🗑 You might never need Teachers Pay Teachers again

🧠 Brisk Knows What Your Classroom Needs Next

You’re juggling lessons, activities, and feedback—and the clock never slows down. That’s where Brisk Next steps in.

Based on your grade, standards, and class insights, Brisk Next suggests what’s most useful right now: an inquiry activity, a slide deck, or an exit ticket. And when you need more than one resource, you can build a bundle, grouping materials together in seconds to match your students’ needs. From there, share directly with students so everything’s ready to go.

Just click to preview, tweak with chat, or assign. Planning, engaging, assessing — it all comes together in one place. And with full COPPA and FERPA compliance, Brisk is built for schools from the ground up.

💻 TECH TIP 💻

🚀 Create interactive student activities with Brisk Boost

While we’re talking about Brisk Teaching, let me tell you about their feature I used for substitute teacher lesson plans …

It’s called Brisk Boost. It makes interactive student activities based on any teaching material.

Check out the image above and you’ll get a good idea of how it works …

1. You pick out a resource for students — an article, a video, a PDF file, or even a document template where students will type.

2. Students interact with a chatbot who is constantly assessing student understanding and completion of the objectives. It asks students questions based on your instructions.

3. As the student responds and shows understanding and completion of the objectives, the progress bar fills up. When the student has met all of the objectives, the bar is full and they’re done!

After you create one of these activities, you just share a link and the students join … just like any of the review games or other interactive activities you’ve ever done before. It’s super easy.

Learn about Boost and how to create these student activities. (Oh, did I mention it’s free to use???)

💡 THE BIG IDEA 💡

🗄️ Create tons of teaching resources FAST with Brisk Next

Brisk Teaching (briskteaching.com) is already one of my favorite teacher planning resources because …

• You can create teaching resources from articles, videos, slide decks … from ANYTHING

• It helps you provide feedback on student work

• It lives where you already do your work through the Brisk Teaching Chrome extension (and Edge add-on for Microsoft users)

But now, Brisk has just gotten a MASSIVE UPGRADE (my words) with the creation of Brisk Next. Here’s what it does …

• You tell it what you want to teach.

• It suggests a whole page of teaching resources it can create for you to help you teach.

• You just pick the ones you want and it makes them for you.

• BONUS: You can use its chat box to tell it how to make the resources better — and then it adjusts them.

You can read all about it in our new walk-through blog post about how Brisk Next works and how to get started with it …

… or let me just show it to you briefly here.

Step 1: Tell Brisk Next what you’re teaching

FYI: Before you can use Brisk Next, you need a Brisk Teaching account.

(The free version is really, really good. BONUS: Use my link to get three months of their premium features for FREE!)

OK, now that you have a Brisk account, let’s use Brisk Next.

• You can go to app.briskteaching.com to find Brisk Next.

• Or if you have their Google Chrome extension (or Microsoft Edge add-on), just click the little Brisk “B” button in the bottom right. The home icon will take you there, too.

Once you’re there, it’ll ask you: “What do you want to teach next?”

• Tell it about the topic you want to teach, your teaching goals, your content standards, etc.

• Upload files, documents, photos … anything that supports what you’re teaching.

• Select the language, the grade level for your lesson, and whether you’re using Google or Microsoft.

Then click the arrow button to submit and get recommendations.

Step 2: Browse the multitude of teaching resources

On the next page, you’ll see the kinds of teaching resources that Brisk Next suggests as helpful. They’re sorted into three categories:

• Prepare: Resources to help prepare students to learn new material (slide decks, documents, podcasts, etc.)

• Engage: Resources to get students interacting with new material (Brisk Boost interactive student activities)

• Assess: Resources to evaluate student learning of new material (quizzes, exit tickets, pulse checks, etc.)

With each one, you can click “Generate More” to get even more suggestions.

Step 3: Make as many resources as you want

Find something you like? For any resource, you can click the “+” button to create that resource!

Want to make adjustments? If Brisk Next isn’t suggesting quite what you’re looking for, tell it what to change in the chat. It’ll update your suggestions with resources that are a better fit.

💡 PRO TIP: Generate some general teaching resources first. Then go to the chat and tell it for something more specific (on a certain subtopic, for example) … then generate resources for that. Then go to the chat and ask for a different subtopic … and generate resources for that. Use the chat as your customizer and keep creating new resources.

BONUS: Get three months premium Brisk for FREE!

Whether you’re new to Brisk or a seasoned Brisk veteran, you can get three months of Brisk’s premium features with my link …

That’ll get you …

• The best AI models for the smartest responses

• No usage limits

• Targeted feedback embedded in Google Docs (this might be worth it by itself in my opinion)

• Generate images and additional templates when making slides

• 10+ additional tools for creating teaching resources

• An advanced “inspect writing” tool

• … and more

FYI: If you’re in New York City (ERMA), Utah (UEN), Ohio (OESCA), Iowa (AEA), Wisconsin (CESA), or Indiana (ESCI), Brisk is an approved vendor.

No strings attached. Keep everything you create while on premium. When it runs out, you just switch back to the free plan.

Learn more about Brisk Next

Our post has tons more information, including tutorial videos AND a bunch of example resources that Brisk Next can create for teachers.

👋 How we can help

There are even more ways I can support you in the important work you do in education:

1. Read one of my six books about meaningful teaching with tech.

2. Take one of our online courses about practical and popular topics in education.

3. Bring me to your school, district or event to speak. I love working with educators!