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Tips for Teachers

How SAT Practice Tests Can Help Teachers Prep Students for Success

Standardized tests like the SAT bring stress for everyone—students, parents, and, of course, teachers. And let’s be real: prepping for it can feel like trying to teach a cat to swim. But with the right strategies, you can set your students up for success without losing your sanity. Here’s how.

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Brisk Features

Give Every Student a Personal Writing Coach with Boost Writing Activities

You give your students a writing assignment, and then… the questions start rolling in. "What should I write?" "Is this good?" "How do I make it better?"

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Brisk Updates

Getting Started with Brisk: Your Essential Guide

Our new Getting Started guide ensures you can set up Brisk in minutes and start using it with confidence.

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Brisk Features

From Learning Insights to Tailored Instruction: Introducing Next Ideas

Move from student insights to differentiated instruction — effortlessly.

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Reading and ELA Resources

Free Parts of Speech Lesson Plan for Middle Schoolers - Aligned to Common Core

In this blog post, you'll find an end-to-end lesson plan, supplemental resources, and a check for student understanding (short quiz). This entire lesson plan was created with the Brisk Teaching Chrome Extension.

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Tips for Teachers

Discover 10 Ways to Boost Student Engagement with Brisk and Boost

In our recent Real Talk About AI webinar, I explored groundbreaking strategies for enhancing student engagement using Brisk and Boost with educators from Northville Public Schools. They shared amazing interactive learning experiences from leveraging AI-powered feedback to creating character chats with Chrysanthemum and personalized career exploration.This session took student engagement to the next level.

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Done grading by the final bell

Install the extension, open a student's doc, and see what Brisk can do with your first essay — in under a minute.