Free PDF · 8 pages · Grades 6–12
The AI Stress Test.
A three-pillar pre-flight check for secondary lesson plans. Use AI as a sparring partner, not a shortcut: find where the thinking really sits, deepen your questions, and catch misconceptions before your students do.
Eight pages. One ten-minute habit.
Two minutes to fill in the brackets, three to run the audit, five to question what comes back. Built for secondary teachers, with a page for the coaches and leaders who support them.
The Three Pillars & the Master Prompt
A copy-ready prompt that audits any lesson for Cognitive Lift, High-Order Questioning, and Misconception Prevention, and quotes your own plan back as evidence.
Run Your First Audit
Five steps from a de-identified copy of your plan to a finished audit, plus the Human Judgment Checkpoint: five questions to ask before you change a word.
Refine, Pivot, and Make It Your Own
Follow-up prompts that push each pillar one layer deeper, a move that makes the AI argue with its own audit, and five swap-in lenses from language support to standards alignment.
Inquiry Over Evaluation
How teachers use the Stress Test for self-coaching, and how coaches and campus leaders run it with teachers, not on them.
Every audit checks the same three things.
Who is doing the thinking?
How the thinking work is split between you and your students, segment by segment. Busy isn't the same as thinking.
How deep does the thinking go?
The DOK level of your key questions and tasks, and where depth levels off. Judge by what students actually do, not by the verb.
Where will understanding break?
Predictable errors in your content, where in the lesson they'll surface, and a quick check to catch each one.
Works with your AI tool
Written to work in Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, or whichever AI tool your school has approved.
Privacy first
Built around a de-identified copy of your plan. No student names, IDs, accommodation details, or internal school forms.
Pedagogy centered
Grounded in Webb's Depth of Knowledge, misconception research, and cognitive coaching. The AI drafts; you make the call.