Introducing Claude for Teachers

We're introducing Claude for 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.

Why we're building for teachers

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 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.

Connected to evidence-based curricula and the K-12 ecosystem

Claude for Teachers connects to Learning Commons, 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 and IM v.360 from Illustrative Mathematics.

As of today, educators can now connect Claude across an entire ecosystem of K-12 tools.

• ASSISTments: Generate auto-scored, standards-aligned math problems for practice and assessment.
• Brisk Teaching: Create interactive student activities and standards-aligned lessons, turning your ideas into classroom-ready materials in seconds.
• Canva Education: Turn lesson materials into classroom-ready designs and interactive learning experiences.
• Coteach: Create high-quality math diagrams grounded in K-12 curriculum.
• Diffit: Create and adapt instructional materials for every student.
• Eedi: Generate diagnostic questions that go beyond right and wrong to reveal student thinking and deepen insights, in both English and Spanish.
• MagicSchool: Make instructional content classroom-ready.
• Snorkl: Get insights about your classes, assignments, and student progress to inform your instruction.
• TeachFX: Get personalized instructional feedback grounded in real classroom talk.

How it works

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.

• Plan a lesson from high-quality instructional materials. Ask for a lesson and Claude draws on widely used curricula mapped to your state's standards, as well as fine-grained learning components and progressions beneath them, then drafts a plan and student-facing materials you can revise and take into class.
• Differentiate for every learner in your room. Ask Claude to adapt materials for students at different readiness levels and it builds a differentiation plan for you, plus personalized student-facing materials for each proficiency level. The scaffolds make materials accessible to students, while students who are ready can be further challenged.

Claude for Teachers includes Claude Code and Cowork, which means Claude can carry work forward on its own. Some examples:

• Analyze class data to plan instruction. Hand Claude a folder of data-roster, diagnostics, attendance, your own notes-and it builds a clear picture of where every student is, allowing teachers to better tailor instruction. You control what data is shared; nothing you share is used in model training.
• Schedule repeated tasks. Hand off a task once-like reviewing each day's exit tickets to see what students mastered and adapting tomorrow's plan to match-and it runs every school day at 4pm. Claude works while you drive home.

Learn more from two teachers, Zac and Karina, explaining how they use Claude for Teachers in their own classrooms.

Built for educators, safe with student data

Claude for Teachers is for educators only, consistent with Claude's 18-and-over policy. It comes with its own teacher terms, built for K-12 privacy. Claude for Teachers data is not used for model training purposes, and student information is protected by our K-12 Data Processing Addendum, written to comply with FERPA.

We're also working with the American Federation of Teachers to align our terms and privacy practices with gold standards they're developing:

"We've been working with Anthropic on a Gold Standard that sets out industry best practices for safety and privacy in K-12 education," said Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers. "It's important that Anthropic is committing to these principles in their new Claude for Teachers - a tool designed by and for educators to assist them instructionally and hopefully give them more time for the human relationships at the heart of learning."

Whether and how educational data may be used in Claude for Teachers is determined by your district and state policies. You can read more about our K-12 data privacy standards for Claude for Teachers here.

AI fluency for teachers

Teachers can also access our newly released AI Fluency for PK-12 Teachers, 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.

Sharing what we build

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 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, working closely with teachers to study the impact on educator wellbeing and practice. Together, these efforts support the goals of our partnership with the Gates Foundation to co-develop tools that improve educational outcomes for K-12 students. In addition, Playlab will support a national network of lab schools in implementing AI, helping educators become builders of the AI tools used in their classrooms.

Getting started

Once verified, educators can access Claude for Teachers entirely free. Sign up by June 30, 2027, for a full year of access.

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.

Updated July 21, 2026: Added a note to emphasize that whether and how educational data may be used in Claude for Teachers is determined by district and state policies.