AI Academic Coach for Grades 4–12

Guided Scholar™ helps students do their own work, better.

Students get structured writing guidance. Teachers see every draft. Students do the work. They just don't do it alone.

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Teacher-Visible Student Workflows

Teach Me Learn & get started

Coach Me Submit & improve

ACT Writing Practice Guided prep

ACT Practice Test Timed simulation

The Problem

Three gaps that hold every student back

Students don't struggle because they're unmotivated. They struggle because the structured support they need isn't there at the moment they need it, and teachers can't be everywhere at once.

They don't know how to begin

When students hit a blank page and no one is there to help, they find the path of least resistance, and today that path is an AI tool that produces the assignment for them.

No support in the moment

Students don't cheat because they want to. They do it because no one is available to coach them through the hard part at the moment it matters most.

Feedback arrives too late

Most students never learn what went wrong. Graded papers come back days later, or not at all. By then the assignment is over and the lesson is lost.

How It Works

Four modes. One purpose.

Each workflow is bounded by design, structured around specific student needs, visible to the responsible teacher, and linked to the assignment context. Students get feedback. Teachers see the work.

Teach Me

Learn how to approach it

Students enter their assignment, select the right template, and receive structured feedback on their response, section by section. Designed for learning how to approach a task and improve what they produce. Draft history and revision depth are visible to the teacher throughout.

Includes writing, spreadsheets, and presentations

Coach Me

Submit your own work and improve it

Students submit completed work and receive detailed coaching feedback: strengths, improvements, revision guidance, and next steps. No pre-writing assistance. This mode evaluates independent work. All submissions and revisions are visible to the teacher in the dashboard.

No AI assistance before submission, by design

ACT Writing Practice

Guided ACT essay preparation

Scaffolded planning, paragraph-by-paragraph drafting support, ACT-style scoring, and a full downloadable feedback package. Built for real improvement, not test simulation.

Prompt library with manual and random selection

ACT Practice Test

Authentic timed test conditions

A timed environment that mirrors real ACT writing conditions. No guided support during writing, the student works independently. Post-submission feedback once time expires.

Auto-submits at timeout · No guided launch support

Guided Scholar currently supports over a dozen writing, spreadsheet, and presentation templates. If you have assignment types not in the current library, contact us, new templates are evaluated based on breadth of applicability across grade levels and subject areas.

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Academic Integrity

Guided Scholar's approach to the cheat question is architectural.

The first question most administrators ask: "Won't students just use it to cheat?" It's the right question, and the answer is built into how Guided Scholar works.

Each mode has a deliberate boundary. Coach Me (where students submit their own completed work) contains no pre-writing assistance by design. That boundary isn't an oversight. It's a principle. The goal is to protect the integrity of independent work while still giving students the feedback they need to grow.

In school-account deployments, student practice is not private AI use. It is a governed, class-linked activity visible to the responsible teacher and controlled by the school deployment context. Teachers can see every draft, every revision, and whether the revision was substantial, moderate, or surface-only — without reading everything manually.

Guided Scholar guides students through their own thinking. It does not generate assignments, write paragraphs, or remove the cognitive work that produces real learning.

◆ Coach Me has no pre-writing support, independent work stays independent

◆ ACT Practice Test preserves authentic timed conditions with no guided assistance

◆ Feedback guides revision, it does not produce finished work or replace teacher judgment

◆ In school deployments, all student activity is class-linked and teacher-visible

◆ Template and framework support helps students think, not bypass thinking

Roadmap

Built for the classroom, growing with it.

Guided Scholar is in active development. Here's what's live, what's coming, and where it's headed.

Live Now

Four student workflows

Teach Me, Coach Me, ACT Writing Practice, and ACT Practice Test, all live with structured feedback, revision support, and downloadable feedback packages.

Live Now

Teacher dashboard (beta)

Draft history, revision comparisons, and revision classification for each student submission. Teachers can see what students submitted, when they revised, how much the work changed, and which students received feedback but have not yet revised.

Draft launch support and Word export

Guided getting-started assistance to help students interpret assignments and plan before they write. Word document export for feedback packages is also in active development.

Coming

Assignment and class management

Teachers will be able to assign specific prompts, set deadlines, and manage class-level workflows directly inside Guided Scholar, extending teacher control over the bounded practice environment.

Future

Analytics and institutional reporting

Trend reporting, writing improvement over time, and decision-support tools for teachers and administrators at the school or district level.

About the Founder

Peter Brau

High School Teacher · Retired Lieutenant Colonel · AI Consultant

Guided Scholar was created from years of classroom experience and firsthand observation of what actually stops students from doing their best work. It was built to improve how students begin, structure, revise, and learn from their work, not to replace their thinking or their teacher's judgment. The feedback architecture reflects the same standards used in teaching advanced writing at the secondary level and in peer-reviewed military analysis: specific, evidence-based, and tied directly to revision.

Interested in bringing Guided Scholar to your school or district? Reach out directly or submit a pilot request, pilots are structured, limited deployments conducted at no cost.

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