A Unified Solution for a Transformative Era in California Education
Leading a California school district means balancing rigorous academic standards with visionary new goals. Being both compliant and innovative isn’t a trade-off—it’s one integrated implementation. Curriculum Genie is built to help you lead in this transformative era.
Build Your Future-Ready California District
California is at a pivotal moment, presenting district leaders with three interconnected challenges. Success requires more than just keeping pace; it demands a unified strategy. Curriculum Genie helps you lead through this transformation by turning these complex mandates into clear, actionable steps.
From Rote Memorization to Deep Understanding
Master core instruction by embracing the conceptual shifts and inquiry-based approaches in the 2023 Mathematics Framework.
From a Packed Curriculum to Integrated Skills
Integrate future-ready skills by seamlessly weaving AI Literacy into your core curriculum to meet new state mandates.
From Aspirational Goals to Actionable Evidence
Prove Holistic Growth by turning the vision of the Portrait of a Graduate (PoG) into the actionable evidence required for accountability.
Master California's New Mathematics Framework
California's 2023 Mathematics Framework represents a fundamental shift in mathematics education—moving from rote memorization to deep conceptual understanding. It’s a transformation that requires a coherent, aligned approach.
Equity and Access
Ensure equitable access to rigorous math for all students. Culturally relevant teaching helps every learner feel seen, valued, and capable.
Deep Conceptual Learning
Shift instruction from rote memorization to reasoning and problem-solving, building lasting knowledge for real-world application.
Coherent & Modern Curriculum
Create a logical K-12 learning journey by connecting "big ideas" across grades and offering flexible pathways with modern STEM routes.
Empowered Educator Support
Equip educators with teacher-developed guidance for effective professional development and the adoption of high-quality materials.
See the Framework Come to Life
Explore our sample unit, Community Data Detectives, and discover how Curriculum Genie transforms state guidance into the engaging learning envisioned by the new Mathematics Framework.
What this unit demonstrates:
Drives Inquiry-Based Learning
Empowers students to become "data detectives," asking their own meaningful questions and using math to investigate their world. This fosters deep conceptual understanding over rote memorization.
Integrates Real-World Data Science
Provides hands-on practice in collecting, analyzing, and communicating with real-world data. Students build the modern data literacy competencies emphasized by the new framework.
Centers Equity and Student Voice
Built on student choice and local relevance. By investigating issues in their own communities, mathematics becomes personally resonant and validates every student's unique perspective.
Develops Collaborative Problem-Solving
Fosters teamwork through group investigation and a final showcase. Students learn to solve problems together, present findings with evidence, and engage in respectful, data-driven discussion.
Simplify Standards, Amplify Impact
Navigating California's standards requires a strategic partner. Curriculum Genie turns the challenge of compliance into an opportunity to build curriculum that is dynamic, relevant, and ready to inspire every student.
Stay Continuously Compliant
Offload the exhaustive work of tracking updates to California learning standards. Map your curriculum to the most current benchmarks, giving your team the peace of mind that their instruction is built on a solid, compliant foundation.
Localize Content for Deeper Engagement
Go beyond generic alignment to create truly resonant learning. Empower educators to adapt lessons to be deeply relevant to the students' lives, weaving in local landmarks and cultural contexts that make learning tangible and meaningful for every child in California.
Build Cross-Curricular Connections
Foster the holistic learning that future-ready skills demand. Make it simple to design and visualize interdisciplinary units, revealing natural connections between subjects like ELA and science to create a richer, more integrated educational experience.
Lead with Confidence in the Age of AI
With the 2025-26 alignment year approaching, California's new AI mandates present a complex dual challenge. Districts must not only teach AI literacy but also model its responsible use. This means answering two critical questions:
How do we weave AI concepts into an already packed curriculum without adding a separate "AI class"?
How do we weave AI concepts into an already packed curriculum without adding a separate "AI class"?
Curriculum Genie transforms this dual challenge from a compliance burden into a strategic opportunity for leadership, providing a clear, two-pronged solution.
