Future Cities
A term-long city-building simulation for English B. Seventy-one buildings, seven regions, twenty-one weeks.
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Nathan
Paine
IB teacher in Shanghai. I build tools for language classrooms.
Builds
Tools made for one room. Each one replaced a subscription, a spreadsheet, or an evening.
Whisper Studio
Local transcription with speaker labels, for marking oral assessments. Replaced a subscription.
Classroom practice
Two small games for Japanese Ab Initio — kana reading and spatial words. Single files that run offline, with nothing to install.
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Units built like simulations, and a curriculum built from nothing.
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Japanese Ab Initio
Two-year scope and sequence, structured as a journey across Japan.
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Future City Building
A project-based English B unit that ends in a public exhibition.
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AI at school
Policy, PLCs, and staff training on using generative tools well.
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About
I'm an American teacher living in Shanghai, where I teach IB English B and Japanese Ab Initio at Shanghai Qibao Dwight High School and lead the English B department. I got here by way of Japan — Kanazawa, then three years on Sado Island with the JET Programme.
The connecting thread, if there is one, is that I want the hard parts of learning a language to feel possible, and the tedious parts of teaching it to disappear.