reconciled the $108K FY27 state-share drop between the April 13 internal projection and April 28 official state letter; decomposed into fiscal capacity vs share-of-county effects for CFO memo.
Memo_FY27_TISA_April_Shift.md
Claude Code
Built student-level TISA reconciliation script comparing state April Preliminary against internal SWORD RP1-8 across Base/ED/SPED/EL/CoD/TCAP/CTE; surfaced Eastview K-2 ED pipeline gap, SPED NULL row bug, two EL tier mismatches.
tisa_daily.py + memo to Julie and Richard
Claude Code
Verified SWORD is still updating after a suspicious 0-error day; compared today's exports against five historical snapshots; traced the quiet day to a 482-row SPED queue cleanup, not a stuck pipeline.
Claude Code
Filed several School Nutrition Supervisor applicants, ran TN min-qual review on each, and updated the search tracker.
Claude Code
Filled three FY27 carrier renewal applications (Work Comp, Liability, Property/Crime) ahead of the procurement renewal cycle.
3 FILLED PDFs in Insurance Renewals FY2027 folder
Claude Code
Generated the May 2026 GCS AI Newsletter using 3 parallel research agents (article finder, media finder, link researcher); archived 15 items to bring total to 190 articles across 21 newsletters.
May 2026 Smore Paste + HTML versions
Claude Code
Cleaned and structured Friday leadership check-ins (5 attendees) into thematic notes and refreshed the action item tracker.
Friday Check-Ins - 2026-05-01.docx
Claude Code
Captured the PowerSchool RFP renewal meeting from two Plaud transcripts into structured notes; locked in 3-yr on-prem SIS bundle at $18,343/yr with 0% uplift, ~$10K/yr savings vs prior pricing.
PowerSchool RFP Renewal Meeting 2026-04-30.docx
Claude Code
Restructured April 28 C-Team meeting notes from raw skeleton plus transcript into thematic H2 sections (in-service, ENA-to-UDT phone migration, election coverage, donations, board update items).
C-Team April 28 2026.docx
Claude Code
Drafted the 2026 spring survey rollout: launch emails for staff, IT customer service, and C-Team heads-up, plus a companion "How Your Feedback Is Used" data-handling doc. Surveys split into 3 SurveyMonkey instances for AP-level evaluations.
5 docx files in Surveys/2025-2026/
Claude Code
Filed Julie Fannon's WIP "Monthly Notes and Thoughts" handoff email into a new Data Analyst Transition folder; converted .eml with embedded screenshots into a clean month-by-month .docx for Connie Walsh's onboarding.
Claude Code
Drafted a TSBA legal-review email vetting proposed Policy 6.308 liability language for students who refuse to buckle up on seat-belt-equipped buses.
Claude Code
Drafted self-signed personal liability waiver releasing GCS for any claim arising from electric scooter use; saved to HR for legal review.
Scooter Liability Waiver - Horne.docx
Claude Code
Daily SWORD error log filing across the week; one warning Friday (missing Cohort Year on a 9th grader); zero errors Thursday.
Research & Writing
Claude Code
Built a 10-year regional K-12 enrollment trends report covering all 13 NE TN public school systems; ETL handled 4 schemas across the decade. Region lost 7,193 students (-10.7%); Greeneville essentially flat while Greene County lost 14.4%.
NE-TN-Enrollment-Trends report on Research Shelf
Claude Code
Companion 6-year per-pupil expenditure trends report for the same 13 NE TN districts; region weighted PPE grew $9,765 to $13,415 (+37.4%, ~12% real); Greeneville-vs-Greene-County PPE gap widened from $2,060 to $2,735.
NE-TN-Finance-Trends report on Research Shelf
Claude Code
Adapted a draft op-ed about Campbell County's Fifth District elementary consolidation into a private letter to the Campbell County BOE; fact-checked load-bearing financial claims against the underlying scenarios workbook and corrected several inflated numbers.
Letter to Campbell County BOE - Fifth District Consolidation.docx
Claude Code
Ran /general-research on "Ice Cream as a Superfood"; produced a skeptical evidence-graded report covering the Harvard ice-cream paradox, UPF harms, and the limits of "superfood" as a marketing label.
2026-05-02 Ice Cream Superfood Research Report.docx
Claude Code
Built a premium-tier business model and prospect list for a hypothetical tri-cities AI workshops side business (gated on GCS conflict-of-interest review): three-tier ticketing, four revenue streams, 36 named SMB prospects across Law/CPA/Healthcare/Engineering/Manufacturing/Real Estate.
