I taught fully online for two straight years during the pandemic and another year of hybrid after that. I’ve run Gimkit games with kids in three different time zones, with…
I used to think I was pretty good at Gimkit. I had my kits, I had my routines, and kids loved the games. Then one random Tuesday, I accidentally clicked…
The first time I tried to run a live Gimkit game, I spent twenty-three minutes troubleshooting why half my students couldn’t join, accidentally started the game before anyone was ready,…
I’ve run somewhere around 1,400 Gimkit sessions since 2019. Some of them were legendary. Some of them crashed so hard that kids still bring them up to embarrass me at…
I teach English to high schoolers who would rather set themselves on fire than discuss symbolism. For years, vocabulary quizzes were twenty minutes of quiet misery followed by my grading…
I teach high school math, and for years, “review day” was code for “everyone stares at their phone while I beg them to try the practice problems I spent two…
I’ve been teaching high school for twelve years, and I’ve probably run close to a thousand Gimkit sessions. Some kits make the room explode with energy; others fall completely flat,…
I learned about power-ups the hard way. It was October 2025, the third week of hybrid teaching, and I decided to “surprise” my 9th graders with every single power-up turned…
JANUARY 2026 broke me a little bit. One day, I was circulating around my classroom while students yelled at each other during a heated round of Gimkit Trust No One.…
I still remember the first time I watched a student who barely passed my class absolutely dominate a Gimkit session. She wasn’t the fastest reader or the one who always…
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