Prepare Your New York District for NY Inspires—with Curriculum Genie
Curriculum Genie gives New York districts one workspace to plan standards-aligned curriculum, embed Portrait of a Graduate competencies, design performance-based assessments, and collect portfolio-ready evidence.
Trust Note: Built to support educator-led curriculum design, assessment planning, and evidence workflows. Curriculum Genie complements—but does not replace—NYSED guidance, BOCES-led calibration, SIS/reporting systems, or district decision-making.
NY Inspires Readiness: What Districts Need to Build
Moving beyond seat-time-only planning toward competency-based learning requires a connected instructional and evidence infrastructure. Curriculum Genie gives district teams a practical workspace to build four readiness pillars.
Standards-Aligned Curriculum
Turn NYS standards and priority instructional areas—including Financial Literacy and Climate Education—into classroom-ready units, lessons, and interdisciplinary learning experiences.
Portrait of a Graduate in Daily Instruction
Make PoG attributes teachable, observable, measurable, and documentable through unit planning, success criteria, instructional routines, and rubrics.
Performance-Based Assessment & Evidence
Design performance tasks, portfolios, capstones, student reflections, multimodal submissions, and feedback cycles that generate meaningful evidence of proficiency.
Pathways & Transcript Readiness
Organize curriculum, assessment, and student evidence so districts are better prepared for CTE/WBL pathways, proficiency documentation, advising conversations, and future transcript expectations.
NY Inspires Is Moving in Phases. Phase 1 Is the Readiness Window
The transition to one diploma, multiple measures of proficiency, and broader evidence of student readiness is a multi-year journey. Curriculum Genie supports district planning across each phase.
Phase 1
Installation
Fall 2025 – Summer 2027
Curriculum audits, PoG crosswalks, assessment readiness reviews, priority standards mapping, 2027 cohort planning, and communication plans.
Phase 2
Initial Implementation
Fall 2027 – Summer 2029
Redefined learning experiences, CTE/WBL-aligned evidence planning, multiple measures, local performance-based assessments, scoring calibration, transcript pilots, and transition guidance.
Phase 3
Full Implementation & Scaling
Fall 2029+
Statewide transcript readiness, proficiency documentation, new assessment expectations, SIS/grading updates, validation, equity monitoring, and long-term calibration systems.
Turn NYS Standards Into NY Inspires-Ready Learning Experiences
New York educators need more than standards alignment. Curriculum Genie helps districts design interdisciplinary learning experiences that connect NYS standards, Portrait of a Graduate competencies, and evidence of student proficiency.
Standards Alignment
PoG Competencies
Portfolio-Ready Evidence
Cross-Disciplinary Connections
Build rich interdisciplinary units that connect standards across subjects. Instead of teaching in silos, teachers can design learning experiences where science, social studies, ELA, math, the arts, financial literacy, climate education, and real-world problem-solving work together.
For example, a unit on ecosystems can connect NYS Science standards on interdependence, Social Studies concepts about New York’s agricultural economy, data analysis in math, civic decision-making, and Portrait of a Graduate skills such as Critical Thinking, Effective Communication, and Global Citizenship.
Support for Priority Instructional Areas
Help educators integrate Financial Literacy, Climate Education, and other emerging state priorities into standards-aligned, cross-disciplinary learning experiences.
Examples include:
- Climate resilience and local ecosystems
- Food systems and agricultural economics
- Community decision-making and civic responsibility
- Budgeting, trade-offs, and resource allocation
- Data interpretation, evidence evaluation, and ethical reasoning
Learning Experiences That Generate Evidence
NY Inspires shifts the conversation from “Did students complete the course?” to “What evidence shows students are proficient?”
Curriculum Genie helps teachers design units where students produce meaningful artifacts, including:
- Performance tasks
- Written explanations
- Data visualizations
- Research products
- Presentations
- Reflection journals
- Capstone-style projects
- Collaborative problem-solving artifacts
- CTE- or WBL-connected evidence
Bring NYS Standards to Life:
A NY Inspires-Ready Exemplar
See theory put into practice. “The Power of Pollinators” is a cohesive, inquiry-driven Grade 6 unit that connects NYS Science and Social Studies practices while helping students investigate biological systems, food security, human-environment interaction, and the economic significance of pollinators in New York.
