ELAR · 25 yrs

Steve Kaminczak

I design English language arts curriculum — and I build the tools it runs on.

Twenty-five years teaching ELA; now building with AI. It isn't a replacement for educators — it hands a teacher the software team they were never going to get, and the limits stop being technical and become the only ones worth having.

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Projects

Things I've built

The Genre Machine

Four fairy tales × forty-one genre lenses = 164 complete retellings of the same unchanging plot. Pick The Three Little Pigs in film noir and the prose turns to clipped shadows — and so does the narrator's voice, the score, the illustration. The plot never moves, so the genre shift itself does the teaching. Every retelling is in Spanish too. Free, no login, built for the classroom.

thegenremachine.com · CC BY-NC-SA

TEKS Curriculum Library

All 278 English I–IV student expectations, each with a plain-language overview, a student-facing translation, ten or more assessment-phrased question stems, vertical alignment to the grades above and below, and the misconceptions that actually show up. Tagged by DOK level, Bloom's, and strand. Video walkthroughs in production.

React · in final review

Kaizen Vault

A working AI content pipeline: Claude Code and MCP servers running retrieval across a 19,000-document archive, with custom document-processing scripts. Built FERPA-aware from the start.

Private · walkthrough on request

Contact

Get in touch

Houston, TX — open to remote

kaminczak@gmail.com

(979) 436-5969

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