Buy a tool once and run it on your own computer or in your own Google account. You don't make an account, nothing goes to a cloud database, and there are no trackers.
Built by a teacher and tech coach. New here? Start with our free class list tool.
Most ed-tech sends student information to someone else's server. Our tools don't have a server to send it to.
No analytics, no tracking pixels, no "phone home." Every web app ships with a browser rule that blocks it from connecting to the internet at all.
The web apps are single files that run in your browser, even from a USB drive with Wi-Fi off. The Google tools run inside your own Drive.
You keep the files and you keep the data. If we closed tomorrow, every tool you bought would still work.
A single file you download and open. It works on Chromebooks, Macs and PCs, and you don't install anything.
Automations built into Google Sheets and Docs. They run under your own Google account and we can't see anything they do.
Type your students once, or import them from a spreadsheet, and export a single class list that every Sandbox tool can read. It even shortens last names to initials for you, so you share only what each tool needs.
A small .zip file with the app, a one-page guide and a spreadsheet template. No email or sign-up required.
Each kit lists exactly what it stores and where it keeps it, so there's no fine print.
Fair cold-calling that remembers who's had a turn, plus balanced groups in one click.
Drag students onto desks, save a layout for each period and print a copy for your sub.
Flags missing work, color-codes trends and writes a summary for each student in your own Sheet.
No monthly bills, and no renewal emails in the middle of the school year.
Buy only the tools you'll use.
Every kit we've made, and every kit we make next.
Why isn't there a subscription? Subscriptions pay for servers, and we don't run any. Your tools live on your computer and in your Drive, so a monthly fee would only be paying us for nothing.
Hi, I'm Dan. Since AI and new technology arrived in classrooms, student privacy has come up in almost every conversation I have. So have subscriptions. Teachers are asked to sign up for one more monthly tool. Administrators are asked to spend hundreds of dollars on an app that might fall flat, or might collect the very data districts are trying to protect.
I built The Teacher's Sandbox so teachers can keep doing great work without paying for another subscription or waiting on budget approval. As a coach, I know what teachers actually need, and my job is to bridge the gap between easy technology and faster work. Every kit here is simple to use, costs one payment, and never sends student data anywhere.
The name is on purpose. You already carry a toolbox of skills as a teacher, and this is your sandbox next to it: a place to try new tools. It's yours in the other sense too. Your class data belongs to you and stays with you.
No. You check out through our payment provider and get your download or template link right away. We never ask you or your students to log in.
Web Apps store data in your browser's local storage, on the computer you're using, and nowhere else. Each app includes a Content Security Policy, a standard browser rule that stops the page from making any network connections.
Power Tools keep everything inside the Google Sheet or Doc you copied into your own Drive. We never get access to it.
Yes. Web Apps open straight from the Chromebook's Files app or a USB drive. Power Tools work anywhere Google Sheets does, as long as your district allows Apps Script (most do).
Google shows it for any script that lives in your own Drive and hasn't gone through Google's public review. That's the point: it's your private copy, not a service we run. The video that comes with each kit shows you how to review what the script can access and continue safely.
Yes. Send your IT team our Dear IT Department page. It explains the technical details in their language, including how to check for themselves that nothing leaves the device.
Every Web App has a one-click "Export backup" button that saves a file you can keep anywhere. Power Tools data lives in Google Drive, which keeps a version history.
Start with one small kit and see how it feels to use ed-tech with nothing to hide.