Curriculum Genie
Product by Learning Genie, Inc.
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Our take (not a Learning Standard rating). This label applies to learning-science judgments throughout this overview.
Our take (not a Learning Standard rating)
Curriculum Genie operates as a planning tool rather than a direct instructional app, so its effectiveness depends entirely on teacher implementation. While cross-disciplinary curriculum building can support schema formation by connecting concepts across subjects, the app lacks direct, observable student practice mechanisms like retrieval practice or spaced repetition.
Pros
- Supports schema building by connecting discrete skills across different subject areas.
- Encourages student agency through collaborative curriculum planning with teachers.
- Provides teachers with an AI-driven framework to personalize learning paths based on student readiness.
- Integrates multiple grade levels to allow for appropriate scaffolding of complex topics.
Cons
- Lacks built-in retrieval practice or spaced repetition for independent student review.
- Relies entirely on teacher execution, offering no direct instructional feedback loop to the student.
- Fails to provide worked examples or direct instruction for foundational skills.
- Pricing and access model excludes individual parents in favor of district-wide purchases.
What Do We Know About Curriculum Genie?
Curriculum Genie is only effective for your child if their teacher actively uses it to build structured, meaningful lessons. It is not an app your child will log into for independent math practice or reading drills. Instead, it is an artificial intelligence planning tool designed to help educators create customized, cross-curricular lesson plans. Because it lacks direct instructional mechanisms like spaced repetition or immediate corrective feedback, it does not teach your child directly. Its primary value lies in helping teachers connect concepts across subjects, which learning science shows can help students build stronger mental models, or schemas. If your child's school adopts this platform, you will likely see project-based assignments that blend subjects like science and humanities. However, parents looking for an application to help their child catch up on foundational skills will not find that here. The platform demands high teacher involvement to translate its AI-generated curriculum into actual learning outcomes. Without a teacher providing direct instruction and structured practice routines, Curriculum Genie cannot improve your child's academic performance on its own. It is currently pending evaluation by The Learning Standard.
How Does Curriculum Genie Work?
Curriculum Genie uses a personalized, cross-curricular pedagogical approach driven by artificial intelligence to help teachers and students co-create lesson plans. The software functions primarily as a high-level curriculum mapping agent rather than a student-facing drill program. Educators input academic standards, grade levels, and student interests into the AI engine. The platform then generates integrated learning paths that blend subjects, such as combining a history unit with applied science principles. Students can participate in this planning phase, giving them a voice in what projects they pursue. Once a curriculum is generated, teachers must gather the recommended educational tools and deliver the instruction themselves. The platform does not administer quizzes, track individual keystrokes, or adapt difficulty in real-time based on student answers. Instead, it acts as a structural blueprint. Teachers use the generated maps to guide classroom activities, relying on external methods to implement necessary learning science practices like retrieval practice or frequent low-stakes testing.
Strengths and tradeoffs of Curriculum Genie
The biggest strength of Curriculum Genie is its ability to build cross-disciplinary schemas, while its biggest weakness is the complete absence of direct student practice mechanisms. By connecting subjects like math and humanities, the platform helps students engage in interleaving, a learning science principle where mixing different topics improves problem-solving abilities and concept transfer. When your child learns how scientific principles apply to historical events, they build deeper neural connections than they would learning facts in isolation. Student agency is another strength; allowing learners to collaborate on curriculum design can boost intrinsic motivation. However, the platform falls short on independent learning mechanics. It offers no retrieval practice, meaning your child is never prompted to pull information from memory to strengthen retention. It also lacks worked examples to guide novices through complex new skills step-by-step. Because Curriculum Genie acts as a planning framework rather than an instructional engine, it relies entirely on the classroom teacher to provide immediate feedback and design assessments. Without strong teacher execution, the app's structural benefits will not translate into measurable learning gains.
Who Might Benefit From Curriculum Genie?
Curriculum Genie is best for K-12 school districts and classroom teachers who want an AI assistant to help design project-based, cross-curricular lesson plans. Because the software spans from Early Childhood Education through 12th grade, it fits a wide variety of academic environments. It is ideal for progressive schools focused on integrating technology and fostering student agency in curriculum design. It is not suitable for individual parents seeking at-home tutoring or independent drill-and-practice applications for their children. The district pricing model reinforces that this is an enterprise-level planning tool intended for system-wide adoption rather than individual household use.
