Learning Genie: Empowering Educators with AI-Powered Features
Learning Genie is an innovative, AI-supported platform designed to revolutionize instructional planning and documentation for educators from preschool through grade 12. By leveraging artificial intelligence and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles, Learning Genie empowers teachers to create inclusive, engaging, and standards-aligned learning experiences for all students.
Core Functionality and Features
Learning Genie offers a comprehensive suite of features designed to streamline lesson planning, enhance student assessment, and foster family engagement.
AI-Assisted Unit Design and Lesson Planning
At the heart of Learning Genie lies its AI-assisted unit design and lesson-planning tools. These tools support differentiation, inclusion, and alignment with high-quality instructional materials (HQIM), enabling teachers to integrate student evidence, contextual learning needs, and learner profiles into their planning.
- Curriculum Genie's Job-Embedded AI Curriculum Companion: This acts as an AI-powered co-teacher, providing practical, personalized teaching tips within the educator's workflow. It is designed to be a trusted partner, helping teachers teach with greater confidence and ease.
- Real-Time Teaching Tips Aligned with Standards: The AI Curriculum Companion clarifies how to translate curriculum standards into practice by turning complex standards into clear, actionable tips-complete with suggested activities or questioning techniques to meet every learning objective.
- Observation Guidance & Behavior Support: The AI tool helps educators recognize patterns in student behavior and learning needs and provides targeted strategies to support their class, fostering a more responsive and inclusive classroom where everyone feels seen and valued.
- Strategies for Cultivating Graduate Attributes: The AI helps educators intentionally weave essential competencies-like critical thinking, collaboration, and communication-into their daily lessons, suggesting practical ways to integrate these future-ready skills naturally, aligning with their school's Portrait of a Graduate.
- UDL & CLR Approaches for Inclusive Learning: The Job-Embedded AI Curriculum Companion provides concrete tips grounded in Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and culturally responsive practices, helping educators design lessons that consider diverse backgrounds, learning styles, and abilities from the outset.
- Enhanced Literacy Support Across Subjects: It can suggest ways to scaffold reading levels and offer teaching tips tailored to improve comprehension for all learners.
Digital Portfolios and Assessment Tools
Learning Genie promotes student-centered learning through its digital portfolios, DRDP-aligned assessment tools, and multimodal documentation features. These tools capture student voice and support the development of student agency.
- Evidence-Based Learning Progress Portfolios: Learning Genie provides innovative mobile and web applications for early childhood educators to create evidence-based learning progress portfolios.
- Customizable Early Learning Framework and Assessment Tools: Learning Genie is a cross-platform app enabling early childhood educators to easily create portfolios and conduct authentic assessments with fully customizable early learning framework and assessment tools, such as DRDP2015, and more.
- Portfolio Tags: Utilize portfolio tags to organize and monitor children’s developmental observations and assessment evidence.
- Analytical Dashboard: Learning Genie also provides an analytical dashboard to support teachers in identifying student needs and to help administrators set and track school readiness goals.
Family Engagement Features
Learning Genie recognizes the importance of family involvement in a child's education. Its interactive daily reporting feature enables teachers to share learning content, such as pictures, videos, eBooks, songs, interactive learning media, and parenting tips. This fosters better bonding between parents and children through joint interactive learning.
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- Interactive Daily Reporting: Learning Genie’s interactive daily reporting feature enables teachers to share learning content such as pictures, videos, eBooks, songs, interactive learning media, and parenting tips.
- Real-Time Communication: Share videobooks, photos, learning media videos, event reminders, and more with parents in real time through the app.
- Parent App: The parent application is designed to revolutionize the way parents stay connected and engaged in their child’s educational journey. It provides a central hub where parents can access all the important information about their child’s school experience - from their daily activities to upcoming events and everything in between. Parents can effortlessly receive updates and messages from their child’s teachers, ensuring they never miss a beat.
- Streamlined Tasks: One of the unique features of the Learning Genie App is its ability to streamline daily tasks, such as submitting the daily health card.
Streamlined Administrative Tasks
Learning Genie simplifies administrative tasks for both teachers and administrators.
- Classroom Management: School admins and teachers can manage classrooms, import children and parents with ease.
- Portfolio Reports: Download portfolio reports in PDF form.
The AI-Powered Lesson Planning Process
Learning Genie streamlines the lesson planning process with its AI-powered tools, allowing educators to create and adapt high-quality lessons efficiently.
Accessing the Lesson Creator
- Navigate to “Lesson Plan” from the left-hand menu.
- Click the “+ Create/Adapt Lesson” button to launch the tool.
Creating or Adapting a Lesson Plan
- Create a new lesson plan: Select the “Create Lesson” tab (default) to generate a brand-new lesson based on a topic or objective.
- Adapt an existing lesson plan: Select the “Adapt Lesson” tab to customize existing ideas, materials, or activities for specific classroom needs.
Providing Inputs for the AI Lesson Planner
To ensure the AI generates the most relevant content, provide as much detail as possible in the following fields:
a. Required Fields:
- Activity Description: Enter the lesson topic, a brief overview, core learning objectives, or other essential details for the lesson. Click “Exemplars” for pre-filled examples or “Prompt History” to reuse past prompts.