AI Workshops Business Model.xlsx + AI Consultant Prospect List.xlsx
Teaching & Academic
Claude Code
Closed out the ELPA 5400/6400 "AI Leading and Learning" paper review cycle: 11 banked papers, 11 individual AI Feedback docs (with Loom transcript pulls), and a 4,594-word cohort-wide class report covering recurring strengths, weaknesses, APA rules, annotated readings, and AI-detection patterns.
11 per-student docs + _CLASS REPORT.docx
Claude Code
Took over Dr. Dana Harrison's MKTG 5618 Marketing Analytics for ETSU CBAT Summer 2026; updated syllabus, built week-by-week course calendar, and generated importable ICS calendar with all due dates and 24-hour reminders.
MKTG 5618 Syllabus + Course Calendar + .ics
Code & Automation
Claude Code
Built /job-finder skill: multi-agent job search pipeline for friends. Takes a resume PDF or image, fans out 4 parallel agents (job boards, mission-aligned employer ATS, remote-first boards, salary intel), scores results on a 6-dimension rubric, produces a polished .docx brief and .xlsx tracker.
~625 lines of skill content; ran two real candidate jobs same week
Claude Code
Redesigned the Operations Looker dashboard to switch enrollment from three daily PowerSchool SQL pulls to SWORD ADM exports; built sword_parser.py, refactored daily_workflow.py, added district-wide CTE and SPED tabs, verified district totals match SWORD source to 6 decimals.
sword_parser.py + 4 new dashboard tabs
Claude Code
Overlaid GCS attendance zone polygons on Greeneville town limits using geopandas; produced inside-town and outside-town shapefile pairs, area summary CSV, and overlay map PDF/PNG. Confirmed district attendance footprint is essentially coterminous with town limits.
Used /travel-planner with 5 parallel research agents to build a NYC weekend trip for the Mets vs Braves home game June 13; anchor game selected, TYS-LGA flights priced ($290/person beat TRI by $300+), Renaissance Flushing booked as base.
9-file travel plan in ~/Documents/TRAVEL/nyc-mets-jun2026/
26 tasks, all powered by Claude Code · an estimated ~80 hours saved vs. doing it by hand
Week of April 20 - April 26, 2026
District Operations
Claude Code
Processed Chronic Absenteeism accountability snapshot for 278 flagged students into exec summary, 7 per-principal packets, and 5-tab dashboard via the chronic-absenteeism skill
Chronic Absenteeism 2026-03-10/ packets and dashboard
Claude Code
Cleaned Roby Auditorium Partnership Council Meeting 1 notes into a thematic readout flagging GCS scope-creep risk and cost-sheet math errors
Roby_Auditorium_Council_Meeting1_Readout-clean.md
Claude Code
Filed two more SN Supervisor applicants via the applicant-intake skill; flagged a Bachelor's gap and a "do not contact current employer" note
2 PDFs filed, tracker updated 2x
Claude Code
Drafted GHS gas leak press release for Greeneville Sun and WGRV after Atmos sniffer-truck-triggered evacuation; cleaned leadership debrief transcript with thematic action items
Press release + safety debrief docs
Claude Code
Logged the new Hal Henard principal selection for 2026-27 and updated the GCS people memory file
Claude Code
Worked through the 2026 PowerSchool PEA implementation questionnaire section by section with GCS-specific answers (TOPS-Bristol relationship, ELL flag, 2027 redistricting)
2026 Questionnaire.docx
Claude Code
Confirmed PEA upload location is in-app Dropbox button and traced the block to PowerSchool not yet provisioning the GCS study; replied on case #08901289
Claude Code
Ran TISA weekly update RP9 with new SWORD data; blanked premature RP9 cells across all six ADM sheets and recomputed averages over RP1-RP8
Monitor-mode TISA check on fresh SWORD pull caught SPED p9 down ~49 ADM (likely reporting lag); held the weekly projection update and emailed the SPED supervisor
SPED p9 Check.docx
Claude Code
Triaged forwarded emails and Fire Marshal followups: TSBA accessibility extension to 2028, SB2477 ESA failure, TOSS ALI needs assessment, GMS and HH cleared
Claude Code
Filled the FY27 crime coverage renewal questionnaire and built filled PDF via reportlab overlay from prior year
2026 Crime Supplemental - FILLED.pdf
Claude Code
