Hi John,

As I reflect on the past year, I am grateful for our partners who are pioneering new ways to improve teaching and learning. Their work inspires us to develop the research-driven building blocks that help scale quality teaching and learning practices via AI-powered edtech tools. Together, we can make tools and resources that are more impactful for teachers and students.

Students and faculty at Thompson Intermediate School (Houston, TX).

This year, we launched an early release of Knowledge Graph and Evaluators and partnered with Anthropic to connect Knowledge Graph to Claude. Last month, we announced updates to Knowledge Graph, including the integration of math learning standards from Washington, D.C., as well as alignment between math learning components (smaller skills and concepts) and academic standards for Louisiana, Montana, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C. We will continue enhancing these tools as we build toward general availability in 2026.

As excited as I am about our progress this year, I also recognize that our work today builds on a strong foundation of research to codify and advance the science of learning and development; of partnerships to put this research into practice; and of collaborative initiatives to design tools with educators and researchers — including efforts to thoughtfully explore the potential of AI tools in schools.

This past year has shown us what is possible as we turn our focus to the instructional infrastructure our field needs. We are so inspired by the response and product integrations we’ve already seen from edtech partners bringing better capabilities to educators built with our tooling. As we look ahead, we continue to be guided by the belief that every learner matters and that the right tools can help teachers transform students’ lives for the better.