What We Heard at FETC & TCEA

Conference booths are usually quick stops, but at FETC and TCEA teachers stayed. They sat down and built real lessons from their own standards, created assessments for upcoming benchmarks, and tested grading with their own rubrics.

What shifted the conversation was how usable everything felt. Lesson Studio produced complete, interactive lessons that were ready to assign. Assessment Builder generated aligned practice in minutes. AI grading made feedback feel manageable. Student Profiles brought student mastery into one clear view.

The reaction wasn’t about AI hype, but about coherence. Educators don’t need more disconnected tools. They need curriculum, assessment, and support to work together in one system.

More than once, someone finished exploring and waved a colleague over:

What Made People Stop 

Across hundreds of conversations, a few moments consistently changed the energy.

Lesson Studio: Teachers generated interactive lessons directly from standards.

Assessment Builder: Practice test creation, especially STAAR prep in Texas, sparked immediate excitement.

AI Grading + Feedback: Custom rubrics and automated feedback meant evenings reclaimed.

Student Profiles: Instructional coaches and administrators leaned in when they saw learning insights brought together in one place.

Ask Kira Chat: Planning felt conversational. Less like using AI and more like thinking out loud with support.

Don't hear it from us, hear from the teachers whose minds were blown:

Moments Around the Booth

The best part of both conferences wasn’t what we showed. It was what educators created themselves. Here are a few examples created live at the booth:

• Is A Hot Dog A Sandwich: Learning to Make Arguments

• Story Adventures: Discovering Plot from Beginning to End

• Touchdown Math: Solving Systems of Equations Through Football Strategy

• Building Your First LEGO Robot: An Introduction to Robotics

• Descriptive Writing Chatpod

• Teamwork in Government: How the Three Branches Work Together

  
  

For some extra fun, we hid tiny Kira octopuses and wandering platypuses around the expo halls, and teachers started bringing them back like lost-and-found treasures. And Kira Labubus quickly became unofficial conference companions, tucked into tote bags and appearing in hallway selfies across both events.

Spotlight: Kira Insiders on the Road

Some of the most meaningful moments at FETC and TCEA didn’t come from scheduled demos, they came from educators sharing with other educators.

Members of our Kira Insiders community helped lead booth sessions, answer questions, and walk others through lessons they’d created themselves. From building interactive Chatpods within lessons to showing how grading and feedback can be quick and intuitive in Kira, they gave a real look at what teaching with Kira feels like.

A huge thank you to:

• Lance Key

• Greg Bagby

• Dr. Rachelle Dené Poth

• Mantha Camacho

• Harl Roehm

What’s Coming Next

What educators explored at FETC and TCEA was an early preview.

On March 3, we’re sharing the full experience.

Kira 2.0 brings together:

• Full course and lesson generation for building interactive learning experiences from curriculum

• Standalone assessments

• AI grading with custom rubric feedback

• Student Profiles grounded in growth data

📅 March 3: Kira 2.0 Launch Livestream

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