Anthropic has launched Claude for Teachers, a new version of its AI chatbot designed specifically for K-12 educators in the United States. The company said verified teachers will get free access to premium Claude features, teaching tools and curriculum resources aligned with academic standards across all 50 states. In an official announcement, the Claude-maker said that the initiative aims to help teachers save time on lesson planning, personalise learning for students and reduce administrative work, allowing them to spend more time teaching. The company added that the service has been built with student privacy protections and will not use educator data to train its AI models.As announced by Anthropic, verified K-12 educators in the US who sign up by June 30, 2027, will receive one year of free access to Claude for Teachers, the company said.Claude for Teachers offers AI lesson planning, curriculum support and classroom toolsAnthropic said Claude for Teachers connects to Learning Commons, giving the AI assistant access to state academic standards and learning progressions. It also integrates trusted curriculum resources, including OpenSciEd and Illustrative Mathematics.The company said teachers can use Claude to create lesson plans, generate classroom materials and adapt content for students with different learning levels.Anthropic has also added integrations with several education platforms, including Canva Education, MagicSchool, Brisk Teaching, ASSISTments, Diffit, TeachFX, Snorkl, Eedi and Coteach.The AI company said Claude for Teachers is designed only for educators and complies with K-12 privacy requirements, including the U.S. Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). It further stated that data shared through Claude for Teachers will not be used to train its AI models. It has also introduced dedicated privacy terms and a K-12 Data Processing Addendum to protect student information.As of today, educators can now connect Claude across an entire ecosystem of K-12 tools.ASSISTments: Generate auto-scored, standards-aligned math problems for practice and assessment.Brisk Teaching: Create interactive student activities and standards-aligned lessons, turning your ideas into classroom-ready materials in seconds.Canva Education: Turn lesson materials into classroom-ready designs and interactive learning experiences.Coteach: Create high-quality math diagrams grounded in K-12 curriculum.Diffit: Create and adapt instructional materials for every student.Eedi: Generate diagnostic questions that go beyond right and wrong to reveal student thinking and deepen insights, in both English and Spanish.MagicSchool: Make instructional content classroom-ready.Snorkl: Get insights about your classes, assignments, and student progress to inform your instruction.TeachFX: Get personalized instructional feedback grounded in real classroom talk.How it worksOnce verified, K-12 educators in the US get access to Claude for Teachers with the Learning Commons connector and a set of tailored teaching skills grounded in learning science. The skills, co-developed with Learning Commons, were designed around the tasks teachers told us mattered most. These were evaluated to ensure rigor, pedagogical alignment, and classroom usability, and refined through early feedback from classroom teachers, including those in schools like Prospect Schools in Brooklyn.Plan a lesson from high-quality instructional materials. Ask for a lesson and Claude draws on widely used curricula mapped to your state's standards, as well as fine-grained learning components and progressions beneath them, then drafts a plan and student-facing materials you can revise and take into class.Differentiate for every learner in your room. Ask Claude to adapt materials for students at different readiness levels and it builds a differentiation plan for you, plus personalized student-facing materials for each proficiency level. The scaffolds make materials accessible to students, while students who are ready can be further challenged.Claude for Teachers includes Claude Code and Cowork, which means Claude can carry work forward on its own. Some examples:Analyze class data to plan instruction. Hand Claude a folder of data—roster, diagnostics, attendance, your own notes—and it builds a clear picture of where every student is, allowing teachers to better tailor instruction. You control what data is shared; nothing you share is used in model training.Schedule repeated tasks. Hand off a task once—like reviewing each day's exit tickets to see what students mastered and adapting tomorrow's plan to match—and it runs every school day at 4pm. Claude works while you drive home.