Guides for teaching with AI.
Practical, classroom-tested guidance on planning, differentiation, and assessment — written for the teacher who calls it craft.
AI Lesson Planning: A Practical Guide for Teachers (+ Prompts)
How teachers actually use AI to plan lessons — copy-paste prompt examples, where AI fakes standards alignment, honest tool comparisons, and how to start.
II.AI Literacy Mini Unit: 5 Free Lessons for Grades 9–12
A complete five-lesson AI literacy unit for high school — how LLMs work, prompting, hallucinations, ethics, and careers — free as view-only Google Docs.
III.AI for Special Education: IEP Goals, Data, and Adapted Work
How special educators can use AI for measurable IEP goal phrasing, goal-aligned lessons, progress probes, and adapted materials — without exposing IEP data.
IV.AI Sub Plans: Emergency Plans a Substitute Can Run Cold
How to write AI sub plans that survive a stranger — an emergency-folder prompt, a same-morning prompt for sick days, and the errors AI makes in sub plans.
V.AI Exit Tickets: Prompts for Checks That Tell You Something
A working prompt bank for AI exit tickets — 10 copy-paste patterns organized by what you want to learn, plus what to do with the stack tomorrow morning.
VI.AI Differentiation: How to Adapt One Lesson for Every Learner
How to differentiate one lesson with AI — scaffold a text down without gutting it, extend up, support IEP accommodations, and skip the three-version trap.
AI for Teachers: A Practical Guide to Using It Well
Where AI actually helps teachers — with copy-paste prompt starters, a student-privacy checklist, and what to do when your district has no AI policy.
II.FERPA vs COPPA: What Each Law Covers and Who Enforces It
FERPA and COPPA side by side — which binds schools vs. vendors, who enforces each, the under-13 line, and what both mean when a district vets an AI tool.
III.Is ChatGPT FERPA Compliant? The Honest Answer for Schools
No tool is FERPA compliant by itself. Which ChatGPT tiers a district can put under FERPA's school-official exception, and what teachers can paste on each.
IV.School AI Policy Template: Copy, Adapt, Adopt This Semester
A copy-paste school AI policy template — staff uses, student AI tiers by grade band, privacy and disclosure rules — plus how to adapt it for your district.
V.AI Grading and Feedback: What to Hand Off and What to Sign
A Sunday stack of 55 essays with AI in the loop: rubric-anchored feedback prompts, an anonymization workflow, and the grading line AI never crosses.
VI.Student Data Privacy and AI: FERPA, COPPA, and DPAs Explained
What FERPA and COPPA actually say about AI tools — five 'can I paste this?' scenarios answered with reasoning, plus what a signed DPA really covers.
VII.Free AI Tools for Teachers: What's Actually Free and What It Costs
Every free AI tool charges teachers somewhere — caps, data, or reformatting time. The genuinely useful free tiers, organized by job and verified July 2026.
VIII.ChatGPT for Teachers: A Prompt Library for Real Classroom Work
Copy-paste ChatGPT prompts for teachers — planning, materials, family emails, PD paperwork — plus its real limits and what its data policy means for you.
How to Share Your Referral Link (You Both Get a Free Lesson)
Where to find your Planning Partner referral link, how to send it to a colleague, and exactly what you each get when they sign up — with screenshots.
II.Make Your First Lesson in Planning Partner: A 5-Minute Quickstart
A step-by-step walkthrough of your first lesson in Planning Partner — the brief, the generation stages, the editor, and export — with screenshots of each step.