Added two new ROTC Archery lines (Accident $100, GL $463.44) to FY27 insurance tracker; FY27 vs FY25 holds at -0.71%
GCS_Insurance_Budget_FY2027.xlsx
Claude Code
Updated WFTEADA tracker with TDOE-certified data 2016-17 to 2024-25; Greeneville's share climbed 2.58pp to 34.20% over the period
WFTEADA_Tracker.xlsx, WFTEADA Comparison.docx
Claude Code
Locked final status on all 58 tracked education bills after the 114th GA adjourned sine die a day early: 12 signed, 13 transmitted, 11 awaiting enrollment, 22 dead
Bill Tracker - Final Sine Die April 23 2026.xlsx
Claude Code
Ran /check-in skill on five department head emails; produced cleaned docx + PDF, appended 16 action items, uploaded to NotebookLM
Built simplified mayor briefing (academics + accountability only, no finance) from the 7-domain GCS-vs-Greene County deep dive; V2 added demographics and subgroup detail
2026-04-24 Mayor Briefing - GCS vs Greene County.docx
Claude Code
Quick lookup: SDC = Special Day Class flag value used in PEA upload mapping; GCS local equivalent is CDC
Claude Code
Re-analyzed SN Supervisor stakeholder survey at n=25 (Borda ranking: ops/finance, USDA compliance, staff leadership) and built committee Teams folder with 7 applicant PDFs and screening rubric
SN Supervisor Search - Committee Materials/
Claude Code
Filed March 2026 ScribOrder statement and escalated into a full MSA review (171% Oct 2025 fee increase exceeds CPI/6% cap); drafted renegotiation packet to the vendor
ScribOrder MSA review packet
Teaching & Academic
Claude Code
Reviewed an ELPA 6400 AI paper via /ai-paper-review skill; inserted 36 Word comments and the AI-signal scan landed in High risk band (first this cycle)
REVIEWED .docx
Research & Writing
Claude Code
Campbell County budget deep dive: docx + 9-tab xlsx with district analysis, per-school TISA model (v2 demographic-weighted), media guide, and consolidation scenarios with explicit layoff schedule (33-page site-cost report OCR)
Research/Campbell County Budget/
Claude Code
7-domain GCS vs Greene County deep dive: 319 paragraphs, 42 tables, 5-sheet xlsx; headline numbers GCS TCAP 53.7 vs 46.2, ACT 20.3 vs 18.5, CA 9.2 vs 16.4
Research/greeneville-vs-greene-county/
Claude Code
East TN peer district budget roundup across 9 districts (Washington, Kingsport, Sullivan, Hawkins, Cocke, Bristol, Hamblen, Knox, Williamson) into a one-page leadership handout
East TN School Budget Pressures - FY26 Handout.docx
Claude Code
TSSAA Transfer Rule revisions per Tenn. Code Ann. 49-2-901 (HB0025/SB0016, effective 2026-07-01); produced GCS implementation notes for AD/principal briefing
Claude Code
Adapted media-companion skill for an Iron & Wine song (The Trapeze Swinger): 3 parallel research agents produced a 33-source companion guide, auto-published to research shelf
Adapted media-companion skill for a song (Hannah Hunt, MVOTC 2013): 38-source guide including a dedicated section on the 2:43 climax
Research/hannah-hunt/
Claude Code
Multi-source literature scan on copper bracelet health claims; bottom line is no benefit beyond placebo per Richmond 2009/2013 York trials, auto-published to research shelf
Research/copper-bracelets-health/
Claude Code
Ran tldr-roundup skill across 5 issues (04/13-04/17), flagged 38 of ~79 items into Tools/Strategy/Governance/Skills categories
Obsidian TLDR Newsletter Tracker
Website & Social
Claude Code
Drafted blog post for jasonhorne.org explaining the /pensieve skill, framed around the Goblet of Fire pensieve metaphor
i-built-a-pensieve.md
Code & Automation
Claude Code
Built Python post-processor (build_pea_files.py) that pivots race codes and maps grade codes from 4 years of PowerSchool October snapshots; produced 6 PEA-template-compliant upload files
Predictive Enrollment/_Upload to PEA/
Claude Code
Identified and unzipped Greeneville Town Limits Esri shapefile to OneDrive; sanity-checked geometry with geopandas and flagged area discrepancy vs 2020 Census (likely UGB not corporate limits)
Boundaries/Greeneville_Town_Limits/
Claude Code
Debugged B&GC Hal Henard Power Automate flow null-replace error; root cause was line breaks in pasted fx expression mangling the field ID
Claude Code
