BBE Buddy

Evidence-informed AI for teachers.

BBE Buddy is an AI assistant for teachers and school leaders. It answers questions about teaching, learning and assessment from a curated collection of 136 works, shows the passage behind every claim, and turns the answer into classroom material you can export to Word or PDF.

The collection includes the EEF guidance reports, the National Curriculum for England and work by Dylan Wiliam, John Hattie, Paul Kirschner, Carl Hendrick and Efrat Furst.

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Privacy

Privacy and data protection

BBE Buddy processes personal data under the GDPR. To write an answer, the question and the selected passages are sent to an AI model outside the EU. The privacy policy lists every service that processes data, where it is located and what it is used for.

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  • Conversations and documents stored in the EU.
  • Other users cannot see your conversations.
  • No tracking or advertising cookies.
  • Export or deletion of your data on request.

Benefits

For teachers and school leaders

Time

Research-informed answers and ready-to-use material, without hours of searching and reading.

Verifiable answers

Every claim links to its passage, so you decide what to rely on and where to read further.

Established research

The collection is curated, so answers rest on established research rather than on whatever is popular online.

Clear about gaps

When the collection does not cover a question, BBE Buddy says so.

Your school's terminology

With your school's material added, answers use the terms and agreements your team already works with.

Ready to use

Classroom material exports to Word or PDF, so you can edit it and hand it out.

What it does

What BBE Buddy does

BBE Buddy answers questions, writes classroom material, and can work with your school's own documents.

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Answers questions about teaching and learning.

Ask about formative assessment, feedback, questioning, cognitive load, curriculum or implementation. BBE Buddy searches the collection, selects the passages that apply and writes its answer from them. Every claim can be opened to show the passage and the work it comes from.

Formative assessmentFeedbackQuestioningCognitive loadCurriculumImplementation
02

Turns the answer into classroom material.

From the same conversation it writes nine kinds of material in full, aligned with what was discussed, and exports them to Word or PDF.

Lesson planSuccess criteria cardExit ticketsDiagnostic question bankCheck for understanding menuFeedback conversation guidePeer feedback activityAlignment mapCognitive load checker
03

Works with your school's own material.

Policies, terminology and schemes of work can be added. Answers then follow your school's language and agreements, with the research collection underneath.

PoliciesTerminologySchemes of work

Process

How BBE Buddy works

BBE Buddy first searches the collection for the passages that answer a question, and then writes the answer from those passages. That is why every claim can be traced to a source.

01

Search

Your question is matched against 136 works on learning and assessment, and against your school's own material if it has been added.

02

Select

The passages that answer the question are selected and ranked. The open web is not searched.

03

Answer

The answer is written from those passages, with each claim tied to its source.

04

Check

You open the basis: the claim, the quoted passage, the work and why it applies. Where the collection has no answer, BBE Buddy says so.

Example

An answer from BBE Buddy

A real answer from BBE Buddy to the question how to check understanding during a lesson without a test.

  • Confidence and sourcesEvery answer states how well the collection covers the question and how many works it drew on.
  • Aimed at practiceAnswers point to what you can do in class.
  • The basis, one click awayOpen it to see each claim, the passage it rests on and the work it comes from.
BBE Buddy answering how to check understanding during a lesson without a test, marked high confidence from five sources

Demo

Try BBE Buddy

This is BBE Buddy itself, answering from the full collection. No account needed.

Live · answers from 136 curated works

Ask a question about teaching, learning or assessment.

The collection

136 works on learning and assessment

Guidance reports, research and practitioner writing on learning and assessment, chosen one at a time and organised so the assistant can retrieve from them.

136Works on learning and assessment
9Kinds of classroom material, written in full
2Export formats: Word and PDF
0Answers drawn from the open web

Guidance reports

The EEF toolkit and its guidance on literacy, mathematics, behaviour and school leadership.

Assessment and feedback

Dylan Wiliam on formative assessment, John Hattie on visible learning, Harry Fletcher-Wood on responsive teaching.

Cognitive science

Paul Kirschner on cognitive load, Henry Roediger on retrieval practice, Efrat Furst on memory and understanding, Carl Hendrick on instruction.

Curriculum

The National Curriculum for England, primary and secondary, and David Didau on curriculum as a progression model.

Classroom practice

A working library on diagnostic questions, rubrics and exit tickets.

Your school's material

Added on top of the collection.

Sources

Answers are based only on the collection

A teaching assistant is only useful if you can check it. That is why BBE Buddy works within a fixed, curated body of evidence.

  • No open web search.
  • Every claim linked to a passage.
  • Confidence shown with every answer.
  • Missing information is stated.

Plans

Getting started

20 messages a day and the full collection from the first question. Upgrade when you need more.