SchoolAI

We surveyed 750+ K-12 teachers about their experience using SchoolAI. Here's what they told us. 7 hours a week. That's what teachers are getting back, across lesson planning, differentiation, grading and feedback, parent communications, and admin tasks. Seven hours is a second prep period that most teachers haven't had in years (or ever). More than 87% report saving time in every single one of those categories. But the number we keep coming back to: 90% of teachers feel more pride in their work. Pride matters because burnout isn't just about being busy. It's about losing the thread of why you came to the classroom in the first place. When the load lifts, educators remember their 'why', and students feel that shift. And 90% are actively seeking out new instructional strategies they didn't have bandwidth for before: Bellringers, Exit Tickets, discussion protocols, targeted intervention, etc. That kind of momentum is rare 🙌 . For any principal or superintendent thinking about AI in your classrooms: the biggest gains don't come from replacing anything. They come from freeing the teachers you already have to be present with their students.

Introducing...two new easter eggs in the SchoolAI Browser Extension entirely written (and prompted) by 6th graders, now live in production ✨ Hint: type "starfall" in the chat box and see what happens 👀 Shoutout to our friends at Magestic Elementary in Jordan School District for helping add some surprises to our product. We hid three more ourselves, which brings the total to FIVE. Good luck finding the others! *You'll need version 1.0.79 or later; update manually through your Chrome extensions page if needed.

"I learned that AI has been around longer than I have." We had 40+ sixth-graders from Jordan School District visit our office today for a career day field trip. Students picked two sessions: troubleshooting real customer problems with McKay Perkins, building a brand from an emoji with Megan Klein, coding an Easter Egg into our Browser Extension with Tyler Smith (it's currently live 👀 ), or designing the world's worst calculator with Nick Bluth in UX. These students were so excited to learn, and their principal said to us, “They never get treated like this, this is something they are going to remember.” 💙 After lunch, half the group toured the office, meeting every department, while the other half paired up with an employee to build their own Space in SchoolAI (collection coming soon!). Special thanks to Kasey Chambers and Marianne Johansen for coordinating the field trip 👏.

What do teachers actually ask AI? Stanford University analyzed 150,000+ teacher prompts on SchoolAI to find out. New research from the AI Hub for Education at Stanford University, analyzing teacher-AI interactions on SchoolAI, offers the clearest view yet on how AI is transforming education and reveals how AI is amplifying teacher impact. Here’s what the data shows: AI is a curriculum co-planner Roughly 2 in 5 teacher prompts focus on curriculum and content: what to teach, how to explain it, and how to align it to standards. More than 50% ask AI to create something: a lesson plan, an assessment, or a piece of student feedback. And when teachers shift topics mid-conversation, they circle back to curriculum more than anything else. This means AI is meeting teachers in the complexity of planning, not just at the edges. AI is a sounding board Teaching can be isolating, and the data suggests AI can be an outlet for it. About 1 in 7 prompts involved a teacher reflecting or processing without making a specific request: sharing a frustration, thinking through a challenge, or working something out. The researchers' conclusion: AI is functioning less like an administrative shortcut and more like a thought partner for instruction. That's a meaningful shift, and it's just one of the findings. Download the full study to see the rest 🔗 https://lnkd.in/g3wfETGr *Only de-identified records were shared with Stanford; no PII was provided in the chats or elsewhere in the dataset.

"AI is not the boogeyman we sometimes make it out to be." Kiera Beddes, Digital Teaching and Learning Specialist at Jordan School District, one of our partner districts, published an op-ed in the Salt Lake Tribune today. "If we ban it [AI] during the day, but never teach students how to question its outputs, protect their privacy, or recognize bias, we leave them less prepared. Real protection comes from preparation." Building those guardrails is something we think about every day at SchoolAI. Grateful to work alongside educators like Kiera who are leading this conversation thoughtfully. Read the full article 👇 https://lnkd.in/g296pkJM

You found a great article, but it's written at a tenth-grade level, and you teach fourth grade. Three of your students are English language learners. And you still need a worksheet to go with it. What should take five minutes takes forty-five. And then you do what most teachers do: you copy the link, switch tabs, open your planning tool, paste it in, and start building from scratch. A great idea becomes another task on the list. Robert Glassner, a teacher who's been using the SchoolAI Browser Extension, described it well: "[It] has saved me so much time since I've started using it. It's amazing that it can take another website (e.g. my school's digital curriculum or supplemental resources) and give me quick ideas on how to best utilize it in the classroom or activities that I can pair with it." Chat with the SchoolAI Browser Extension about what you're looking at, brainstorm how to teach it, pressure-test your approach, and then turn it into a lesson plan, worksheet, assessment, or rubric in one click, automatically aligned to your standards. If the content is too complex for some students, adjust the reading level from college-level down to second grade without losing the core ideas. If you're teaching multilingual learners, translate the whole page into 60+ languages instantly. Everything exports to Google Docs, ready to share or adapt further. The SchoolAI Browser Extension makes sure you have a thought partner in every tab that sees exactly what you see. Free for the rest of the school year.

You wrote the comments. You spent your prep period on it. On Monday, half your students didn't read them. The best feedback arrives while students still remember what they wrote. The SchoolAI Browser Extension makes that possible for every student, on every assignment. Open any Google Doc, click on the extension, and create or upload your rubric. In minutes, every student has personalized feedback aligned to exactly what you're teaching. Here's what it does: → Summary feedback tied to your rubric, so students see exactly where they stand → Inline comments you can review and edit before students see them → Revision history that shows you how the work was built, including pastes, edit time, and hours spent writing Every comment is yours to edit, approve, or leave out. The AI does the drafting, you do the teaching. P.S. Blasia Dunham shows how to use the Browser Extension to give feedback on handwritten assignments ✏️ Try it today →

Teachers live in their browsers. Google Docs. Research sites. News articles. A resource you found at 8:47 pm that's perfect for tomorrow's lesson.
 We built the SchoolAI Browser Extension for all of these moments.
 Feedback that arrives while it still matters:
 Open a student essay in Google Docs, and click the SchoolAI extension. Get rubric-aligned feedback, inline comments, and a full revision history showing how the work was built, not just what it says. The AI drafts the feedback, and you decide what reaches the student.
 A thought partner in every tab: Find a great article or primary source? Chat with SchoolAI right on the page. Brainstorm how to teach it, then turn it into a lesson plan, worksheet, or assessment in seconds. Translate it into over 60 languages, or adjust the reading level. No copy-paste, no switching tabs. And here's the part no other extension does: From that same webpage, create a Space where every student works through the material with their own AI sidekick, at their pace. Then open Mission Control and see who's engaged, who's stuck, and what to do next. Here's what teachers who've used it are saying: "The output is actually good. Not AI mush. Real, usable, classroom-ready stuff." Ricardo Vela "Other extensions help teachers work faster. SchoolAI helps teachers and students learn better." Melissa Brayall Free for all SchoolAI users through the rest of the school year. Install the extension → https://lnkd.in/g8a_uPWH

Indiana districts: the 2026 Digital Learning Grant deadline is April 6, and SchoolAI is hosting two free webinars to help you make the application process easier. We'll show how districts are already using AI to move the needle in literacy, math, and special education, and walk through how SchoolAI aligns with IDOE's grant priorities. Districts can apply for up to $50,000. ESC of Indiana members also qualify for special pricing. Two sessions to choose from (register below): Tuesday, March 17 | 4–5 PM ET Monday, March 23 | 4–5 PM ET Drop a question in the comments or reach out directly if you want to talk through whether this is the right fit for your district. #IndianaEducation #AIinEducation #Edtech #ESCofIndiana