Data Transparency
Does Not Meet Data Transparency Standard
Curriculum Genie does not meet our data transparency standard. Its privacy policy does not document basic protections, including a commitment against targeted advertising, contractual limits on service providers and a COPPA or FERPA commitment.
14 of 35 checks passed
Evaluated September 2026
Privacy Policy →Level 1 · Basic protections
Does not sell data or target ads at students, limits sharing, and lets parents see and delete their child's data.
Not documented: a commitment against targeted advertising, contractual limits on service providers, a COPPA or FERPA commitment, parents' right to see their child's data, parents' right to delete their child's data
Level 2 · Parent control (meets the standard)
Families can get their data out, know who processes it, and know how long it is kept.
Not documented: data export
Level 3 · Direct data access
Families or schools can pull their own data through an API, in a stated format.
Not documented: an API for retrieving their own data, a named export format
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Parent Access2/8
Does the policy mention parents specifically?
“For example, when you add a child and invite parents to join your class, you will input the child’s first and last name, together with the parent’s email address.”
Can parents view their child's data?
The policy does not give parents a right to view their child's data.
Can parents modify their child's data?
The policy does not give parents a right to modify their child's data.
Can parents delete their child's account?
The policy lets the account holder delete their own account but gives parents no right to delete their child's data or account.
Is there a dedicated Children's Privacy section?
“Children under 13. Our service is not intended for users under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect any personal information from children under 13.”
Does it reference COPPA compliance?
The policy does not reference COPPA.
Does it reference FERPA compliance?
The policy does not reference FERPA.
Is parental consent required for child accounts?
The policy says the service is not intended for users under 13 and does not describe parental consent for child accounts.
Data Portability2/5
Can users access their personal data?
“You may edit or delete your account information and submissions at any time by accessing your account through the Service or contacting our support team (help@learning-genie.com).”
Can users download/export their data?
The policy does not address downloading or exporting data.
Is there a self-service data access tool?
“You may edit or delete your account information and submissions at any time by accessing your account through the Service”
Is a specific data format mentioned for export?
The policy names no export format.
Is there an API for data access?
The policy mentions a back-end API only in a security context and describes no API for users to retrieve their data.
Data Minimization1/6
Is data collection itemized?
“As of the effective date of this Agreement, the only PII required from you in order to use our Service is your name, email address, user name, and password.”
Can the app be used without a real name?
The policy states that the child's first and last name are entered into the service.
Can the app be used without an email?
The policy collects user and parent email addresses and does not state that student email is never collected.
Does it state collection is limited to what is necessary?
The policy lists the required PII but does not commit to collecting only what is necessary.
Is IP address anonymized or truncated?
The policy says IP addresses are used anonymously in aggregate but does not say they are anonymized or truncated.
Is location tracking explicitly excluded?
The policy does not explicitly exclude location tracking.
Third-Party Protection5/7
Does it explicitly state no selling of data?
“We will not sell, lease, or otherwise share any of your or your children’s PII to or with any third party or entity except in the following circumstances:”
Are third-party providers named?
“AWS:** Amazon Web Services (AWS) is used by Learning Genie for secure data storage and management”
Are providers contractually restricted?
The policy says it contracts with service providers and shares PII as needed, but does not say they are contractually restricted in how they use it.
No-targeted-advertising commitment?
The policy's no-advertising commitment covers only data obtained through Google APIs, not all user or student data.
Is AI/ML data sharing addressed?
“We incorporate OpenAI’s advanced AI technologies to provide a smarter and more responsive service. Your use of these features implies consent to [OpenAI’s Privacy Policy](https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy).”
Child-specific sharing restriction?
“We will not sell, lease, or otherwise share any of your or your children’s PII to or with any third party or entity except in the following circumstances:”
Cookies/tracking limited or opt-out?
“We do not currently employ any technology that enables us to track your online activities over time and across third-party Web sites, nor do we plan on doing so in the future.”
Deletion & Retention4/5
Can users delete their account?
“Learning Genie will store the data for three years per the user’s license requirement or delete the account upon user request.”
Self-service deletion mechanism?
