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Teacher Admin Work with AI: Reports, Plans, Grant Applications
12 prompts from this guide. Fill in whatever sits in [square brackets] — your own context, the document text or the name of your tool. That context is exactly what separates a generic answer from a usable one.
What must never go into a chat
Here's a text I need stripped of personal data before I work with it further. It's a school document. Do two things: 1. Rewrite the text, replacing all personal data with tags: student names → [STUDENT A], [STUDENT B]…, parent names → [PARENT/GUARDIAN A], colleague names → [TEACHER 1], school, town, and institution names → [SCHOOL], [TOWN], [INSTITUTION], birth dates, addresses, and ID numbers → [REDACTED]. 2. Separately list any wording that doesn't contain a name but still identifies a specific person anyway (a unique combination of circumstances, a rare diagnosis, a description of a family situation). Suggest more general wording for each. Don't change or summarize anything else in the text. Don't add information that isn't already there. Text: [paste text]
From curriculum outcomes to a month-by-month breakdown
I teach [subject] in [7th] grade at [type of school]. Below is the exact wording of the expected learning outcomes and content from our school curriculum. Hours per week: [2]. School year: [start date] to [end date]. Weeks I have to account for that fall through: [breaks, project days, ski trip, testing days, professional development days — with dates]. Build a pacing guide broken down by month. A table with columns: month | topic | expected outcomes from the curriculum (verbatim, shortened) | number of hours | note on how I'll check understanding Rules: - work exclusively from the outcomes I pasted in; don't add content that isn't in the curriculum - total hours can't exceed the real allotment after subtracting the weeks that fall through; leave 10 percent as a buffer - put review hours at the end of each term - where an outcome is too big for one month, split it and explain how you split it Curriculum: [paste outcomes and content]
Checking outcome coverage
Compare two lists and give me a coverage check. A) Expected outcomes from the school curriculum for [subject], grade [grade]: [paste verbatim] B) My finished pacing guide: [paste the guide] Return four lists: 1. Curriculum outcomes not covered anywhere in the guide. 2. Outcomes covered only in passing (mentioned but with no dedicated hours) — for each, note where in the guide they appear and how many hours they got. 3. Topics in the guide with no basis in any curriculum outcome. 4. Outcomes covered more than once — where, and whether it makes sense as review or is a duplication. Don't fix anything — just show the findings with a reference to the relevant row.
A running file instead of trying to remember
Here are my running notes for the [year] school year — a date and one sentence for each event. I need input for the annual report for [subject / department / homeroom]. Build a text that: - is organized into sections: instruction and its changes, events and field trips, competitions and their results, partnerships with other organizations, teacher professional development, materials and equipment - is written factually, in past tense, without evaluative superlatives - includes a date and a brief result for each item - doesn't add anything that isn't in the notes Where a note isn't enough (missing result, number of participants, date), write [FILL IN: what] instead of guessing. List every spot needing a fill-in at the end. Notes: [paste file]
A summary for administration and the district
Make two shortened versions from this input. 1. FOR SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION — max 15 sentences: what happened in my subject this year, what the results were, what I need for next year (materials, hours, staffing support), and what didn't go well. No generic filler — every sentence should carry information. 2. FOR THE DISTRICT — max 8 sentences, in language understandable to someone who doesn't work in a school: what the department does in this area, what it achieved, and what that means for students. Rules for both versions: - use only facts from the input, don't add or generalize anything - no evaluation like "outstanding" unless backed by a specific, documented result - where the input has a [FILL IN] tag, keep it in the shortened version too Input: [paste]
A recommendation letter for a student
I'm writing a recommendation letter for a student. Use the tag [STUDENT A]; I'll add the name myself to the final document. Purpose of the letter: [college admissions / scholarship / internship / study abroad]. Recipient: [institution]. Length: [half a page]. My notes and evidence: [concrete results, projects, competitions, behavior in group work, documentable examples — each with when it happened] Write a recommendation that: - draws exclusively on my notes and doesn't add qualities I didn't mention - backs every strength with a concrete example, not just an adjective - is written in the first person, as a teacher who has taught this student for [3] years - avoids superlatives I couldn't back up - ends with one sentence on specifically how this student would be an asset to the recipient Where I'm missing evidence for something, write [FILL IN: what] instead of a generic phrase.
