Kira Learning

AI comes to the Classroom

KIRA LEARNING

As a young EdTech company, Kira Learning is pioneering the integration of AI agents into education. With a team of around 50 educators, engineers, and designers, its mission is bold: to build an AI-native learning platform that empowers teachers, accelerates student learning, and optimizes school operations.

Kira Learning provides an AI-powered platform for K-12 education that embeds intelligent AI assistants into every aspect of teaching and learning. Teachers can instantly generate standards-aligned lesson plans, automate grading, receive real-time feedback, and even offer one-on-one AI tutoring to students.

Fun Fact: The company is chaired by Andrew Ng (co-founder of Coursera and former head of Google Brain)!

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Let us dive into what the platform offers.

Product Overview

1. AI Tutor: Personalized support for students available 24X7. Tailors instruction for every learner.

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2. Teaching Assistant: Intelligent tools to enhance instruction and planning. Empowers teachers by simplifying planning, assessment, and insights on student challenges

3. AI Grader: Hours saved with automated evaluation and detailed, context-aware feedback. Teachers can review the assessment done by AI and release grades with a single click. Supports multiple grading formats like completion, percentage, competency, or mastery-based grading.

4. Insights: Provide school leaders actionable and real-time analytics.

5. ChatLabs: Customizable AI learning environments for any subject.

   

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6. AI Admin Assistant: School Management can be supercharged through sections like Admin Dashboard, Calendar & Schedule, Real-Time Analytics, and Rostering.

AI Tools

1. Create: Build lessons, rubrics, and warm-ups in seconds

• AI Lesson Creator: Automatically generates core content for any lesson and can be used for starting from scratch or giving an existing lesson a refresh. It builds structured, engaging lesson materials in minutes.

• AI Lesson Planner: Designs standards-aligned lesson plans in seconds, ensuring alignment with district or state frameworks.

• Text Summarizer: Creates student-friendly summaries of articles, textbook chapters, or other educational resources, perfect for scaffolding instruction.

• Vocabulary List Generator: Quickly extracts key vocabulary terms and generate student-ready definitions to support reading comprehension and language development.

• Curriculum Connector: Helps find timely, real-life examples to help students connect to material.

• Text Chunker: Breaks down long text readings into manageable parts by automatically dividing text into digestible sections with headings for scanability. Ideal for guided reading or scaffolded assignments."

• Lesson Warm-Up Generator: Creates engaging bellringers or hooks in seconds to "draw on prior knowledge and spark student curiosity.

2. Assess: Design quizzes, generate feedback, and track progress - without any paperwork

3. Personalize: Study Guide Creator, Individual Education Planning Tool, Text Rewriter, Leveler, and Translator

4. Communicate: Reference Letter Generator, Family Communication Tool, Weekly Class Recaps, Staff Email Assistant

Smarter Teaching with Kira: A Week in the Life of Alex

1. Onboarding & Setup
   Alex, a teacher, logs into Kira for the first time. With the class roster and curriculum already synced by the school admin, Alex sees a dashboard of students and the term syllabus. Kira’s AI offers a quick tour with lesson planning and analytics.

2. Lesson Planning
   On Monday, Alex plans a 6th-grade math lesson on “Adding and Subtracting Fractions.” After entering the topic and selecting the standard, Kira instantly generates a draft plan: objectives, warm-up, main activities, practice problems, and an exit quiz. Alex customizes it in 15 minutes by choosing a virtual manipulatives game and tweaking a few problems. Kira also flags common student mistakes to watch for.

3. Classroom Instruction
   During class, students take a warm-up quiz on tablets. Kira shows real-time results, alerting Alex to revisit concepts like simplifying fractions. As students engage with simulations, Kira tracks progress—flagging those who struggle and offering hints, while challenging advanced learners. The class ends with a quick exit quiz, auto-graded by Kira, revealing areas to reinforce.

4. After Class
   Homework is auto-graded by Kira, which highlights common errors like improper fraction simplification. Alex sends targeted tips and mini-lessons to students who need help. Kira suggests a brief review for the next day and shows class mastery at 75%, flagging students who need one-on-one support with remediation plans ready.

5. End of Week & Reporting
   Alex generates a class report summarizing progress and sends updates to parents. Kira’s insights validate teaching decisions like revisiting simplifying fractions mid-week, and help Alex grow through a clear feedback loop.

The Future of AI in Education

Kira Learning is reshaping classrooms by blending AI with pedagogy to create dynamic, personalized learning experiences. For educators, it reduces workload and enhances instructional decision-making. For students, it fosters adaptive learning and real-time support. In a world where AI is revolutionizing every industry, Kira Learning ensures education doesn't get left behind.