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Diffit + Claude: Adapting Instructional Materials for Every Student
The Diffit connector creates and adapts instructional materials for every student. The interesting verb is 'adapt' — reworking material you already trust for the range of readers in front of you, which is the highest-value, most time-expensive job a teacher does.
Eedi + Claude: Diagnostic Questions That Reveal Student Thinking
Eedi's Claude for Teachers connector generates diagnostic questions that reveal student thinking in English and Spanish — turning assessment from a backward-looking grade into a forward-looking plan.
FERPA and the K-12 Data Processing Addendum: What CfT Protects
Claude for Teachers ships its own teacher terms and a K-12 Data Processing Addendum written to comply with FERPA. Here's what that actually protects when you hand Claude your class data.
Fork the Evals: Writing Rubric-Based Tests for Your Own Education Skills
Anthropic open-sourced not just the K-12 teaching skills but the evals/ framework and rubric CSVs that judged them. Here's how to fork that harness to test your own teaching skills for rigor, alignment, and usability.
From Skill to Printable: The Render-to-DOCX/HTML Scripts
The k12-lesson-planning skill doesn't stop at chat text. Its scripts/ folder renders a structured lesson JSON into a Word doc and a styled web page — because the real finish line is a file you can print, hand out, and project.
From User to Builder: Teachers Building Their Own AI Tools (Playlab Lab Schools)
Playlab will support a national network of lab schools where teachers become builders of classroom AI, not just users. Why teacher-as-builder breaks the ceiling of any off-the-shelf tool.
The Evening-Planning Tax: Giving Teachers Their Nights Back
Lesson planning is a second, unpaid shift that spills into teachers' evenings — and it lands hardest in under-resourced schools. Claude for Teachers goes after that tax directly: it targets time, the one thing teachers value most.
Grading and Feedback Without Doing the Work for Students
The danger of AI feedback isn't sloppy grading — it's feedback so complete it does the student's thinking for them. Good feedback diagnoses without dissolving the struggle where learning happens. Here's where AI belongs in the grading loop, and where it doesn't.
Reading the Rubrics: How Anthropic Evaluated the Teaching Skills
The Claude for Teachers repo ships its evaluation framework — per-subject CSV rubrics, a clarifying-question rubric, and a differentiation rubric. Here's what those rubrics reveal about how you build an education skill you can trust.
Math Grounded in Real Curriculum: Illustrative Mathematics (IM v.360) + Claude
Claude for Teachers plans math from IM v.360 by Illustrative Mathematics, not from a blank page. Here's why grounded math lesson design beats generic generation — and how a trusted curriculum keeps AI math honest.
Inside k12-lesson-differentiation: Tiered Lessons Below/At/Above Level
A close read of the second open-source Claude for Teachers skill — how k12-lesson-differentiation turns one lesson into below-, at-, and above-level versions while keeping the core content identical, and the rubrics that keep it honest.
Inside k12-lesson-planning: How the Open-Source Skill Works
A close read of the k12-lesson-planning skill Anthropic open-sourced with Claude for Teachers — how it draws on standards-mapped curricula and learning progressions to draft a plan plus student-facing materials.