It is late in the planning period and the chapter is still not a lesson: a textbook section, a standard to hit, a class tomorrow, and no sequence, objective, or clean way to check what landed.

The Textbook Fix is a repeatable workflow for closing that gap with AI, without handing the wheel to a chatbot. You set the frame (the standard, grade level, class time, what your students need). AI drafts inside it. You verify against the text and the standard before anything reaches students.

Inside: the method in seven short chapters, seven flowcharts, and three full worked examples (Grade 4 math, Grade 7 ELA, high school biology) each with the real prompt, a sample of the AI’s output, the edits that followed, the finished plan, and prompt variations for below-level, on-level, advanced, and English-learner students. Plus three copy-and-use tools: a chapter-mapping prompt, a review checklist, and an objective-and-assessment alignment worksheet.

It is honest about the limits. AI removes the blank page and the hour of searching; you still do the thinking. It also covers starting from your pacing guide instead of the textbook, using the AI tool your district allows, and keeping student data out of every prompt.

Written by a software engineer who builds AI learning tools, not a veteran teacher. A workflow from someone who builds workflows, meant to be checked against your own classroom judgment. 86 pages, PDF.