Evalve Out Loud

Evalve Consulting
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Evalve Out Loud is a podcast for educators who know the system is not working and are curious about what comes next. Hosted by Chris, the show features honest stories, calm reflections, and real conversations about education, leadership, special education, and AI. Some episodes are short solo thoughts. Others are conversations with educators and builders. Views are personal. Examples are generalized and de-identified. No schools, districts, individuals, or student data are referenced.

Episodes

  1. Aug 5

    EP 05: Four Apps in a Week

    A year ago I couldn't write a line of code. Last week I put four apps into TestFlight. In this episode I walk through all four. A behavior and IEP data tracker that recommends the right data type and logs a trial with one swipe on a home-screen widget, then graphs it and writes the summary. A parent companion app built on six pillars that turns medical records, neuropsych files, and IEPs into parent-friendly language and walks a family from birth through adulthood, milestone by milestone. A family chores app to kill the constant reminders. And a kids point-of-sale app I built for my daughter instead of buying another toy cash register. All of them built with Fable 5 through Claude Code, going back and forth like a coworker instead of copying and pasting snippets from a chat. The tools are not the point. Building is. When you can make the thing instead of just describing it, the whole job changes. CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro 00:21 Four apps in one week 00:46 Learning to build with AI 01:16 Why classroom data collection breaks 03:05 App 1: the behavior and IEP tracker 05:01 One-shotting with Fable 5 and Claude Code 06:38 App 2: the parent companion app 10:35 App 3: the family chores app 13:30 App 4: the kids point-of-sale app Website: https://evalveconsulting.com Book a call: https://calendar.app.google/HjzF8PMaQbrM2GGF8 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-sanzeri/

    EP 05: Four Apps in a Week

  2. Jul 22

    EP 04: How to Run a 90-Day AI Pilot

    You do not need a policy, a committee, or a two-year adoption cycle to bring AI into a school district. You need ninety days, one real problem, and the willingness to measure whether it worked. In this episode I walk through the 90-day AI pilot from start to finish: what a pilot is and what it is not, why the slow committee route quietly costs you two years while your teachers use AI with no guidance anyway, and the four steps to run one for real. Pick a boring use case. Vet it for privacy before any student data moves. Run it small with volunteers. Measure the outcome you chose up front, then keep it, kill it, or expand it. I also share the two-minute automation that saved an hour and filled my inbox with thank-yous, and why going small is the safer route, not the riskier one. Experiments are allowed to fail. That is what they are for. A note on the voice: I scripted this pillar episode and it is read by the AI clone of my voice that I built in Descript. That felt fitting for an episode about running small, honest AI experiments. CHAPTERS 00:00 Ninety days, one real problem 01:10 The framework: what, why, how 01:36 What a pilot is (and what it is not) 02:43 Why pilots beat policies 04:50 The four steps 06:58 Take the smaller swing Free District AI Pilot Checklist: https://evalveconsulting.com/pilot-checklist/ Website: https://evalveconsulting.com Book a call: https://calendar.app.google/HjzF8PMaQbrM2GGF8 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-sanzeri/

  3. Jul 8

    EP 03: What Broke Me

    This one is for the innovative educator who's sick of functioning inside broken schools and broken systems. Education has been working on the same problems for 250 years. We're getting better as individuals and as a society, but we are not getting better as a system. In this episode I share the things that broke me: why work outside working hours is a broken system and not a time management problem, what happens when the "system" is really just a person doing the work by hand, and why the person gets blamed when a process that never existed fails. There's a two-minute story in the middle that shows the other path: an email that would have taken me over an hour to build by hand, done in minutes, with thank-yous rolling in by morning. Systems of practice, not systems of humans. Then I get honest about healing stronger, reading my own job description for the first time since I was hired, the two-year board approval process for getting a resource in front of a student, and why I'm taking a third route with Evalve. If something in here resonates, let me know. How do you want to solve it? Let's solve it together. CHAPTERS 00:00 Welcome: who this show is for 01:20 250 years of the same problems 02:10 Overwork is a broken system, not a time problem 03:30 SOPs and the two-minute email automation 05:15 When the system fails, the person gets blamed 06:15 Top-down decisions and vendors 07:00 I healed stronger: my exit is inevitable 09:00 Reading my own job description 10:15 The two-year approval problem, and the third route Website: https://evalveconsulting.com Book a call: https://calendar.app.google/HjzF8PMaQbrM2GGF8 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-sanzeri/

    EP 03: What Broke Me

  4. Jun 24

    EP 02: What Teachers Need from AI

    Teachers don't need the next flashy model. They need AI that saves them fifteen minutes. I've spent the past three years building and launching AI tools for thousands of educators, and the lesson keeps repeating: simplicity wins. In this episode I get into what that looks like in practice: prompts that turn a curriculum framework into aligned lesson sequences, learning targets, and assessments. Custom GPTs with guardrails so they never recommend materials your district doesn't own. And why one intelligent model your whole staff can access beats six figures a year in education-branded AI subscriptions. Plus the question every team should start with (a fifteen-minute brainstorm answers it), and the analogy I grew up with on construction sites: when something needs to get built, do you grab the hammer or spend an hour setting up the nail gun? If we can give teachers back an hour of planning a day, that's happier teachers, better work-life balance, and more time in front of students. Those are the tools that win. CHAPTERS 00:00 Welcome 01:10 Three years of building AI tools for educators 02:00 Simplicity wins: save teachers fifteen minutes 03:45 Simple prompting: frameworks to lessons to assessments 06:00 The real win: giving teachers back their time 08:30 The hammer analogy 09:50 What Evalve does Website: https://evalveconsulting.com Book a call: https://calendar.app.google/HjzF8PMaQbrM2GGF8 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-sanzeri/

    EP 02: What Teachers Need from AI

  5. Jun 5

    EP 01: Why Evalve?

    Welcome to the first episode of Evalve Out Loud. I'm Chris Sanzeri, founder of Evalve Consulting, and this is where I work through education, AI, and building something new, out loud. In this episode: why the name Evalve (to evolve, you have to evaluate), why only about a third of teachers are engaging with AI while nearly every other industry has moved on, what Microsoft's CEO says about how we'll measure AI going forward, and what it looks like when AI actually works for you: better written IEPs, consistent curriculum design, and freeing up your brain for the work that matters. AI won't replace educators. There's no better way to teach a child than putting an adult in front of them. But AI can replace the workflows that waste educators' time. CHAPTERS 00:00 Welcome: why Evalve Out Loud 01:45 AI adoption in education: the 35% problem 03:30 Measuring AI by impact, not by model 04:45 What Evalve Consulting does 07:15 Wrap-up Website: https://evalveconsulting.com Book a call: https://calendar.app.google/HjzF8PMaQbrM2GGF8 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-sanzeri

    EP 01: Why Evalve?
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Evalve Out Loud is a podcast for educators who know the system is not working and are curious about what comes next. Hosted by Chris, the show features honest stories, calm reflections, and real conversations about education, leadership, special education, and AI. Some episodes are short solo thoughts. Others are conversations with educators and builders. Views are personal. Examples are generalized and de-identified. No schools, districts, individuals, or student data are referenced.

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  • Creator
    Evalve Consulting
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    5
  • Rating
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    © Evalve Consulting
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    Evalve Out Loud