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Adam Patric Miller: How do I have ‘the AI talk’ in my classroom?

September 1, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Teachers should be intentional, but my school's policy admits the evolution of AI is faster than we can figure out how to respond.

Adam Patric Miller: As a teacher, I’m seeing the death of American education

November 25, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

I'm a teacher in an American school who is inundated by AI-generated work masquerading as human thought. But I still go to work.

Adam Patric Miller has been a high school teacher for 25 years. (Adam Patric Miller)

Adam Patric Miller: A teacher’s end-of-year reflection

May 30, 2025 at 5:00 a.m.

I help my students gather strength with their use of language so when a vortex of ignorance arrives, they will go in the opposite direction.

Adam Patric Miller: Why do I write college recommendation letters for students? It’s very simple.

November 8, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

Teachers care for their students and hope for the best for their futures. That transcends any teaching environment.

A teacher carries a Chicago flag with apples in place of stars in the Loop in 2019. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

Adam Patric Miller: Why I as a teacher won’t use artificial intelligence

October 21, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

As a teacher, I refuse to use artificial intelligence in my work because AI has never suffered.

Adam Patric Miller: Does my suburban school really need emergency buttons?

August 30, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

I don't worry about school shootings. What I do worry about is the misdirection of our resources.

A man wears a keffiyeh near the U.S. Capitol during a pro-Palestinian rally May 18, 2024, on the National Mall in Washington. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

Adam Patric Miller: Looking at the good, the bad and the ugly of last school year

July 19, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

I'm proud of my students. But my lessons on the Israel-Hamas war last school year ushered in an effort by others to quash freedom of speech.

Adam Patric Miller: The student I can’t forget

April 5, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

The memory of my student Charles Tembo is still trying to hip me as a teacher to the truth.

Adam Patric Miller writes: The act of teaching, being the caretaker of young people, helps students and the teacher create a better life and a better society. (Adam Patric Miller)

Adam Patric Miller: There is so much that goes unmeasured in the wonderful task of teaching

February 6, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

If I miss one day of teaching, it’s like missing five days of a normal job. The presence of a teacher makes all the difference.

Ivy covers a window on the campus at Northwestern University on July 11, 2023, in Evanston.

Adam Patric Miller: How to write (or not write) the college application essay this fall

September 15, 2023 at 9:20 a.m.

"Whatever you do when you write your college application essay," I'll say as I've always said to my high school seniors, "Don't ever write a college application essay." Then I'll...

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