LIFT, your personalized AI teaching assistant, is revolutionizing K-12 instruction by helping educators generate standards-aligned resources, strategies, and innovative teaching practices in seconds. Use LIFT to create engaging, inclusive, and effective learning experiences and reduce planning time.
Get tailored lesson plans aligned to Common Core, NGSS, and ISTE in seconds. Simply type your request—like “Hands-on activities for a 4th grade science unit on force and motion”—and receive a ready-to-use framework.
Integrate Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) and Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT) seamlessly into your daily routines, helping you nurture a supportive, equitable learning environment.
Generate innovative teaching resources tailored to your unique classroom needs. Personalize instructional approaches to your grade level, subject area, and student learning profiles.
Rely on proven educational models, from Competency-Based Education (CBE) to Project-Based Learning (PBL), ensuring every suggestion is grounded in best practices and current pedagogy.
Elevate student engagement through authentic, real-world inquiry experiences. LIFT helps design comprehensive PBL units to create meaningful projects that develop critical thinking, collaboration, and communication skills while maintaining alignment with academic standards.
Strengthen whole-child development with evidence-based SEL approaches woven throughout your curriculum. LIFT provides research-backed strategies for creating supportive learning environments where students develop essential life skills alongside academic content.
Elevate all learners through teaching approaches that honor cultural identities and lived experiences. LIFT creates inclusive learning environments where diverse perspectives are valued, curriculum reflects multiple cultural viewpoints, and instructional strategies build on students' cultural knowledge.
Support student-centered learning journeys that prioritize mastery over time constraints. LIFT provides the framework for developing learning progressions with clear, measurable competencies that allow students to move at their optimal pace.
Ignite curiosity and develop future-ready skills through engaging science, technology, engineering, and mathematics experiences. LIFT improves lesson plans and project ideas that develop computational thinking, problem-solving abilities, and technical literacy while fostering collaboration and creativity.
Prepare students for success in a technology-rich world through purposeful integration of digital tools and resources. LIFT assists with strategies for meaningful technology integration that enhances rather than simply replaces traditional instruction, fostering deeper learning through authentic, real-world applications.
Simply describe your instructional need—like "Create a 5th grade science unit on ecosystems aligned with NGSS"—and receive immediate, standards-aligned resources tailored to your specific classroom context.
LIFT can ONLY draw from comprehensive educational knowledge bases, such as ERIC and JSTOR ensuring all recommendations reflect current research and established best practices in teaching and learning.
Adapt generated materials to meet your students' unique needs, collaborate with colleagues by sharing resources, and confidently deliver instruction grounded in sound educational principles.
Answers to questions you might have about Torch.
LIFT Expert is an AI assistant specifically designed to support K-12 educators, unlike general AI which can be applied to a wide range of tasks and domains. With a primary focus on education, LIFT provides in-depth knowledge and support for various instructional models, classroom management strategies, and student support frameworks, drawing only from training data specifically related to K-12 education. LIFT's responses are generated to adhere to recognized teaching standards and best practices, ensuring that the information provided is suitable and beneficial for educators and students in all K-12 subjects.
No, LIFT is not trained on unverified data. We use only verified and research backed primary and peer-reviewed sources from 2019 or later to ensure that LIFT’s knowledge base is focused on current K-12 best practices and recognized standards.
Absolutely. Our platform adjusts to different subjects, grade levels, and instructional models seamlessly. For optimal results, always include the grade level when formulating your requests or questions.
LIFT is trained on the following educational standards: Common Core K-8 standards, NGSS (Next Generation Science Standards), ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education), Physical Education SHAPE standards, National Core Art Standards, AERO Social studies and history standards, and State Standards. This comprehensive training covers core academic subjects, science, technology, physical education, arts, and social studies/history, ensuring a well-rounded educational foundation.
LIFT understands and incorporates the following educational approaches and methodologies: Project-Based Learning (PBL), Personalized Learning, Competency Based Education (CBE), STEM/STEAM, Social Emotional Learning (SEL), EAL/ELL, Words Their Way phonics instruction, Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT), Responsive Classroom, Global and Cultural Competence and more. This diverse range of educational philosophies and practices enables LIFT to support a variety of modern teaching strategies and learning environments, catering to different student needs and promoting well-rounded development.
LIFT is trained in the following educational frameworks and approaches to support school and teacher leaders: Universal Design for Learning (UDL), Understanding by Design Framework (Ubd), Competency Based Assessment, Scope and Sequencing Building, Learning Progression, Adaptive Schools, and Cognitive Coaching. This training equips LIFT with knowledge of inclusive instructional design, backward planning for curriculum development, skills-focused evaluation methods, curriculum mapping and organization, collaborative school improvement strategies, and techniques for supporting educator growth and reflection.
Yes, LessonLift prioritizes security by storing your data on secure AWS (Amazon Web Services) servers, known for their reliability and robust protection. Your queries are encrypted during transmission, with decryption only occurring when necessary for generating responses. We are now SOC-2 compliant and adhere to OpenAI’s Data Usage Policy, ensuring your data is never used to train additional AI models.
