More Accessible and Actionable Communication between Teachers and Parents

Strong partnerships between teachers and parents are critical to student learning outcomes. However, in practice, communication between home and school is often inconsistent, one-directional, or difficult to act on.

In many classrooms, teachers share updates through newsletters, apps, or reports, but these are not always easily understood or actionable for parents. At the same time, parents may face barriers such as:

• limited time or availability
• language differences (e.g., EAL/D families)
• unfamiliarity with curriculum expectations (e.g., Australian Curriculum, NAPLAN)
• lack of confidence in supporting learning at home

This creates a gap between what is taught in the classroom and how learning is supported at home.

There is a demand for solutions that:

• make communication clearer, more accessible, and more personalised
• translate learning expectations into practical, actionable support for parents
• strengthen collaboration between teachers and families across diverse contexts

The primary users are:

• Teachers (e.g., primary and secondary educators in Australian schools)
• Parents and caregivers across diverse family contexts

Common Use Scenarios

• A teacher shares weekly learning goals in a way that parents can easily understand and act on
• A parent receives guidance on how to support their child with a specific skill (e.g., reading, writing, numeracy)
• Communication is adapted for parents with different language backgrounds
• Parents engage more actively with their child’s learning through clear, structured support
• Teachers manage communication efficiently without increasing workload

This challenge focuses on designing solutions that bridge communication and engagement between teachers and parents, making learning more accessible, understandable, and actionable beyond the classroom.

Design solutions may explore:

• Translating learning into parent-friendly formats:(e.g., simplifying curriculum language, summarising key concepts)
• Actionable at-home support: (e.g., turning classroom learning into practical strategies parents can use)
• Two-way communication and feedback loops: (e.g., enabling parents to respond, ask questions, or share context)
• Context-aware communication: (e.g., adapting to language, cultural background, time constraints, and access)
• AI-supported transformation of information: (e.g., personalisation, summarisation, translation, or prompting)

Solutions should aim to make communication not just informative, but usable and actionable in real family contexts, while remaining feasible within everyday school workflows.

CurricuLLM is a free AI-powered education platform for teachers across Australia and New Zealand. It supports lesson planning, resource creation, and material adaptation for diverse learners, all aligned with official curriculum standards. The platform can be used via a simple chat interface or through an advanced Studio Mode that combines user inputs with curriculum context to generate more targeted outputs.

For this hackathon, CurricuLLM also provides a curriculum-trained API, allowing teams to integrate curriculum-aware intelligence directly into their own EdTech solutions. This enables faster development of AI-powered tools that are not only functional, but also educationally relevant and aligned with real classroom needs.

Participants are encouraged to:

• prioritise clarity over completeness: (what parents can act on > what teachers can say)
• design for actionability, not just information delivery
• translate curriculum and pedagogical language into natural, parent-friendly communication
• respect teacher workload and time constraints: (solutions should reduce, not add to, communication burden)
• design for diverse family contexts: (e.g., multilingual, multicultural, varying levels of familiarity with schooling)
• support meaningful engagement rather than information overload

💡 Possible directions (for inspiration only):

• Tools that translate curriculum content into parent-friendly language
• Systems that generate personalised at-home learning suggestions
• AI-supported communication tools (e.g., summaries, translations, prompts)
• Platforms that support structured two-way communication
• Solutions that reduce teacher workload while improving parent engagement

You are required to use the CurricuLLM API for this challenge

• A prototype demonstrating the product design (presented on the demo day)
• A 2-3 minute video and pitch deck explaining the design of your solution
• The prototype is required to use CurricuLLM API for GenAI usages