District Success Stories
Districts trust Diffit to help teachers reach every student. Explore how Diffit makes learning accessible and engaging for all.
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A sustainable approach to quality resources for MTSS
Rockford Public Schools
Rockford, IL -
Effective scaffolds for grade-level learning
Pickerington Schools
Pickerington, OH -
Differentiation across content areas
Forsyth County Schools
Cumming, GA -
Accessible learning for Emergent Bilingual & Special Education students
Arlington ISD
Arlington, TX -
Creating opportunities for collaboration and critical thinking
Muhlenberg School District
Reading, PA -
Supporting learning through discussion-rich classrooms
Kearny School District
Kearny, NJ
Rockford Pubic Schools
A sustainable approach to quality resources for MTSS
One of the largest school districts in Illinois, Rockford Public Schools (RPS) serves over 27,000 students. Through its multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS), educators closely monitor and support student learning. In PLCs, teaching teams at RPS have been effectively using STAR assessment data and identifying where students need additional supports. But district leaders realized that the manual processes teachers had been using to adapt materials for students with diverse reading levels, language needs, and skill proficiencies were simply unsustainable.
Susan Uram, Director of Educational Technology at RPS, explains, “We knew we needed to identify a tool that was going to allow us to have flexibility to understand our needs for instructional resources and create what we needed to support tiered instruction.”
“We’re using Diffit to ensure we’re meeting high-quality standards"
Susan Uram, Director of Educational Technology
Before RPS adopted Diffit districtwide, teachers often searched for and created materials independently to address gaps. But the result sometimes felt like the “Wild West.” Now, Rockford leverages Diffit in two ways. Teachers use it in the moment to generate lessons or additional practice tailored to specific standards. And the district curriculum team develops shared banks of standards-aligned resources. With this complementary approach, RPS is able to balance teacher flexibility with districtwide consistency. Uram says, “We’re using Diffit to ensure we’re meeting high-quality standards, thinking about grade-level expectations, and shrinking the gap between where students are based on STAR data and where they need to be.”
Diffit’s ease of use was important to RPS. District leaders don’t expect every teacher to become an expert in prompting large language models. They wanted a tool teachers could pick up quickly and use well. For RPS teachers, Diffit has been an “easy on-ramp” to get high-quality materials.
16k+
Number of Diffit resources RPS teachers have generated
2k+
Diffit resources generated in a single month
The shift toward a more sustainable approach to instructional resources is visible in the numbers. RPS teachers have generated more than 16,000 resources in Diffit, including about 2,000 in a single month. Teachers are using Diffit to help students reach mastery on standards, from creating “bottomless, tailored” math word problems to developing lessons with relevant, up-to-date information about local industries for CTE classes.
“That’s the transformation,” Uram shared. “It’s not about doing the same thing faster. It’s about being nimble and responsive to student needs in ways that simply weren’t possible before.”
Susan Uram shares why Diffit clicked with teachers immediately — and how Rockford is using it to respond to student needs in ways that weren't possible before.
Rockford Pubic Schools
Rockford, IL
27,000+ Students
41 Schools
Pickerington Schools
Easy and effective scaffolds for grade-level learning
Pickerington Schools, a district of 12,500 students near Columbus, Ohio, serves 1,000 English language learners. The district regularly welcomes newcomers, and Amy McKinney, Coordinator of English Learner Services, shared, “We serve a diverse multicultural and multilingual community — a true point of pride for Pickerington Schools.”
Pickerington Schools has English learners in every building and in most classrooms, so every teacher supports language acquisition and content learning for English learners. The district is using Title III federal funds to provide Diffit to all teachers in grades 7-12 to support this work.
“Diffit gives the menu of scaffolds and then teachers can choose what is going to help them.”
Amy McKinney, Coordinator of English Learner Services
As an instructional leader, Ms. McKinney emphasizes using scaffolds that support students through productive struggle, rather than modifications that short-circuit deep learning. She notes that Diffit makes high-quality scaffolds easy for teachers to access and use.
“Diffit gives the menu of scaffolds and then teachers can choose what is going to help them.” She points to vocabulary, student-ready graphic organizers, and summaries of texts as especially impactful in helping students access grade-level content.
While Diffit was initially brought in with English learners in mind, the district quickly saw its broader instructional impact. ”All of our students are developing listening, speaking, reading, and writing abilities. They’re all acquiring academic vocabulary. And so with Diffit, we are really happy to give teachers a tool that helps all students in every classroom.”
Amy McKinney shares how Pickerington Schools uses Diffit to give teachers scaffolds that support productive struggle
Pickerington Schools
Pickerington, OH
12,500 students
1,000 English learners
130 newcomers
students come from 60 countries and speak 80 languages
Forsyth County Schools
Differentiation across content areas
Forsyth County teachers use Diffit to produce high-quality, differentiated, student-ready resources for any lesson in minutes, saving time and helping all students access grade-level content.
“What’s unique about Diffit is how easy it is to use,” said Allison Crouch, ELA specialist for grades 6-12. “When I taught, I spent a lot of time setting up Google Forms with questions and prompts and getting them ready to go into Google Classroom. So when I saw that with one button in Diffit, I could level the text, generate the questions, push it to a Google Form, and have it ready to use with my students, I thought, ‘My teachers will be interested in this.’ That was an understatement!”.
