Free, for K-12, forever.
The extension, the Wheel, and the Quiz tool will always be free for every staff member, every student, every district, regardless of country, budget, or procurement path.
// about
AI for K-12 staff, on their terms.
TeacherMagic is a one-person shop. Built by Jim Tyler on weekends and pushed to Chrome on Sundays. No investors, no sales team, no roadmap to please. Just three free tools that do specific jobs the way working K-12 staff want them done.
The three commitments.
Zero backend, zero excuses.
No TeacherMagic server means no TeacherMagic data breach, no TeacherMagic analytics, no TeacherMagic surveillance. The architecture enforces the promise. FERPA compliant by design.
Built for every classroom.
106 languages. 170 countries. The default staff member is not American, not monolingual, and not in a well-funded district. Everything is designed for that default.
// what.we.ship
Three free tools. That is the whole catalog.
No pricing tiers, no enterprise plans, no upsells. Today TeacherMagic ships exactly three free things, all built and maintained by one person.
TeacherMagic extension
Free Chrome side panel with 429 AI prompts across 13 K-12 staff roles. Dispatches to Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, or Copilot in one click. 106 languages. 170 country curricula. Personalized by Teacher DNA.
Wheel
Free random picker for the classroom. Spin to pick a student, team, or prompt. Customize names, colors, weights. Runs in the browser, no signup.
Quiz
Free live multiple-choice quiz tool. The Kahoot competitor for districts that do not want to pay $4 per student per year for a buzzer game.
// who.builds.this
Built by someone still in the building.
Jim Tyler is a working K-12 Director of Technology in southwest Michigan. He writes the code on weekends. He files the bug reports during his commute. He answers the support emails at 9 p.m. after the kids are down.
Day job
- Director of Technology, Niles Community Schools (Oct 2023 to present)
- 3,900 students, 10 buildings, team of 5 (three building techs, a sysadmin, and admin support)
- MSBO Certified Chief Technology Officer (2026)
- Western Michigan University alum
- Watervliet, Michigan
Microsoft & PowerShell
- Microsoft MVP, Azure and PowerShell (2025)
- Editor at PowerShell.News
- Author of PowerShell for Systems Engineers (ISBN 979-8387045530)
- YouTube creator @jimrtyler: 12K+ subscribers, 500K+ views
- Speaker at MAEDS (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025) and Michigan Association of School Boards (2025)
Other free tools
- You Shall Not Pass: free Chrome extension that blocks the proxy sites students use to bypass district filters. Active on 731,000+ student accounts.
- PSGuerrilla: free, open-source PowerShell security assessment and continuous monitoring module covering Google Workspace, Active Directory, Entra ID, Azure, Intune, and Microsoft 365. 431 security checks. guerrilla.army.
- Coined "Guerrilla Zero Trust": asymmetric defense for districts outmatched and underfunded.
In the community
- Treasurer, Watervliet School Board
- Chairman, City of Watervliet Planning Commission
- Board President, Children's Music Workshop
- President, Watervliet Rec/Council
- Coach: basketball, baseball, football
- Moody on the Market 40 Under 40 (2023)
// the.philosophy
Tools that protect people should have low friction.
Privacy by architecture. No accounts. No telemetry. No lock-in. Free always helps. That is the philosophy behind the extension, the Wheel, the Quiz, and the rest of Jim's free K-12 work.
Every feature in TeacherMagic started as a problem in a real school. Every prompt was drafted by a working educator in that role. Every privacy decision was made with a superintendent's risk lens. The site you are on, the icons in the toolbar, the documentation, the support replies, all from one working IT director who still walks the hallways every weekday.
Who we are not.
- Not a new AI. Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude, and Copilot are the AI. TeacherMagic is a prompt interface on top of what your district already approved.
- Not a wrapper. Your prompt goes from your browser to the AI you picked. It does not pass through a TeacherMagic server, because there is not one.
- Not an LMS. Use Google Classroom, Canvas, or Schoology.
- Not a data platform. No rosters, no gradebooks, no analytics dashboards.
- Not VC-funded. No pressure to extract. No pressure to pivot. No exit on the roadmap.
- Not a team. One Director of Technology in Michigan, weekends and evenings.
// install
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