Welcome to the Brisk Teaching Professional Development Deck - refreshed with new tools, strategies, and ideas designed to solve real classroom challenges and help you move confidently into what’s next.
Brisk is evolving with the needs of today’s classrooms, and this deck is your guide to what’s coming next. It’s filled with ready-to-use content and practical resources to support better planning, stronger differentiation, and more impactful instruction.
How to Use This Deck
• Lead impactful PD: Run engaging sessions with slides that spark conversation and lead to real classroom shifts.
• Level up your resources: Customize or remix content to build sessions that fit your style and goals.
• Share what works: Use this deck to spread ideas in PD sessions, at conferences, or across your network.
Brisk is always evolving, and so is this deck. It will continue to be updated with the latest tools and features so you can stay ahead of the curve and support what teachers need next. Looking for a quick playlist of Brisk Basics? See our Getting Started Playlist
Have a testimonial or suggestion? We’d love to hear it: hello@briskteaching.com
Thanks for being part of the Brisk community, and for helping lead the next chapter in teaching and learning. 🩵
HEY, AMAZING EDUCATORS!
This deck was last updated: July 2026
HOW TO USE THIS DECK
Use this deck to lead impactful PD in schools, at conferences, and for virtual sessions.
Review all slides - we add more than a presenter might need, so you can customize for your audience.
Share the Companion Guide [linked] at the start of your session. When you demo, participants follow along using the linked resources inside — and you can use it to guide your demo too.
When you see the microphone icon, exit the deck and live demo.
When you see the chat bubbles icon, pause �for discussion - sharing ideas, reactions, and reflections.
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Tip: Review the speaker notes for the presentation flow. Add or delete slides as needed. We provide more slides than some presenters need so that you can select what works best for your audience.
GETTING STARTED WITH BRISK
Educator Professional Development & Training
Month XX, 2026
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Hi, I’m First Name
Last Name!
Role / Title
Type
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Type
(Use this slide if hosting an “In Person” session)
Hi! I’m [Your Name]
Introduce Yourself
Location
Tagline- educational background, personal detail
💬 Please introduce yourself in the chat!
Name, grade level and subject taught, and what you hope to get out of our session today!
(Use this slide if hosting a “Digital” session)
Giving meaningful feedback
Differentiating resources
Creating instructional materials
All of the above
MOST TIME?
Which tasks take you the
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Let’s take a poll…
AGENDA
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What is Brisk Teaching?
Brisk’s tools & how you can use Brisk- today!
Next Steps
Q & A
Brisk Teaching?
What is
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WORKS WITH YOUR FAVORITE TOOLS
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Microsoft Office
Google Workspace
Student Assignments
PDFs & Images
YouTube Videos
Web Articles
LMSs
Digital Curriculum
Brisk pops up on the side of your screen… �directly where you’re already working.
HOW?
Watch a video playback of each student's writing process to identify where they need support.
INSPECT WRITING
Create any educational resource you need — lesson plans, quizzes, slides — in seconds.
CREATE
Deliver personalized feedback on student work within the class, helping students revise with confidence.
GIVE FEEDBACK
Reach all students by adapting any text to their reading level or translating to 50+ languages.
CHANGE LEVEL
Transform any resource into AI activities that meet students where they are — exit tickets, debates, writing feedback, and more.
BOOST STUDENT ACTIVITY
BRISK NEXT
Access a personalized teaching hub with customized lesson recommendations, activities, and assessments based on class needs.
THERE ARE 6 WAYS BRISK CAN HELP
Brisk lives…
AS A CHROME & EDGE EXTENSION
Once you add it to your toolbar (we’ll show you how to do this in a few minutes), it starts to pop up on the side of your screen!
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And Brisk lives…
ON THE WEB
You can also access brisk on any web browser, by heading to app.briskteaching.com.
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C O P P A
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act
Ranked #1 by
93%
Privacy Rating
Brisk is safe and secure.
USING BRISK
So… let’s get started
Tip: Permissions are standard -
Brisk is safe and secure
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briskteaching.com
PIN BRISK
Next, you’ll need to
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Here is your
Brisk map
This is Brisk
Use this map of Brisk to help locate what you need. Today we’ll explore each tool!
Tools
Let’s try Brisk’s
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Create
Generate materials such as Slides, quizzes, resources, podcasts, lesson plans, administrative tasks, etc. from any webpage, curriculum, or image.
CREATE INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS
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TWO WAYS TO CREATE
Type what you need
Open the Brisk extension over any resource, and type what you want right into the prompt box — something like "Create a podcast from this web page."
Click what you want
If you prefer to browse, click Create and the full set of tools opens up, so you can pick Presentation, Quiz, Guided Notes, Podcast, or any other option.
You can type, click, or do a little of both.
Create
TYPE WHAT YOU NEED
Open the Brisk extension over any resource, and type what you want right into the prompt box — something like "Create a podcast from this web page."