“What’s unique about Diffit is how easy it is to use”
Allison Crouch, ELA specialist
FCS launched Diffit in all of its middle and high schools in February 2024. Teachers now implement the AI-powered tool in ELA, science, social studies, world languages, the Career, Technical and Agriculture Education (CTAE) program, and beyond. Dr. Brittney Denier Cantrell, FCS’s science specialist for grades 6-12, also appreciates the ease of use. “One morning, one of my most caring, most gifted teachers told me, ‘I don’t think I’m a very good teacher anymore. I don’t have time to set up labs because I’m spending so much time trying to make the content accessible.’ I knew Diffit could help. Diffit makes a tough job easier so our teachers can focus on exactly what our students need.”
Forsyth County Schools
Cumming, GA
54,000 Students
42 Schools
Supporting students from 129 countries and 69 different languages
Arlington Independent School District
Accessible learning for Emergent Bilingual & Special Education students
Teachers across Arlington ISD are using Diffit to make grade-level learning accessible to all students, including bilingual students and students receiving special education services.
Aligned to Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards, teachers are using Diffit to support Content Based Language Instruction (CBLI) that emphasizes culturally and linguistically sustaining practices across the curriculum. Diffit helps teachers create the scaffolds, vocabulary supports, and translations students need to make meaning of and engage with grade-level instruction.
Diffit is now a key tool in advancing the district’s CBLI pillar of Accessibility for English learners, making it easier for teachers to provide what every student needs to participate fully in class. As Aaron Resendez, a CBLI Specialist shared, “Our teachers are using Diffit because it helps them provide what students need to participate.”
In just the first few weeks of the 2025 school year, teachers at Arlington ISD used Diffit to:
Facilitate 4,800 hours of student reading
Provide translations in 8 languages
Teach 9,892 vocabulary words
Create 2,300 opportunities for collaboration
Hear how Arlington ISD uses Diffit to make grade-level content accessible for emerging bilingual students across 68+ campuses.
Muhlenberg School District
For its instructional priorities, Muhlenberg School District is focusing on fostering student collaboration and critical thinking to address a slide toward passive content consumption and reactive discipline, rather than proactive relationship-building.
Just weeks into a districtwide roll-out of Diffit for the 2025 school year, following a successful pilot, 75% of teachers at Muhlenberg Junior High School and 85% of teachers at Muhlenberg High School are using Diffit to design instruction that encourages critical analysis and peer-to-peer dialogue.
Creating opportunities for collaboration and critical thinking
75%
of teachers at Muhlenberg Junior High School use Diffit
85%
of teachers at Muhlenberg High School use Diffit
Teachers in Muhlenberg are also using Diffit to build background knowledge and strengthen comprehension within the district’s reading curriculum. For example, they are creating materials that help students understand the context and multiple lenses of the U.S. Civil War before beginning a related reading lesson.
Instructional Technology Coach Samantha Armstrong shared, “I can see the pedagogy more easily with Diffit” than other AI tools she has used and evaluated, which is important for supporting Muhlenberg’s goals for active learning, relationship-building, and deeper critical thinking.
Hear how Muhlenberg Schools embedded Diffit into their curriculum, giving teachers a starting point they can make their own.
Muhlenberg School District
Reading, PA
4,500+ Students
4 Schools
Kearny School District
Supporting learning through discussion-rich classrooms
Located between Newark and Jersey City near New York City, Kearny School District (NJ) serves a richly diverse, multilingual community of 5,000 students. With a wide range of academic readiness, reading levels, and English language learners, district leaders knew emerging AI technologies could help them better support instruction.
“We reached out to a lot of companies for vetting and for demo accounts and set up meetings with different companies,” shared Steven Way, Director of Digital Learning, Innovation, and Evaluation, and AI Coordinator for Kearny. Recognizing that no single platform could meet every need, the district adopted several tools thoughtfully, including Diffit, MagicSchool, and Brisk.
Rather than compartmentalizing platforms, Kearny bridges them. MagicSchool and Brisk provide support tools for all district staff as well as for student-facing feedback, while Diffit stands out as the engine for creating high-quality, differentiated instructional materials. Teachers use Diffit to generate resources, learning scaffolds, and collaborative activities aligned to standards and classroom goals.
“As an instructional coach, I often hear, ‘I’m not tech-savvy.’ I just say, hold on. Diffit is built for tired teachers,” said Danielle Polk, K-12 Instructional Technology Coach. “You can literally type anything and you’re going to get a great resource.”
You can literally type anything and you’re going to get a great resource.”
Danielle Polk, K-12 Instructional Technology Coach
Classroom discussion and collaboration are central to Kearny’s instructional approach. The district uses the Danielson Framework for Teaching to support student-centered, self-directed learning. To bring that vision to life, teachers need resources that give every student an entry point into conversation, regardless of the student’s reading level or language proficiency. In about the first 100 days of school, Kearny teachers created more than 1,500 collaborative student activities in Diffit, including structured discussions and writing scaffolds designed to increase engagement.
Teachers and district leaders are seeing that when students have the right scaffolds, participation and learning blossom. Polk recently observed a teacher using Diffit to scaffold a new essay assignment. A student in their class who hadn’t spoken in a long time became actively engaged, speaking and confidently approaching the writing task.
“We’ve seen increased student engagement,” Polk shared. “Something as simple as a new way of packaging an idea can go so far.”
Hear how Kearny uses Diffit to give every student — across languages and reading levels — the scaffolds they need to show up ready for classroom discussion.
Kearny School District
Kearny, NJ
5,000+ Students
7 Schools
See how Diffit supports your priorities
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🧩 Differentiation
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📚 Literacy
Diffit helps teachers bring reading, vocabulary, and critical thinking into every subject.
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🔍 Critical thinking
Diffit turns reading into a starting point for analysis, discussion, and critical thinking.
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🌎 English learners
Diffit helps multilingual learners access grade-level content while they build English proficiency.
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