What this unit demonstrates:
Deep Standards Integration
Integrate specific NYS Science standards on ecosystems and organism interactions with NYS Social Studies standards regarding human-environment interaction and the economic significance of pollinators in New York’s agricultural landscape.
Built-in PoG Alignment
Explicitly mapped to NYS PoG attributes, helping students practice these competencies, like Critical Thinking (distinguishing fact from opinion).
Performance-Based Evidence
Students do more than answer questions. They analyze data, explain patterns, propose solutions, create artifacts, and reflect on their reasoning—creating evidence that can support multiple measures of proficiency.
Skill-Focused by Design
Built to develop crucial skills like observation and data analysis, creative problem-solving, and flexible reasoning as students investigate habitat loss and propose innovative protection strategies.
Ready-to-Use Structure
Teachers receive a robust instructional framework, including local case studies, differentiated supports, hands-on investigations, discussion prompts, and embedded opportunities for PoG development.
Pathway-Ready Design
The same design model can support capstone-style work, community-connected learning, climate education, financial literacy connections, and future CTE/WBL-aligned evidence.
Looking for more?
While The Power of Pollinators unit showcases our approach to middle school Science and Social Studies, the same principles of deep standards integration, interdisciplinary design, and competency-based evidence apply across our entire K-12 curriculum.From elementary science explorations that connect to NYS math standards, to middle school project-based learning that aligns with the Arts, our platform provides a rich ecosystem of ready-to-use, standards-aligned content for every New York classroom.
This is the Curriculum Genie difference: we don't just give you a list of standards. We provide the tools and content to build rich, multi-faceted learning experiences aligned to New York priorities and designed to support district implementation planning.
But what does a "prepared" student truly look like? ... This is the very essence of New York's statewide vision for student success—a vision captured in the Portrait of a Graduate.
Make Portrait of a Graduate Teachable, Measurable, and Documentable
What New York adopted
New York’s Board of Regents adopted the New York State Portrait of a Graduate—a unifying vision for college, career, and civic readiness. The Portrait features six attributes, centered in CR‑S education: Academically Prepared, Creative Innovator, Critical Thinker, Effective Communicator, Global Citizen, Reflective & Future‑Focused.
As New York’s graduation redesign moves toward full implementation, districts will need clearer ways to document student proficiency in both academic standards and Portrait of a Graduate attributes. Regulatory details continue to evolve.
But adopting a Portrait of a Graduate is only the beginning. The real implementation challenge is turning those attributes into daily instruction, meaningful assessment, consistent scoring, and documented evidence of student growth.
Curriculum Genie helps districts move from Portrait language to graduation-ready evidence.
The Implementation Gap: Why Great Visions Get Stuck
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Readiness is hard to see.
District leaders need to know where Portrait of a Graduate skills already appear in curriculum, where performance-based evidence already exists, and where gaps remain.
Without a clear map, implementation becomes guesswork.
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Competencies are hard to translate.
Attributes like “Global Citizen,” “Creative Innovator,” and “Reflective & Future-Focused” are powerful, but teachers need to know what those competencies look like in Grade 4, Grade 8, and high school.
Without grade-banded expectations, the Portrait stays abstract.
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Multiple measures are hard to design.
As New York moves toward multiple measures of proficiency, districts need rigorous local evidence systems: performance tasks, projects, portfolios, reflections, capstones, and rubrics.
Without strong design support, multiple measures can become inconsistent or burdensome.
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Reliable scoring is hard to scale.
Performance-based assessment requires shared scoring language, calibration, and inter-rater reliability.
Without common rubrics and clear evidence expectations, teachers may evaluate the same competency differently across classrooms, schools, or grade levels.
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Evidence is hard to organize.
Student growth happens over time, across tasks, lessons, reflections, and teacher observations.
Without a dynamic portfolio, districts struggle to tell a coherent story of student proficiency.
