Jack, Cade, Haley: How I Memorize Every Student's Name Before Day One | #86

Inside my classroom setup for the year — communication, Analog Roots, and the Mastery Viva rework, MasteryFlip 

Students walk into Room 231 tomorrow, and this week I’ve been doing everything I can to be ready for them — inside the MasteryFlip framework. In this episode, I give you a real walkthrough of how I set up my classroom, communicate with students and parents, and get ready for a new year: the AI Engines, the Analog Roots notebooks, and the Mastery Vivas I’m upping the game on this year. Plus — the seating-chart trick I’ve used for 40 years to learn every student’s name before they even sit down.

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In this episode:

• How I communicate the MasteryFlip framework to students and parents before day one

• Setting up AI Engines: why I’m sticking with EdPuzzle this year (and where Perusall might fit for you)

• A tour of my Analog Roots notebooks — GMO and AP Physics C

• Why laptops live in backpacks, not on tables

• The seating-chart method I use to memorize every student’s name in two days

• What’s changing with the Mastery Viva this year (3-point → 4-point thinking)

• My day-one script and the “question of the day” ritual

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Get a copy of my syllabus: [LINK]

• MasteryFlip Certification Course (v1.1, just released):

• Bring MasteryFlip to your school — free licenses for an admin + one teacher to try it:

• Using MasteryFlip in your classroom? I want to talk to you. Reach out here to be a guest on the podcast:

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Key Moments

Here it is as a plain list — this format should preserve line breaks when copied:

0:00 – Cold open: “Jack, Cade, Haley...”

0:15 – Welcome & why this episode

0:57 – Communicating MasteryFlip to students & parents

2:15 – AI Engines: EdPuzzle vs. Perusall

4:03 – Analog Roots: the notebooks & room setup

7:16 – Scripting day one

9:41 – Mastery Vivas: upping the game to 4 points

11:04 – How I memorize every student’s name

16:51 – MasteryFlip Certification v1.1

17:26 – Closing: a story about Mia