"Let's Try It!" Brisk Next Beta

"Let's Try It!" If you know about an innovative instructional practice, structure, or tool and you'd like to give it a try, let us know! We hope to continue to sow grassroots innovation by providing support for ideas—like NotebookLM and Snorkl last school year.

In Barrington 220, we’re exploring how AI can support learning and teaching in ways that align with our strategic plan. Three years ago, teachers began using Brisk Teaching, a tool that empowers teachers to give AI-created timely, meaningful feedback to students that is aligned to state standards and follows a teacher-created prompt. Brisk continued to evolve, and last year teachers began setting up students to use Brisk Student Boost to allow students to control the timing of the feedback they received. We adopted Brisk Student Boost as part of the first Authentic Learning sessions at Opening Day 25–26.

Recently, Brisk announced Brisk Next. Think of Brisk Next as your AI co-teacher, designed to streamline planning and open up space for more student-centered learning.

With Brisk Next you can:

• Start from a lesson plan, a standard, or just an idea.
• Generate class materials, student activities, and quick assessments.
• Bundle resources into collections to assign or share.
• Use Boost Activities to see exactly what students will experience—and track their progress.

"Try it!" here: Brisk Next and follow the steps here: Getting Started Guide

Who's next?

To get started or propose your own "Let's Try It!" idea, please email me at jjrobinson@barrington220.org.

Let's try it!