Curriculum Embedded PoG Competencies Assessment
Curriculum Genie provides the intelligent bridge between New York's PoG vision and everyday teaching. We move beyond simple tracking tools by introducing Curriculum Embedded Assessments. This ensures that PoG competencies are not "extra work," but are seamlessly woven into the fabric of NYS academic instruction through Dual Alignment.
We do this by creating a smarter workflow for educators and deeper ownership for students. See it in action. The following examples from our The Power of Pollinators unit show what this looks like in a real New York classroom.
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Make PoG Observable
Your Portrait of a Graduate shouldn't just sit on a wall. Curriculum Genie helps translate abstract traits into clear, instruction-ready behaviors that teachers can actually see and support.
- Grade-Banded Expectations: Define what each competency looks like across K–2, Grades 3–5, Grades 6–8, and Grades 9–12.
- Local Competency Crosswalks: Support districts in aligning local graduate profiles with New York’s statewide Portrait of a Graduate.
- Instruction-Ready Behaviors: Give teachers clear “look-fors” so they can recognize and support competency development during real instruction.
Instead of asking, “How do we teach Global Citizen?” Teachers can see what Global Citizen looks like in a specific grade band, subject, task, and student behavior. Since we convert your specific PoG attributes into age-appropriate Student Expectations—defining exactly what skills look like for K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, and Grades 9-12.
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Make PoG Measurable
Curriculum Genie helps districts move from broad aspirations to shared scoring language.
- 4-Level Competency Rubrics: Generate editable 4-level rubrics with clear performance descriptors, giving you a shared yardstick to measure student growth from "Emerging" to "Extending."
- Calibration-Ready Design: Use consistent descriptors and sample evidence to support department, grade-level, schoolwide, or regional scoring conversations.
- Student-Friendly Success Guide: Help students understand what they are working toward and how to improve.
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Use PoG Mini Masteries for Targeted Daily Practice
Not every competency needs a major project. Students also need frequent, low-lift practice opportunities.
- Flexible & Fast: Instantly convert PoG Teaching Tips into short, targeted competency activities that fit into daily instruction.
- High-Frequency Skill Practice: Students practice communication, reflection, critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity across subjects.
- Frequent Reflection: Students upload quick reflections or artifacts that capture growth in the moment, not just at the end of a semester.
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Unit-Level Performance Assessments: Deep Integration
Transform abstract attributes into concrete, multi-stage projects where academic rigor meets holistic skill building.
- Dual Alignment: Every performance task is explicitly anchored in both NYS Academic Standards and specific PoG Traits. For example, a "Analyze & Explain" task anchors the science standard MS-LS2-1 (Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.) and MS-LS2-2 (Construct an explanation that predicts patterns of interactions among organisms in a variety of ecosystems.) alongside the Critical Thinker attribute, challenging students to not just record data, but to design diagrams that visualize the link between geoscience processes and resource locations.
- Student Success Guide: Clear, student-facing criteria (from "On Track" to "Go Further") drive self-assessment and peer review before the teacher ever sees the work.
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Empowering Student Agency & Ownership
The future of graduation readiness is not only about what schools record. It is also about what students understand, own, and can explain about their growth.
- Student Self-Select (Choice): Give students the autonomy to drive their own growth. They can browse and select relevant Mini Mastery activities from a pre-set pool that resonate with their personal learning journey.
- Multimodal Submissions (Voice): Students demonstrate mastery authentically. Our guided workflow allows them to upload text, images, audio, or files—capturing the richness of their learning process beyond standard testing.
- Gamified Motivation: Make progress visible, concrete, and student-owned. Students follow a growth journey through their PoG Portfolio, where milestones and badges make progress feel real and motivating.
- Ownership Over Time: Students see the Portrait of a Graduate not as a compliance requirement, but as a profile they are actively building.
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AI-Powered Evaluation & The Dual-Feedback Loop
Support more consistent evidence review while keeping teachers in control.
- Automated 4-Level Rating: Our AI analyzes student evidence against detailed, transparent proficiency descriptors (Emerging Competence → Approaching Competence → Competent → Extending Competence), ensuring objective and consistent ratings.
