Colleague AI

10/02/2026

We're heading to MassCUE's Fall Conference at Gillette Stadium on October 14-15!

This year's theme, Forward and Beyond, fits what we hear from teachers and district leaders: they want AI that fits the work they already do.

If you stop by, we'd like to show you what that looks like in practice:
- Tiered lesson plans aligned to CCSS, NGSS, and state standards, generated for every Lexile level in a class at once.
- PLOP drafts built from a teacher's own notes, with the educator making every call on goals and accommodations
- AI Tutoring in 50+ languages
- District-level AI governance and customization

09/30/2026

This week, we're at the 2026 Illinois Association of School Administrators conference in Springfield!

If you're looking for AI tools, customized AI offerings, or an AI platform for your schools, stop by the Colleague AI booth and say hi to Pete!

09/29/2026

In case you missed it, this month's OECD report on PISA results give an interesting picture on education today around the world.

46% of students in OECD countries use AI chatbots weekly or more to help them learn.

The report shows an overall decline in reading skills, and a need to develop skills for the age of AI:

The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2025 evaluates what students know and can do in science, reading, mathematics and computational problem-solving, assessing how effectively they can apply their knowledge to real-world challenges. The assessment also explores a range of b...

09/28/2026

A new survey report from Campion in Australia gives a very interesting picture of GenAI demand specifically in an education context:

"60% of respondents are very or extremely interested in education-specific generative AI."

This is significant, and also not surprising. Generic AI such as Claude or ChatGPT or Gemini were not built for K-12 - no matter how much prompting you do, it's not the same as purpose-built, properly fine-tuned, and research-backed generative AI specific to K-12.

Read the survey report: https://campion.com.au/edtech-adoption-in-australian-schools-2026-research-report/ -report

09/23/2026

Did you know you can use a Teaching Aide AI discussion from Colleague AI in Canvas?

Check out more information on how the Colleague AI Classroom tools work together with Canvas: https://www.colleague.ai/how-canvas-works-with-colleague-ais-teaching-aide/

You can assign students an AI discussion assignment in Canvas that was built in the Colleague AI platform.

A step-by-step guide on how Canvas works with Colleague AI's Teaching Aide tool - how to assign AI discussions from Colleague AI in Canvas.

09/22/2026

Nobody loves a last-minute PLC request.

Half the challenge is getting all the inputs you need - assessment results, your notes, lesson plans, exit tickets, diagnostics, etc.

Colleague AI works from the assessment results, rubric, and classroom notes a teacher provides and organizes them into a report built around what a PLC actually needs: performance trends tied to the standard, strategies already attempted, evidence of what's working, and next-unit adjustments split into whole-class instruction, targeted support, extension, and progress monitoring.

Instead of "students struggled with citing evidence," the report might show that 16 of 28 students selected relevant evidence while only 10 explained how it supported their reasoning, giving the team something specific to plan around.

Check out how to use Colleague AI to do a PLC report in minutes:

A step-by-step guide on how AI to create a professional learning community (PLC) data report in minutes.

09/18/2026

In case you missed it, Colleague AI now has Units or Modules as part of the Classroom section.

You can group your lesson plans, assignments, slides or presentations, assessments, quizzes, and more into different units.

Check it out here:

Check out 5 new feature additions to the platform, as well as an improved user interface and smoother workflows for educators.

09/16/2026

Colleague AI will be at the 62nd Annual IASA Conference in Peoria this September 30 through October 2: https://web.cvent.com/event/b0242e66-81fd-481c-bf09-dc7a99f1a940/summary

If you're a superintendent or district leader trying to figure out what AI actually looks like across an entire system, not just one classroom pilot, stop by and talk with us. We'll be showing how districts use Colleague AI for tiered lesson plans across Lexile levels, PLOP drafting and IEP goal language, rubric-aligned assessment, and standards alignment to CCSS and state frameworks, all inside one platform administrators can actually govern.

Find our team on the exhibit floor. We'd like to hear what your district is working through.

09/15/2026

New polling from the National Parents Union and EdChoice tells a different story than the "ban screens, ban AI" headlines suggest.

Over 80% of parents support laptop use in school.

Among parents who do want limits, only 1% want zero screen time, and nearly half of those parents land on one to two hours as the right ceiling. And 53% think their kids should be learning AI tools now because of what work is going to look like when they graduate.

Keri Rodrigues, president of the National Parents Union, put it plainly: parents don't want kids parked in front of a screen all day, but they do want them prepared for the future.

Read more: https://www.chalkbeat.org/2026/09/14/parents-support-some-screen-time-in-schools-amid-ed-tech-backlash-polls-say/

The gap between "keep AI out of the classroom" and "teach my kid to use AI responsibly" is exactly why district-wide AI tool choice and its governance matter immensely. Districts can help parents understand what guardrails actually look like, who's accountable, what data policy applies, how a teacher stays in the loop, and how AI is helping prepare their children for tomorrow's world.

Amid the growing 'tech-lash' and device limits in major districts, polls show a quiet majority of parents support classroom laptops and AI tools — as long as there are guardrails.

09/11/2026

UNESCO just released a 162-page report "The algorithm in the room: seeing and confronting the implications of AI for the future of education."

The report looks at 26 papers on AI in education - and the papers don't agree with each other. They look at questions such as:

Who holds agency when an algorithm recommends what a student reads next?
What happens to writing instruction when a model can draft a passable essay in seconds?
Who's accountable when a school adopts a tool built by a company an ocean away?
What pressure does AI put on minority language learners, or does it actually help them?

The report is an interesting read: unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000399335

At Colleague AI, our focus is on building a K-12 platform backed by evidence, research, best practices, and on deep R&D to know what is and isn't working. No other company is going to such lengths, but it is imperative!