Lesson plans, differentiation, parent emails, IEP-aligned materials, grading — the writing load on a K-12 teacher in 2026 is unsustainable. AI can take a real bite out of the prep and the paperwork without changing what matters most: what happens in your classroom. This course teaches the workflows that respect your time and your students.
This 5-day course is built by a teacher's-eye view of what actually eats your time. It is for K-12 classroom teachers, instructional coaches, special-education teachers, and the support staff who help them. The premise is simple: AI is excellent at the writing and adapting tasks that fill your evenings. It is not a substitute for the relationship between you and your students.
Each day produces a real artifact you can use this Monday — a unit plan, a differentiated assignment set, an IEP-aligned modification, a feedback bank, a parent-communication template, and a classroom AI policy you can hand to your students on the first day of the next unit.
FERPA, district AI policy, and grading integrity are threaded through every day. We will be specific about what content can safely go into a general-purpose AI tool, what cannot, and how to think about the AI tools that students are using whether you address them or not.
Each day stands alone. Read in order or jump to the workflow that frees your evening first.
Standards-aligned lesson plans, unit overviews, learning objectives, and pacing guides. AI for the structural drafting, your judgment for the pedagogy.
Adapting one assignment into three readiness levels. ESL/ELL accommodations, IEP-aligned modifications, and reading-level adjustments at scale.
Building rubrics that actually rank student work consistently. Drafting individualized feedback at scale without giving up your professional judgment on grades.
Newsletters, conference notes, behavior-incident communications, and the difficult conversations. AI for the writing, your relationship for the substance.
Designing AI-resilient assessments, writing a classroom AI-use policy, and teaching students the difference between AI as tutor and AI as ghostwriter.
By the end of the week you will have done each of these at least once with templates to repeat them.
Standards in, AI-drafted unit plan out. You spend the saved hours on the activities and discussions that AI cannot prepare.
Reading-level scaffolds, ELL adaptations, and IEP modifications produced from a single source assignment in minutes instead of hours.
Use AI to draft individualized feedback that you review and personalize, instead of one-size-fits-all comments because you ran out of time.
Newsletters, weekly emails, conference summaries, and tough-conversation drafts — all with a consistent voice that respects FERPA.
Project-based, classroom-witnessed, and process-evidenced assessments that hold up in the AI era.
A clear classroom policy and student-facing rubric that distinguishes useful AI use from cheating.
You teach all day, plan all evening, grade all weekend. AI gives back chunks of the prep and the paperwork without changing your teaching.
You support teachers across many subjects. AI lets you produce model lessons, observation summaries, and PD materials at the pace your district needs.
You write modifications, IEP drafts, and progress reports constantly. AI takes the formatting load while you focus on the student-specific judgment.
If teaching AI fits, these are the natural next steps.