Built reusable /negative-balances skill (files report, updates Master Tracker with new dated column, generates exec docx) and ran it on April 22 file (179 students, $3,457 owed)
~/.claude/skills/negative-balances/
Claude Code
Built reusable /salary-study skill (12 files, 6-phase workflow) for the FY26-27 classified cycle; passed 17 automated checks against live GCS scale plus 8 peer PDFs
~/.claude/skills/salary-study/
Claude Code
First run of /classlink-usage skill (Puppeteer scrape) plus reconciliation against the $688K software portfolio; surfaced two cost-trim candidates that resolved to KEEP after vendor context (Canvas LTI, teacher-only client)
GCS_Software_Portfolio_2026-04-23.xlsx
Claude Code
Inventoried 49 of 95 ~/.claude/skills/ into a 4-tab xlsx (Recurring/On-Demand/Reference/Legend) with cadence labels for the operational skill set
GCS_Skills_Chart_2026-04-23.xlsx
Claude Code
Daily SWORD state-reporting error filings; eighth consecutive business day of GHS critical error 3301 on a single student (enrollment/attendance mismatch needs GHS-side cleanup)
sword-errors-dashboard.xlsx
Personal
Claude Code
Pre-filled W-9 (name, address, sole-proprietor) for the ASBO July 14 webinar honorarium
W9_Horne.pdf
39 tasks across 1 AI tool Approx. 130 hours saved this week
Week of April 13 - April 19, 2026
District Operations
Claude Code
Built TISA Dashboard with Plotly across FY24-FY27 Finals, plus weekly RP7/RP8 projection updates and switch to date-stamped filenames
Full Copier RFP analysis across 5 vendors (Sharp, Ricoh, Canon, Centriworks, RJ Young) using 5 parallel agents; built scorecard, TCO model, FY-by-FY breakdown, PaperCut verification
GCS_Copier_RFP_Analysis.xlsx (9 sheets)
Claude Code
Launched School Nutrition Supervisor search after Karen Wilhoit's retirement: job posting, three stakeholder surveys, applicant tracker, timeline
Search 2026/ folder, Job Posting, Surveys, SN Supervisor Applicant Tracker.xlsx
Claude Code
Filed five SN Supervisor applicants (Willett, Hensley, Barbour, Crocker, Holt) via the applicant-intake skill; verified legal names against forms, flagged disclosures and salary asks
5 renamed PDFs filed, tracker updated 5x
Claude Code
Analyzed SN Director stakeholder survey (14 responses), ranked seven leadership qualities, summarized themes, identified 7 willing committee members
SN Director Survey Findings 2026-04-14.docx
Claude Code
Rebuilt Digital Accident Report workflow with standard M365 connectors only (Form + Power Automate + HTML to PDF), then added Student Address field and per-school nurse routing
Researched WFTEADA mechanics including City of Athens v. McMinn County (2014); confirmed Greene County rural school bond debt structure and inside-levy implications
Cleaned C-Team meeting notes and updated tracker with new action items (Karen retirement, HHE search, MasteryConnect, PEA, Mental Health Grant)
Apr 14 2026-clean.docx, C-Team Tracker updated
Claude Code
Cleaned LEPC Emergency Management meeting notes covering hazardous waste program, lithium battery safety, and county hazard mitigation plan
LEPC meeting notes docx
Claude Code
ASBO International webinar planning: pulled Deron's email and attachments, recovered topic and learning objectives from ACE 2026 proposal
ASBO Webinar 2026/ folder organized
Claude Code
Updated resume and organized ASBO Education Advisory Committee files (Future Trends and Strategic Foresight Track, 2026-2028)
ASBO Committee/ folder, updated resume
Claude Code
Filed March 2026 finance reports via Finance Filing skill; converted XLS and XLSX to PDF, updated tracker
Claude Code
Identified misrouted CMS-1500 health insurance claim form delivered to GHS; researched NUCC, Oaks PA back-office routing, recommended PHI handling
Claude Code
Filed Highland audio enhancement quote ($49K from Central Technologies via Sevier County contract piggyback)
Claude Code
Rewrote softball coach email more tactfully via internal-comms skill (head coach as point of contact, Parks and Rec turf scheduling)
NotebookLM
Created Friday Check-Ins notebook to centralize leadership check-in content for Q&A and synthesis
NotebookLM
Created Ricoh Business Solutions Proposal notebook for interactive Q&A on the copier RFP submission
