Super Teacher
Super Teacher is an AI tutor for elementary schools offering unlimited reading and math tutoring with differentiated classroom instruction.
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What is Super Teacher?
Super Teacher is an AI-powered conversational tutoring software specifically designed for elementary schools, providing unlimited private tutoring in reading and math for every student aged 3-10. The platform acts as a fleet of private tutors that deliver differentiated instruction in real time, adapting to each student's skills and abilities - providing extra scaffolding for struggling students while offering enrichment material for those ready to move ahead. Lessons are conversational and highly interactive, with the teacher speaking while showing images, asking questions throughout to keep children engaged and ensure they're following along.
Key features include 24/7 home access for families, comprehensive dashboards with progress monitoring and class-level/school-wide trends, pre-assessments to automatically place students in appropriate lessons, post-assessments, Clever and ClassLink integrations, and voice-enabled tutoring where children speak and Super Teacher listens and responds. The platform has delivered over 500,000 hours of tutoring and served 100,000+ students across the US, including locations in Wisconsin, Hawaii, California, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Arizona. Lessons are crafted in advance by real human teachers with classroom experience, ensuring accuracy and appropriateness.
Super Teacher is for elementary school principals, district leaders, teachers, and parents of children aged 3-10. Teachers can assign lessons as they see fit or use pre-assessments for automatic placement, using it for daily tutoring, centers/stations, interventions, WIN periods, or choice time. The platform levels the educational playing field by providing every family with unlimited tutoring at home, even during summers, and serves as a supplement to existing curricula rather than a replacement for teachers, assessments, or core curriculum.
Super Teacher pricing
Pricing model: Freemium
Contact [email protected] for a quote. Typical schools pay less per student for a full year of Super Teacher than a traditional tutoring agency charges for a single solitary lesson. The app also shows individual subscription options: $4.17/month with an annual subscription or $10/month with the monthly plan for full version access including all lessons. The first lesson in every subject is free to try.
Super Teacher pros
- Unlimited tutoring in reading and math for every student
- Fully differentiated instruction adapting to each student in real time
- 24/7 home access for families including during summer
- Conversational and highly interactive lessons engaging children
- Over 500,000 hours of tutoring already delivered
- Served 100,000+ students across multiple US states
- Comprehensive dashboards with progress monitoring
- Pre-assessments automatically place students in right lessons
- Seamless Clever and ClassLink integrations
- Voice-enabled tutoring - children speak and teacher responds
- Lessons crafted by real human teachers ensuring accuracy
- No AI hallucinations since lessons are pre-scripted
- COPPA and FERPA compliant with strong privacy protections
- Camera never goes on at all for child safety
- Less than per student for full year than one traditional tutoring lesson
- No training required - intuitive for teachers and children
- Offers professional development asynchronously and in-person
- Aligns with Common Core and all 50 state standards
- Aligned with science of reading focusing on phonics
- Joyful product that children genuinely enjoy using
Super Teacher cons
- Only for elementary schools, not middle or high school
- Only covers reading and math, not other subjects deeply
- Pricing requires contacting support for a quote
- Not a replacement for core curriculum or assessments
- Voice data is deleted after transcription limiting data
- Does not use ChatGPT limiting some AI capabilities
- No camera use means no visual student feedback
- Primarily US-focused with limited international presence
Frequently asked questions about Super Teacher
Is Super Teacher only for elementary schools?
Yes. Super Teacher is only for elementary schools. Elementary school principals and district leaders use Super Teacher as a way to ensure that all elementary school students get the benefits of private tutoring.
How is Super Teacher used by schools?
Most schools use Super Teacher in the classroom, but exactly how teachers use it varies a lot. The most impact comes when teachers give children 15-20 minutes per day of tutoring in reading and math, often using it to pre-teach rather than re-teach, covering topics in Super Teacher before they're covered in class. Other teachers use it for choice time, centers, stations, RTI time, WIN periods, or interventions. It can also be recommended for home use as a supplement, or during after-school programs or summers to prevent summer slide.
How is this different from iReady, IXL, or other products?
Some companies offer digital assessments like iReady, or digital practice problems like IXL. But only Super Teacher offers the digital version of a private tutor. It teaches conversationally, which is key to making it intuitive, engaging and enjoyable. While other products can assess whether a child can read or do math, or help a child practice what they've learned, Super Teacher actually teaches children to read and actually teaches math skills. It delivers individualized direct instruction conversationally, just like a real tutor.
Does Super Teacher align with our curriculum/standards?
Yes, Super Teacher is customized to whichever core curriculum is in use in each partner district or school. Popular curricula it aligns with include UFLI, Fundations, Eureka and Illustrative Mathematics. It aligns with Common Core as well as standards in use in all 50 states.
Does it align with the science of reading?
Yes. Super Teacher aligned with the science of reading before it was popular and before it was mandatory in states that passed Science of Reading laws. The ELA content in Super Teacher is centered on phonics, focusing on phonemic awareness. It also aligns with the more general science of learning, including the science of math instruction, and implements direct instruction in the form of private tutoring with mastery learning.
Is this safe and private for kids?
Yes. We take a safety-oriented approach, putting privacy first. Super Teacher is COPPA and FERPA compliant, and the camera never goes on at all. Super Teacher is voice enabled, but voice data is deleted promptly after transcription. As a general rule, we collect as little data as possible, use it only for the reason it was collected, and retain it only as long as reasonably necessary. Because lessons are pre-scripted, Super Teacher doesn't suffer from hallucinations or errors seen in AI-powered products.
Does this replace teachers?
No! Teachers are irreplaceable, and we will not work with any school or district aiming to replace teachers, ever. Super Teacher is designed by teachers, for use by teachers in the classroom. It is a tool that helps teachers achieve better academic outcomes for their students.
How much does it cost?
Contact [email protected] for a quote. Typical schools pay less for a full year of Super Teacher per student than a traditional tutoring agency charges for a single, solitary lesson. That's the power of Super Teacher.
Does Super Teacher use ChatGPT?
No. Everything that Super Teacher says and shows to children was crafted in advance by a real, human teacher. There is no risk that Super Teacher will ever start saying anything inaccurate or inappropriate. Your child is not talking to ChatGPT. The teachers create lessons using technology from Anthropic as part of their creative process, similar to how programmers use Github Copilot, but nothing goes out to children before being explicitly approved by teachers.
Who made Super Teacher?
Super Teacher is a collaboration between teachers and technologists. The lessons are written by teachers with classroom experience including preschool through 2nd grade. Mathematicians on staff help develop math content and make the app adaptive. The software is written by experienced software engineers who previously worked at companies such as Google. The CEO is Tim Novikoff, a teacher-turned-entrepreneur who sold his previous company to Google, specialized in applied AI at Google Photos, and later managed the AI developer tool Google Colab.