AI helpers for teachers
Twelve free AI helpers for lesson materials: a text leveler, questions, lesson outlines, rubrics, quizzes, parent emails, sub plans and more. Student names never leave your computer.
- Text leveler
Paste a passage and get the same content at three reading levels, aimed with Peabody’s own level rules and measured when it comes back, with key words and questions. An AI draft to check.
- Questions from a text
Paste a passage and get questions to ask about it: literal, inference, vocabulary, discussion and an exit ticket, each with what a good answer includes. An AI draft to check.
- Lesson outline
Type an objective and get a lesson outline: a hook, modeling, guided and independent practice, a check for understanding and a close, timed to your lesson. An AI draft to check.
- Rubric draft
Describe an assignment and get a rubric draft with criteria and level descriptors, then open it in the rubric maker to edit, score and print. An AI draft to check.
- Quiz or question set
Get multiple-choice questions with three answer boxes from a topic or a text, then play them as classroom activities, copy them as a set, or print a quiz with a key. An AI draft to check.
- Parent email
Say what an email home is for and get a clear, kind draft with [Student] and [Parent] left for you to fill in, so no name is sent anywhere. An AI draft to check.
- Report card comments
Pick report card comments from Peabody’s bank of 306 for free, then ask for three new wordings of the ones you chose. The student’s name stays on your computer.
- Sub plan
Type your schedule and what each subject is doing, and get a substitute-ready plan with what to do in each block, materials, and printables to leave. An AI draft to check.
- Differentiation ideas
Describe a lesson and get ideas for three groups: more support, on level, and stretch, each one practical for tomorrow. Written for groups, never for one student. An AI draft to check.
- Vocabulary list
Give a topic or a list of words and get child-friendly meanings and example sentences, ready to print or to make flashcards and classroom activities. An AI draft to check.
- Book discussion questions
Choose a book from Peabody’s read-aloud library for its own questions, free, or name any other book and get discussion questions with what to listen for. An AI draft to check.
- Exit tickets
Type a lesson objective and get exit tickets and quick checks: a short question, a three-choice question or a self-rating, with answers, ready to print as slips. An AI draft to check.
How they keep students out of it
- Your computer takes out names, email addresses, phone numbers, ID numbers, addresses, links and school names before anything is sent, and shows you what it took out.
- Text that looks like a student record (an IEP, a 504 plan, a report card, a behavior log, students listed with scores) is refused, and nothing is sent.
- Names you typed go back into the draft on your computer only.
- Peabody keeps neither what you typed nor the draft.
What they never write
IEP goals, behavior plans, social stories, or anything else about a real, identifiable student. They make materials for lessons: texts, questions, plans, rubrics, emails and lists.
The limits
10 AI drafts a day per browser, across all twelve. No account. Every draft is written by Claude Haiku and says “AI draft: check before you use it”.
Questions
Is it free? Do I need an account?
Free, with no account. Each browser gets 10 AI drafts a day across all twelve helpers, so the cost stays small enough for Peabody to pay. Anything that doesn’t need AI (the comment bank, the read-aloud library’s questions, the makers) is free without counting.
What happens to what I type?
First, this computer takes out names, email addresses, phone numbers, ID numbers, street addresses, links and school names, and shows you what it took out. Text that looks like a student record (an IEP, a 504 plan, a report card, a behavior log) is refused and nothing is sent. What’s left goes to our server, which checks it the same way again, then to Claude Haiku, a model made by Anthropic, which writes the draft. Peabody doesn’t keep what you typed or the draft, and doesn’t log them. Anthropic’s own retention terms for Peabody’s account are not yet stated on this site.
What won’t the helpers write?
IEP goals, behavior plans, social stories, or anything else about a real, identifiable student. Those are decisions about a child that belong to the people who know them. Common Sense Media, reviewing AI teacher assistants, rated IEP and behavior-plan generators high risk and found bias in the behavior plans they suggested. The helpers make materials for lessons instead.
Can I trust the draft?
Treat it as a first draft from a quick colleague who hasn’t met your class. Models can get a fact, a meaning or an answer wrong, so every draft says “AI draft: check before you use it”. Read it through before it reaches students.
Names, email addresses, phone numbers, ID numbers, addresses and school names are taken out on this computer before anything is sent. What’s left goes to our server and on to Anthropic’s Claude, which writes the draft; Peabody keeps neither what you typed nor the draft. A cookie holds a random number that counts this browser’s drafts for the day. No sign-in, no ads.