Teaching & Academic
Claude Code
Reviewed an ELPA 6400 AI paper with full XML formatting audit; corrected first-pass errors and improved the ai-paper-review skill (267 to 441 lines)
REVIEWED .docx
Claude Code
Reviewed a second ELPA 6400 paper with verify-first formatting audit before writing comments; 18 rubric-tagged comments inserted
REVIEWED .docx
Research & Writing
Claude Code
Horne paternal genealogy deep research: GEDCOM cleanup pipeline, 184 direct ancestors over 14 generations across Horne, Bruce, Rose, Osborne, Kilgore lines
Horne Family Tree.FINAL.ged, Horne paternal report .docx
Claude Code
Quillen-Casteel maternal research with 7-agent parallel pipeline; 170 direct ancestors, corrected Casteel origin to Flemish, added Augustine Berry as 9th DAR patriot
Quillen-Casteel maternal report .docx
Claude Code
AncestryDNA raw data deep dive (677,436 SNPs, V2.0 array): ancestry composition, autosomal heterozygosity, Eastern KY/VA settler ancestral journeys
Claude Code
Combined Horne paternal and Quillen-Casteel maternal report with father-son DNA analysis (99.99% Mendelian concordance); published to GitHub for family sharing
Combined report .docx, GitHub publish
Claude Code
Real Leadership book positioning research: 6-agent pipeline mapping ed leadership canon, compliance critique tradition, publisher landscape, TN compliance stack
Real Leadership Book Positioning Research Report .docx
Claude Code
Background research and v1 dialogue draft for Woodcock-Johnson McSweeney's piece; verified prior-art lane is open
Comedy Research Brief.docx, Woodcock Dialogue.docx
Code & Automation
Claude Code
Built /gcs-surveys skill: reproducible spring survey analysis pipeline (longitudinal report, internal C-Team report, level reports, per-administrator feedback)
~/.claude/skills/gcs-surveys/
Claude Code
Built /tldr-roundup skill with weekly Monday launchd job, Obsidian tracker, and backfilled first digest (23 items flagged across 6 issues)
tldr-roundup skill, com.hornej.tldr-roundup.plist
Claude Code
Generated TLDR AI weekly roundup covering Claude 4.7 release, Claude Code Routines, Cowork GA, Perplexity Personal Computer, NotebookLM Canvas
2026-04-17 - TLDR Weekly Roundup vault note
Personal
Claude Code
Installed travel-planner skill from GitHub and ran 5 sub-agents to plan a Vegas trip (TYS nonstop, Horseshoe, Mystère, 4-dinner lineup, $4,500 budget)
Claude Code
Flight search for Pittsburgh Oct 13-16 (AC&E conference); recommended TYS via DCA at ~$218 round trip over TRI options
43 tasks across 2 AI tools Approx. 110 hours saved this week
Week of April 6 - April 12, 2026
District Operations
Claude Code
Updated FY27 TISA projection with actual Period 7 data from SWORD, corrected an elementary K-2 reporting error, built automated weekly update script
Reconciled legislative update session against slides, transcript, and meeting notes. Added 19 new bills to tracker (58 total), corrected 5 bill number errors
Bill Tracker - April 10 2026 Session Update v2.xlsx
Claude Code
Fixed enrollment pipeline data corrections for 3 students with unknown school or ethnicity values in PowerSchool exports
Updated enrollment.py
Claude Code
Created centralized lawsuit tracker and reorganized Legal/ folders for three active GCS cases
GCS Lawsuit Tracker.xlsx
Claude Code
Analyzed TN Comptroller's 10 Fiscal Health Principles memo against GCS operations, created self-assessment checklist
GCS Fiscal Health Principles Self-Assessment.docx
Claude Code
Created GCS Informal Resolution Procedure to complement PECCA MOU, modeled on TASB DGBA framework
Appalachian Aurora: interactive HTML nightscape visualization with layered mountain ridgelines, animated aurora, and firefly interactions
appalachian-aurora.html (open build)
Claude Code
Desktop cleanup: moved 4 files to OneDrive, deleted old screenshots, organized Downloads (18 files sorted)
37 tasks across 2 AI tools (Claude Code, NotebookLM) — Est. ~95 hours saved
Week of March 30 - April 5, 2026
District Operations
Claude Code
Upgraded the TN bill tracker with amendment tracking and ran all 38 bills, pulling 51 amendments with GCS impact flags.