“You may edit or delete your account information and submissions at any time by accessing your account through the Service”
Specific data retention timeline?
“Learning Genie will store the data for three years per the user’s license requirement or delete the account upon user request. For database backups, AWS do a daily backup and store up to 30 days.”
Auto-deletion of inactive accounts?
The policy does not address automatic deletion of inactive accounts.
Post-deletion handling described?
“All of your PII will be deleted from our database when the account is closed. Please note that you will need to be actively connected to Internet Wi-Fi to do this, and even though your changes may be reflected, users that have previously accessed the content may still have access to copies stored on their devices.”
Advertising0/4
Advertising model explicitly disclosed?
The policy does not explicitly disclose whether the product has advertising; it only restricts ad use of data obtained through Google APIs.
Free from third-party advertisements?
The policy does not state that the product is free of third-party advertisements.
Children excluded from ad targeting?
The policy has no commitment excluding children from ad targeting.
Ad-free option available?
The policy does not state that the product has no ads or offers an ad-free option.
What This Means
The policy review did not meet our data transparency standard. The checks above show the documented findings and unknowns. A missing statement does not establish how the app handles data in practice.
About this evaluation: Based on automated analysis of Privacy Policy against 35 policy-disclosure questions, including questions adapted from the Common Sense Privacy Program's published evaluation questions. TLS is not affiliated with Common Sense Media, and this is not a Common Sense rating. Quoted text is copied from the policy; unquoted notes are our summary. Results describe what the policy documents, not the company's actual practices. Privacy policies can change: this review reflects the version we analyzed and does not determine legal compliance.
Sources and review method
TLS combines product information and editorial analysis to explain how Curriculum Genie works, its tradeoffs, and the questions to ask before choosing it. Product features, an instructional rationale and evidence of learning outcomes are different kinds of information.
Formal Learning Standard assessment: not yet completed. Data Transparency findings are reported separately and do not establish learning effectiveness. Read our methodology.
Frequently Asked Questions About Curriculum Genie
Is Curriculum Genie free?
No, Curriculum Genie is not free. It currently costs $5 per student annually, and this pricing is based on a district-wide purchasing model rather than individual consumer subscriptions. Parents cannot buy individual licenses for home use.
Is Curriculum Genie good for high school students?
Yes, Curriculum Genie supports high school education. The platform covers 9th through 12th grades and includes subjects like Career & Tech Education and Applied Science. It is particularly useful for designing complex, project-based learning paths that require older students to blend multiple disciplines and practice self-directed learning.
What does Curriculum Genie teach?
Curriculum Genie does not teach specific academic skills directly. Instead, it is an AI-driven planning tool that helps educators map out cross-curricular lesson plans. It covers standards across early childhood education, humanities, social science, science, math, and career and technical education, but relies on teachers to deliver the actual instruction.
Can parents use Curriculum Genie at home?
No, Curriculum Genie is designed exclusively for school and district adoption. It lacks the independent practice modules, direct instruction, and consumer pricing structure necessary for parents to use it as an at-home tutoring or homeschooling application.
Has The Learning Standard evaluated Curriculum Genie?
TLS has not yet completed a Learning Standard evaluation of how well Curriculum Genie teaches. Its privacy policy has been reviewed for Data Transparency and does not yet document the basic protections (Level 1).
Is Curriculum Genie COPPA compliant?
A COPPA reference was not found in the reviewed privacy policy. This does not determine whether the app complies with COPPA. Policy review note: The policy does not reference COPPA.
Is Curriculum Genie FERPA compliant?
A FERPA reference was not found in the reviewed privacy policy. This does not determine whether the app complies with FERPA. Policy review note: The policy does not reference FERPA.
Does Curriculum Genie have a children's privacy policy?
The reviewed policy includes a dedicated children's privacy section. Policy review note: The policy has a numbered section titled "Children under 13."
Does Curriculum Genie sell student data?
The reviewed policy states that the app does not sell data. This is a policy statement; actual data practices were not verified. Policy review note: The policy states that the company does not sell users' or children's PII.
Can you delete your data from Curriculum Genie?
The reviewed privacy policy describes account deletion. We have not tested the deletion process. Policy review note: Users can have their account deleted on request.
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