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Kiddom Intros AI-Powered Tool for Differentiated Instruction. Key takeaways. * Kiddom launched Kiddom Atlas: The AI-powered tool analyzes student work to identify misconceptions and generate differentiated materials aligned to the next day's lesson. * Supports targeted small-group instruction: Atlas provides recommendations on grouping students, revisiting curriculum content, and adjusting instruction while keeping teachers in control. * Developed with ANet and Teaching Lab: Early in-school data cited by Kiddom reports student gains of up to 18% compared to peers. Digital curriculum platform Kiddom has introduced Kiddom Atlas, an AI-powered tool that analyzes student work and prepares differentiated instructional materials aligned to the next day's lesson. Each day, Kiddom Atlas identifies students' misconceptions and learning gaps, and then generates new lessons for targeted small-group instruction, the company explained in a news announcement. "Teachers receive clear recommendations on how to address misconceptions: how to group students, what parts of the curriculum may need to be revisited, and how to adjust instruction to make space and time for this critical work, all while maintaining full control over instructional decisions and process," the company said. The tool was developed in partnership with Achievement Network (ANet), a nonprofit focused on expanding educational excellence for all students, and Teaching Lab, an organization specializing in curriculum-based professional learning. Data from early in-school use indicates that students using Atlas demonstrated gains of up to 18% compared to peers, Kiddom reported. "When teachers can see exactly where students are in their learning and how to help them move forward, differentiation and just-in-time intervention become possible every day," said Kiddom CEO Ahsan Rizvi, in a statement. "Atlas represents a shift from reactive to proactive instruction." "For too long, curriculum, assessment, and intervention have operated as separate systems, asking teachers to do the work of stitching them together," commented Michelle Odemwingie, chief executive officer at ANet. "When teachers know exactly how to support each student, there's no limit to what they can achieve. Atlas shows what's possible when formative assessment is embedded directly into high-quality instructional materials, so teachers can respond to student thinking without leaving grade-level instruction." "This partnership brings together top experts in math instruction, assessment, and professional learning to reimagine how AI-powered technology can drive differentiated instruction, without sidelining teachers or replacing their judgment," said Sarah Johnson, CEO at Teaching Lab. Rhea Kelly is editor in chief for Campus Technology, THE Journal, and Spaces4Learning. She can be reached at [email protected]. Featured. * Tech Outlook 2026: What Education Leaders Expect this Year We asked technology leaders in education for their predictions on how the tech landscape will change for schools and districts in the coming year. Here's what they told us. * Kiddom Intros AI-Powered Tool for Differentiated Instruction Digital curriculum platform Kiddom has introduced Kiddom Atlas, an AI-powered tool that analyzes student work and prepares differentiated instructional materials aligned to the next day's lesson. * How to Streamline Employee Onboarding and Reduce Administrative Burden Milpitas School District uses clarity, consistency, and communication to simplify hiring and set new employees up for success. * New Anthropic AI Model Targets Coding, Enterprise Work Anthropic has unveiled Claude Opus 4.6, introducing a million-token context window and automated agent coordination features as the AI company seeks to expand beyond software development into broader enterprise applications.

Kiddom has launched Atlas, an AI-powered instructional technology that analyses student work and generates differentiated instruction materials aligned to daily lessons. The system, available for purchase with classroom use beginning in autumn 2026, operates within existing curriculum frameworks rather than as a separate platform. Atlas identifies learning gaps from daily student work and generates overnight lessons featuring targeted small-group instruction for the following day. Early in-school results indicate students using Atlas demonstrated gains of up to 18% compared to peers. Developed in partnership with Achievement Network and Teaching Lab, Atlas works specifically with Kiddom's high-quality instructional materials. The system uses AI to connect student thinking patterns to relevant curriculum content whilst maintaining teacher control over instructional decisions. Atlas aims to shift classroom practice from reactive to proactive instruction.