Master the Mandate: Fulfill AB 2876 with Ease
AB 2876 requires integrating AI literacy into core subjects. This isn't about adding a separate "AI class"; it's about weaving AI concepts into the fabric of your existing curriculum. Curriculum Genie makes this seamless.
Generate Compliant AI Lessons
Need a lesson on AI bias for your 8th-grade history class? Or an activity on AI applications in biology? Our AI co-pilot empowers your teachers to instantly generate custom and grade-appropriate lessons covering the full spectrum of AI literacy defined by the state—from technical principles to critical ethical considerations.
Embed AI Across Your Curriculum
Easily embed AI-related topics directly into the core subjects, as mandated by the law. Curriculum Genie helps you find natural connections, ensuring AI literacy is taught in context, not in a vacuum, reinforcing learning by connecting abstract AI concepts to the concrete subject matter.
Align with CDE Guidance
Informed by the CDE's "Learning With AI, Learning About AI" guidance, generate activities that prompt students to critically analyze AI-generated content, debate ethical dilemmas, and understand AI's societal impact, fostering the deep, critical thinking the state champions.
Model the Vision: Responsible AI for SB 1288
SB 1288 champions the use of AI to support educators, with the clear goal of augmenting teaching, not replacing it. Curriculum Genie is built on this very principle, helping you model the safe and ethical use of AI the state envisions.
Augment Teaching with AI
Curriculum Genie is designed as a teacher's assistant. It handles the heavy lifting of drafting and alignment, freeing up educators to do what they do best: inspire, guide, and connect with students. This directly reflects the state's vision of AI as a supportive tool.
Uphold Data & Academic Integrity
As the state's working group develops guidance on data privacy and academic integrity, rest assured that Curriculum Genie is designed with these priorities in mind, providing your team with a secure, controlled environment for AI-assisted planning that upholds the highest standards.
Foster True Critical Thinking
The Curriculum Genie experience empowers teachers to design lessons that use AI as a starting point for inquiry, not a final answer. This encourages activities that require students to evaluate, question, and build upon AI-generated content, strengthening their critical thinking muscles in line with state recommendations.
From State Mandate to Classroom Mastery: Actionable AI Literacy Units
California's new AI legislation calls for integrating AI literacy with a strong focus on ethical use. Our exemplar units are engineered for this challenge, providing a clear path to embed AI concepts into Mathematics, Science, and History-Social Science and transform state mandates into confident classroom practice.
Building Foundational Literacy
This unit transforms the abstract concept of AI into a hands-on, practical exploration of how AI can be a learning partner. It directly supports AB 2876 by embedding foundational AI literacy into the subjects you already teach:
- In Mathematics: Asking AI to explain a word problem or check a solution connects mathematical thinking to the strategic use of AI as a learning tool.
- In Science: Using AI to predict and explain a sink-or-float experiment mirrors the scientific practice of forming a hypothesis, testing, and analyzing results.
- In History-Social Science: Creating a classroom "AI Use Promise" sparks discussions on digital citizenship and the social responsibility of using new tools wisely.
Key Competencies Developed
This unit cultivates early digital citizenship and critical thinking. Children practice giving clear instructions (the "Golden Rule"), check AI's work, and build the foundational habit of using AI as a supportive, not substitutive, learning partner.
Partnering with AI Responsibly
As students' analytical skills grow, this unit deepens their understanding of how AI works and its societal impact. It provides teachers with ready-to-use strategies for integrating core AI concepts directly into mandated subjects, fulfilling AB 2876:
- In Mathematics: Planning a party on a budget and using AI to check calculations demonstrates how algorithms process data to solve real-world problems.
- In Science: Conducting a "Melting Race" experiment and using AI for predictions highlights the need to test AI's claims with physical evidence.
- In History-Social Science: Analyzing recommendation algorithms sparks critical discussions about data, bias, and fairness in modern information systems.
Key Competencies Developed
This unit develops analytical and ethical reasoning. Students learn to deconstruct how AI works (data and algorithms), evaluate its outputs critically, and collaborate effectively with AI as a learning partner while keeping their own thinking central.
