Brisk Teaching

“Brisk has been a game changer for my teaching! It saves me hours each week with the shortcuts and tools I have been able to seamlessly integrate. No more long hours after the school day, my planning is done in half the time!”

““It takes out the whole aspect of challenges with decoding text, so students can actually just listen to it and really enjoy that.””

““When you're a French teacher and you're talking in front of a class, it's always a single person that's talking. [With Podcasts], students can listen to a conversation, a back-and-forth, and that can never authentically happen that well in a classroom. It’s fabulous exposure for them to hear a conversation, just even the niceties of introductions and ending conversations, and vocabulary exposure.””

““The quality of their work is getting better, because they're getting that feedback. I think that their work is a better product, and their growth with each skill is better and quicker than having to wait for that feedback."”

““Boost allows me to provide them feedback more frequently so they're not waiting for me, and they can continue working and use the feedback that's provided to help develop their ideas.””

““It's a helpful learning program that helps you really understand what you did wrong in a question and what you did right.””

““I am loving that I get to see the kids think critically as they're responding, and Boost is giving them prompts to help get more out of them. I'm able to check in on all of the students and not just one. That's the key for me. It's really difficult to go and sit with each child every day and get that immediate quick feedback on how they're doing. So these quick little Boost Activities are a fabulous way for me to check in on them.””

““If students were working on a writing assignment at home, [Brisk] is accessible to them, which is huge, because if they're studying for their exams or if they're finishing an assignment, they don't have to wait to come to class to do this. They open up their Google Docs and Brisk is right there.””

““The concept of the 24/7 tutor is a huge equity thing. Not all families can afford tutoring and not all students can stay after school due to family responsibilities. To have a tool like Brisk Boost to help them get 'unstuck'; that's a big impact.””

““When you’re using something like Brisk, you’re controlling the inputs, you’re linking up with true Ontario curriculum, and you’re iterating your lessons and units of study to personalize it to your classroom. It’s just so much better and more efficient than previous methods where maybe you’re buying a lesson or you’re sharing something another colleague might have given you. To give that control and ease of use – that’s where I see the greatest impact on the teacher level."”

““Setting parameters on how the AI can function within that walled garden was another big selling feature we didn’t see in other AI tools that Brisk was just really ahead of the game with,” says Daher.”

““Knowing that the educators were able to create these personalized experiences with curricular content that they already had, and then launching that within the Google environment was a seamless integration. The students were able to just get in and get started on work in an environment that was very natural to them and not something external."”

““The immediate value with Brisk was that it was an integrated experience in Google Workspace,” shares Julian Daher. “That value was essential in actually scaling this and seeing the benefits of it. The fact that it lays itself on top of the entire Google Suite was a huge selling feature. The ease of use and fact that it was really embedded into a natural and sustainable teacher workflow was just hugely beneficial for our teachers and staff across the system.””

““We have a number of tools. But Brisk is the one that we know is embraced more widely."”

“This has been one of the top tools that's been the easiest to get teachers to adapt to,” Brophy says. “They see the use case for it. They're coming up with so many useful ways for students to use it in the classroom that are engaging.”

“Brisk has changed the way I provide feedback to my students,” Seale says. “Where in the past, students had to wait days, possibly weeks, for feedback that was no longer impactful, now I can provide them with guidance throughout the writing process, not after.”

“Once teachers begin to use the feedback tools, they realize that 90% of what they were going to comment on or revise has already been done for them through Brisk.”

“I compare what Brisk generates with what I would have written, making edits where needed. Most of the time, it’s spot on.”

“There just aren’t enough hours in the day to do that kind of feedback. What Brisk gives students is often exactly what I would have written myself.”

“One standout experience happened one of the first times I used Brisk for feedback,” says Seale. “I used to spend hours upon hours grading papers, losing time on the weekend with my family just trying to plow through the work, and now all of a sudden, I’m able to get through a class set within one to two prep periods. I finally wasn’t chained to the computer or stack of papers any longer and felt such a sense of freedom. I am actually jealous of new teachers who have this opportunity at their fingertips today.”

“I was able to use Brisk within five minutes, which is my first test. Because if I have to take 20 or 30 minutes to figure it out as somebody who lives in this land [of technology], then a teacher who doesn't live here is not going to invest that time or energy.”

“Ease of use is the number one way to get teachers to adopt something,” Leslie says. “As an administrator, pushing Brisk out was very easy. It's just having it as a Chrome extension.”

“Brisk has not only saved me time but also enhanced the quality of my interactions with students, allowing me to focus on what truly matters – their educational growth and development.”

“Brisk has enhanced how I provide feedback, revealing quality elements in students’ work that I had previously overlooked.”

“Using Brisk for formative grammar feedback has significantly reduced my workload, allowing me to concentrate more on student interaction and less on routine tasks.”