Curriculum Knowledge Bases - TeamTeacher Features

TeamTeacher's AI agents come with built-in access to curated curriculum knowledge bases covering standards, assessment frameworks, subject guides, and teaching resources. Each knowledge base is a searchable collection of information derived from official curriculum documents — so when you ask a question about a standard or assessment criterion, the AI searches the relevant knowledge base and grounds its answer in real curriculum content. No copying and pasting. No hoping the AI remembers correctly.

Available Knowledge Bases

International Baccalaureate

IB Middle Years Programme (MYP)

A curated collection covering all 8 MYP subject groups across years 1–5, derived from official IB documents. Every subject includes guide content and the full assessment criteria with achievement level descriptors. When you ask the AI to help design a summative task or give feedback on student work, it's drawing on the same criteria you'd look up in the subject guide yourself.

Subject guides and assessment criteria for all disciplines, with Teacher Support Material including sample tasks for Language Acquisition and Arts
Programme-level guidance on Approaches to Learning, interdisciplinary planning, and the IB learner profile
Community Project and Personal Project criteria, requirements, and supervision guidance

IB Diploma Programme (DP)

All 6 DP subject groups — with guide content, assessment criteria, and the three core components: Theory of Knowledge, Extended Essay, and CAS. Whether you're planning a History unit, checking the internal assessment criteria for Biology, or looking up the Extended Essay marking descriptors, the AI has the source material to work from.

Subject guides and assessment criteria across all DP subject groups
Core component guides and criteria for TOK, the Extended Essay, and CAS
Command terms glossary used across all DP subjects and assessments

U.S. National Standards

Common Core State Standards (CCSS)

Full ELA/Literacy and Mathematics standards for K–12, plus all official appendices — text exemplars, annotated student writing samples, and high school math course pathways. The knowledge base goes beyond the standards themselves to include instructional practice guides, curriculum-alignment tools, and reading foundational skills resources. If you're planning a lesson, observing a colleague, or differentiating for English language learners, the AI has standards-aligned guidance to draw on.

Complete K–12 standards for ELA/Literacy and Mathematics with all official appendices
Instructional Practice Guides for classroom observation and lesson planning across multiple grade bands
Implementation guidance for students with disabilities and English language learners

Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)

All K–12 performance expectations from the NGSS, plus the official appendices on practices, crosscutting concepts, and engineering design. The knowledge base also includes equity-focused case studies and a strong set of assessment-design resources. When you ask the AI to help build a science assessment or align a unit to specific performance expectations, it's grounded in the actual NGSS documents.

All K–12 performance expectations in both the DCI and Topic arrangements used for unit planning
Equity and access resources including seven "All Standards, All Students" classroom case studies for diverse learner populations
Assessment-design tools from Achieve covering task quality, cognitive complexity, and three-dimensional alignment

State Standards

Texas

Texas education standards and assessments across all K–12 subject areas. The Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) are included for every subject, alongside STAAR assessment materials for grades 3–8 and all high school end-of-course exams, and TELPAS materials for English language proficiency across grades 2–12. If you teach in Texas, the AI can reference the specific TEKS, pull from the relevant STAAR scoring guide, or help you understand TELPAS proficiency expectations — all without you having to look anything up first.

Complete TEKS across all K–12 subjects, from core academics through fine arts, CTE, and electives
STAAR and TELPAS blueprints, scoring guides, rubrics, and proficiency level descriptors
College and Career Readiness standards and accelerated instruction guidance under HB 4545/HB 1416

Minnesota

All Minnesota K–12 subject areas with standards content and implementation support. What makes this knowledge base distinctive is its depth beyond the core standards: it includes Indigenous education resources grounded in Dakota history and Minnesota tribal nations, English Language Development materials developed in partnership with Project Momentum for multilingual learner support, and early coverage of PELSB licensing standards for professional educators. If you're teaching in Minnesota, the AI has context for both what you teach and how your state approaches culturally responsive, inclusive education.

K–12 standards and implementation guides across all subject areas, with learning progressions and teaching resources
Indigenous education materials including Dakota history and culture, tribal nations references, and culturally responsive assessment
Multilingual learner support through Project Momentum ELD curriculum overlays, grading guides, and language planning templates

Language Development

Multilingual Learners (WIDA)

The WIDA English Language Development Standards Framework, 2020 Edition, Kindergarten through grade 12. Includes all grade-level cluster standards with Proficiency Level Descriptors and the four Key Language Uses — Narrate, Inform, Explain, and Argue — along with collaborative planning guidance and family engagement resources. If you work with multilingual learners or co-plan with ESL colleagues, this is the knowledge base to enable.

Complete K–12 ELD standards with proficiency level descriptors across all grade-level clusters
Key Language Uses guidance with genre examples and grade-level progressions
Collaborative planning and family engagement resources including conversation cards for multilingual families

Pedagogical Frameworks

Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

The UDL Guidelines (version 2.2 and the 3.0 draft), the CAST Schoolwide Implementation Criteria, and a wide range of classroom tools for putting UDL into practice. Whether you're designing a lesson with multiple means of engagement, preparing for a UDL-focused observation, or leading schoolwide implementation, the AI can reference the specific guidelines, checkpoints, and planning tools that apply.

UDL Guidelines — both current and draft versions, with the rationale for the 2.2-to-3.0 update and FAQ
Classroom tools — observation look-fors, implementation rubrics, lesson design guides, and assessment resources
Schoolwide implementation — readiness criteria, self-assessment, goal-setting, and leadership guidance including antiracist UDL implementation

Regional Curricula

Cook Islands

TeamTeacher's first regional curriculum partnership, covering the Cook Islands national curriculum with content derived from official Cook Islands and New Zealand Ministry of Education documents. This collection is still growing — if you teach in the Cook Islands, we'd love to hear what would be most useful to add next.

How It Works

Think of each knowledge base as a well-organized filing cabinet that your AI teaching assistant already knows inside and out. When you ask a question — about a standard, an assessment criterion, a rubric descriptor — the AI doesn't guess from memory. It goes to the filing cabinet, finds the right folder, and reads through the relevant material before answering. Just like a colleague who actually keeps their curriculum binder organized and can find what you need in seconds.

Behind the scenes, this works through semantic search (the AI understands the meaning of your question, not just keywords) combined with metadata filtering (narrowing by subject, grade level, and document type). When you ask about MYP Sciences Criterion B for years 3–4, the AI searches the MYP knowledge base and pulls the specific achievement level descriptors — not a generic approximation.

No more copy-pasting standards into every conversation. The knowledge bases are already loaded. Ask your question and the AI searches automatically.

Grounded in curriculum content. When the AI references a standard or criterion, it's working from the curated knowledge base — not improvising from its general training.

Aligned to your framework. Lesson plans, assessments, feedback, and differentiation strategies all draw on the curriculum documents you've selected.

TeamTeacher's curriculum team maintains each knowledge base and updates it as frameworks are revised or new resources become available.

See It in Action

You: "Create a formative assessment for understanding chemical bonding."

Minerva: Searches the MYP Science knowledge base

"I'll create a Criterion B (Inquiring and designing) assessment. For achievement level 5–6, students should be able to design a logical, complete, and safe method..."

Minerva found the right criterion, the right achievement level descriptors, and the appropriate expectations — all from the knowledge base.

Coming Soon

IB Primary Years Programme (PYP) — Programme standards, transdisciplinary themes, approaches to learning, and exhibition guidelines.

ISTE Standards — The International Society for Technology in Education standards for students, educators, and education leaders.

Request a Framework

Need a curriculum framework we don't have yet? Contact us to request additions to the knowledge base library.