Report card comments from running notes
Here are my running notes on [STUDENT A] for [term], subject
[subject]:
[paste notes — what they've mastered, where they've improved,
where they struggle, specific situations with dates]
Write a draft report card comment for parents:
- length [8-12] sentences
- structure: what the student can do (with an example), how
they've progressed this term, where they struggle (factually,
without labels), what specifically I recommend for practice,
and how the family can help
- language understandable to someone with no background in
education
- describe behavior and performance, not the child's character
("made errors in his last three assignments in...," not
"he's careless")
- don't state any diagnosis, even if the notes imply one
Where the notes don't support a claim, write [EVIDENCE MISSING]
instead of a generic sentence.Break the call for proposals into a list of questions
Here's the text of a call for proposals (or its substantive parts) for a grant program our school wants to apply to. Break it down into a working list: 1. Who is eligible and what conditions must be met — check against the text whether we qualify (we are [type of school, district, size]). 2. What activities are eligible for funding, and what's explicitly excluded. 3. Every field and attachment we need to fill in or provide — a numbered list, one sentence per item on what's being asked. 4. Required indicators and how they're measured. 5. Deadlines, including anything that has to happen before submission. 6. Budget rules: what counts as an eligible expense, what the limits are, and whether matching funds are required. Work exclusively from the pasted text. Where the text doesn't answer something or is ambiguous, write [NOT FOUND IN THE CALL] and add a question I should ask the funder — don't guess. Call for proposals: [paste text]
Describing activities and goals
I'm writing an application for the [name of program]. The "activity description" field needs to be [1800] characters. The activity we want to run (my notes): [what specifically, for whom, how many kids, how often, who will lead it, where it will happen, what we need for it, how long it runs] The program goal this activity addresses: [verbatim wording from the call] Write a description that: - opens with what will actually happen, not with why the topic matters - includes counts, frequency, and timeframe from my notes - explicitly shows the link to the cited program goal - describes how we'll know the activity succeeded - fits within the character limit Don't add any numbers I didn't give you. Where you need a number I haven't provided, write [FILL IN NUMBER: what].
Budget and indicators
Here's my grant application budget (line items, quantities, and amounts are mine, from real quotes) and the eligibility rules from the call. Budget: [paste table: line item | quantity | unit cost | total | expense category] Rules from the call: [paste verbatim] Check it and return findings: 1. Line items that, per the pasted rules, aren't an eligible expense, or where it's unclear from the rules. 2. Expense categories where the limit stated in the call is exceeded. 3. Costs that logically belong to the described activities but are missing from the budget (transportation, insurance, materials, instructor fees) — as a question only, not a line item you add. 4. Line items a reviewer is likely to want justified. Don't recalculate totals and don't fill in amounts — I'll do the arithmetic myself in the spreadsheet. Just return findings with a reference to the row.
Inventory from photos and scraps of paper
Attached are photos of the shelves in the [subject] supply closet and photos of my handwritten inventory list. Build an inventory table from them with columns: item | quantity | location (shelf / cabinet, per the photo) | condition (new / usable / damaged / illegible) | inventory number, if visible on a tag Rules: - anything you can't reliably read from a photo, mark as [ILLEGIBLE] and note which photo and item it's from — don't guess - only give a quantity where you can actually count it from the image; otherwise write [COUNT MANUALLY] - transcribe handwriting verbatim; don't "correct" names to what seems to make sense to you At the end, list items that are in my handwritten list but that you don't see on the shelf photos.
What belongs in the template library
Attached are [4] versions of the same type of document that I've written over the past few years: [document type]. Turn them into a single template: 1. Find the common structure — which parts repeat across all versions, and in what order. 2. Leave text that's identical every time unchanged. 3. Replace text that varies with a bracketed placeholder that describes what goes there: [event date], [number of students], [chaperone's name]. 4. Flag parts that appear in only some versions as optional, and note when they're used. 5. At the end, add a checklist: what needs to be filled in, what needs to be attached, and who has to approve it before it goes out. Separately note what's inconsistent across the versions and suggest which variant to adopt as the standard. Versions: [paste documents]