We're introducing Claude for Teachers：https://claude.com/solutions/teachers, providing verified K-12 educators in the US free access to premium Claude capabilities, a library of teaching skills, and a direct connection to evidence-based curricula, mapped to academic standards in all 50 states.
Decades of research show that practices like differentiation, mastery-based learning, and small group instruction reliably improve student achievement, but teachers are often short on time and resources to implement them. Budgets are stretched, classes may be too large to meet every student's individual needs, and planning often spills into evenings. This strain is heaviest in under-resourced schools. Claude for Teachers is designed to close the gap between educational best practices and what a teacher's week allows.
Early evidence：https://scale.stanford.edu/research-in-action/understanding-evidence-base-ai-k12-education suggests that while the impact of AI tools for students is mixed and depends on the implementation, AI tools for teachers can strengthen instructional practice and improve student outcomes. This is the aim of Claude for Teachers: support the craft behind great teaching and protect what teachers value most—time with their students.
Claude for Teachers connects to Learning Commons：https://learningcommons.org, giving Claude access to academic standards across all 50 states—and beneath each standard, the smaller learning competencies it's built from and the order students typically learn them. So when Claude drafts a lesson plan, it’s scaffolded and aligned to teaching standards. Claude for Teachers also brings in trusted curricular resources like OpenSciEd：https://openscied.org/ and IM v.360 from Illustrative Mathematics：https://illustrativemathematics.org/.
As of today, educators can now connect Claude across an entire ecosystem of K-12 tools.
Once verified, K-12 educators in the US get access to Claude for Teachers with the Learning Commons connector and a set of tailored teaching skills grounded in learning science. The skills, co-developed with Learning Commons, were designed around the tasks teachers told us mattered most. These were evaluated to ensure rigor, pedagogical alignment, and classroom usability, and refined through early feedback from classroom teachers, including those in schools like Prospect Schools in Brooklyn.
Claude for Teachers includes Claude Code and Cowork, which means Claude can carry work forward on its own. Some examples:
Learn more from two teachers：https://claude.com/resources/tutorials/claude-for-teachers-in-action, Zac and Karina, explaining how they use Claude for Teachers in their own classrooms.
Teachers can also access our newly released AI Fluency for K-12 Teachers：https://anthropic.skilljar.com/path/ai-fluency-for-pk-12-educators, a course co-created with Teach for America, and a train-the-trainer module co-created with the American Federation of Teachers. The guidance is model-agnostic, Creative Commons-licensed, and practical, covering which classroom tasks AI is suited for and how to use it responsibly with students.
This product stems from Anthropic's broader efforts in education, focused on supporting teachers and improving learning outcomes for students. As part of our Beneficial Deployments mission, we’re releasing a set of public goods to support the community focused on building for teachers.
This includes the launch of new connectors in Anthropic’s directory, an open-source repository：https://github.com/anthropics/k12-teacher-skills of the teaching skills, and a technical write-up of how we evaluated these skills and how other builders in education can use them. We’ll pilot an evaluation of Claude for Teachers in the Detroit Public Schools Community District：https://www.detroitk12.org/, working closely with teachers to study the impact on educator well-being and practice. Together, these efforts support the goals of our partnership：https://www.anthropic.com/news/gates-foundation-partnership with the Gates Foundation to co-develop tools that improve educational outcomes for K-12 students. In addition, Playlab：https://www.playlab.ai/ will support a national network of lab schools in implementing AI, helping educators become builders of the AI tools used in their classrooms.
Claude for Teachers is for individual educators. A dedicated offering for schools and districts is coming soon. In the meantime, districts interested in Claude can continue using Claude for Nonprofits：https://claude.com/solutions/nonprofits.
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