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Our approach

Built for Alberta. Aligned to outcomes. Guided by integrity.

BERIH Academy of Learning is designed around the Alberta Program of Studies, not around AI capabilities. Every lesson, assessment, and tutoring session maps to a curriculum outcome while promoting academic integrity, privacy, and responsible AI use.

Where the answers come from

The curriculum answers first. The AI only explains it.

Ask about quadratics and the companion does not answer from whatever it read on the internet. It first searches our Alberta curriculum library — Program of Studies outcomes, assessment guides, diploma exam resources, teacher-created lessons, worked examples and practice questions — and then explains what it found, citing the resource it used.

  1. 1

    Student asks a question

  2. 2

    Search the Alberta curriculum library

  3. 3

    Match the grade, unit and outcome

  4. 4

    Pull teacher lessons and practice

  5. 5

    Explain it, with sources named

If nothing in the library covers a question, the companion says so and stays inside the Alberta outcome instead of inventing an outcome code, a source or an exam question. Every resource is organised by subject, grade, unit, outcome, concepts, vocabulary, examples and assessments — and marks a student records are used only to decide which outcome to work on next.

Review and approval

Nothing reaches a student until a person approves it.

Every lesson, worksheet, quiz and practice exam travels the same path before the companion is allowed to teach from it. This is what keeps weak or off-curriculum material out of students' hands.

  1. 1

    Teacher upload

    An Alberta teacher submits the lesson, notes, worksheet, quiz, rubric, video or practice exam.

  2. 2

    Automatic tagging

    The file is tagged to its subject, course, unit and outcome code, with grade, difficulty and licence.

  3. 3

    Curriculum review

    A reviewer confirms the content matches the Alberta Program of Studies outcome it claims.

  4. 4

    Quality check

    Accuracy, clarity, Canadian spelling, metric units, originality and accessibility are checked.

  5. 5

    Approved

    The resource is marked approved, with the reviewer, date and revision number recorded.

  6. 6

    Knowledge base

    Only then is it indexed for search, so the tutor can quote it and cite it by name.

A returned resource goes back to the teacher with reviewer notes, and an approved resource can only be changed by starting a new revision — so students never see a half-finished edit.

How we say it plainly

Some of our resources are AI-drafted. We label them that way.

To cover the Alberta curriculum quickly, we start from an outcome in the Program of Studies and have AI draft the lesson notes, teaching explanation, vocabulary, worked examples, twenty practice questions with an answer key, a quiz with a marking key, and a study guide. One outcome takes minutes instead of hours. What we will never do is call that teacher-approved before a teacher has read it.

What we say

  • Curriculum-aligned AI-generated learning resources
  • Drafted by AI from an Alberta outcome, pending human review
  • Reviewed and approved by an Alberta teacher — only once one has
  • Written by an Alberta teacher — only for teacher-authored work

What we refuse to say

  • “Teacher-approved” for anything a teacher has not reviewed
  • “Written by teachers” for AI-drafted material
  • Anything that hides which parts came from AI
  • Anything implying our practice exams are real Alberta exam questions

Every AI draft carries a visible notice, is recorded with the model that produced it, gets no ranking preference over official Alberta or teacher material, and stays invisible to students until a person approves it. Where a source exists, the companion names it.

How content is organised

Subject, course, unit, outcome.

The library is shaped like an Alberta course sequence, not like a folder of files. Every resource hangs off the outcome it teaches, which is how the companion knows exactly what to pull when a student asks a question.

Course structure

Mathematics
│
├── Math 10C
│   ├── Measurement
│   ├── Algebra and Number
│   ├── Relations and Functions
│   └── Trigonometry
│
├── Math 20-1
│   ├── Sequences and Series
│   ├── Quadratics
│   ├── Radicals and Rationals
│   └── Trigonometry
│
└── Math 30-1
    ├── Transformations
    ├── Exponents and Logarithms
    ├── Trigonometry
    └── Permutations and Combinations

Inside every outcome

Outcome (for example M10C-2.1)
│
├── Lesson plans
├── Teacher notes
├── Slide decks
├── Worksheets
├── Quizzes
├── Rubrics
├── Videos
└── Practice exams

Each outcome also carries its key concepts, vocabulary, common misconceptions, worked examples and competencies, so a gap in coverage is visible instead of hidden.