Atlas: what it takes to make assessment the engine of instruction. February 23, 2026 Today, Kiddom announced Atlas, a new AI-enabled Learning Intelligence Technology embedded in Illustrative Mathematics(R). The Achievement Network, Ltd is proud to share the role ANet played in building the curriculum-aligned assessment engine that powers it. For years, educators have been asked to work across disconnected systems - curriculum in one place, assessments in another, intervention somewhere else entirely. The burden of making those systems talk to each other has fallen on teachers. Atlas starts with a different question: What would it look like if assessment were designed to live inside instruction and actually power it? That question is what brought Achievement Network (ANet), Kiddom, and Teaching Lab together, and it's what sits at the heart of Atlas. Why Assessment Design Matters in an AI Moment As AI becomes more present in classrooms, the volume of instructional activity, practice, and data is increasing rapidly. But more activity doesn't automatically mean more learning. Without trustworthy learning signals, AI risks amplifying the illusion of progress rather than progress itself. Its work centers on High-Quality Instructional Assessment (HQIA): the idea that assessment should be part of instruction itself, not a separate system that reports results after the fact. HQIA is intentionally designed to surface student misconceptions in real time, tied directly to what students are learning, so teachers can respond immediately inside daily instruction. In Atlas, that meant rethinking assessment from the ground up, not as a checkpoint but as infrastructure. Building Daily, Curriculum-Embedded Assessments Over its 20-year history, ANet has built one of the nation's most granular datasets on student math misconceptions aligned to high-quality instructional materials. That expertise informed its development of daily cooldown items embedded in Atlas, intentionally designed to surface misconceptions and generate reliable learning signals. Each cooldown was crafted to: * Surface common misconceptions tied to the lesson's learning goal * Include carefully constructed distractors that reveal how students are reasoning * Generate learning signals that are interpretable, predictive, and instructionally actionable The Achievement Network, Ltd applied ANet's longstanding commitment to item quality, alignment to curriculum and standards, and carefully constructed distractors to these daily lesson cooldowns. That meant adapting production processes and expanding capacity while maintaining the alignment, rigor, and reliability that make high-quality assessment signals trustworthy. From Assessment Signals to Instructional Action When assessments are aligned directly with instruction, insight and action travel together. In Atlas, patterns from formative cool-down questions help make student thinking visible while teachers are still teaching the content. Because Atlas lives inside the curriculum platform educators already use, those signals do not require a separate dashboard, login, or workflow. Rather than pulling students out of grade-level work or sending teachers to disconnected tools, assessment signals support: * Targeted small-group instruction * Just-in-time intervention * Adjustments that keep students engaged with core content This reflects a shared belief across partners: differentiation should happen inside grade-level instruction, not apart from it. Instructional Coherence, Made Real Atlas is not about adding another tool to an already crowded ecosystem. It's about addressing a long-standing implementation problem districts already feel: fragmentation. By intentionally designing curriculum, assessment, and instructional decision-making to function as one system, Atlas offers a concrete example of what instructional coherence can look like in practice - supported by AI, but grounded in learning science and disciplined assessment design. For ANet, this work also represents a broader opportunity: reaching students and teachers through partnerships that bring high-quality assessments directly into platforms educators already use, while preserving the rigor and purpose that make assessment meaningful. Looking Ahead Atlas is still early, and The Achievement Network, Ltd is learning alongside its partners. But it offers a glimpse of what's possible when assessment is treated not as a checkpoint, but as infrastructure that allows teaching and learning to move forward together. The Achievement Network, Ltd is excited to continue this work with Kiddom and Teaching Lab, and to keep learning from teachers as this approach reaches more classrooms. By: Achievement Network ANet, or the Achievement Network, is a nonprofit dedicated to expanding educational opportunities for all students. The Achievement Network, Ltd work alongside leadership teams to support teachers' use of standards and data to achieve breakthrough results for students. Get k12 education resources. Subscribe to its newsletter to join its community and receive monthly selections of actionable resources, stories of best practices from across its national network of partner schools, districts and CMOs, and invitations to exclusive events. The Achievement Network, Ltd is glad to be learning together alongside you.