Claude for Teachers: Plan a Standards-Aligned Week
Turn a state standard into a differentiated, standards-aligned week of lessons in Claude for Teachers. 8 hands-on lessons, real prompts, certificate.
On July 14, 2026, Anthropic did something no frontier AI lab had done before: it handed the full premium version of Claude to K-12 teachers for free, wired into the academic standards for all 50 states. That’s a genuinely good thing to give a profession that’s been paying out of pocket for tools that were supposed to buy back its evenings. But “it’s free now” is not a lesson plan. And a generic first draft you have to fix by hand isn’t the win it looks like.
This workshop is the repeatable system underneath the launch. You won’t just read about Claude for Teachers — you’ll verify a free account, turn one of your real state standards into a complete lesson, learn to read the draft like an editor instead of a customer, repair the exact places the research says AI planning stays weak, and differentiate that lesson three ways for the students actually in your room. Then you’ll turn the plan into student-facing materials and a slide deck, save the prompts as a library you keep, and plan a real, usable week you can teach.
The honest part runs through every lesson. AI writes a reliable skeleton and a generic body — the structure holds, the substance is yours. You’ll keep the judgment and hand off the typing. By the end you’ll have a differentiated, standards-aligned week you built in one sitting, and a routine that makes next Sunday a thirty-minute job.
What You'll Learn
- Explain what Claude for Teachers is, how its 50-state standards wiring works, and where its first draft is weak
- Use the specifics prompt to turn a state standard into a complete, standards-aligned lesson draft
- Evaluate an AI lesson draft like an editor and repair the generic, context-blind sections
- Design differentiation — readiness tiers, IEP scaffolds, and multilingual sentence frames — from one base lesson
- Create student-facing materials and a slide deck from a plan with the Canva Education connector
- Build a reusable weekly-planning prompt library and a Sunday-night routine you re-run every week
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What You'll Build
Course Syllabus
Prerequisites
- A school email address to verify a free Claude for Teachers account (US K-12 educators). No account? Every prompt also runs on free Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini.
- One real standard, grade, and class you know well — you'll plan actual lessons, not samples
- No AI experience needed — we start from zero and de-identify all student details
Who Is This For?
- K-12 teachers who want their Sunday nights back without shipping generic lessons
- Educators trying Claude for Teachers for the first time who need a repeatable system, not a one-off demo
- Teachers of tested subjects who plan against state standards and differentiate for mixed classes
- Grade-team and department leads who want one shared planning prompt everyone can start from
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need a Claude for Teachers account to take this course?
It helps, but no. Claude for Teachers is free for verified US K-12 educators, and Lesson 2 shows how to verify. Every prompt in the course also works on free Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini — you just won't have the built-in 50-state standards connector.
I teach outside the US or in higher ed. Can I still use this?
Yes. You can't verify for the free product yet, but every prompt runs on regular Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini. Name your own national or regional curriculum in the prompt instead of a US state standard and the whole workflow still works.
Is it safe to put my students' information into an AI tool?
The course rule is de-identify everything — 'a student reading two grades below level,' never a name. Claude for Teachers adds FERPA-aligned terms and doesn't train on your inputs, but the safe habit protects you on any tool.
How is this different from your other teacher courses?
This one is the planning side of the desk — turning standards into a differentiated week. 'AI for Teachers: Your First Week Back' covers the student side: classroom AI rules, the parent email, and AI-resistant assignments.