- Actionable Insights:
- For Students: The system provides immediate, specific feedback on how to level up their skills.
- For Teachers: Receive data-driven instructional adjustments to support students who need help, bridging assessment directly back to instruction.
- Teacher Final Call: AI recommends; educators review/adjust and confirm final rating and feedback.
From Growth Portfolio to Transcript-Ready Evidence
As New York moves toward one diploma and multiple measures of proficiency, districts need a clearer way to document student readiness over time. Curriculum Genie organizes standards-aligned evidence, Portrait of a Graduate growth, student reflections, performance-based artifacts, and teacher feedback into a longitudinal portfolio record that supports advising, pathway planning, and future transcript readiness.
A Holistic Student Portfolio
All evidence—from performance-based assessments to quick Mini Masteries—feeds into a dynamic student portfolio.
- Standards-aligned evidence
- PoG competency ratings
- Student reflections & artifacts
- Teacher feedback and growth trends
Standards + Portrait Attributes in One View
See academic progress and Portrait of a Graduate growth together, instead of switching between rubrics, spreadsheets, and disconnected systems.
- Connect standards to competencies
- Review evidence behind ratings
- Spot readiness and equity gaps
- Support advising and planning
Proficiency Documentation Over Time
Student growth is captured across multiple moments, making it easier to understand readiness as a progression rather than a single score.
Support for Seals, Endorsements, and Specialized Recognition
As districts prepare for new diploma structures, local endorsements, and future transcript models, Curriculum Genie helps organize the evidence that may support specialized student achievement.
Counselor and Administrator Visibility
Counselors, administrators, and district leaders can review student evidence, monitor readiness, and support personalized proficiency-based pathways.
From Data to Deep Insights: Readiness, Equity, and Continuous Improvement
Easily track students’ submissions and PoG growth, so you can act on real-time insights. At the unit level, assessment brings together evidence from the learning process and PoG development, creating a holistic picture of student progress.
For Administrators
Readiness Signals & Strategic Planning
Help leaders see where PoG readiness, evidence coverage, and support needs vary across schools and student groups.
Readiness Reviews
Curriculum and assessment readiness signals
Equity Monitoring
Identify gaps and support equitable outcomes
Intervention Planning
Use data to guide supports and improvement
For Teachers
Classroom-Level Insights
Visualize class progress across competencies and standards so teachers can adjust instruction and give targeted feedback.
Spot Strengths
See what students are doing well
Support Students
Identify students who need support
Review Evidence
Track reflections, submissions, and rubric-based progress
For Students
A Growth Story They Can Own
Students can review evidence, reflect on teacher feedback, track goals, and see how their skills grow over time.
Track Progress
See competencies and evidence over time
Reflect on Growth
Review feedback and learning evidence
Plan Next Steps
Set goals and take action on what’s next
For Families
A Clearer Picture of Readiness
Families can see more than grades and better understand academic growth, future-ready skills, and evidence of progress.
Understand Growth
See how skills and competencies are developing
See Evidence
View examples of learning and achievement
Support Next Steps
Stay informed and support your child’s growth
Built for District & BOCES-Aligned Readiness Work
Curriculum Genie helps district teams organize standards, PoG competencies, performance tasks, rubrics, and student evidence before materials move into local review, professional learning, and regional calibration.
Curriculum Audits
Rubric Alignment
Scoring Calibration
Pathway Planning
Why it matters in New York
With a statewide timeline requiring Cohort 2029 graduates to demonstrate both standard mastery and PoG attributes, a systematic, evidence-based portfolio system isn't optional—it's essential for readiness and equity. Curriculum Genie gives districts the tools to meet that mandate with confidence.
But preparing students for the future requires mastering both timeless human competencies and the transformative tools that will shape their world. The Portrait of a Graduate defines the why and how of learning. AI Literacy addresses the what.
Support Future-Ready Learning, Including Responsible AI Literacy
Curriculum Genie helps districts integrate responsible, age-appropriate AI literacy into everyday instruction—so students learn to use emerging tools safely, critically, and with their own thinking at the center.