6-sheet Excel tracker; 12 amendments flagged for GCS
Claude Code
Built State of the District briefing doc and interactive org chart for incoming Director of Schools Matt Drinnon, then revised with departmental wins, AI adoption, and CIP summary.
Briefing doc + HTML org chart + poster layouts
Claude Code
Extracted insurance premiums from PEP PDFs via OCR and projected FY2027 budget with rate changes, George Clem removal, dividends, and specialty updates.
Python OCR pipeline + budget projection
Claude Code
Ran IT Data Systems Analyst hiring cycle: candidate comparison workbook, score tally sheets for 8 candidates, offer extended to top pick.
Consolidated rubric workbooks; Connie Walsh hired
Claude Code
Generated interview questions and scoring rubric for a director-level hire.
Claude Code
Compared contracts clause-by-clause.
Claude Code
Cleaned up the Legislative OneDrive folder and updated the bill-tracker HTML email template.
Research & Writing
Claude Code
Deep research on Missouri's SRSA through-year testing program as a TCAP alternative model.
Research report (.docx)
Claude Code
Researched TN voucher expansion HB2532, confirmed ESA funds cannot be used for public school tuition.
Claude Code
Researched the legal ramifications of a recent controversial event involving a school board member.
Claude Code
Deep research on famous second sons in European and British primogeniture for a book project.
Claude Code
Wrote the "What I Built in March 2026" roundup blog post and polished the march-madness-2026 GitHub README.
Published on jasonhorne.org
Website & Social
Claude Code
Weekly site review and LinkedIn post promoting the bill tracker blog piece.
Code & Automation
Claude Code
Built an interactive Career Galaxy visualization, shipped the new /open-build skill for autonomous creative mode, and wrote a blog post about the experience.
New skill + interactive artifact + post
Claude Code
Built a web scraper to pull public meeting records and analyze patterns across a large archive.
Claude Code
Set up a CourtListener-powered federal case tracker after moving lawsuit files and reviewing the MSJ.
Claude Code
Built a weighted-matrix Decision Engine tool via /open-build after scrapping a duplicate constellation build.
Claude Code
Produced a complete Claude Code summer training package for GCS: training plan, cost proposal, quick start guide, and proposal memo for Drinnon.
Full proposal package (.docx)
Personal
Claude Code
Reviewed Weston's French paper corrections, caught ~20 additional errors beyond the initial round.
20 tasks across 1 AI tool, roughly 65 hours saved vs doing it by hand
Week of March 23 - 29, 2026
District Operations
Claude Code
Analyzed TISA FY27 March Preliminary data, identified N* reporting anomaly accounting for 94% of apparent enrollment decline, built TISA monitoring skill
Updated TISA prediction workbook, SWORD analysis, new /tisa skill
~8h
Claude Code
Completed Westchester cyber insurance renewal application and ACE cyber crime questionnaire with revenue projections and security control documentation
Two filled PDF applications ready for signature
~3h
Claude Code
Updated TN legislative bill tracker twice: TSBA data (9 bills, 29 field changes) and weekly update with advocacy email drafts
Drafted outreach email to Anthropic about Claude Code usage for K-12 district operations
~30m
Claude Code
Started Elizabethton keynote presentation for May 5 AI presentation
PowerPoint draft in progress
~2h
Website and Social
Claude Code
Two weekly site reviews: Mar 17-23 (+59.6% users) and Mar 20-26 (+558% users, 961 total). Blog posts driving massive Facebook traffic.
