Added a soft dependency on Toggles Upgrades project (in code review) to make A/B experiments and testing management a little easier.
Incepted project and created tickets here https://discoveryed.atlassian.net/browse/RC-1158
Available in dev today.
Great job on Pulse release and recent improvements:
Multi-Product support ... our AI Chat can be used in any product and prompt results are filterable by product.
Snowflake MCP connectivity ... manage and interact Pulse data through chat interface or claude etc
Well done @Kyle Mayer @Gene Aiello @Ryan Senechal @Paula Leonova @Paul Lipman
Meeting soon with @Paul Lipman @Brittany Wolff @Frank Rauscher et all to finalize backend services and data plan (snowflake) to hook up the remaining pieces of the prototype.
Received feedback from @Victoria Axt about changes. Made 1 of 3 groups of changes. Remaining below:
https://discoveryed.enterprise.slack.com/archives/C0BHFG4MU04/p1785264085668199
https://discoveryed.enterprise.slack.com/archives/C0BHFG4MU04/p1785264843286599
Met with CISE team. Stuck on resourcing for now. Primary epics:
https://discoveryed.atlassian.net/browse/INT-3935
https://discoveryed.atlassian.net/browse/INT-3941
https://get.discoveryeducation.com is live (behind VPN)
Demonstrates that any product can be trialed.
Created milestones and milestone document with working group
https://discoveryed.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DP/pages/4782850153/DE+Home+Milestone+Plan+for+Release
Created technical spec overview of what's complete and what's needed to get to production:
https://discoveryed.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/MS1/pages/4739268626/Admin+Dashboard+Prototyping+and+Testing?focusedCommentId=4775018530
Nailed down high-level scope with the product managers and working group. This a working document for rollout:
https://discoveryed.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DP/pages/4699357245/Project+DE+Home+Scope+Rollout+Layers+Strategy
Will meet with smaller concentric circles to nail down further scope and align with design on design implementation timeline.
Met with @Stephanie Allen to define scope for MVP and form basis for this project.
Surfaces — Where This App Shows Up
- [TBD] Its Own App (standalone)
- [TBD] Platform > Search (DE platform)
- [IN] Platform > Player (DE platform)
- [TBD] Platform > Chat (DE platform)
- [TBD] Products (Landing Pages, Browse, etc.) (DE products)
Architecture — Layer Features (unlock tasks below)
- [IN] Strategies Layer (Platform Layers) (@discoveryedu layer)
- [IN] Create New Activity (Layer Feature) (@discoveryedu layer)
- [IN] Generating an Activity — Copy & Content (Layer Feature) (@discoveryedu layer)
- [IN] Activity Search (Layer Feature) (@discoveryedu layer)
- [IN] Activity ↔ Content & Curriculum Connections (Layer Feature) (@discoveryedu layer)
- [TBD] AI Strategy Teaching Coach (Layer Feature) (@discoveryedu layer)
Platform > Player — Integration Tasks
- [N/A — requires architecture: AI Strategy Coach (Layer)] Coaching Panel in Player (integration)
- [IN] Strategy Suggestions for Current Asset (integration)
- [IN] Assign from Player (integration)
- [IN] Create Activity from Player (layer integration)
Full Details Here
https://discoveryed.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/~971471215/pages/4602069072/Strategy+Coach+docs+capture
Prototype Status:
Matching designs 95%
Data is static but 80% real data
Viewing here on VPN: https://rad-mystery-customer-admin.discoveryeducation.com/
Next Steps:
Start getting initial feedback from team
Hook up to real data
Hook up to Mystery user session so permissions are inherent (district admins only see their schools etc)
Demo / Testing mode for internal admins to see any district
Met with Heather Douglas RE ready-to-build early POC prototype. Current documentation is here:
https://discoveryed.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/MS1/pages/4739268626/Admin+Dashboard+Prototyping+and+Testing
For POC testable prototype, decided to move forward with loose DE stack integration ... built alongside Crystal Ball instead of within it.
Met with Heather Douglas and Victoria Axt for preliminary discussion about process and status of concept and designs.
