Welcome back to Rebel Teacher Alliance -- all three of us this time. We open with updates: Hawaii is slowly drying out, the California teacher strikes have resolved,  and John survived a travel nightmare involving a five-hour airport delay, a missing rental car, and someone else's 5:30am alarm. Then John drops his big news -- he's back in a school building full time as a staff development teacher, working with seventh graders for the first time, and he is all in. Fabian talks about making the switch to Claude, including a newsletter automation he built for his Global Politics class that crawls the web and outputs a ready-to-send HTML email every week. And we dig into what makes a good PLC versus the cast of characters you actually find in most of them. We close with John pitching Castle Combo, a compact tableau-building card game that plays in 25 minutes and has him very, very excited.

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Things mentioned on the episode:

• Innovative Schools Summit (ISS)

• Claude AI

• Castle Combo (board game)