Age-Appropriate
Cross-Curricular
Responsible Use
Student-Owned Thinking
Where the state is now
- State Direction: NYSED briefed the Board of Regents (Mar 2024) on AI in P-12 (privacy/FERPA/COPPA/Ed Law 2-d, classroom opportunities).
- Pending Bill: Assembly Bill A7029 (2025) would create a statewide recommendation for K-12 AI literacy (age-appropriate scope, subject integration, teacher PD, and student competency).
- Local Exemplars: Districts like NYC Public Schools are moving from restriction to guided, responsible use, building teacher capacity.
What this means for you: Plan for AI literacy that is cross-curricular, age-appropriate, transparent, and safe—exactly what Curriculum Genie delivers.
A K-12 Curriculum That Integrates into Your Classroom
In response to New York's emerging needs, we have developed a comprehensive, K-12 AI Literacy curriculum designed to integrate seamlessly into the subjects you already teach. Our approach isn't about adding another standalone tech class; it's about weaving essential AI concepts and ethical considerations into the core curriculum, from kindergarten to graduation.
For Grades K-2
AI Around Us
What students learn
Recognize AI as a learning partner and practice using it wisely—giving clear instructions, checking results, and keeping student thinking at the center.
Across-subject connections
- Science: Sink-or-float experiments—use AI to make and compare predictions, then test answers and explain results in their own words.
- ELA: If I Had a Robot read-aloud—spark imagination; use AI for brainstorming or spelling while students keep ownership of their writing.
- Mathematics: Solve word problems with counters or blocks—solve first, then use AI to explain, check, or model steps.
- Arts: “My Robot Helper” posters—co-design an AI Use Promise chart with handprints to practice responsible AI use.
For Grades 3-6
Exploring the World of AI
What students learn
Differentiate predictive vs. generative AI; why data and prompts matter; when to use AI—and when to rely on themselves; intro to bias and ethics.
Across-subject connections
- ELA: AI in Writing—use AI for brainstorming, organization, and revision while students retain authorship.
- Mathematics: Party-budget challenge—students compute independently, then use AI as a math coach to check work or suggest strategies.
- Science: Melting Race—form a hypothesis → run the lab → compare evidence to an AI explanation → write a lab report.
- Social Studies: Discuss bias and fairness when data is limited; craft “Prompt Golden Rules.”
For Grades 7-12
Shaping Success with AI
What students learn
Go beyond basic use to evaluate hallucinations, deepfakes, and algorithmic bias; decide when AI supports learning—and when it shouldn’t.
Across-subject connections
- ELA: Argumentative writing—AI assists with outlines, counterclaims, and style; students own the reasoning and evidence.
- Science: Design an experiment, then use AI to critique procedures, anticipate sources of error, and polish the final report.
- Social Studies & Media Arts: Analyze real cases (facial recognition, hiring algorithms); produce a PSA advocating ethical AI use.
Ready for New York’s Next Chapter in AI Education
- Cross-curricular by design: ELA, Math, Science, Social Studies, and Arts all carry a share of AI literacy, making it sustainable and instructionally relevant.
- Policy-ready: Aligns with New York’s direction of age-appropriate, integrated instruction and teacher PD.
- Classroom-proven: Built around inquiry, evidence, and authentic tasks—so students don’t just use AI; they evaluate and explain it.
By integrating AI literacy into daily instruction, our curriculum helps New York educators align with emerging state priorities while delivering engaging, ethical, and cross-disciplinary learning experiences for every student.
See Curriculum Genie in Action for New York
New York districts do not need another disconnected tool, spreadsheet, rubric bank, or one-off project template. Give your district one connected workspace to align NYS standards, embed Portrait of a Graduate competencies, design performance-based assessments, collect portfolio-ready evidence, support calibration and scoring conversations, track student growth over time, and prepare for NY Inspires implementation with confidence.
Join New York districts preparing for NY Inspires with classroom-ready curriculum, performance-based evidence, and student-owned growth portfolios.