Content quality framework

Every resource is scored before students can see it.

No content enters the tutor's knowledge base unless it is mapped to an Alberta curriculum outcome, reviewed by an educator, and approved through a documented quality process. A resource must reach 85 out of 100 on the rubric below before it can be published.

Accuracy

25%

Mathematics, science and language are correct; answers and keys check out.

Curriculum alignment

25%

Content maps explicitly to the tagged Alberta outcome and grade level.

Clarity

20%

Explanations are clear, sequenced and appropriate for the difficulty chosen.

Assessment quality

15%

Practice and assessment items are relevant, varied and support progression.

Accessibility

15%

Readable level, clear formatting, alt text for images, captions for video.

Academic integrity

Guided practice, hints, worked examples and reflection questions pass. Complete assignments, submission-ready essays and take-home exam solutions are rejected outright.

Level 1 · Automated review

Tagging, required sections, duplicates, integrity and copyright checks.

Level 2 · Peer teacher review

A second teacher checks accuracy, clarity, alignment and difficulty.

Level 3 · Curriculum reviewer

A senior reviewer approves, requests revision, or rejects.

Content standards for every lesson

  • Learning outcome
  • Learning objective
  • Vocabulary
  • Instruction
  • Worked examples
  • Practice activities
  • Assessment
  • Answer key

We keep watching after approval

  • Students rate every tutor answer as helpful, not helpful, or incorrect.
  • Flagged answers go to a reviewer with the question and the sources used.
  • Each resource carries its rating, reviewer, revision number and quality score.
  • Teacher contributors are tracked by resource count and average quality.
  • Resources that stop helping students are pulled back for revision.

Design principles

Curriculum aligned

Sessions are grounded in the Alberta Program of Studies outcomes for the student's actual course — Math 10C through 30-1, Physics 20/30, Chemistry 20/30, Biology 20/30, English Language Arts, Social 20-1 and 30-1, plus junior high math, science, English and social studies. Ask about quadratic functions and the companion answers using the Math 10C and 20-1 outcomes, with Alberta-style examples.

Guided learning mode

Instead of 'here is the answer', the companion says 'let's solve it step by step'. It asks what the student has already tried, offers escalating hints, works through an analogous example rather than their own question, sets practice questions, and finishes with reflection.

AI literacy

The companion shows its thinking so students can see how a model reasons, and encourages them to check its claims against their notes, textbook and teacher. Learning to question AI is part of the lesson.

Human oversight

It never pretends to be a teacher, never assigns grades, and never advises on assessment, accommodations or wellbeing. For those, it points students back to their teacher, counsellor or guardian.

Transparency

Students are told, in every session, what the companion is and what it will not do. The integrity notice sits at the top of the session screen, not buried in terms of service.

Privacy

The companion does not ask for personal information, and study sessions are private to the student who created them. Nobody else can read another student's session.

Academic integrity

The one line we will not cross: it will not produce work a student would hand in. If a student pastes an assignment or diploma question and asks for the answer, it declines, explains why, and switches to coaching on that same topic.

What the companion will do

  • Explain a concept in plain language, tied to its Alberta outcome
  • Break a problem into steps and check the student's thinking at each one
  • Give hints that get more specific only as needed
  • Work through an analogous example with different numbers
  • Set practice questions and give feedback on attempts
  • Coach structure, evidence and revision on writing the student wrote
  • Ask reflection questions and suggest what to review next

What it will refuse

  • Give the final answer to graded homework, quizzes, tests or diploma questions
  • Write or rewrite an essay, paragraph, lab report or position paper
  • Complete a problem set on the student's behalf
  • Pretend to be a human teacher or make assessment decisions
  • Ask for personal, health or family information

See it in a real session.

Pick your Alberta course and a learning mode, and start working through something you're stuck on.

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