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No AI tool is built for art teachers: of 125 tools in the directory, the 19 that claim art are general planners with a subject box ticked. These six do the unit plan, the demo, the art history, the artist statement and the exhibition, five of them free for K-12, and leave every mark on the paper to the student.
A school improvement plan is an argument and a pile of paperwork. AI is now genuinely good at the paperwork. Here are five tools mapped to the five jobs a plan contains, and the one job you should never hand over.
New York City and Los Angeles Unified both closed student access to generative AI on September 2, 2026, and four states now require a district AI policy. Six tools cover the work that lands on the technology director: counting what is already in use, building vendor files, drafting the policy, and handling the student, staff and records jobs that follow.
Six AI tools that hold up in a computer science classroom where students can already generate the code, with what each one costs, what it will not do, and what your district has to check first.
Six AI tools for fall conference prep, each matched to one job: report card language, the difficult email, playing back a student's own thinking, reaching families who cannot attend, evidence from student work, and the grade 11 and 12 conversation. With dated pricing, what each tool declares about student data, and a twelve-minute prep routine.
Six AI tools for band, choir, orchestra and general music, one per job: unit plans and rubrics, score study, listening checks, practice journals, concert programs and music history reading. With pricing and privacy claims checked on each vendor's own pages in September 2026, and the reason none of them was built for your subject.
Six AI tools for the jobs that fill an assistant principal's week, from duty rosters to the master schedule, sorted against the new DC and New York City rules that put discipline and teacher evaluation off-limits.
Six AI tools a substitute can use from a personal account on the morning they get the call, with dated pricing, what each one is not for, and why the student-data protections classroom teachers rely on do not follow you into the room.
Six AI tools for career and technical education, one per job: pathway units, career advising, AI literacy with no devices, oral competency checks, certification exam prep and employer email. With pricing and privacy claims checked on each vendor's own pages in September 2026, and the reason none of them was built for your subject.
Six AI tools that do the jobs gifted and talented teachers actually need, from pre-assessment to independent study, with dated pricing, the limitation of each one, and why AI has no business in identification decisions.
Six AI tools that draft a college recommendation letter, with pricing and vendor terms checked in September 2026, what each one does with the student information you paste in, and the four questions that decide which one you should use.
Six AI tools that do a school librarian's job in 2026: source-grounded research lessons, a cited answer engine for the reference desk, AI literacy with no student device, displays, accessibility and levelled research packets. Each one comes with its age minimum, free tier and privacy statement checked on the vendor's site, plus a worked grade 10 lesson and what the NYC and LAUSD pauses on student AI change.