Leading with Ethical AI
This unit prepares students for a complex future by tackling the advanced technical and ethical dimensions of AI. It directly addresses the competencies required by AB 2876 and the ethical considerations championed by SB 1288 through sophisticated, subject-specific inquiries:
- In Mathematics: Exploring the statistical roots of algorithmic bias by analyzing how flawed datasets can lead to unfair, real-world outcomes.
- In Science: Using AI to review an experimental design, which requires critically evaluating AI feedback for potential errors or "hallucinations."
- In History-Social Science: Investigating the impact of deepfakes on historical records to debate profound ethical implications for truth and democracy.
Key Competencies Developed
This unit equips students with advanced digital literacy and ethical leadership skills. They learn not only to use AI effectively but to critique its societal impact, advocate for responsible innovation, and navigate the future as informed, conscientious citizens.
Prove the PoG with Actionable Evidence
What's Happening in California
California is advancing a statewide Portrait of a Graduate initiative (anticipated for the 2025–26 alignment year). Districts will be expected to show concrete, classroom-level evidence of how essential competencies are being built—supporting both the Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) and the College/Career Indicator (CCI).
The Accountability Challenge: Translating Vision into Evidence
The upcoming mandate presents a significant challenge: how to translate aspirational goals into the concrete evidence required for state accountability.
The Abstract Goal Problem: How do you translate a competency like "Critical Thinker" into concrete, observable evidence for your LCAP?
The Planning Burden: How do you systematically embed skills across all grade levels before the critical 2025-26 alignment year?
The Assessment Puzzle: How do you gather consistent, meaningful data that tells a true story of student growth for the CCI?
Our Answer:
Transforming Goals into Actionable Insights
Curriculum Genie is the strategic partner that turns PoG vision into classroom reality, by embedding essential competencies into your curriculum, streamlining the collection of authentic evidence, and generating the actionable insights needed for true accountability.
Embed Skills, Empower Reflection, Prove Growth
Curriculum Genie makes PoG implementation a natural cycle of instruction → evidence capture → student reflection → AI-informed assessment—and organizes results into role-based dashboards. To illustrate, the following is a district-level use case (based on the publicly available PoG from San Gabriel Unified School District).
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Embed PoG Skills into Daily Lessons
Weave PoG competencies directly into your curriculum design with AI-suggested Teaching Tips that transform academic standards into opportunities for skill-building.
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Capture Classroom Moments Effortlessly
Easily capture the context of any learning activity with a simple description, creating a rich portfolio entry that serves as the foundation for authentic assessment.
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Empower Student Ownership and Reflection
Invite students to co-create their learning story by contributing personal reflections and uploading multimodal evidence, shifting assessment from a passive event to an active process of self-awareness.
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Unlock Insights with AI-Powered Assessment
Synthesize PoG portfolios and student reflections into a holistic, data-informed assessment, providing a clear rationale and suggested rating that empowers the educator's final decision.
Visualize Progress, Inform Strategy, Demonstrate Impact
Our system organizes this rich evidence into clear, actionable dashboards, providing the concrete data needed to satisfy LCAP and CCI accountability.
For Teachers: Inform Daily Instruction
Visualize PoG achievement across your class to spot trends and address challenges. Use real-time data to precisely tailor your daily instruction and support every learner.
For Administrators: Drive Strategic Oversight
Gain a district-wide view of PoG implementation. Analyze trends across schools to ensure equitable growth and gather compelling evidence for LCAP and CCI reporting.
For Students & Parents: Make Growth Visible
Follow a student's growth journey through a living portfolio. See their progress in essential skills, complete with their own voice and reflections, to empower conferences and build ownership.
Why This Matters in California
A new era of accountability is beginning with California's statewide PoG initiative. For 2025-26, aspirational goals are no longer sufficient; districts must now provide concrete, classroom-level evidence of student success for LCAP and CCI.
Meeting this mandate requires an intentional and trackable approach. Curriculum Genie provides the structure to meet these requirements confidently, helping leadership shift from simply complying to truly leading the way.
Shape the Future of California Education
Don't let these mandates become a compliance burden. See them as an opportunity to build a truly future-ready education system. Schedule a personalized demo to see exactly how Curriculum Genie can help your California district succeed.