Monroe County teachers find success using A.I. assistant Brisk Teaching

The Monroe County School District was the first in Georgia to partner with Brisk Teaching. The A.I.-powered assistant helps teachers with tasks like grading assignments, writing curriculum and making quizzes.

FORSYTH, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – Whitney Baggarly is teaching tenth grade literature and composition this semester at Mary Persons High School. She admits to previously feeling anxious about working alongside A.I. on the job but more than a year and a half later, she says it’s paid dividends.

“Brisk is helping without taking over my profession, which is what is important to me about A.I,” Baggarly said. “Because I don’t want to feel like I’m irrelevant to my job in any capacity.” 

The Monroe County School District was the first in Georgia to partner with Brisk Teaching. The A.I.-powered assistant helps teachers with tasks like grading assignments, writing curriculum and making quizzes. It helps students by providing feedback, and Baggarly says a keystroke feature helps her monitor cheating. Baggarly says teachers are always searching for ways to be more efficient, and Brisk gives her just that.

“Especially as an English teacher, you’ve got kids that are submitting two and three-page essays,” Baggarly said.  “And Brisk probably cuts my grading time by three to four hours.”

In a 2024 Professional Association of Georgia Educators (PAGE) survey, 48% of Georgia teachers reported feeling burned out. Arman Jaffer, Founder and CEO of Brisk Teaching, says embracing A.I. will help school districts decrease teacher burnout and better adjust to post-pandemic learning shifts.

“In the fall of 2023 we launched Brisk to users, and now one in five teachers in the U.S. now use our tool,” Jaffer said. 

Brisk becomes directly integrated into tools students are already using such as Google Forms, meaning the use of a separate platform isn’t required. As Brisk grows and develops, Jaffer says teachers shouldn’t fear the changes, as the tools will be catered to their needs.

“We don’t bring the perspective on what high quality teaching looks like,” Jaffer said. ‘We let our customers, and our districts, and our teachers kind of really help us define the vision. And so, I think that’s actually why I think partners like Monroe County have been so helpful for us.” 

Baggarly encourages teachers that have the opportunity to use brisk and other helpful A.I. tools to do so. She says it’s allowed her to better meet student needs, and free up time after school on the weekends.

“It’s all that extra that comes with teaching, not the in-class, not the interacting with students, that’s the fun part,” Baggarly said.  “It’s all the extra work. And so Brisk is able to kind of balance that back out.”