Create Option 1
CLICK WHAT YOU NEED
Open the Brisk extension, click Create and the full set of tools opens up, so you can pick Presentation, Quiz, Guided Notes, Podcast, or any other option.
Create Option 2
Tip: you can still choose to use Intelligence Mode or Quick to create. You’ll also have the option to Iterate.
SELECT YOUR MODE
Create Mode
Intelligent: Brisk will ask you questions so the material fits your lesson and your students. The options are shaped around your source and grade level. Every question is optional.
Quick: Brisk will create your resource immediately without asking questions to refine.
BRISK ASKS A FEW QUICK QUESTIONS
If you select “Mode: Intelligent”
So the material fits your lesson and your students. The options are shaped around your source and grade level. Every question is optional. You can skip at any time.
ITERATE TO REFINE
Create and Iterate
After you create, you can chat back and forth with Brisk to fine-tune your new resource without starting over.
Now, let’s try it!
CREATE INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS
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Now, let’s try it!
CREATE WITH BRISK
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Open any Google Doc or Word Doc, PDF, YouTube video, or web article
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Type what you need to create or click create and choose from there.
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Adjust your settings to your students.
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Choose your mode and click ‘Create’!
ADD FILES
A quick note:
Brisk is pretty smart and will pop up in most places. But, if there’s a resource you need to Brisk… and Brisk isn’t showing up… use the + sign to upload PDFs, images, and more!
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💡 Brisk Tip
Which create tool immediately caught your eye?
Why?
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Let’s discuss
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Feedback Tools
Brisk makes it simple to give students timely, actionable feedback on any assignment - fast, consistent, and always in your voice.
GIVE IMMEDIATE FEEDBACK
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Now, let’s try it!
GIVE IMMEDIATE FEEDBACK
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Now, let’s try it!
GIVE FEEDBACK
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Open any Google or Word Doc or student created Youtube Video
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Click ‘Give Feedback’
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Select from the four feedback styles
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You can: Choose standards, upload a rubric, set a focus & Brisk It!
💡 Brisk Tip
Did you know, Brisk also helps you give feedback… to lots of students at once?��Batch Feedback takes everything you already love about Brisk’s feedback tools and scales it across your class. Give personal, high-quality feedback to multiple students… in one sitting.
BATCH FEEDBACK
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Which feedback style did you choose? Share what you noticed.
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Let’s discuss
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Writing Tools
INSPECT STUDENT WRITING
Brisk allows you to watch a in-depth video playback of your students’ writing process…from start to finish!
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Now, let’s try it!
INSPECT STUDENT WRITING
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Now, let’s try it!
INSPECT WRITING
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Open student writing in a Word Doc
or Google Doc
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Click ‘Inspect
Writing’
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View a step-by-step
playback of your students’ edits and revisions
How might this support student writing conferencing?
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Let’s discuss
Translate & Level Tools
TRANSLATE & LEVEL TEXT
Take any text on the internet (PDFs, articles, websites, and more) and level it to match your students' needs.
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Now, let’s try it!
TRANSLATE & LEVEL TEXT
Adapt text instantly by Lexile Level:
Now, let’s try it!
TRANSLATE & �LEVEL
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Open any Google Doc or Word Doc, PDF, or web article
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Click ‘Create’
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Select reading level
or select a language to translate the text
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Click ‘Change level’
How might this help with differentiation?
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Let’s discuss
Student Tools
Turn any resource into a safe and interactive student-facing lesson.
Or, create activities from scratch.
BOOST STUDENT ACTIVITY
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Student Tools
BOOST STUDENT ACTIVITY
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Now, let’s try it!
BOOST STUDENT
ACTIVITY
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Open any Google Doc or Word Doc, PDF, or web article
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Click ‘Boost Activity’
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Select an option from Boost such as Whiteboard, Character Chat and More!
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Enter your prompt,
click Next
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Then, Create!
How do you see this supporting personalized learning?
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Let’s discuss
Web Based
Brisk on the web gives teachers the power to plan, assign, and adapt - based on insights from your activities and feedback.
Whether you’re just logging back in or deep into grading mode, Brisk Next offers AI-powered suggestions to help you decide what to teach next.
BRISK ON THE WEB
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Now, let’s try it!
*You can also head to app.briskteaching.com
BRISK ON THE WEB
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Now, let’s try it!
BRISK ON THE WEB
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Open any resource and click the Brisk home button in the main menu to open Brisk on the Web
Or, go to: app.briskteaching.com/next
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Enter your prompt and set your specifications
What’s one resource you generated by Brisk today?
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Let’s discuss
Steps
Next
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Give better feedback, faster
Differentiate in seconds
Create resources my
students will love
Get ahead instead of playing catch-up
BRISK TO…
Tomorrow, I’ll use
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Let’s take a poll…
All of the above
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Answers
Questions &
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Resources
Additional
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GETTING STARTED PAGE
briskteaching.com/getting-started-with-brisk-teaching
PD RESOURCES
briskteaching.com/brisk-professional-development-resources
BRISK
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