Conversations with AI EdTech Leaders
AI-powered tools are quickly moving into K–12 classrooms, and the range of available products is vast and changing day to day.
Through an instructional lens, we are committed to keeping up with what’s out there, understanding how all these products work, what they’re designed to do, and the early results they’re getting.
Let’s learn together.
What Is the AI in Action Learning Tour?
Instruction Partners is mapping the landscape of student-facing AI tools—including observing products in classrooms, interviewing the educators using them, and understanding the underlying technology—to build a grounded, practitioner-informed point of view about how AI can best improve student learning outcomes.
We wanted to start at the source: the developers who built these tools. Our CEO, Emily Freitag, is sitting down with edtech leaders designing student-facing AI instructional products to understand what problems they’re trying to solve, how their products work in classrooms, and what they’re still figuring out.
In each video, we explore:
These videos are not endorsements; they are learning conversations, intended to help us all understand the range of instructional jobs developers are building products to do.
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Where We're Headed
The developer interviews are just the beginning. As always, we’ll share what we’re learning along the way. Sign up for our mailing list to follow along.
We will be sharing:
- Product interviews
- Blogs and papers on the trends across products and what it may mean for instruction
- A website with product specific information and instructional considerations
Browse the Conversations
Note: Content reflects the product and the developer’s perspective at the time of recording. These conversations are not evaluative and are not intended to guide purchasing decisions.
ELA
GRADES 5-8
Coursemojo
March 2026
Coursemojo is an ELA tool that embeds into Tier I instruction, through high-quality instructional materials, to give 1) students differentiated activities and feedback/revision opportunities on their reading and writing and 2) teachers real-time and after-class insights and other efficacy assists.
All Subjects
GRADES 3-12
Enlighten AI
April 2026
Enlighten AI is a grading and feedback tool that teachers can calibrate to their own rubrics and priorities to help them deliver feedback on student writing more efficiently and that students can use to request on-demand feedback to better revise their work.
Math
All Grades
Goblins
April 2026
Goblins is a math tutoring solution that builds students’ conceptual understanding through 1-on-1 support as they talk and draw their way through problems; it provides teachers with real-time information about individual students’ thinking and error trends across the class.
MATH
GRADES 3-10
OKO
April 2026
OKO is a math tool that facilitates AI-guided, small-group collaboration—engaging students through voice and gesture recognition—that also gives teachers real-time insights into student understanding and progress.
All subjects
All Grades
Snorkl
March 2026
Snorkl is an assessment tool for K–12 that students use to record explanations of their thinking and get personalized feedback on both their answers and their reasoning process.
We’ve formed an advisory group to provide input and guidance across every stage of this project—from who we are learning from to how we share our findings.
The advisory group
Courtney Ellison
Ed Reports
Aaron Cuny
AI for Equity
Emma Doggett
aiEDU
Jennie Dougherty
Kipp NorCAL
Kristen Hole
Houston ISD
Laurence Holt
Advisor
Luke Kohlmoos
Accelerate
Robin Lake
CRPE
Jeff Livingston
EdSolutions
Kira Orange-Jones
Teach Plus (Instruction Partners board member)
John Prince
Math teacher
Tanji Reed-Marshall
Liaison Educational Partners (Instruction Partners board member)
Michelle Rhee
EO Ventures
Joanne Weiss
Consultant and Former Chief of Staff at U.S. Department of Education
Mary Wells
Bellwether (Instruction Partners board member)
Caitrin Wright
Silicon Schools Fund