Teaching is a juggling act. Personalizing instruction while staying laser-focused on district initiatives and instructional priorities? Even more so. That’s why we’re excited to introduce our most groundbreaking feature yet!
Meet Nova: your AI-powered co-teacher, designed to align perfectly with your district’s core curriculum and make differentiation effortless.
Other supplemental tools can pull instruction off-track or require teachers to manually align resources to curricula, creating inconsistency and lost instructional time. Nova ensures that every eSpark activity becomes a direct extension of your curriculum, ensuring fidelity, boosting student growth, and making differentiated instruction easier for every teacher, every day.
Now available in beta for select educators across the country, Nova is currently being fine-tuned with real classroom feedback ahead of its full release in Fall 2025. But here’s what you need to know now: Nova makes eSpark the only supplemental tool that deeply understands — and complements — your core curriculum.
So, how exactly does Nova work, and how does it benefit educators?
How does Nova work?
Nova is a smart, context-aware chatbot that will be available to every eSpark teacher for the 2025-26 school year. It can instantly recommend tailored lessons based upon each of your students’ academic needs, your school or district’s core ELA and math curricula, and individual classroom priorities – all through an intuitive, straightforward chat experience.
Think of it as a curriculum specialist, instructional coach, and data analyst all rolled into one!
Nova helps teachers:
- Analyze data to identify and address learning gaps fast
- Find and assign targeted eSpark lessons aligned to your core curriculum
- Support students who’ve missed classroom instruction
- Brainstorm and learn new strategies to engage students
And for administrators, Nova helps:
- Ensure every eSpark assignment is aligned to your district’s core curricula and instructional priorities
- Promote data-driven differentiation that’s proven to accelerate academic gains and is easy to act on
- Maximize your ROI on curriculum and assessment investments by directly connecting them to classroom instruction
- Increase teacher effectiveness and confidence without increasing workload
Why Nova Matters
You already know eSpark as the go-to for adaptive, engaging, and personalized learning. With Nova, we’re leveling up: adding an extra layer of intelligence that helps teachers maximize instructional time and simplify data-driven differentiation.
For administrators, this means more consistent, curriculum-aligned instruction across classrooms and quicker intervention for students who need support. And because Nova surfaces these recommendations directly in the teacher dashboard, even educators with limited prep time or experience can act on them quickly and confidently — leading to more consistent implementation, better differentiation, and stronger student growth across all populations.
Nova seamlessly aligns with your district’s core curriculum
eSpark is currently the only supplemental curriculum resource that understands your district’s core curriculum and provides data-driven recommendations in real time. Nova ensures every suggestion fits right into your lesson plans, so no more time is spent sifting through misaligned resources that distract from the curriculum you’ve already invested in.
We’re hard at work building out support for as many curriculum programs as possible. By Fall 2025, you can expect Nova to complement curricula by CKLA, HMH, UFLI, 95 Percent Group, Great Minds, Savvas and many more!
Nova simplifies data-driven instruction
Nova taps into your students’ eSpark data to recommend precise, just-right lessons for individuals or small groups. It’s like having a personal assistant whispering actionable insights in your ear… and giving you a way to act on those insights in one easy click.
This feature comfortably supports teachers at all experience levels. Whether you’re assigning your very first lesson in eSpark or putting the finishing touches on a cross-curricular intervention plan, Nova meets you where you are and helps you take the next step with confidence.
Nova brings the best of AI to your classrooms
Built on OpenAI’s tech (with serious safeguards for student privacy), Nova is trained on present-day pedagogy, standards, and real-world classroom dynamics. That means it can offer intuitive support with any and all teaching-related questions, not just those that focus on eSpark.
Nova can help you make real-world connections to your lessons, suggest lesson adaptations to better suit your students’ interests, and more! Whether you’re a tech-savvy veteran or just dipping your toes into AI, this feature is here to lighten your load and amplify your impact.
What to Expect This Fall
Right now, we’re testing Nova in real classrooms and using teacher feedback to fine-tune every feature. Updates and improvements are happening weekly as we prepare for a full release this fall.
When it lands in your dashboard, here’s what you can expect:
- eSpark Assignments directly aligned with the most popular core curricula and your students’ needs
- Insights about individual students and grouping suggestions based on your eSpark data
- Additional resources and strategies to catch students up, expand further on a skill, or get new suggestions for center time
Suggested prompts and questions appear right in the dashboard to make interactions feel natural and intuitive. To get started, teachers can choose from suggestions like the ones below, or simply type in their own requests — no AI degree required.
Privacy, Security, and Peace of Mind
We know AI brings questions, and we’re ready with answers. eSpark’s use of OpenAI is safe, secure, and student privacy-compliant:
- No personal identifiers are shared.
- No data is used to train outside models.
- All inputs stay within eSpark’s secure systems.
Read more about our AI policies here.
Get Ready to Teach Smarter, Not Harder
With Nova, eSpark isn’t just giving you a new tool. We’re giving you time back, clarity in the chaos, and a support system that never clocks out. You’ll be able to do what you do best — teach — with a little extra magic behind the scenes.
Keep your eyes peeled for more updates this fall, as Nova makes its way to the dashboard for all eSpark users.
And if you’re one of our beta testers already putting Nova through its paces: thank you! Your feedback is helping shape something truly transformative.
