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What if a great idea in one classroom could instantly become available to every teacher in your school?

Custom Student Tools makes this possible. Teachers can now create custom AI-powered tools, save them, and share them across your entire organization. No rebuilding from scratch. No duplicate work.

Build AI tutors for all subjects. Writing feedback tools. Historical figure chatbots. Custom learning experiences. The workflow is simple: create a custom tool, save it, share with your organization, and other teachers use and adapt it.

Great ideas no longer stay in one classroom.

Have you tried Custom Student Tools yet? What would you build first?

A Colorado teacher recently watched one student completely transform her writing with the help of an AI chatbot. What stood out was that it wouldn’t give her the answer.

Instead, it kept asking questions and encouraging her to keep going.

Draft after draft, the student worked through her ideas until she landed on a conclusion her teacher said he wouldn’t have expected to see in years prior.

Stories like this are a powerful reminder that when AI is used thoughtfully, it can help students stay engaged in the learning process instead of stepping around it.

Learn more about how teachers and students in Boulder Valley are using AI in the classroom.

Most Colorado teachers use AI. Here's what that looks like in class Artificial intelligence is quickly moving into our lives and classrooms. A majority of Colorado teachers report using it. Without mandates or policies, many teachers are figuring it out as they go along.

Have you been interested in joining MagicSchool Pioneers but struggled to find time to complete the requirements?

Fast Track to Pioneers is tomorrow night at 7pm ET.

We ran this session in March and it was a huge hit. Now we're doing it quarterly to help more educators join the Pioneer community.

This one-hour session gives you MagicSchool's core features, practical classroom use cases, and a clear walkthrough of the Pioneer application process. You'll earn a Certificate of Completion and walk away fully prepared to apply.

Built for busy educators who want to join but haven't had the time.

Register: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_t_ByCm1XQQSnA0U5xU2lAA

Did you catch last week's May MagicDrop?

We released five updates including a podcast generator that creates full episodes with script, audio, and cover art. Custom student tools let you build and share AI-powered tools across your school. Plus updated tool card designs for middle and high school, improved math rendering for exports, and the ability to choose 3-7 answer options in quizzes.

💬 Which update are you most excited to try? Drop a comment and let us know what you're working on.

We moderate millions of student messages every month to help schools keep students safe. In K–12, the systems behind student safety monitoring need to be accurate and reliable. If teachers get flooded with false alarms, they stop trusting what they’re seeing. If a serious concern gets missed, a student may not get support when they need it most.

With Anthropic our AI Trust, Safety, and Quality team built a Claude-powered moderation layer that reduced false positives tied to self-harm and mental distress signals by 3x. Now when a teacher gets an alert, there’s much more confidence that it’s something worth paying attention to and acting on.

In this Q&A, MagicSchool team members Keanon O’Keefe and Chris Rohlfs share why precision matters so much in school settings and how we approach student safety at scale.

Read the full Q/A here:

Customer story | MagicSchool Q&A | Claude MagicSchool moderates 8M+ student messages a month for safety in real time. Read a conversation with their AI Trust and Safety team on how they use Claude.

“What do we tell families about screen time?”

Karisa Schwanekamp, a solutions architect and former educator with 21 years in the classroom, heard that question again and again from district leaders in Chicago last month.

Families are asking thoughtful questions about AI in schools, and educators want clear talking points, trusted research, and practical ways to guide those conversations with confidence.

For leaders wondering where to start, Karisa shared 5 helpful tips for talking about screen time, AI, and educational technology with families and communities.

Get them in the comments below!

We know, we know... another EdTech post interrupting your May survival mode. 🫠
But if you’re going to join ONE thing before summer, make it the AI Pioneers.

Early access to new tools, meaningful input on what we build, community spotlights, and more! 💜

See the link in the comments to join.

Summer is the perfect time to reset and plan ahead.

On May 20th at 6 PM ET, join Kyle Kline and Kyle Beimfohr for a free webinar on how to use MagicSchool this summer to build resources, refresh lessons, and set yourself up for your best school year yet.

We'll walk through practical strategies to work smarter during your break so you can start next year feeling prepared and confident. No all-nighters in August. No last-minute scrambling. Just intentional planning that actually sticks.

This session is for educators who want to make the most of their summer while still enjoying it.

Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PY5LhsXPRXWLmD7Zama5tg