For Faculties of Education

Built for the teacher who is still becoming one.

MyLessonStudio is an AI-enabled lesson planning tool built for pre-service and early-career teachers, designed to support their professional development and build the judgment that sustains a teaching career. How AI belongs in teacher preparation is a question every faculty of education is working through right now. We have been working through it too.

Two pre-service teachers reviewing a lesson plan

What the Research Says

The Problem Isn't AI. It's AI Without Structure.

MyLessonStudio supports the critical thinking and professional judgment at the heart of teaching rather than replacing it. Two findings shaped how we built it.

Brookings Institution

Frictionless AI Creates Cognitive Debt

A review of over 400 studies found that frictionless AI creates cognitive debt — a measurable decline in critical thinking through repeated offloading.

The distinction that matters for pre-service teachers is clear: AI should structure a teacher's own inquiry, not do the thinking for them.

Burns et al., 2026

Harvard Business Review

AI More Often Intensifies Work Than Reduces It

Through task expansion, blurred boundaries, and constant multitasking, AI frequently adds to workload rather than reducing it.

Handed to a student teacher without structure, it adds demands they do not yet have the capacity to manage.

Ranganathan & Ye, 2026

The Planning Schema

Understanding the Structure Behind Great Lessons

Expert teachers carry an internalized planning schema built over years. They know automatically to think about engagement before content, to separate the goal from the activity, to keep the culminating task visible. It has become instinct.

We scaffolded that schema deliberately, so that every field in the planning template is a question an experienced teacher asks automatically, surfaced at the moment a pre-service teacher needs it.

Opening Provocation

Engagement before content. Teachers consider how students will enter the learning before deciding what subject matter to cover.

Learning Focus

Separates the goal from the activity. Novice teachers consistently collapse these, treating an activity as the objective rather than the means to one.

Curriculum Connections and Culminating Assessment

Keeps guided inquiry visible at the lesson level, so teachers see how today's lesson serves the culminating task.

Universal Design

Positions access and inclusion as planning decisions, not afterthoughts, built into the structure from the start.

Formative Assessment

Embeds checking for understanding into planning itself, rather than leaving it to in-the-moment improvisation.

Our Design Principle

The Teacher Decides. At Every Step.

A 2025 Canadian study of pre-service teachers found they value AI for drafts and starting points but insist the final decisions stay with them — which is the principle MyLessonStudio is built on. Most AI tools amplify whatever you give them, good or not; we built ours so that strong professional thinking goes in, and strong planning comes out. The teacher, not the AI, designs the unit and the lesson.

Estaiteyeh & Mindzak, 2025

Two pre-service teachers sitting outside reviewing a lesson plan on a laptop

Data & Privacy

Your Data, Protected

How student data is handled matters. We designed our system to respect privacy and protect student records.

✓Your account data and lesson plans are stored in Canada. Only de-identified lesson content is sent for AI processing, never your personal information.
✓The profile, units, and lessons you create are yours.
✓By default, your work is not used to train AI models. You can opt in to contribute anonymized content, and opt out anytime.
✓We ask teachers not to enter identifiable student information.
✓Program partners can request a data processing agreement.
✓Our chosen AI Provider (Gemini) receives only lesson content and generalized class data. MyLessonStudio does not request individual student data. Therefore, none is sent.

The profile pre-service teachers build, and the planning framework they work within, can be configured to reflect the language and commitments of your program. You can read our full privacy policy here.

Join The Conversation

For Teachers Still Building Their Practice

MyLessonStudio was built to support teachers at every stage of their career, but pre-service and early-career teachers hold a special place in its design. For a teacher still building their practice, every plan is also a rehearsal. We built the tool so that rehearsal builds real judgment.

A teacher's own beliefs, goals, and context go in first, and our AI works from that foundation. The planning schema expert teachers carry is made visible, scaffolded, and repeatable, so that by the time a new teacher is in front of a class alone, they have already rehearsed the thinking many times over.

If you are curious what that looks like in practice, let's talk.