Jonathan Tragash

Instructional Tool

Student Portfolio & Reflection System

A full-stack teacher tool — a Python/Flask web app plus a native desktop companion — for filing WIDA-aligned reflections and language-development evidence across four homerooms. Built privacy-first: no student-identifying data ever touches source control.

Instructional Tool

Concept-Aware EAL Unit Planner

Ingests a teacher's draft PYP unit and generates differentiated EAL scaffolds — vocabulary, sentence frames, translanguaging prompts — matched to each Line of Inquiry's concept type, replacing one-size-fits-all templates.

Instructional Tool

Writing Specialist Framework

Writing units start from a stack of published mentor texts, not a single exemplar. An agent scours that stack for craft moves and turns them into bilingual writer's-craft mini-lessons (English/Chinese/Korean), grounded in Matt Glover and Carl Anderson's stacks approach. Two units already have finished companion decks built this way, live in the same tool the team teaches from.

Instructional Tool

Reading Specialist Framework

A 7-lens read-aloud framework grounded in Scarborough's Reading Rope, opening each plan with a bilingual Big Question tied to the unit's Line of Inquiry. Five read-aloud plans are already built and in use, so the framework travels with the plan instead of living in one specialist's memory.

Instructional Tool

Math Specialist AI Agent

An AI-assisted planning tool aligned to Illustrative Math (adopted school-wide this year), generating research-grounded scaffolds and practice materials — the same approach as the Reading Specialist framework, applied to math.

Systems

AI Systems Engineering

Self-taught, self-directed: a multi-agent AI orchestration system — structured knowledge base, automated session logging, cross-project routing — that lets me run six concurrent instructional-design projects without losing the thread on any of them.

Game / Curriculum

Vibe-Verse Phonics

A 20-resource, UFLI-aligned phonics intervention system built as a premium anime-style trading card game — 75+ original illustrations, Science-of-Reading mechanics, bilingual EAL reference cards. Available for purchase as a classroom bundle.

Origin: an IB units-of-inquiry unit where I taught students to design their own games. Teaching the design process is what grew into the whole card-game universe.

AI Product

Spirit Sparring

An AI-powered oral-reading practice app for K–2: students read words aloud, real-time speech AI (Groq) scores accuracy, and correct reads defeat a "spirit" in a battle game. UFLI-aligned, COPPA-compliant, with built-in spaced repetition (Leitner-box "Spiral Mode") — no student accounts required, just a class code.

The clearest example of pairing hands-on AI engineering with literacy pedagogy: real speech evaluation driving a research-backed intervention loop, not just a themed worksheet.

Curriculum

Neon City Architects

A K–8 writing program with an AI writing mentor and teacher moderation queue: students write stories, earn resources, and collaboratively construct a shared class city one draft at a time. CCSS and WIDA ELD aligned.

Origin: a Student Support Services meeting surfaced a shared need for classwide engagement — not a pull-out fix for a few students, a tool for the whole room.

Curriculum

Classroom Rhythm

A real-time interactive music-ensemble app: upload a MusicXML score and the whole class syncs on their own devices via WebRTC, zero setup, for a shared rhythm-based routine.

Origin: an idea from home, built out with the classroom music teacher to solve a real day-to-day scheduling problem.

Companion Game

Word-Study Arcade

A free browser-based companion game to the Vibe-Verse phonics system — quick word-study practice rounds that reinforce the same UFLI scope outside of card-game sessions.

Companion Game

Suffixia: Crystal Clear Edition

A suffix-practice adventure game — one of several standalone phonics titles built solo outside the Vibe-Verse card-game universe.

Companion Game

Rammy's Ranges: Bossy R Quest

A bossy-R phonics adventure game, same solo build-and-ship pattern as the rest of the arcade.

Companion Game

Gnorman's Mega Stew

Another self-contained phonics game in the same series, playable directly in the browser — no install, no account.

Program

Positive Foundation Program

Coordinate AISG's school-wide strengths-based coaching program (Solros Development Group model) — a year-long curriculum for PLCs and Learning Leader teams, plus weekly whole-staff meeting warm-ups, applying ICF coaching competencies across grade-level and leadership groups.

Accreditation

WASC Focus Group Lead

Leading a WASC Focus Group Section for the school's self-study, facilitating staff collaboration and data analysis to demonstrate alignment with international standards.

Practice

Jonathan Tragash Coaching

An independent ICF-aligned coaching practice for international students — "Thrive Beyond Borders," a proactive transition program covering academic culture shock, social integration, and identity, built on the same strengths-based coaching model used at AISG.