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How students helped design an AI math coach

July 22, 2026
3 min read
At a glance: Kami Coach is an AI-powered math coaching product that helps students work through problems independently, with hints, check-ins, and guided feedback that support learning without giving away answers. It was co-designed over a full semester with students at Design Tech High School. Learn more about how Kami Coach helps students work through…
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Checking for understanding in independent work

July 6, 2026
3 min read
What does checking for understanding look like during independent work? Checking for understanding means noticing student thinking while it is still forming, while students are still working. During independent work,

Kami Companion: proven classroom accessibility tools that empower districts to deploy at scale

April 24, 2026
5 min read
How one assistive technology toolbar gives every student independent access to grade-level content. A district can do everything right, from investing in high-quality curriculum to hiring dedicated specialists, but the

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Digital math activity showing a student interacting with an AI coach chat alongside handwritten problem-solving steps.

Kami Coach: A math formative assessment tool that shows you how students think

What is Kami Coach?Kami Coach is an AI-powered math coaching product that gives teachers real-time formative assessment data while students work through problems independently.Rather than giving students the formula or the answer, Kami Coach uses Socratic questioning: probing questions that reveal how a student is thinking and guide them toward the next step themselves. Teachers…
July 22, 2026
3 min read
DesignTech High school students work on laptops during a digital lesson with a teacher on display.

How students helped design an AI math coach

At a glance: Kami Coach is an AI-powered math coaching product that helps students work through problems independently, with hints, check-ins, and guided feedback that support learning without giving away answers. It was co-designed over a full semester with students at Design Tech High School. Learn more about how Kami Coach helps students work through…
July 22, 2026
3 min read
A teacher guides a student looking at a laptop in a classroom, surrounded by digital learning icons.

Checking for understanding in independent work

What does checking for understanding look like during independent work? Checking for understanding means noticing student thinking while it is still forming, while students are still working. During independent work, this means finding a misconception early, instead of discovering it after their exit ticket, as they walk out your classroom door. Checking for understanding means…
July 6, 2026
3 min read
Kami Companion and Multilingual Learners

Kami Companion for multilingual learners: built-in language support that works

It's the second week of June. School's been out for ten days. A student is at the kitchen table with a tablet, watching a YouTube video about volcanoes because she got curious. She speaks Tigrinya at home, attended school in Eritrea for three years, and spent this past year in a classroom where a teacher…
June 15, 2026
3 min read
Same iPad, better Book Creator: why to switch to the browser

Same iPad, better Book Creator: why districts switch

In a recent Kami Unstoppable 15 webinar, Andrew Campbell, Account Executive at Kami, sat down with Gemma Sanderson, Education Support Officer for Digital Learning in Fife. Gemma is primary trained and taught at Kirkton of Largo Primary School for nine years before moving into a central role supporting the use of digital across nurseries and…
May 29, 2026
3 min read
Kami Companion and the UDL principles

Kami Companion and UDL — how built-in supports bring the framework to life

May is a complicated month in K-12 classrooms. The year is almost over, which means there's urgency around students who still haven't quite gotten there, and exhaustion among the teachers trying to reach them. It's also the moment when the distance between what UDL promises and what's actually in place becomes hardest to ignore.Kami Companion…
May 19, 2026
3 min read

Kami Companion: proven classroom accessibility tools that empower districts to deploy at scale

How one assistive technology toolbar gives every student independent access to grade-level content. A district can do everything right, from investing in high-quality curriculum to hiring dedicated specialists, but the reality is that students can still be left stranded in the classroom. A student opens a dense online science article. The vocabulary is impenetrable. Across…
April 24, 2026
5 min read
Accessible documents a teachers guide to WCAG

Accessible documents: a teacher’s guide to WCAG 2.1 AA | Kami

Every student deserves to access content without barriers. But for too many learners, the documents and digital books teachers create every day put up walls before class even begins. A poorly structured PDF, an image without alt text, a video with no captions — each of these quietly excludes someone. Creating accessible documents for students…
April 14, 2026
5 min read
Book Creator content discovery interface

Finding the right resource just got easier in Book Creator

If you have ever browsed the Discover section for inspiration and thought, “I know it is here somewhere...” — you're not alone! Teachers have told us that Discover is full of great ideas, but finding the right resource at the right moment could take time. So we listened. Search, filter, and favorite are now live…
February 2, 2026
2 min read
Learn about Safer AI with Kami App

Safer AI with Kami: responsible classroom AI that keeps teachers in control | Kami

Watch this webinar to find out how your students can use Safer AI with Kami App
January 28, 2026
3 min read
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Welcoming Book Creator to the Kami family

A new chapter for Kami and Book Creator Today, I’m excited to share that Book Creator has joined the Kami family.  This is a milestone for both of our teams, but most importantly, for the millions of teachers and students who rely on our tools every day. Kami and Book Creator have always stood for…
September 17, 2025
5 min read
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Myth buster: Kami needs a Chrome app

As technology evolves, so do the tools that educators rely on. One tool that has evolved significantly is Kami, our all-in-one digital learning platform. Despite incredible functionality, some people still believe that Kami requires a Chrome app to work effectively. This misconception stems from the fact that Kami did have a Chrome app in the…
May 13, 2025
3 min read
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