Campfire Session
Watch Flint's July 2026 product updates webinar to learn about curriculum management, standards-aligned lesson planning, gradebook improvements, and new AI tools for K-12 teachers.
Teddy Lane, Customer Success Engineer at Flint
In this July '26 Updates Campfire Session, the Flint team walked through the latest product updates designed to help schools prepare for the new academic year. The session focused on new curriculum management tools, standards-aligned activity creation, gradebook improvements, and workflow enhancements that make it easier for teachers and administrators to set up Flint, build lessons, and track student learning.
Alongside live demonstrations of the new features, the discussion also explored practical implementation questions from educators, including curriculum organization, professional development, grading visibility, and how schools with different instructional models can customize Flint to fit their needs.
Content covered in this session includes:
Setting up school-wide curriculum at the workspace level so teachers automatically have access to the standards, syllabi, and instructional materials relevant to their courses without repeatedly uploading documents.
Using Flint's new curriculum management system to organize standards by subject, grade level, and academic segments while supporting both preset curricula and school-created resources.
Working with built-in curriculum frameworks including AP, Common Core, NGSS, and the National Curriculum in England, while also uploading custom curriculum documents, syllabi, and school-specific learning frameworks.
Supporting schools with unique instructional models, including IB and internally developed curricula, by allowing administrators to upload subject guides and other instructional resources directly into Flint.
Helping teachers align AI-generated activities to curriculum standards so learning objectives remain central throughout lesson creation.
Creating standards-aligned classroom activities by describing instructional goals while allowing Sparky to automatically incorporate the selected curriculum context into activity design.
Using speech-to-text prompting and conversational activity design to quickly build personalized classroom experiences without writing lengthy prompts.
Designing interactive AI-powered learning activities, including coding exercises, with built-in scaffolding that supports students while preserving authentic critical thinking and problem solving.
Reviewing, approving, and adjusting standards alignment before publishing activities, ensuring teachers remain fully in control of instructional decisions.
Exploring Flint's updated interface, simplified navigation, and improved workspace organization to reduce clicks and streamline everyday classroom workflows.
Using the redesigned gradebook to organize assignments into weighted categories such as quizzes, classwork, and formative assessments while matching existing LMS grading structures.
Exporting weighted grades as CSV files for easier transfer into external learning management systems.
Discussing student grade visibility, assessment philosophy, and ways to balance transparent feedback with maintaining student focus on learning rather than grades.
Exploring practical strategies for onboarding teachers, including just-in-time professional development, small-group training, subject-specific workshops, and standards-based AI literacy programs.
Answering educator questions about curriculum setup, academic segments, student views, workspace management, and best practices for implementing the new features before the start of the school year.
Slides from the presentation can be found here.
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00:00 Introduction
Teddy Lane welcomes educators from around the world as schools transition into summer planning, introducing the session as a walkthrough of Flint's latest product updates ahead of the new academic year.
Attendees are invited to share where they're joining from and participate in an opening discussion around what effective AI professional development should look like for teachers, administrators, and students.
The conversation explores the importance of just-in-time training, hands-on workshops, small-group collaboration, standards-based AI literacy, and supporting teachers with practical implementation rather than one-size-fits-all professional development.
Teddy previews the session agenda, explaining that the webinar will cover Flint's newest curriculum, grading, and platform improvements before concluding with an open Q&A.
00:15 Icebreaking news
The session begins with a discussion of recent research highlighting the rapid adoption of AI in schools alongside the growing need for meaningful AI training for educators.
Participants share their experiences implementing AI within their own schools, discussing barriers to adoption, teacher confidence, professional development models, prompting skills, and strategies for building sustainable AI literacy programs.
The conversation explores why AI training should be ongoing, personalized, and closely connected to teachers' day-to-day classroom practice rather than isolated technology workshops.
Attendees also discuss how schools can balance innovation with thoughtful implementation while ensuring AI remains a tool that supports—not replaces—high-quality teaching and learning.
13:19 Flint at ISTE
Teddy shares highlights from Flint's experience at ISTE, where the team connected with educators, school leaders, and existing customers to gather product feedback and better understand schools' evolving needs.
The discussion emphasizes how conversations with teachers directly influence Flint's product roadmap while also previewing upcoming Flint community resources and new school swag.
14:38 Flint has a new look
The session introduces Flint's redesigned interface, showcasing a refreshed visual experience with cleaner navigation, updated branding, and a more streamlined workflow throughout the platform.
Teddy explains how the redesign reduces unnecessary clicks, simplifies menu organization, and makes frequently used tools easier for teachers and administrators to access during everyday classroom planning.
15:28 Curriculum in Flint
The webinar introduces Flint's new curriculum management system, allowing administrators to configure school-wide curriculum once so teachers automatically have access to standards, syllabi, and instructional materials when building classroom activities.
Teddy demonstrates how schools can organize curriculum using academic segments, combine preset standards such as AP, NGSS, and Common Core with custom school documents, and support unique instructional frameworks including IB and school-developed curricula.
The walkthrough shows how teachers can connect activities directly to learning standards, review standards alignment before publishing, and use Sparky to generate standards-aligned lessons without manually uploading curriculum documents each time.
The session also demonstrates how speech-to-text prompting, collaborative activity design, and built-in scaffolding help teachers create personalized classroom experiences more efficiently while keeping instructional goals at the center of lesson planning.
Audience questions explore best practices for organizing curriculum, managing school terms, assigning academic segments, supporting independent schools, and preparing workspace configurations before the start of the school year.
46:08 Grading in Flint
Teddy showcases new gradebook improvements that allow teachers to organize assignments into weighted categories such as quizzes, classwork, and formative assessments while matching the grading structure already used in their LMS.
The demonstration explains how weighted categories, percentage calculations, and CSV exports simplify grade management and make it easier to transfer scores into external gradebooks.
The discussion also explores student grade visibility, balancing transparency with instructional philosophy, and how schools may choose different approaches to presenting grades and feedback to students.
51:20 Q&A
The audience discussion focuses on practical implementation questions surrounding curriculum management, grading, workspace organization, and student experience within Flint.
Questions explore topics including student versus teacher views, creating sample student accounts, organizing curriculum for different school models, accessing student activity data, and monitoring progress across groups.
The session concludes with a look at Flint's search capabilities for reviewing student work, guidance on preparing workspaces before the new school year, and an invitation for schools to schedule implementation sessions with the Flint team over the summer.
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