The school curricula of the fifty US states are entered into the assistant

Anthropic's Claude assistant accesses the official curricula of all fifty US states. What this free tool changes for lesson planning.

American K-12 teachers can access Claude's paid features for free, subject to verification of their status. The offer is reserved for teachers themselves, in accordance with the 18-and-older policy: it is not a tool intended for students.

The most substantial aspect concerns school data. Model training is excluded on these accounts, and student-related information is covered by a data processing addendum drafted to comply with FERPA, the U.S. law that protects the privacy of student records. The system claims a "Gold Standard" developed with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), one of the sector's main unions, which establishes its best practices.

On the tooling side, the assistant connects to Learning Commons, which opens up the standards of all fifty states and, under each standard, the intermediate skills and the order in which students typically acquire them. Added to this are resources such as OpenSciEd and Illustrative Mathematics, as well as a series of connectors to industry tools, ranging from the generation of auto-graded exercises to feedback based on actual classroom interactions. Dedicated skills, co-designed with Learning Commons, cover lesson preparation and differentiated instruction.

The offer also includes Claude Code and Cowork, which allows for asynchronous work: a task assigned once, such as analyzing exit tickets every evening to adjust the next day's lesson, can be repeated every school day.

Anthropic qualifies its pitch with a nuance: the effect of AI tools on students remains mixed and depends on implementation, whereas tools designed for teachers appear to strengthen practice. A pilot evaluation is planned in the Detroit school district, and the pedagogical skills are published in open source.