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AI for Teachers.
AI is past the "everyone gets a chatbot" phase and into the boring, useful work — lesson plan iteration, differentiated instruction, parent-newsletter drafts you actually want to send. We list the ones that respect FERPA and student data, and we say so when they don't.
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MagicSchool.
80+ AI tools, made for teachers.
We think MagicSchool is one of the more practical AI platforms for teachers because it is built around teacher workflows instead of generic chat. Public reviews and educator discussions consistently point to the same…
- Lesson plans
- Rubrics
- Differentiation
- Parent communication
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Diffit.
Differentiated reading materials for any classroom.
We think Diffit is a practical teacher tool for turning content into leveled classroom materials. The strongest public feedback is that it saves time when you need a reading passage, vocab list, and comprehension…
- Leveled reading
- Vocabulary
- Comprehension questions
From the dispatch.
All news →Claude is now free for K-12 teachers
Jul 16, 2026·5 min readKey terms.
Full glossary →- Few-shot promptingShowing an AI a couple of worked examples in your prompt so it copies the pattern instead of guessing.
- Large language modelThe kind of AI — trained on vast amounts of text — that powers chatbots and writing assistants by predicting the next word.
- PromptThe instruction you give an AI — and the single biggest lever you have over the quality of what it gives back.
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