Two analytics reports (.docx), LinkedIn post draft
~2h
Code and Automation
Claude Code
Ran /insights analysis (120 sessions, 123 hours last month), added PostToolUse hooks for session logging and auto-open deliverables, created /daily-sync skill with nightly launchd agent
New hooks, /daily-sync skill, launchd automation
~4h
Claude Code
Built TISA monitoring skill with 5 analysis modes and full SWORD/TEDS data flow documentation
New /tisa skill
~3h
Personal
Claude Code
Business model thought experiment: full LLC setup exercise with financial projections, pricing tiers, bookkeeping workbook, invoice template, and website content
Business plan, books.xlsx, contract templates, website HTML
~6h
Claude Code
Set up sole proprietorship consulting business: obtained EIN, created directory structure, built Squarespace consulting page, created 37-day TikTok content calendar
EIN filed, consulting page HTML, content calendar .xlsx
~5h
Claude Code
Fantasy baseball live draft assistant: real-time analysis across 26 rounds for Campbell County league (8-team H2H)
Full roster with category grades, post-draft waiver moves
~3h
Claude Code
NCAA tournament model progress check: compared ML predictions against actual Sweet 16 results
~30m
Claude Code
Generated companion guide for Project Hail Mary (40 sources, film/book analysis, recommendations)
Companion guide .docx
~3h
Claude Code
Found and set up PIA VPN on macOS from forgotten subscription
~20m
34 tasks across 2 AI tools — Est. ~90 hours saved
Week of March 14 - 22, 2026
District Operations
Claude Code
Three deep research reports on AI in school district operations: playbook (52 sources), department-by-department analysis (30+ tools evaluated), and best practices across 9 domains (64 sources). All used parallel research agents.
3 .docx reports in ~/Documents/Research/
~33h saved
Claude Code
TN legislative passed bills impact analysis: researched 6 bills that cleared both chambers, wrote GCS-specific action items and a looking-ahead table for 8 bills still in play.
.docx to OneDrive-GCS/Legislative/
~5h saved
Claude Code
Revised Board Policy 3210 facility naming petition cycle language. Applied as tracked change in Word for board review.
~1h saved
Claude Code
Letter of recommendation for a colleague applying for Director of Schools. Transcribed voice notes, extracted handwritten signature from PDF, generated .docx.
~2h saved
Claude Code
Generated a 4-phase MagicSchool AI staff training program for GCS (2026-2027) with Kirkpatrick evaluation framework.
.docx training plan
~4h saved
Teaching & Academic
Claude Code
Full dissertation review: 8 parallel agents analyzed 720 paragraphs, inserted 104 Word comments covering APA 7, methodology, statistics, and writing quality.
Annotated .docx returned to student
~10h saved
Research & Writing
Claude Code
ML analysis of TN school letter grades: trained stacked ensemble (XGBoost R²=0.823), SHAP analysis, GCS case study showing 8.1-point outperformance. Published blog post with interactive figures.
March Madness bracket predictor: stacked ML ensemble trained on 18 years of data, 10K Monte Carlo sims, auto-updating ESPN tracker on GitHub Pages. Round 1: 22/30 correct (73.3%). Two blog posts published.
Blog + live tracker: jasonbhorne.github.io/march-madness-2026/tracker.html
~22h saved
Claude Code
Four media companion guides generated: In France Profound, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, DTF St. Louis (HBO), and Severance (Apple TV+). Multi-agent research with 25-51 sources each.
4 .docx companion guides
~10h saved
Website & Social
Claude Code
Three site reviews pulling GA4 analytics and GitHub traffic across 11 repos. Weekly users doubled (+111%), 325+ GitHub clones from 120+ unique users, fantasy football SEO driving organic search.
.docx reports in ~/Documents/Website Reviews/
~5h saved
Claude Code
Created AI This Week skill and Squarespace page. Auto-generates weekly HTML from Obsidian session logs and NotebookLM API.
Live at jasonhorne.org/ai-this-week
~4h saved
Code & Automation
Claude Code
Installed oh-my-claudecode (multi-agent orchestration with 19 agents), Google Workspace CLI, and adapted 4 agent personas for K-12 district context. Authenticated gws with OAuth.
~7h saved
Claude Code
Crawled GitHub for community Claude Code skills: installed 49 new skills from 17 repos, built a usage tracker that auto-stars repos earning positive ratings.
~9h saved
Claude Code
Built fantasy football skill with 4 modes (draft prep, live draft, weekly matchup, trade analyzer) using parallel research agents. Published blog post.
Set up Roborock vacuum CLI control with interactive .command file for Q10 S5+. Authenticated via 2FA code login.
~3h saved
Claude Code
Workspace optimization: added scoped permissions, pruned 24 redundant skills (97 to 73), added shell syntax hook, cleaned stale backups.
~3h saved
Personal
Claude Code
Wrote 5 SEO blog posts, website action items document, and a "Getting Started with Claude" guide for a friend's roofing business in East TN.
