About Stephen Fitzpatrick
About Me
I’m Steve Fitzpatrick, a high school history teacher and debate coach with three decades in the classroom.
I write Teaching in the Age of AI for educators and school leaders who want less hype and more reality: what today’s AI tools can do, what they’re doing to student work, and what schools can reasonably do about it.
What I cover
Most of my writing lives where theory collides with teacher reality:
Writing, studying, projects, and take-home assessments
Research, sourcing, and AI fact checking
Academic integrity, grading, and what “authentic work” even means now
School policy and faculty readiness, including what tends to fail in practice
AI beyond school: I also write about the broader culture and incentive systems around AI, including how new tools and platforms shape what students expect from writing, research, relationships, and schools before they ever walk into class.
I’m not interested in AI utopianism or AI doom. I’m interested in trade-offs and what actually holds up in classrooms.
Who this is for
Teachers trying to redesign assignments without turning into full-time detectives
Administrators trying to write policy that doesn’t collapse on contact with reality
Parents and students who want clarity about what’s changing and why
Community
If you reply to posts or leave comments, you’ll get my attention.