Reviews, field notes and practical guidance for teachers and school leaders working out where AI helps, and where it gets in the way.
I write about lesson planning, assessment, AI literacy and school policy. Each piece starts with a question I hear from educators, not a product brief.
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Six AI tools for the two halves of a 504 plan: drafting the accommodation language and the letter home, and delivering the accommodations once they are written. With dated pricing, free-tier limits and what the directory shows about Section 504 coverage.
Seven AI tools that will make a picture for a worksheet, a slide or a visual schedule, with every price and age rule checked against the vendor's own page on October 5, 2026, and the three checks that decide whether the image belongs in front of a class.
Seven AI tools chosen by the evidence-based practice they produce: visual supports, social narratives, video models, text access, reading and writing support, and the write-up. With dated pricing, what two new state and district rules now forbid, and the finding that not one of the 138 tools in our directory claims to be built for autism.
Seven AI tools chosen for the observer's job rather than the teacher's, split between capturing the lesson, drafting the write-up and reading a term of them back, with prices checked October 2026, the FERPA line on recording a classroom, and what the research does and does not yet support.
Seven AI tools that fit a school OT caseload, matched to the jobs on your calendar: visual supports, fine-motor practice pages, present-levels prose, consult notes, goal data, handwriting accommodations and reading your state's rules. With dated pricing, the privacy conditions on each, and the one tool to keep away from student names.
Seven AI tools that do the school business office's real jobs: budget narratives, grant applications, vendor due diligence, governor reports, committee minutes and spend analysis. With dated pricing, the limits of each free tier, and what 47 of 138 listed tools still will not tell you.
Seven AI tools chosen for the SENCO's own job rather than the classroom teacher's, split between the statutory paperwork and what happens after the plan is written, with prices checked in September 2026, the safety conditions on each, and the line none of them should cross.
Six AI tools that take on the proctor training, family letters, signage and handbook lookups around a testing window, and the line state security rules draw that none of them may cross.
Six AI tools that fit a school social worker's caseload, from spotting the attendance pattern to writing the family letter, with prices checked September 2026 and a clear line, taken from a regulator's own AI policy, around the decisions no tool gets to make.
Seven AI tools for the week your fall benchmark results land, sorted by the job each one does: reading one export, questioning the whole record, cleaning a messy file, IEP and MTSS progress data, item analysis, student reasoning and live classroom data. With dated pricing and the privacy gaps named.
Seven AI tools chosen for the person who signs the compliance certification rather than the case manager who writes the IEP, sorted by the job each one does: reading the documents you are accountable for, drafting notices in a parent's native language, progress data, and assistive technology. Prices checked September 26, 2026.
Seven AI tools for the job of leaving plans someone else can teach, with free-tier limits read from each vendor's own pages in September 2026, a three-question test every sub plan has to survive, and a worked seventh grade example you can copy.
