Supporting High-Impact
Instruction with MagicSchool
Our norms
- Mindful participation
- Ask and share
- Growth mindset
- Imagine student impact
- Connect and collaborate
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Ground today’s work in purpose
Thought starter: Share your answer to one of these questions in the chat.
Which instructional
task takes you the most
time each week?
What’s one task you
wish you could redesign
for impact?
Today’s agenda
1 | MagicSchool Essentials Understand MagicSchool's purpose, benefits, and best practices |
2 | Design high impact instruction Create, customize, and modify generations for immediate action |
3 | Next Steps Build competence with resources and plan your next steps |
4 | Share out & survey! Share your learnings, commitments, and feedback to today’s learning |
Learning objectives
Prompt tools with relevant information and examine outputs using professional judgement.
Examine and refine generations �using the Prompt Library, edits, and follow-up prompts to create high-impact instructional materials.
Share customized materials with �your colleagues and refer back to �saved resources.
Educators will be able to…
Why AI �for schools?
Educators across the globe are using AI to help complete their work more efficiently. We should model responsible use for our students.
Students interact with AI systems in every facet of their daily life. Understanding how AI works will allow students to use these systems responsibly.
Teaching and modeling responsible AI usage is the only way to fully prepare students for their future.
Why now?
Generative AI systems are quickly becoming a central part of every industry, and our students will need to understand how to interact with these systems productively.
Why MagicSchool AI?
MagicSchool’s AI can save educators (you) hours of time, by helping lesson plan, differentiate, communicate with families, and so much more in your daily work!
Empowers educators �(you) to create safe, responsible AI experiences to drive student growth, personalize learning, and more through building AI skills and competencies.
MagicSchool is easy to use so you can get started right away. There is an access point for everyone with no limit to what you can create. We are built by educators, for educators.
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What is MagicSchool?
80+ Customizable AI tools for all teachers
Save time and support standards-aligned instruction, planning, differentiation, assessment, etc.
50+ Customizable AI tools for students
Provide personalized support, tutoring, feedback, and AI literacy–all monitored by teachers.
Responsible, guided AI integration
Set students up for career success while ensuring equitable support for learners and educators.
Safe and privacy-focused AI platform
Protect student privacy and data.
The most loved, secure, �and trusted AI platform for �educators and students.
Best practices for using MagicSchool
Use AI as a tool to support your work
The 80-20 �approach
Use AI for initial work, but make sure to add your final touch, review for bias and accuracy, and contextualize appropriately for the �last 20%.
Your judgment matters
See AI-generated content as a starting point, not a final solution. Always adhere to your school's guidelines.
Check for bias �and accuracy
AI might occasionally produce biased or incorrect content. Always double-check before sharing with students.
Align to�purpose
Before using any AI output, ask: does this connect to my learning objective and fit my students' needs? �Relevance and appropriateness are yours to verify.
Support high �impact instruction
Create, customize, and modify generations for immediate action
Supporting High-Impact Instruction
Steps to Success
IDENTIFY
PROMPT
EXAMINE
RESPOND & REFINE
Identify the target
Prompt with relevant information
Examine the output with your professional judgement
Refine the output
What do I need and how does it connect to instruction?
What specific information do I need to inform a high-impact output?
What is useful from this output? What do I need to change or consider?
What still needs modification?
Getting started with MagicSchool
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Identify your need
A 4th grade ELA teacher is in the middle of a unit on identifying the main idea and supporting details in informational text.
The class includes a mix of proficiency, and the teacher wants a cohesive, differentiated, and structured way to capture student knowledge that is ready to deliver — without spending hours building it from scratch on a Sunday night.
IDENTIFY
Today, we'll follow her journey — from prompting, examining, and refining a generation that can support her class.
Try it yourself: Identify a need,
then find a tool that supports it.
Explore the tool by filling in the fields or selecting Show Exemplar
Use the search bar or Tool Recommendations to find a tool that helps with this instructional task
A 4th grade ELA teacher is planning a lesson on identifying the main idea and supporting details in informational text. The class includes a mix of proficiency, and the teacher wants a cohesive, differentiated, and structured lesson that is ready to deliver — without spending hours building it from scratch on a Sunday night.
IDENTIFY
Instructional Task
What could high impact look like when MagicSchool supports the instructional design?
Now let's see it in action
Accelerate student learning
The teacher drives decision making
Strengthen �teacher practice
The teacher moves closer to students
The Goal
AI compresses the time cost of differentiation so teachers can invest that time where it matters most — with students.
Try it Yourself: Prompt, then examine the output.
Start here:
Read through the initial generation. Provide additional context, if needed.
Generate your own output �by prompting in Raina or selecting a tool from All Tools.
Examine the generation and check for rigor, clarity, and fit.
Note: Your judgement matters; remember the 80-20% approach.
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PROMPT
Navigating MagicSchool
MagicSchool menu & navigation
Dark/light mode
Helpful resource links to additional learning materials & support
Menu to orient and find your tools, history, resources, & more
MagicSchool menu & navigation
Menu to �orient and �find your tools, history, resources, �& more.
Adjust your
settings
Access
additional learning materials & in-platform support
MagicSchool tools
Explore the accessibility features menu
Check out your customized layout
Begin your journey with Raina!
Review customized messages from your leadership
Explore recent tasks you’ve completed
Try it yourself!
Explore the accessibility features menu
Check out your customized layout
Begin your journey with Raina!
Review customized messages from your leadership
Explore recent tasks you’ve completed
Apply it: Respond to a need with your Prompt Library
Use a Prompt Library shortcut or send a message to:
REFINE
RESPOND
Save�time
Increase �differentiation
Increase rigor �or engagement
Note: Your judgement matters; remember the 80-20% approach.
Workshop
Use the 4 steps to success to create or refine at least one �generation that you can use within the next 7 days.
IDENTIFY
PROMPT
EXAMINE
RESPOND & REFINE
Identify the target
Prompt with relevant information
Examine the output with your professional judgement
Refine the output
Saving + sharing + finding generations (outputs)
Your outputs automatically save to�chat history
Share your output with any MagicSchool user or those in your organization.
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Reflect and share
Share out: Share your answer to one of these questions in the chat.
Next Steps
Build competence with resources
and plan your next steps
One tool. One task. This week.
“I will use on � for .”
[tool name]
[day]
[specific task]
Share out: Write it down and share in the chat using the sentence frame above.
Next Steps
Become an AI Pioneer
Join a vibrant community �of educators transforming education through AI.
MagicSchool Resources
Access Certification Courses, �Professional Development, �and much more!
www.magicschool.ai/professional-development
www.magicschool.ai/magicschool-ai-pioneers
Appendix
Screenshot slides
Best practices for using AI to design learning experiences
Use AI as a tool to support your work
The 80-20 �approach
Use AI for initial work, but make sure to add your final touch, review for bias and accuracy, and contextualize appropriately for the �last 20%.
Your judgment matters
See AI-generated content as a starting point, not a final solution. Always adhere to your school's guidelines.
Check for bias �and accuracy
AI might occasionally produce biased or incorrect content. Always double-check before sharing with students.
Align to�purpose
Before using any AI output, ask: does this connect to my learning objective and fit my students' needs? �Relevance and appropriateness are yours to verify.
MagicSchool menu & navigation
Menu to �orient and �find your �tools, collections, history, resources, �& more.
Dark/light mode.
Helpful resource �links to Wall �of Love, PD, Student AI Literacy, �and more!
Help center - Ask for help!
MagicSchool tools
Add tools to your favorites by clicking the star.
Check out Raina’s recommended tools.
Explore our New Search Bar!!
Scroll through the list of over �80+ tools to discover new tools.
Explore tool Categories.
Advanced search
The Advanced Search Bar allows you to:
Search for a tool by name.
Find your Recently Used Tools
Find Trending Tools
Create a Collection
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Click Create Collection
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Name your collection
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Select
Tools
Accessibility & support chat
Speech to �text feature.
Accessibility adjustments.
Before choosing a tool, start with the Tool Recommendations tool to get personalized suggestions based on your role.
Step 1: Open the Tool Recommendations tool to give you ideas on what tools you could use in your role!
Step 2: Input your information such as Grade level, and describe your role in the school!
Review the tools based on your role…
Directions
1. Read through the recommended tools for educators.
2. Choose a tool by clicking on the purple link. To revisit this page just click the back button!
The fastest way to learn how to use a recommended MagicSchool tool is to look at the Exemplar for that tool.
Step 1: Open a MagicSchool Teacher tool you were recommended by clicking on the purple link!
Step 2: Click the “Show Exemplar” button to see an example of the inputs and outputs to see how it works.
Review the example generation…
Directions
1. Read through the initial generation.
2. Jot down ways you could use this tool in your workflow.
Copy or export your outputs
Copy your outputs to your clipboard so you can paste them anywhere you like.
Export your �output to many different platforms.
Customize your output
Ask Raina to modify your output in a different way.
Get questions based on your output.
Change the length of your output.
Get a summary �of your output.
Explore �suggestions!
Translate your output, and Edit your output before customizing.