#4: Saving Teachers Time with MagicSchool and Brisk

2025-06-16

Since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, several AI education companies have sprung up to help teachers use these new tools in their classrooms. MagicSchool, founded by Adeel Khan, has been used by over 5 million teachers around the world. Meanwhile, Brisk Teaching has been growing fast and has over a million teachers using their extension as well. These new platforms are the way that many teachers encounter and use AI in their classrooms. In this episode, we'll describe how they work, tell their story of how they began, and evaluate the evidence (or lack of...

These new platforms are the way that many teachers encounter and use AI in their classrooms. In this episode, we'll describe how they work, tell their story of how they began, and evaluate the evidence (or lack of evidence) on student learning.

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Tiers of Evidence

ESSA tiers of evidence (MagicSchool and Brisk both have earned the LOWEST tier, Tier 4, requiring just that there is a rationale behind their product but no evidence yet).

Common Sense privacy reviews for MagicSchool and Brisk are both 93%.

MagicSchool sources

Case studies from Aurora Public Schools(and the Aurora edtech page) and Innova. MagicSchool study from University of Jhang. Youtube short advertising rubric generator and Adeel Khan interview

Brisk sources

Arman Jaffer interview on the Linkup Podcast and Brisk case studies.

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