Strategy Coach hand-off document (draft)
https://discoveryed.enterprise.slack.com/files/U0LDFF32B/F0B6YHDPXM3/strategycoach-handoff-and-roadmap.pdf
StrategyCoach — Executive Summary
The opportunity Instructional coaching is one of the most reliable levers for improving teaching practice, but it doesn't scale — districts can't staff enough coaches, and traditional PD rarely changes what happens in the classroom day to day. That leaves a large, unmet need across our K–12 customer base.
What we're building StrategyCoach delivers personalized, AI-powered instructional coaching to every teacher, on demand. It's structured as an 8-week "Activate Thinking" program that builds a sustained coaching habit rather than a one-off event — guiding teachers through planning, real classroom activities, AI-coached reflection, and progress tracking. It's built natively on the Discovery Education platform and grounded in our existing content and standards, making it a differentiated extension of our core offering rather than a standalone tool.
Why it matters to us It scales our highest-value service without scaling headcount, deepens engagement and stickiness with teachers inside the DE ecosystem, and gives school and district leaders visibility into teacher growth — strengthening our position with the decision-makers who renew contracts.
Where we are A working product is in pilot: the full 8-week experience, AI coach, activity generation, progress and badges, and content/standards integration are live behind a passcode gate. Near-term focus is proving completion and engagement with pilot cohorts, deepening leadership analytics, and preparing for broader rollout.
What we're watching Success hinges on three things: teachers finishing the full program (not just starting), evidence that practice actually changes, and AI coaching that is consistently reliable and on-pedagogy. Key dependencies are the AI engine and our platform/content services; the main risk to adoption is access friction during the pilot phase.
May 14th feedback results.
Feedback Session Findings Summary
https://discoveryed.enterprise.slack.com/files/U0LDFF32B/F0B3QHY5FMZ/coteacher_feedback_summary.docx
https://discoveryed.enterprise.slack.com/files/U0LDFF32B/F0B3WUXL8H0/image.png
https://discoveryed.enterprise.slack.com/files/U0LDFF32B/F0B3USV8LCE/image.png
Major releases now live. Met with some folks on product and engineering for visibility and early feedback.
work tracked in:
https://discoveryed.atlassian.net/browse/API-419
Subjects pages, topics, and subtopics pages created, completing all basic set up for all pages for BTS. These pages still need refinement and design tweaks.
Design for the mega menu is now solidified. Starting work to add this piece of navigation to the Experience homepage.
Transition experience code to nuxt-app-experience.
Now that nuxt-layer-platform has some of the basics that our pages need, including the product bar/global nav/etc we're start moving code over to this repository.
Search to chat handoff now respects grade + asset type filters when handing off from search to chat. Search subject filter also pulled over into chat and is processed by LLM through natural language in the prompt.
Enabled hybrid search + updated search analytics with some fixes for tracking search events in a more accurate way.
RC-656 added a Best Results band on search with 5 featured tiles and a "Continue in Chat" CTA that hands those exact assets off to chat without re-searching. RC-657 extends that handoff to also carry the teacher's active filters so Claude honors them in its response and any follow-up searches.
Met with @Ersin Ates @Robert Hodorogea and @Luke Lyons to discuss what work has been done in branch. Will setup a meeting in the near future to discuss more.
Major updates posted within the last 24 hours. https://co-teach.discoveryeducation.com (VPN required)
@Lance Rougeux
This was released in March. https://rad-social-studies.discoveryeducation.com (VPN required)
There has been minimal feedback or review from relevant teams or stakeholders.
Updated prototype today has been released. Refinement will continue for 1 week.
MUST be on VPN to access this
https://rad-careers.discoveryeducation.com
Updated prototype released today at https://platform.discoveryeducation.com. Must be on VPN to access.
Experimental prototype has been receiving updates for the past couple of weeks. Currently the IA and design is loosely based on @Jessica Witmer designs and will receive rolling updates based on feedback from team with goal of releasing internally to customers by the end of April.
https://rad-careers.discoveryeducation.com
Met with several folks on this team and realigned / reaffirmed what's needed in the short-term for testable prototypes and production-level engineering.
The roadmap concept is (unofficially) released. Working with Nikkita Willis to test viability for use across teams and the org! https://roadmap.discoveryeducation.com