Plan Your First 30 Days with the Only AI Platform Built for Teachers
Back-to-school season is a race against the clock. You’re building relationships, setting expectations, and laying the groundwork for learning, often while still figuring out what you'll teach tomorrow. That’s why your first 30 days matter so much: they shape your routines, your classroom culture, and your year.
Pear Deck Learning is here to help you start strong, with the only AI you’ll need in the classroom. Unlike one-off tools that leave you piecing together data from different places, Pear Deck Learning brings everything into one spot. Every AI-powered feature is connected—from planning to differentiated practice to real-time insights—so your next step is always just one click away.
This isn’t just about saving time. It’s about building better workflows from day one, so you can focus on instruction, not logistics.
As you prepare for a new year, here’s what’s new across the platform, and how each feature can support your first 30 days (and set you up for success every day after that).
“Having one ecosystem of tools makes everything more cohesive. And it helps me know that everything from practice sets to assessments will be aligned with our lessons. This will truly be a one-stop shop for teachers.” — Laurie Joseph, Teacher, Tempe Elementary School District (AZ)
Pear Start: Your launchpad for fast, flexible lesson planning
The first month of school is full of setup: setting expectations, establishing routines, and making sure your content hits the mark. But lesson planning can easily eat up your evenings and weekends.
Pear Start gives you 40+ classroom-ready AI tools designed to generate and customize lesson plans, quizzes, translations, prerequisite skill breakdowns, and more. Whether you’re starting with a topic, standard, file, or even a website, you can build a full lesson and turn it into a Pear Deck, Pear Practice, or Pear Assessment in just two clicks.
Use it in your first 30 days to:
- Build a strong weekly planning rhythm. Create lessons for an entire week in minutes and convert them to Pear Decks, practice sets, and assessments in just two clicks.
- Unpack your standards. Use Pear Start to break down district-aligned standards, identify prerequisite skills, and instantly generate classroom-ready materials, including an interactive slide deck, differentiated practice sets, and a formative assessment.
- Save your go-tos. Use the Pear Start library to build a folder of reusable, aligned materials you can return to all year.
Instant Lesson Packages: One topic, three differentiated resources
It’s week two and you’re already noticing how different your learners are. Some students need more support, others are racing ahead, but you haven’t had time to build multiple versions of everything.
With Instant Lesson Packages, you type in a topic and get a full presentation, practice set, and assessment, differentiated for multiple student groups.
Use it in your first 30 days to:
- Kick off a new unit with tiered content. Launch a lesson on any topic with materials already adapted for different skill levels and reading levels.
- Assign self-paced work that meets everyone where they are. Use the differentiated packages to create Pear Practice sets to support independent work and small groups.
Preview or review key concepts. Quickly generate targeted materials for spiral review, pre-teaching, or reinforcing prior knowledge aligned to the standard you’re teaching.
Try Instant Lesson Packages in Pear Deck Learning.
Instant Insights: Real-time feedback, right when you need it
The first few weeks are packed with formative moments, exit tickets, quick check-ins, and trying to figure out who’s really getting it. But real-time data is hard to gather and harder to act on fast.
Instant Insights shows you live performance trends while you teach, then recommends next steps and auto-groups students for you.
Use it in your first 30 days to:
- Identify student needs early. Catch misconceptions or quiet struggles in real time, before they become patterns.
- Start building your small-group strategy. Use auto-grouping to quickly assign follow-ups without hours of data analysis.
- Adjust instruction on the fly. When your lesson isn’t landing, shift mid-slide with suggested next steps that keep learning moving.
Learn more about Instant Insights.
Content Converter: Bring your best materials into the platform
You already have content you love—slide decks, PDFs, quizzes—but your students need more than static materials. And you need those materials to work harder without more work from you.
Content Converter lets you instantly turn your existing files into interactive slides, gamified practice sets, or data-rich assessments.
Use it in your first 30 days to:
- Bring your old Day 1 or Week 1 slides to life. Upload a PDF and make it interactive with just a few clicks.
- Convert worksheets to engaging, self-checking practice. Keep the content, ditch the hand grading.
- Upgrade your early assessments. Upload a quiz and turn it into a Pear Assessment that gives you clear, actionable insights.
One platform, every step of the way
Pear Deck Learning isn’t just a better version of what you’ve used before; it’s a fundamentally different experience. While most tools generate content, Pear Deck Learning supports the full instructional cycle: Planning, instruction, differentiation, assessment, and reflection. Everything works together and is teacher-informed.
Here’s what sets us apart:
Support before, during, and after class
- Before class: Use Pear Start to plan and personalize: Generate lessons, prep materials, and differentiate in seconds.
- During instruction: Deliver interactive instruction through Pear Deck and use Instant Insights to understand in the moment which students are getting it and who needs more help. From there, create differentiated materials that are immediately ready to be assigned as homework, additional practice, or reteaching — before the bell rings.
- After instruction: Reinforce with Pear Practice, assess with Pear Assessment, and review student data all without leaving the platform.
Instructional intelligence, not artificial intelligence
Pear Deck Learning’s AI tools aren’t just generators; they’re co-pilots. Built for the complexity of K–12 classrooms, they adapt to your content, standards, students, and style. You stay in control and make all the decisions.
- Co-developed with 200+ educators across 35 states
- Grounded in responsible AI practices and student privacy
- Constantly updated based on direct teacher feedback
Less time prepping, more time teaching.
With Pear Deck Learning, the first 30 days aren’t a scramble, they’re a launchpad. Everything you need to plan, teach, and differentiate is already connected in one platform.
You bring the expertise. We’ll bring the support.
Log in now and build your Day 1 lesson in under five minutes.
New to Pear Deck Learning or need a refresher?
Our Getting Started Guides walk you through everything you need to know, from your first lesson to using AI-powered features with confidence. Check them out below:
