5 Ways to Use AI for Quick and Easy Back-to-School Prep

What is Brisk Teaching?

Your new best friend. Your personal virtual assistant. Your kryptonite… 

Refer to Brisk however you’d like, but rest assured this AI-powered tool will help you achieve things you never thought imaginable as it simplifies your workload, automates tedious tasks, and frees up hours of your time each week! 

Brisk is a FREE Chrome extension that works with the tools you are already familiar with— like Google Docs, Slides, YouTube, and web articles. It integrates seamlessly into everything you are already doing.

It is NOT another tool or app that requires time-consuming setups or learning curves. Brisk lives where you are! 

Brisk helps you focus on student instruction, improve creativity, and increase connections. Ultimately, this AI-powered tool works to improve your productivity and work-life balance. 

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How AI Can Help with Back-to-School Prep

Back-to-school prep becomes easy as you quickly check off big pieces of your to-do list with Brisk:

1. Lesson Plans
2. Grading & Feedback
3. Classroom Management
4. Caregiver Communication

Efficient Lesson Planning

Brisk empowers you to save valuable time by creating efficient lesson plans, allowing you to focus on what matters most— providing excellent instruction and connecting with your students! 

With intelligent algorithms, you can quickly generate customized lesson outlines and classroom content that meet your curriculum goals and tailor to student needs. This ensures every lesson is engaging and relevant.

With Brisk, you can create lesson plans and all of these instructional materials in seconds instead of hours:

• Slide decks
• Worksheets 
• Quizzes 
• Vocabulary lists with definitions
• Practice tests
• Decodable text
• Differentiated interventions
• DOK questions
• & more!

Creating efficient lesson plans and classroom resources is as simple as clicking the Brisk app, clicking “create”, inputting your content needs and curriculum goals, and choosing to “Brisk It!” In mere seconds, materials specifically tailored to your students' needs are available to you. 

Simply put— Brisk makes creating content EASY & QUICK!

Seamless Grading and Feedback

Once you’re ready to implement some of these amazing lessons, Brisk will also help you become more efficient with grading and instant feedback on student assignments. 

Open your students’ assignments online, click the Brisk app and select “Give Feedback”. 

From there, choose one of the four powerful options to personalize feedback for your students:

• Targeted: Google Doc comments aligned to your rubric and standards
• Glow & Grow: Areas of strength, growth, and probing questions
• Rubric Criteria: Feedback based on each of your rubric criteria
• Next Steps: Suggestions for next steps and strategies to build up core skills

By quickly analyzing responses, Brisk helps you identify areas where students excel or struggle. With this insight, you can easily differentiate instruction. 

More Than Productivity

The benefit of automated grading and feedback is more than productivity. The time you save with this AI-powered tool allows you to have more conversations with your students— conversations that foster more meaningful student and teacher relationships. 

Research from the American Psychological Association in 2015 supports that when students trust their teacher, they are more eager to invest in their learning.

The result is a dynamic classroom environment where learning thrives effortlessly!

Organized Classroom Management

Classroom management is another important piece of back-to-school prep, but it often doesn’t feel quick or easy. 

Effective classroom management involves more than just teaching. A great deal of this management is organizing tasks such as:

• Creating (and recreating) seating arrangements
• Keeping track of students’ unique schedules
• Recording attendance
• Analyzing student behaviors
• & more

Brisk helps you manage all of these administrative tasks to ensure quick and easy back-to-school prep. A classroom that is managed well becomes a more positive learning environment for everyone!

Increased Communication with Caregivers

Finally, back-to-school prep isn’t complete without a plan for communication with caregivers. Brisk helps you share announcements and updates with parents seamlessly. 

Brisk can handle all of these communication needs for you with ease:

• Meet the Teacher newsletter
• Classroom rules and procedures document
• Translating back-to-school communication
• Emails to parents
• Schedules for parent-teacher conferences or Meet the Teacher night

When caregivers are informed and connected, students are more likely to experience positive outcomes at school.

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Install Brisk & Start Saving Time Today!

Are you on board and feeling excited about the thought of adding Brisk into your daily routine this year? If so, it’s time to download this AI-powered tool.

Installing Brisk Teaching is as easy as 1-2-3!

First, install the Brisk Teaching extension for free and pin it to your Chrome toolbar. 

Next, Brisk pops up in the corner of your screen wherever you are on the internet— Google Docs, Google Slides, YouTube videos, articles, PDFs, & more. Just click the Brisk icon to get started.

Then, “Brisk it!” Yes, it’s really THAT easy to start saving time as you prepare for another year back to school.

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Share Brisk with Others!

Finally, grab the Brisk Professional Development Deck and share Brisk Teaching with your colleagues and school district! 

You can also educate and inspire others with a variety of how-to videos about Brisk or free Brisk printables.  

Back-to-school prep can feel overwhelming, but AI is here to streamline the process. Brisk's 30+ tools help you save time and focus on what matters most— student instruction and connections! Be confident as you embrace AI-powered tools for quick and easy back-to-school prep and breathe deep as you reclaim much valuable time in your schedule. It’s going to be a great year! 

For more great how-to videos about this dynamic AI-powered tool, check out Brisk Teaching on YouTube!

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Resources

Rimm-Kaufman, S. (2015, March 9). Improving students' relationships with teachers. American Psychological Association. https://www.apa.org/education-career/k12/relationships