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Make the next action almost too small to refuse.
A semi-autonomous AI agent that takes on one challenge in your class, like missing work or attendance. Each week it checks what’s working, adjusts its strategy and sends you the slides and plans to run. You decide what reaches students.
Paste it into Claude Cowork in the Claude desktop app. It downloads the project and walks you through setup. Verified US K-12 teachers can get Claude free with Claude for Teachers.
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Example challenges: missing work, attendance, participation, students feeling heard, grades.
A school year from September to June. The challenge stays the same all year, and a sample line of missing work falls as the year goes. Along the way the assistant tries new strategies and makes a slide, a note home, a badge, cards, an event and a new tool.
In about ten minutes it asks what you teach, what you want to change and what it should never do. Then it writes up your assistant’s goal and rules.
Class vote, sample
Otter
Calm coach
“One small step?”
Spark
Warm hype
“Look what you pulled off.”
Sage
Curious researcher
“Let’s find out.”
Your assistant
New chat · it asks, you answer
Your classThe goalIts nameHouse rules
Sunday · 8:12 pm
You pasted the Setup prompt·pasted
Set up My Classroom Assistant from github.com/mattnupen/My-Classroom-Assistant — download it, then interview me about my class and build my assistant.
Your assistantHi. I’m your class’s new assistant. No name yet. First, what do you teach?
You8th grade English. 26 kids, last period.
Your assistant: If this year went well, what would be different?
You: Fewer kids with missing work.
Your assistant: Want your students to name me?
You: Yes. Let them pick.
You: One rule: never call a kid out in front of the class.
Your assistant: Got it. I’ve pulled the research on missing work. Ready when your class is.
Research pack·Missing workSetup saved·ready for Monday
That’s setup. Now it plans your first week.
All of it comes to you first. You change what you want, then use it.
To families · Period 4
Hi. A quick note about this week. Nothing’s wrong. I just want us on the same page. Monday’s a clean start.
Draft · you send it
Still to turn in
Printed, one per student
Goal hit!
Celebration Friday · 20 minutes
You run it
Class Tools
Sample class · Week 12
Goal: more work turned in
This week’s strategy: a fresh start on Monday.
Made for you this week6 to look over
Your call. Open any one to change it.
Research
When you set a goal, it looks up what education research says works for it. It saves each finding on a short card with the source and how strong the evidence is, so you can check its work.
A note home
Hi. A quick note about this week. Nothing’s wrong. I just want us on the same page. Monday’s a clean start.
Draft · you send it
Also in this pack
Make the next action almost too small to refuse.
Evidence card · Missing work
Use natural fresh starts instead of “you’re behind.”
Research it already has
Each card says how strong the evidence is. When the evidence is weak, the card says that too.
Each week you give it two things: class totals from your gradebook and anonymous student feedback. It checks whether last week’s strategy worked, keeps it or tries something new, and drafts what you need. Nothing reaches your students except through you.
Says what’s working and what isn’t.
Paste in this week’s class totals.
Checks whether last week worked, then plans the next one from research.
Your call. Every week.
Look it over. Change anything. Run it Monday.
Then the next week starts, and it plans again with what it learned.
What moves between the stops: from your class to you, how the week went. From you to your assistant, “8 students behind on Unit 3”. Your assistant checks whether last week’s strategy worked. From your assistant back to you, a slide, a note home and a Friday event. From you to your class, the class responds.
Privacy
Your course export and your own notes can go straight to the AI. Anything with student names, like your gradebook or student feedback, goes through offline apps on your computer first. They turn it into totals, and only the totals reach the AI.
Diagram. Course data, meaning your LMS course export and your own notes, goes straight to your assistant. Student data, meaning your gradebook and student feedback, goes to offline apps on your laptop, which your assistant built. They send on only cleaned totals, such as 8 students behind on Unit 3. Optional: if you use Claude for Teachers and your district gives permission, you can choose to share student data with your assistant directly.
Your assistant built the offline apps. Need one that doesn’t exist yet? It builds that too. See how
About the optional road. Claude for Teachers is free for verified US K-12 teachers, with FERPA-aligned protections under a K-12 data processing addendum, and your data isn’t used to train models. Whether you may upload identifiable student data is your district’s decision, not Anthropic’s. Ask first.
Tools
Ask for a seating chart that keeps two kids apart, or a reading tracker for your room. It builds a working app, checks that it never sends data online, and adds it to your sidebar.
Each tool is one file you double-click.
No install. No account. No internet.
Free, open source, and yours to change.
Paste it into Claude Cowork. It downloads the project and starts the setup interview.
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