Before You Paste — An AI Workflow for Teachers Who Have to Protect Student Data

It is 9:40 on a Sunday night, there are twenty-six comments to write, and the tab is open.

Which is fine. The part that is not fine is the bit nobody covered in the training: what exactly are you allowed to put in the box? Names, obviously not. Probably. What about “the student who missed three weeks in October” — is that a name or not? In a school of four hundred, it might be.

And then the output comes back beautifully formatted, with confident headings, and one citation that does not exist.

Before You Paste is a workflow for the two problems that actually bite: what leaves your hands, and what comes back. Decide whether the task is worth it at all. Strip every identifier before you paste. Then check facts before format, in a fixed order, so a fabricated source cannot ride out inside a nicely structured paragraph.

It is written to be tool-agnostic on purpose. Name a product in a workbook and it is stale by spring.

Not sure yet? Read five pages free — the cover, the whole method on one page, the first step, and one complete fill-in worksheet. No payment, no card.

What is inside

• 24 pages, eight fill-in worksheets, eight steps
• A triage sheet for deciding what is worth handing over at all — and the two-round rule for when to stop editing and just write it yourself
• The strip list: twelve things that identify a student, plus the key page you keep on paper beside you rather than in the box
• The four-part prompt — role, task, constraints, format — and why constraints is the part almost everybody silently skips
• Negative constraints, the highest-yield line in any prompt, and the three worth using every single time
• Your material kit: what to assemble once a term so the output stops arriving generic
• The check pass, run in a fixed order, because checking format first is how a made-up citation survives
• A fill-in policy and disclosure record, because your district's rules govern this and a workbook's guesses do not
• Eight honest answers, including whether any of it is worth the trouble

Who it is for

Classroom teachers, tutors, TAs and anyone writing feedback, materials or comments at volume who would like a repeatable routine instead of a fresh judgment call every time.

Format

Instant PDF download. US Letter, made to be printed and written on by hand. The strip list is meant to live where you actually work.

Refunds

Instant download, so all sales are final. If the file will not open or it is not what was described, email us and we will fix it or refund you.

Please note

An educational workflow workbook. It is not legal advice and it is not a compliance product. Student-data rules are set by federal law, your state and your own district, and they beat anything printed here — which is why the book gives you a page to write your own policy on rather than a policy of its own.