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The Layers Blog

Stories, tutorials, and honest insights from a teacher building tools for multilingual classrooms.

What's New: Scheduled Focus Mode, Smarter Rooms, and the Mac App Is Coming

Layers v3.8 adds scheduled Focus Mode and Lockdown, a cleaner Classroom Sync panel, and a lot of small things that were quietly annoying. Plus: the Mac app is real, it builds, and it's almost ready.

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Why I Built Layers: A Teacher in Japan Who Couldn't Reach His Students

My parents were refugees. Forty years later, I'm watching their story repeat itself in my classroom — and I decided to do something about it.

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5 Invisible Barriers International Students Face Every Day

Language isn't the only thing standing between international students and success. These five barriers are in every multilingual classroom — and most teachers don't even see them.

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