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About & editorial policy

Teachers With AI is an independent comparison site for K-12 educators. Rankings are set before affiliate links are added, and every recommendation is signed off by a named editor with classroom experience.

Last updated Independently written · affiliate links disclosed

Who we are

We are a small editorial team of former teachers, a special education case manager and a school administrator. We started this site because the existing "best AI tools for teachers" pages were either vendor landing pages or listicles built from press releases. We test the tools on ordinary classroom tasks and publish what breaks as well as what works.

Meet the editors

Elena Marquez — Editor-in-Chief & former K-12 instructional coach

M.Ed. Curriculum & Instruction · 11 years in public elementary and middle school classrooms · NBCT

Elena spent 11 years teaching grades 3–8 and two years as a district instructional coach before joining Teachers With AI. She leads hands-on testing: every tool in our comparison tables is run through a real planning or grading workflow, with screenshots and pricing captured on the review date. She writes our methodology and signs off on all buying guides.

Areas: Lesson planning · Curriculum design · EdTech procurement

Daniel Okafor — Special education & assessment editor

M.Sp.Ed. · 9 years as a special education case manager · IEP/504 compliance lead

Daniel managed a caseload of 28 students and wrote or reviewed more than 200 IEPs and 504 plans before moving into EdTech evaluation. He covers special education, accessibility, differentiated instruction, and assessment integrity — including the privacy and FERPA questions teachers actually ask.

Areas: IEP & 504 · Differentiation · Assessment · Accessibility

Priya Raman — Pricing & data editor

M.A. Educational Technology · former school administrator · pricing and licensing analyst

Priya handled school-wide software licensing and vendor contracts for a 14-school network. She maintains our pricing tables, tracks plan changes, verifies affiliate program terms, and writes the free-vs-paid analysis. If a price in a table looks wrong, she is the person who fixes it.

Areas: Pricing & licensing · Procurement · Analytics

How we test

  1. One shared brief. Every tool gets the same lesson, rubric, assessment or parent-email task. No cherry-picked outputs.
  2. Minutes to publish. We time how long an editor needs to turn a draft into something safe to use. This is our main quality gate — generative fluency is not.
  3. Free-tier ceiling. We count how many generations a free account allows in a real week, not a single demo.
  4. Pricing with a date. Plans are read from public vendor pages, stamped with a last-checked date and explicitly labelled indicative. School/district pricing is quote-based and we say so rather than inventing a number.
  5. Privacy posture. Anything that requires student PII, document contents or broad browser permissions is flagged. FERPA, COPPA and GDPR considerations are discussed on every article.

We cover 31 tools across ten topical clusters. Each article includes a comparison table, pricing table, best-for recommendations, pros and cons, classroom use cases, an FAQ, an affiliate CTA with disclosure, an updated date, and this author bio.

How we are funded

Some outbound links are affiliate links and may earn a commission at no cost to you. We also sell digital products, accept sponsorships from EdTech companies and may run display ads. Rankings are set before affiliate links are added and are never available for purchase. Tools with no affiliate program are included and ranked on the same basis. See the full affiliate disclosure.

Corrections and updates

Prices and free-tier limits change frequently. We re-check pricing every 2–3 months and refresh our top 50 articles every six months. If you spot an outdated price or a broken link, use the contact page — we publish corrections with a dated note rather than editing silently. Every article shows a published date and a last-updated date.

What we will not do

  • Publish student work, names or scores in a test.
  • Recommend AI-detector scores as evidence of misconduct.
  • Present indicative prices as verified live quotes.
  • Claim a tool is FERPA-compliant on our own authority — we point you to the vendor DPA and your district.

E-E-A-T Author bios, sources, methodology, dated updates and a corrections policy are the trust signals we build into every page.