This feels like a great product. Clear pain points, clear time savings & clear respect for the practitioner. Feels rare in AI products; it's not just our benchmark now shows we can do your whole job. Nice work Drew Bent & team. Good for all of us if this really helps teachers teach.
Drew Bent
Today we’re launching Claude for Teachers, bringing the power of premium Claude and Cowork to every US teacher, for free. It works in the background, while… more
Today we’re launching Claude for Teachers, bringing the power of premium Claude and Cowork to every US teacher, for free. It works in the background, while teachers can focus on what’s most important: time with their students. Teachers have been experimenting with AI for some time, but we at Anthropic kept hearing from teachers about the need for something that was aligned to curriculum and evidence based. I think what the team has built is special in a few ways: 1) A foundation in curriculum and learning science -- Claude for Teachers comes with the Learning Commons connector: academic standards in all 50 states, the prerequisite skills beneath each one, and curriculum context from high-quality providers like Illustrative Math and OpenSciEd. Ask for a lesson on constructing linear functions and Claude pulls the standard, notes the misconceptions students typically hold, and builds the lesson around them. 2) Teaching skills, co-built with nonprofit Learning Commons -- These enable teachers to build lesson plans and differentiate instruction. Importantly, they are built to work well in Cowork, allowing teachers to harness the full agentic capabilities of these models. Teachers can control what they share (past lesson plans, student assessment data, etc) and have Claude automatically work for them each evening. It will help them prepare materials for the next day, tailored to their exact students. 3) Privacy first -- We don’t train on teacher conversations and student information is protected by our terms that are written to comply with FERPA. We worked closely with the American Federation of Teachers to align it with their new gold-standard privacy principles. Randi Weingarten, their president, calls it “a tool designed by and for educators... to give them more time for the human relationships at the heart of learning.” 4) Ecosystem approach -- Nine education connectors are available at launch, connecting to tools loved by teachers like TeachFX, MagicSchool, and Brisk Teaching. We’re also releasing a new free AI Fluency for Teachers course with Teach For America. And we’re taking everything we learned and releasing our Skills and evals as public goods, so everyone can leverage them. There is a whole team to thank, including our partners and teachers. I especially want to call out Sofia Wilson and Alex Kasavin, who co-led this. This started as Sofia’s onboarding project, and Alex was her spin-up buddy. In typical Anthropic fashion, we like to give employees overly ambitious spin-up projects (Claude Code was itself one). This was no exception. From the start, the two of them were laser focused on building the highest quality tools for teachers. And it was Elizabeth Kelly and Daniela Amodei who empowered our team to build a product focused on teachers and learning outcomes, first and foremost. If you’re a teacher, you get Claude for Teachers for free starting today: https://lnkd.in/gfRYVmjj44 reactions · 1 comment · 1 repostOpen on LinkedIn