3 .docx files delivered
~7h saved
24 tasks across 1 AI tool (Claude Code dominated this week) — Estimated time saved: ~146 hours
Week of March 7 - 15, 2026
District Operations
Claude Code
Drafted a formal records preservation notice for district legal compliance
~1h saved
Claude Code
Researched Tennessee compulsory attendance law, including progressive intervention requirements and federal protections
60-source research report (.docx)
~8h saved
Claude Code
Tested MagicSchool AI platform and generated a 4-phase staff training program for GCS (2026-2027) with Kirkpatrick evaluation framework
Training program document (.docx)
~4h saved
ChatGPT
Discussed school board governance procedures and legal standing questions
~30m saved
ChatGPT
Researched legality of a NC school board meeting scheduled on a Sunday without a published agenda
~30m saved
ChatGPT
Troubleshot Microsoft MADC calendar questions
~15m saved
NotebookLM
Built a salary study notebook for the GCS 2025-2026 certified salary study committee
~1h saved
NotebookLM
Created an operations team notebook for GCS leadership coordination
~1h saved
NotebookLM
Set up a Friday check-ins notebook for recurring leadership meeting notes
~30m saved
NotebookLM
Created a board policy notebook (shared) for GCS policy review
~1h saved
NotebookLM
Built a notebook on school nutrition budget constraints and cafeteria options
~1h saved
Research
Claude Code
Deep research on school operations impact on student achievement (HR, facilities, nutrition, transportation, finance). 6-agent team, 48 sources.
10,000-word research report (.docx)
~12h saved
Claude Code
Deep research on screen time and K-12 academic performance. First run of the new /deep-research skill. 4 agents, 45 sources, 3 contradictions identified.
Research report with source reliability matrix (.docx)
~10h saved
Claude Code
AI in school operations playbook: evidence-based 4-phase implementation guide for district leaders. 52 sources, TN-specific policy analysis.
Playbook research report (.docx)
~10h saved
Claude Code
AI in district operations by department: 7-department breakdown with 30+ named tools evaluated for small-district viability
Department-level research report (.docx)
~8h saved
Claude Code
Researched GCS historical rankings across Niche, US News, GreatSchools, and SchoolDigger (2010-present) using a 6-agent research team
Rankings tracking spreadsheet (.xlsx, 8 tabs)
~6h saved
NotebookLM
Loaded screen time and school operations research reports into NotebookLM notebooks for interactive Q&A and podcast generation
~2h saved
Interview Prep
Claude Code
Integrated GCS rankings data into Director of Schools interview cheat sheets. Updated with trajectory analysis, awards stack, and TN letter grades.
Updated interview cheat sheets (.docx)
~3h saved
NotebookLM
Created an interview prep notebook with 11 sources (prep docs, rankings spreadsheet, board transcript) and generated a podcast-style audio briefing
Audio briefing (.wav)
~2h saved
ChatGPT
Practiced mock interview responses and structured a 10-minute introduction for the public candidate forum
~2h saved
ChatGPT
Refined professional writing about AI tools and leadership preparation
~1h saved
Code & Automation
Claude Code
Built the /fantasy-football skill with 4 modes: Draft Prep, Live Draft, Weekly Matchup, and Trade Analyzer. Published blog post and pushed to GitHub.
Skill + blog post on jasonhorne.org
~6h saved
Claude Code
Built the /fact-check skill: analyzes .docx files for accuracy, consistency, and citation integrity. Tested on a GCS college readiness report (17 findings).
New Claude Code skill
~4h saved
Claude Code
Built the /shopping skill: personal shopping assistant with size/brand memory, retailer search, and price comparison
New Claude Code skill
~3h saved
Claude Code
Fixed Word comment XML rendering across 4 document review skills (doc-review, ai-paper-review, dissertator, fact-check). Comments were showing as hashtags instead of bubbles.
~4h saved
Claude Code
Installed oh-my-claudecode (multi-agent orchestration), Google Workspace CLI, and adapted 4 agency-agents personas for K-12 district use
4 new skills: data-engineer, document-generator, training-designer, nexus-strategy
~5h saved
Claude Code
Organized git repo, tracked all Claude Code skills, cleaned up .claude directory structure. Pushed 9 new skills to GitHub (16 to 26 total).
~2h saved
Claude Code
Overhauled CLAUDE.md with Obsidian integration, session startup protocol, output format rules, and git workarounds
~1h saved
Claude Code
Set up Roborock Q10 S5+ vacuum CLI control with interactive menu script
roborock.command script
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ChatGPT
Discussed automating daily note-taking using voice notes and Obsidian workflows
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Writing
ChatGPT
Reviewed and revised a blog post draft about using Claude Code to prepare for the Director of Schools interview