Corey

Online ESL teacher | Founder of Kapua | Helping independent online teachers spend less time on admin and more time teaching | 8 years experience

[Corey @Sacredcorey]

I’m an online ESL teacher with 8 years of experience working with learners of all levels in the United States, China and across Europe.

I’m also building Kapua, a calm local first desktop workspace for independent online teachers.

The idea is simple.

You teach. Kapua remembers the rest.

Kapua is being built to bring student history, teaching notes, schedules and admin into one place, so teachers can spend more time teaching and less time searching, rewriting and trying to remember.

I’m sharing the teaching journey and the building journey openly. I want to meet other online teachers, exchange ideas and understand the real problems that make this work harder than it needs to be.

If you teach online, what is the biggest admin headache you face each week? I’d genuinely like to hear it.

[Corey @Sacredcorey]

@coolcatteacher The "with an adult" part is doing the heavy lifting there.

Same in online ESL. A story read together with someone responding beats the same story played at a child, every time.

It's the interaction, not the format. #OnlineTeaching

[Corey @Sacredcorey]

@CherrillEmily Eight years in, the thing I wish someone had told me on day one: build the boring systems before you need them.

One recurring calendar. One student tracker. One payment reminder. One weekly check-in message.

The teaching is the easy part. #OnlineTeaching

[Corey @Sacredcorey]

@Larryferlazzo The redesign argument lands even harder online. One-to-one over a webcam, there's nowhere for passive content delivery to hide. The student produces language or the lesson is 25 minutes of me talking.

AI is making that true for classrooms too.

[Corey @Sacredcorey]

@coolcatteacher "Not replace them" is right, but the replacing already happened. Just not where people expected.

AI took my lesson prep and my feedback writing. It hasn't touched a minute of actual teaching.

Most teachers haven't noticed that's the trade on offer.

[Corey @Sacredcorey]

@coolcatteacher The part that surprised me most: it's rarely the teaching that pushes people out. It's everything around it.

Eight years in, the ones who lasted weren't the best teachers. They were the ones who built boring systems early instead of powering through the chaos.

[Corey @Sacredcorey]

@_chaapis Kids read the room faster than adults do. I've had a seven-year-old ask if I was tired before I'd said a word.

Strangely it's the most honest feedback loop in teaching. They tell you exactly how your energy is landing, whether you asked or not.

[Corey @Sacredcorey]

@stumpygutbucket @_SMthiyane @dontplay_z Eight years teaching online and I'd frame it differently.

AI isn't coming for the teaching. It already took the prep and the feedback writing.

Covid remote learning failed because it was in-person teaching pointed at a webcam. Design problem, not a tech one.

[Corey @Sacredcorey]

@imagine can you make the meme better?

[Corey @Sacredcorey]

Anthropic really speedran the full tech-company lifecycle:

Release insanely good models
Everyone falls in love
Charge $100–$200/month
Add limits to the limits
Nerf things nobody asked to be nerfed
Randomly ban a few customers for flavour
Watch everyone discover Chinese models exist

Claude used to feel like having a cracked senior engineer living in your terminal.

Now it feels like hiring a brilliant consultant who works for 14 minutes, says “you’ve reached your usage limit,” and disappears until Thursday.

Meanwhile MiniMax, Kimi, Qwen, GLM and MiMo are standing outside like:

“soooo… you guys need a coder?”

Competition is about to get extremely funny.

#Claude #Anthropic #AI #AICoding #Kimi #MiniMax #Qwen #GLM #MiMo

[Corey @Sacredcorey]

@grok what do you think?

[Corey @Sacredcorey]

@thsottiaux I asked sol to give me a reset went to pet my dog however it immediately said it can’t do that…. Hopefully astra is able too.

[Corey @Sacredcorey]

@thsottiaux Cool story bro. What about the reset. You’ve turned me into a fein

[Corey @Sacredcorey]

Small Kapua milestone today.

The goal is still simple. Teachers should not need a heroic memory, six tabs and a mystery notebook to understand where a student left off.

What is the one student detail you most often wish you could find instantly?

[Corey @Sacredcorey]

Teaching children online is ten percent lesson plan and ninety percent noticing the exact second their soul leaves the Zoom window.

A drawing challenge or silly choice question usually brings them back.

What is your emergency attention reset?

[Corey @Sacredcorey]

Twenty classes in one day is less a schedule and more a personality test.

By class eighteen I can still teach, smile and encourage. I just cannot remember why I walked into the kitchen.

What is your personal record for lessons in one day?

[Corey @Sacredcorey]

AI can draft a lesson plan in seconds.

It still cannot notice that a usually talkative student has gone quiet, or decide that today the plan needs to be abandoned.

Where has AI genuinely helped your teaching, and where do you refuse to use it?

[Corey @Sacredcorey]

Can someone provide any alternatives to GitHub? Other than local? 3000 minutes isn’t enough 🤣🤣🤣

#git

[Corey @Sacredcorey]

Hey founders !

I’m looking to connect with people building in:
🍽️ SaaS 📷 Tech 📷 AI tools 📷 Product Development 📷 Devs

Drop what you're working on🔥💻

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hmmmm spacex stock going up or down?

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The online lesson ends.

Then the unpaid sequel begins.

Feedback, notes, messages, rescheduling and one student asking what homework they were given seven minutes ago.

Which task steals the most time after your final class?