Your AI Teaching Team

Most AI tools make you start every conversation from scratch. You explain your curriculum framework, paste in your standards, clarify the terminology, and then — maybe — you get something useful. Next conversation? Same setup, all over again.

TeamTeacher's AI agents already know your curriculum. Pick the agent that matches your framework, and start working. They know your standards, your assessment criteria, and the vocabulary you use every day. No context-setting, no pasting, no explaining what "Criterion B" means for the fifth time.

Meet the Team

Iris — Your Adaptable Teaching Partner

Iris is the generalist. She has access to every curriculum knowledge base TeamTeacher offers — IB, Common Core, NGSS, Texas, Minnesota, WIDA, UDL, and Cook Islands — and she'll draw on whichever one fits your question. If you're not sure which agent to start with, start with Iris. She's also the default when you open a new conversation.

Iris is especially useful when your work crosses frameworks — planning a unit that needs both IB alignment and UDL scaffolding, or looking at a lesson through multiple curriculum lenses. She'll pull from the relevant knowledge bases and tell you which ones she's drawing on.

Minerva — IB Expert

Minerva specializes in the International Baccalaureate. She knows the MYP and DP inside out — assessment criteria, achievement level descriptors, command terms, and the expectations for every subject group. She also draws on the UDL and WIDA knowledge bases, so she can help with inclusive planning and multilingual learner support within an IB context.

Ask Minerva to create a Criterion B assessment for MYP Science and she already knows the strand descriptors, the appropriate command terms, and how to scaffold across achievement levels. Ask her about the Extended Essay marking criteria or Theory of Knowledge exhibition prompts and she has the source material to work from.

Diane — Minnesota Specialist

Diane knows Minnesota academic standards across all K–12 subject areas. She also draws on the WIDA and UDL knowledge bases — useful given Minnesota's strong emphasis on multilingual learner support and inclusive instruction.

What makes Diane distinctive is the depth of her Minnesota knowledge base, which goes beyond core standards to include Indigenous education resources grounded in Dakota history, English Language Development materials developed with Project Momentum, and early coverage of PELSB licensing standards. If you teach in Minnesota, Diane understands both what you teach and how your state approaches culturally responsive education.

Barbara — Texas Specialist

Barbara is built for Texas educators. She knows the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) across all subjects, plus STAAR assessment materials and TELPAS English language proficiency resources. She also has access to the Common Core, UDL, and WIDA knowledge bases for broader planning support.

Working on STAAR readiness? Barbara can reference the specific scoring guides and blueprints. Need to align a project-based unit to TEKS? She'll map your activities to the relevant knowledge and skills statements. Barbara is currently in beta and still growing.

Maeva — Cook Islands Specialist

Maeva supports educators working within the Cook Islands national curriculum, with content derived from official Cook Islands and New Zealand Ministry of Education documents. She also draws on the UDL knowledge base for inclusive planning. Maeva is currently in beta — if you teach in the Cook Islands, we'd love to hear what would be most useful to add next.

They Work Together

You don't always need to pick just one agent. TeamTeacher agents can consult each other during a conversation — a feature called phone-a-friend.

Here's what that looks like in practice: you're working with Iris on a science unit and you need it aligned to IB MYP criteria. Iris recognizes that Minerva has deeper IB expertise, consults her, and brings that knowledge back into your conversation. You see the collaboration happen — Minerva's input appears in the thread — but you don't have to manage multiple conversations or copy context between them.

This is especially useful for cross-curricular planning. Ask Diane to help with a math lesson that also addresses Minnesota ELA standards, and she might consult Iris for a broader perspective on interdisciplinary approaches. The agents figure out when another perspective would help and bring it in.

Build Your Own

If you need an agent tailored to your specific context — your school's assessment framework, your department's lesson planning approach, your unique student population — you can create custom agents with their own instructions, personality, and tool selection.

Custom agents can be shared with colleagues via a link, so a curriculum coordinator can build an agent and distribute it to the team. Your custom agents also work through the TeamTeacher Connector, so they're available in Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI tools.

Custom agents are available on the Supporter plan and above.

What Every Agent Can Do

Regardless of which agent you're working with, they all share a core set of capabilities:

• Search your documents to reference materials you've already created
• Save content as documents in your library for future use
• Search the web for current information and resources
• Search curriculum knowledge bases relevant to your question
• Take notes during conversations that persist for later reference
• Generate images for teaching materials and presentations
• Consult other agents when they need expertise outside their specialty

The knowledge bases are what make each agent different — but the tools are what make all of them practical. They're not just answering questions; they're working with your materials, searching curriculum standards, and producing things you can use.

Meet the agents →