Educator, author and founder of AI Educator Tools
Dan Fitzpatrick writes about AI in education for Forbes and is the author of The Educators' AI Guide 2026, The AI Classroom and Infinite Education. He founded aieducator.tools after working as a teacher, school leader and education strategist.
He also hosts the AI for Educators Daily podcast and advises schools and education bodies in the UK and abroad.
New York City paused student-facing AI for 2-K to grade 8 and DC published a model policy that bars AI from IEP eligibility decisions. These seven tools let a teacher keep planning, leveling and communicating with AI while students and their records stay out of it, with every vendor's FERPA claim and price re-checked at source on October 6, 2026.
Six AI tools for school counselors, checked for FERPA, COPPA and data hosting, that take on college planning, career exploration, behaviour plans, correspondence, check-ins and crisis alerts while the judgement stays with you.
Paraprofessionals do the most individualised work in the building with the least training and no budget. Six AI tools that prep visuals, level texts, read aloud and collect IEP data, checked for FERPA, hosting and price, with three tools left out and the reasons why.
Seven AI tools for the jobs that land on a district desk: policy, platform, oversight, communication, grants, institutional knowledge and data. Checked for FERPA, hosting and pricing, with three popular tools left out and the reasons why.
Five AI study tools a teacher or parent can hand a 14 to 18-year-old with a clear conscience, ranked on learning value, safety and honest pricing, plus the directory data on which of the 90 listed tools a teenager can legally use at all.
Six AI tools that lower the decoding barrier for dyslexic students without lowering the thinking, chosen independently from a directory of 90, with dated pricing, minimum ages, hosting and the FERPA and COPPA record US schools need before buying.
Six AI flashcard generators judged on what they let students do after the cards exist, with pricing and policy pages checked on September 16, 2026, data hosting and under-13 rules for each, and the research showing why the student should still write the first draft.
Detectors guess. Oral assessment asks. Six independently reviewed tools that let students show what they know out loud, with dated pricing and the FERPA, COPPA and hosting data US schools need before buying.
Only 30 of the 90 tools in the aieducator.tools directory admit children under 13, and just three of those are independently assessed. Here are the six worth an elementary classroom, with COPPA status, dated pricing, teacher visibility and the tools to leave out.
Most teachers use three of MagicSchool's eighty tools. Here are seven alternatives that each beat it at one specific job, with dated pricing, declared FERPA and COPPA status, and an honest note on when you should stay put.
Seven AI tools for the IEP cycle, from drafting goals to progress monitoring, remote meetings and EHCPs, with the distinction that decides the purchase: an AI IEP tool is not an IEP management system, and neither replaces the other.
Five independently chosen AI tools that give kindergarten and pre-K teachers their evenings back, without adding a single screen to the classroom. With COPPA status, real pricing and the tools I left out.
