Claude for Teachers
Build 11 Teaching Workflows
It is 9pm and you are still grading. Every verified US K-12 teacher just got a free year of premium Claude, and nobody shipped the system with it, which is why the output still needs fixing and fixing takes longer than doing the thing yourself. This book hands you eleven teaching workflows you build once and run for the rest of your career. You wire the workspace first, so Claude knows your grade, your standards, your rubric and your tone before it writes a word. Your first lesson plan is filed ten minutes after the workspace is live. Every document you build also ships as a blank copy in a free companion repo: one folder per chapter, nothing to install.
This book is not written by a teacher, and it says so on page one. The authority here is that somebody did the reading nobody has time for: the K-12 Terms of Service line by line, the Data Processing Agreement, and the source of the two teaching Skills Anthropic pre-installed on every teacher account.
It also refuses to print numbers it cannot trace. The “two hours of grading becomes fifteen minutes” claim is somebody’s report of their own experience, not a measurement, so it is named and then left unprinted. Same for every AI-versus-human grading agreement percentage on the internet. The hours audit in Chapter 10 ships as a worked example you overwrite with your own salary, your own contract days, and your own two-week log.
Zero code. Every artifact in the book is a document a teacher writes: a policy page, a profile, a prompt pattern, a rubric, a checklist.
What You'll Build
Find out what your free teacher account actually includes, and what the two pre-installed teaching Skills do.
Write my-ai-policy.md: three things you hand Claude, three you never will, and the sentence you say to the colleague across the hall.
Build a roster code key that never leaves your device, plus the scrub pass that catches the detail hiding inside a kid's own writing.
Write classroom-profile.md with six blocks and a never-list, then configure one Project per prep and A/B the difference.
File one standards-aligned plan in your district's format, then mark the five swap slots that make the next one faster.
Turn a scanned worksheet into an editable document, build a bulk practice bank with a written error tolerance, and get a sub-plan you can fire from your phone at 6:10am.
Produce support, core and stretch versions in sixty seconds with the objective holding across all three, plus a re-leveling pattern verified against a real tool.
Tighten a rubric into checklist form and build the calibration record that makes your first-pass grading defensible to a parent or a principal.
Build a four-pattern communication library, convert one recurring admin task, and pull the actual question out of a parent's own AI slop.
Turn your contract salary into a real hourly rate with all three assumptions printed, then price your subscriptions against it.
Write a review checklist in your own subject's language and a do-not-delegate list where every entry names task, rule and evidence.
Assemble the eleven into a weekly routine and a thirty-day rollout with a stop condition on each week.