The magic is already in your school. Letβs make more possible. β¨
Horace Mann and MagicSchool are teaming up for a sweepstakes giving one district the chance to win $25,000 toward a year of MagicSchool for educators districtwide!
District leaders, enter by Dec. 4.
Teachers, visit the page to get a share kit to help spread the word to your district leaders.
https://t.co/F15RW09fr9
#MagicSchool #HoraceMann #AIforEducation
AI gets powerful when it starts with an instructional need. At Dolphin Bay, educators used #MagicSchool AI to create decodable texts for 1st grade and a presentation connecting PE and math through skip counting. π€π @magicschoolai#BCPSIIDL@browardschools
Screen time and AI are top of mind for teachers right now. Level 2 of the MagicSchool AI certification is live, and itβs built for exactly that.
Level 2: AI Practitioner moves from exploring the platform to designing student-safe AI experiences, so every minute on a screen has a purpose and your students do the thinking.
Module 1 walks you through creating and launching Student Rooms and using Monitoring Insights to see how students are engaging. Module 2 turns to learning outcomes with MagicQuizzes and Class Writing Feedback.
Teachers are magic, and this course puts you in charge of how AI shows up in your classroom.
How are you keeping AI use purposeful with your students?
Start Level 2 here: https://t.co/C5FaAwPgbR
#AIinEducation #MagicSchool
Join us Nov 18 (2β3pm ET) for a live webinar: Beyond the Early Adopters: Bringing Every Educator Along.
Early adopters can build momentum, but lasting districtwide change happens when every educator is brought along, whatever their level of experience, confidence, or readiness.
District leaders will share how they:
β Identify what educators actually need
β Create meaningful entry points for different comfort levels
β Build professional learning and peer support into everyday practice
Attendees will leave with practical ways to grow educator confidence while keeping implementation tied to instructional goals.
Save your spot: https://t.co/r3S70XqNFJ
District leaders can now put their own policies and priorities behind every MagicSchool answer, with the control and oversight enterprise districts expect.
Want to bring district knowledge to your district? https://t.co/KMHn1vCeyn
#AIinEducation#DistrictLeadership
AI writing feedback built by educators, for educators.
You approve every comment before students see it, then use your class insights to plan whatβs next.
Watch the full walkthrough on YouTube. (Link in the comments)
#MagicSchool#AIforEducation#AIforTeachers
With all the talk about @google's monopolistic, harmful Gemini decisions in K-12 yesterday, it's a good moment to remind ourselves that this has been Google's playbook all along.
Ever wonder why Google is so interested in getting Chromebooks into K-12 schools?
Getting kids using Google Classroom and Workspace?
Getting kids to use YouTube?
Maybe refer to their own leaked internal documents... or ask Gemini.
When I was teacher and principal, my school used Google Classroom. I never asked these questions. It was designed this way, the only option, infrastructure, a "good enough" product with few alternatives.
I never considered the cost to my students. I didn't consider that Google was using this essential piece of infrastructure to push (then nascent) Google Workspace on kids.
I didn't have the thought that maybe Google was making money of my students' eyes with their YouTube ads and perfect algorithm to make the next video one that kept them watching longer.
It's what a monopoly does, subtly convince you all of this is necessary and required, it's the only option, and slip into the background so you do not consider these things.
I only started considering them 3 years ago when I started leading @magicschoolai and understanding how tech companies work (and making my own decisions about how we would never engage in these practices with students).
We must all start to become conscious consumers of technology. We owe our children an education that gives them agency in the world, not has them succumb to the desires of big tech companies like Google. We need to teach this actively to educators, students, and families.
It's time to get Google out of schools.
We're excited to partner with Horace Mann to help more educators discover what's possible with responsible AI.
Through the MagicSchool and Horace Mann District Sweepstakes, we're giving six school communities the chance to bring MagicSchool to their educators, helping teachers spend less time on administrative tasks and more time doing what they love.
π One grand-prize winner will receive up to $25,000 toward a one-year MagicSchool district subscription, virtual professional development, and a staff lunch.
β¨ Five runners-up will each receive a 90-day MagicSchool pilot and a lunch voucher.
We're thrilled to team up with an organization that shares our commitment to supporting educators and giving them more time to focus on their students.
Entries are open through December 4! Learn more and enter at https://t.co/8HHfXSta0w
MagicQuizzes build quick formative assessments from your own lesson slides or notes, so you can check understanding while it still matters.
Students get immediate, specific feedback as they answer, or all at the end if youβd rather, and open response questions recognize partial credit. You get individual scores, class-wide results, and the misconceptions that came up, which makes a pre-assessment or an exit ticket a good place to start. Then you decide what to reteach.
Try MagicQuizzes today! https://t.co/o5MTyYlNqL
#MagicSchool #MagicQuizzes
If youβre new to MagicSchool, November 4th is your on-ramp.
Join @Amber_EdTech, Senior Community Manager at MagicSchool, for a 1-hour live session at 3:30pm CT / 4:30pm ET. Youβll get a hands-on tour of the core features and see how teachers use them in real classrooms. Youβll also leave with a Certificate of Completion and what you need to apply for MagicSchool Pioneers, the community where educators keep learning and share whatβs working.
Save your spot with the link in the comments.
#MagicSchoolPioneers #EducatorCommunity
October's MagicDrop is out β¨. The homepage has a new Featured section, you can generate images right inside your docs, and more.
There's one more update hiding at the end of the video. Find it and drop the emoji that fits.
#MagicSchool#MagicDrop
A new student slides into the back row this morning, backpack still zipped, and every word on the board is unfamiliar.
You ask Raina to translate your slides into Spanish and add visuals for key vocabulary. A few seconds later, they look up and find words they can read.
The magic is the connection you make with them in that first moment. Raina just helps make room for it.π
Making todayβs lesson more accessible is only a click away. Try Raina in the Presentation Generator: https://t.co/zwTgMeDj59
#MultilingualLearners #EdTech #MagicSchool
Digital Citizenship Week wraps up today, and screen time belongs in that conversation.
Families and school boards are asking what students actually do on their devices, and the answer matters as much as the minutes. As Allen Schagene, Professional Development and Community Specialist at MagicSchool, put it in our recent webinar, βnot all screen time is created equal.β
In this clip, Karisa Schwanekamp, Solutions Architect at MagicSchool, explains why modeling responsible AI use is a good place to start. Carrie Douglass, Assistant Director for Teaching and Learning at Klein ISD, also shares how her district frames screen use for staff and families.
Watch the full webinar here: https://t.co/pb4TP0oK8m
#DigitalCitizenshipWeek #AIinEducation #EdTech
92% of districts are piloting or operationalizing AI for students.
Only 23% of educators say they have strong visibility into how students are using it.
That's the gap many district leaders are living in right now. And 77% believe adoption is moving faster than safety and monitoring efforts.
On Oct 28 at 2PM ET, we're sitting down with leaders who've closed that gap:
β Dr. Kali Peracchia, Lead AI Instructional Specialist, Denver Public Schools, CO
β Dr. Barbara Mullen, Superintendent, Henrietta Rush Central School District, NY
β Bruce Schmidt, Asst. Superintendent, Greater Albany Public Schools, OR
They'll share how they built clear, responsible practice, kept teachers confident and in control, and gave administrators the visibility they need to lead.
If you're working through the space between "we've adopted AI" and "we own how we use it," come with your questions and leave with a plan.
Save your seat: https://t.co/2d0OHh8x5J