- Grade: Choose the appropriate age group. The AI will tailor the lesson according to the selected age.
- Personalization & Adaptation (Adapt-only Field): Add any custom ideas on how the lesson should be adapted to the classroom's needs. This helps tailor the lesson for specific student interests, learning styles, or backgrounds to ensure maximum engagement.
b. Optional Settings (Recommended when applicable):
- Apply Standards: Enable this to generate a standards-aligned lesson. Select the State and Framework, then choose:
- Subjects (select subjects/domains only, and the system automatically recommends the most appropriate standards).
- Specific Standards (select the specific measures/indicators this lesson will cover).
- Create Localized Curriculum: Enable this to generate lesson plans tailored to the specific geographical location, connecting learning to students’ real-world context for more relevant, culturally responsive, and engaging instruction.
- Portrait of a Graduate: Select the graduate traits to develop in students. Curriculum Genie will embed these traits into meaningful, real practice opportunities throughout the lesson, ensuring learning goes beyond academics by strengthening lifelong skills students need for future success.
c. Advanced Settings:
- Customize Lesson Plan Modules: Customize which lesson components to include in the lesson.
Generating the Lesson Plan
Click “Generate” to let the AI work its magic.
Curriculum Genie will generate the lesson details, including the core lesson plan and any modules selected. Optional modules may include:
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- Future-Ready & PoG-Aligned Moments: Translate PoG from slogans into specific, measurable expectations and in-class opportunities embedded in tasks, talk, and products, so future-ready skills are actually built-not just named.
- Job-Embedded Support for Teachers: Embed “How do I teach this lesson?” guidance directly into each lesson-concrete teaching tips for the targeted academic standards, UDL/CLR-informed strategies, and notes on typical student behaviors and how to respond-so teachers aren’t left to figure it out alone.
- Standards-Aligned Assessments: Turn every lesson into a standards-aligned check-in, with quizzes built across Bloom’s and DOK levels-making it easy to see true mastery of academic standards instead of shallow recall.
- Ready-to-Teach Teacher Slides: Instantly transform the written lesson plan into a ready-to-present slide deck.
After the lesson is generated, select and apply any EduProtocols activities to bring the lesson to life and enhance student engagement.
Enhancing the Lesson
Click the “Enhance Lesson” button at the bottom of the lesson plan.
Customize the lesson plan details by describing what you want to adjust.
This will open the Enhance Lesson pop-up, allowing you to:
- Update Standards (Measures): Modify the selected educational standards (measures) to emphasize particular areas of development to prioritize.
- Adjust Activity Duration: Change the allocated time for the lesson activity to better fit the schedule.
- Input Adaptation Ideas: Provide specific instructions or describe how the lesson should be adapted.
Click “Confirm and Regenerate” to have the AI update the lesson plan based on your new input.
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Managing Versions and Editing Prompts
- Version History: Click this at the top to view saved versions with timestamps and click “Restore” to return to a desired previous version.
- Edit Prompt: Click this to modify the original inputs, then click “Regenerate” to create a new version based on the updated prompt.
AI-Powered Unit Planning
Learning Genie also offers an AI-powered unit planner to help teachers create complete curriculum units.
Accessing the Unit Planner
- From the left-hand menu, open Unit Planner.
- Click New Unit.
Filling in the Unit Details & Filters
These fields help Curriculum Genie understand what you want to teach:
Required Fields:
- Unit Name: Give your Unit a name; you can use the main topic to name it.
- Unit Description: Describe what you want students to learn and experience in this unit. The more specific you are, the better the generated unit plan will match your goals. Use Description Assistant to quickly generate a strong description by answering 2 questions. You can also enable Student Voice to ensure learning experiences reflect student interests and agency.
- Grade: Select the correct grade level. Curriculum Genie will automatically adapt the unit structure, language complexity, and activities based on students’ developmental stage.
- Weeks: Choose how many weeks the unit will run. This determines pacing, number of lessons, and the depth of learning experiences.
- Classroom Setup: Select In-person or Virtual. Curriculum Genie will adjust instructional strategies accordingly.
Optional Settings (Recommended when applicable):
Apply Standards: Enable this to generate a standards-aligned unit. Select your State and Framework, then choose:
- Auto-adapted standards (select domains only, and the system automatically recommends the most appropriate standards.)
- Specific standards (select domains and measures/indicators)
Create Localized Curriculum: Enable this to generate unit plans that connect learning to students’ real-world context, so lessons feel more relevant, culturally responsive, and engaging.
Portrait of a Graduate: Select the graduate traits you want students to develop; Curriculum Genie will embed these traits into meaningful, real practice opportunities throughout the unit.
Generating Unit Foundations
Click Generate to create the basic structure or the unit's foundations.
- Note: Review the information and settings you’ve entered, and make edits as needed before generating.
- Once confirmed, you’ll receive an overview, unit trajectory, key concepts, and guiding questions. If you’d like to customize the unit foundations, click Enhance and enter your preferred adjustments. When you’re satisfied, click Next to proceed, or Save to continue later.
Generating and Reviewing Weekly Plans
After proceeding with the unit foundations, you can now confirm and generate the weekly themes, along with their overview, books, relevant standards, PoG traits (if enabled) for each week. Use the Lessons counter to set the desired number of lessons per week.
- Note: You can update-add, remove, or change anything as needed-or regenerate the details for a specific week to keep content fresh and aligned with your objectives. Once everything is ready, click Confirm & Next to finalize.
Generating and Reviewing Weekly Lessons
After confirming all the weekly themes, the tool will generate lesson ideas for each week.
- Review the generated lesson ideas for each week. To make edits, click the Pencil Button at the bottom right corner of each lesson idea. You may also choose to regenerate a lesson idea for the week.
Generating Lesson Plan Details
Once you’re satisfied with a lesson idea, click View Lessons to generate the detailed lesson plan. To batch-generate lesson plans for all lesson ideas, click View My Lessons at the bottom. Curriculum Genie will generate a detailed lesson description for each lesson, including the core lesson plan and any modules you’ve selected. Optional modules may include:
- Future-Ready & PoG-Aligned Moments: Translate PoG from slogans into specific, measurable expectations and in-class opportunities embedded in tasks, talk, and products, so future-ready skills are actually built-not just named.
- Job-Embedded Support for Teachers: Embed “How do I teach this lesson?” guidance directly into each lesson-concrete teaching tips for the targeted academic standards, UDL/CLR-informed strategies, and notes on typical student behaviors and how to respond-so teachers aren’t left to figure it out alone.
- Standards-Aligned Assessments: Turn every lesson into a standards-aligned check-in, with quizzes built across Bloom’s and DOK levels-making it easy to see true mastery of academic standards instead of shallow recall.
- EduProtocols-Based Student Activities: Drop in ready-made activity frames inspired by EduProtocols that boost participation, creativity, and collaboration while still tightly targeting your academic outcomes.
- Ready-to-Teach Teacher Slides: Instantly transform your written lesson plan into a ready-to-present slide deck.
Enhancing the Lesson
Similar to the Unit Foundations, you can click Enhance Lesson to customize the lesson plan details by describing what you want to adjust (e.g., activities, pacing, differentiation, or materials).
Completing the Unit Planner
Once all lessons are generated, you’ll see a confirmation pop-up. From there, you can preview the unit plan, make edits, or export it for offline use.
Accessibility and Compatibility
Learning Genie is designed to be accessible and compatible with a variety of devices and operating systems.
- Cross-Platform Availability: Learning Genie is accessible through a web portal and mobile applications for iOS and Android.
- Device Compatibility: The program operates on standard classroom devices, including tablets, Chromebooks, and desktop computers.
- Browser Compatibility: Learning Genie is compatible with modern browsers such as Chrome, Safari, Edge, or Firefox.
- iOS Compatibility: Requires iOS 10.0 or later. Compatible with a wide range of iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touch devices.
- Mac Compatibility: Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision Compatibility: Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Impact and Effectiveness
Learning Genie's effectiveness has been demonstrated in real-world studies.
- Quasi-Experimental Study: Learning Genie was evaluated in a quasi-experimental study during the 2024-2025 school year with 366 prekindergarten and kindergarten students across multiple schools. The sample included a majority of Hispanic students, most from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.
- Positive Outcomes: Students who used Learning Genie showed greater growth on the Desired Results Developmental Profile (DRDP) in language and literacy (effect size = +0.12) and math (+0.12). Results on SEL outcomes were mixed, with scores on Social and Emotional Development showing the greatest gains.
Training and Support
Learning Genie provides comprehensive training and support to ensure successful implementation.
- Training Options: Initial training covers the use of observation-based assessment tools, DRDP documentation, lesson-planning workflows, and AI-supported instructional recommendations.
- Delivery Methods: Training can be delivered through on-site sessions, live virtual workshops, or recorded webinars, with access to self-paced support materials.
Learning Genie for Parent & Child Birth to 3 years:
- Weekly 90-minute home visits from a Home Visitor who provides information and materials about parenting and child development.
- Bi-weekly Socialization activities in a group setting (i.e. Classrooms ages 3 months to 3 years: A 6-hour, 5 day-a-week program. Classrooms are equipped with hands on, age appropriate materials and qualified teachers.
Learning Genie at Isleta Headstart and Childcare Center
- Learning Genie allows for the effective communication between parents and educators which at Isleta we believe to be the key to unlocking a child’s full potential.
- The Isleta Head Start & Child Care Program is a family centered learning environment that respects and values children, families and the community.
- The safety of our children at Isleta Head Start & Child Care is of utmost importance to us.
- At Isleta Headstart and Childcare Center, we offer a wealth of parent resources to support you in nurturing your child’s growth and development. Our resources include informative workshops, access to educational materials, and opportunities for active involvement in your child’s learning experience. We encourage open communication and collaboration, and our goal is to provide you with the tools and knowledge you need to be your child’s first and best teacher.
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