School Skills for Claude Code
Classroom-ready skills for education — lesson plans, Socratic tutoring, circle time, rubrics, arts & crafts, study guides, and concept maps — all inside Claude Code.
Alpha preview. Seven skills ship today; six more are on the way.
What is this?
Claude Code is a free AI assistant from Anthropic that runs on your computer. You talk to it in plain English and it can read, write, and create things for you — lesson plans, worksheets, handouts, you name it.
Skills are little packets of expertise you can add to Claude Code. Instead of starting from scratch every time, you install a skill once and then Claude knows how to, say, build a standards-aligned lesson plan the way a master teacher would.
School Skills is a bundle of classroom-focused skills for education — useful to teachers, students, tutors, homeschool parents, and anyone helping someone learn.
You do not need to know how to code to use this. If you can paste a command into a window, you are set.
Install
There are two ways to install School Skills. Most people should use the first one.
1. Install as a Claude Code plugin (recommended)
Inside Claude Code, type these two commands. You can literally copy-paste them.
/plugin marketplace add Jellypod-Inc/school-skills
/plugin install school-skills@jellypod
What is /plugin? It is a built-in Claude Code command for adding and managing add-ons. You type a forward slash (/), then the command name. Claude Code shows you a menu as you type.
That is it. All shipping skills are now available. When you ask Claude something like "help me plan a 5th grade fractions lesson," it will automatically pull up the lesson-plan skill.
To update later:
/plugin marketplace update jellypod
To remove:
/plugin uninstall school-skills@jellypod
2. Install via npx (alternative)
If you already have Node.js installed and you would rather copy the skill files directly into your Claude Code skills folder, run:
npx school-skills install
This copies every bundled skill into ~/.claude/skills/. Claude Code picks them up automatically on the next session.
Other options:
npx school-skills install lesson-plan # install just one skill
npx school-skills install --force # overwrite without prompting
npx school-skills list # see what is bundled
npx school-skills --help # see all options
Skill catalog
Shipping today
| Skill | What it does |
|---|
lesson-plan ✅ | Builds a standards-aligned lesson plan with objectives, activities, and assessments. Tailors to grade level, subject, and time available. |
socratic-tutor ✅ | Guides a student through a problem with questions instead of answers. Great for math, science, and reading comprehension. |
circle-time ✅ | Runs a morning meeting or classroom circle with prompts, SEL check-ins, and transition suggestions. |
rubric ✅ | Turns an assignment prompt into a grading rubric — markdown + CSV, aligned to Bloom's. |
arts-crafts ✅ | Plans age-appropriate craft projects with supplies, steps, mess level, and substitutions. |
lecture-to-study-guide ✅ | Converts lecture notes, transcripts, or slides into an outline + key terms + practice questions. |
concept-map ✅ | Produces mind maps and concept maps in Mermaid, Graphviz, or Markmap format — with optional rendering. |
Coming soon
| Skill | What it will do |
|---|
flashcards | Generate flashcard decks (CSV, Anki .apkg, Quizlet TSV) from notes or topic. |
quiz-generator | Multiple choice, short answer, cloze, matching — with answer key and optional printable PDF. |
worksheet | Turn a topic or standard into a printable PDF worksheet with answer key. |
latex-paper | Scaffold a LaTeX paper, problem set, or lab report — IEEE/ACM/APA/MLA/math templates. |
language-drill | CEFR-calibrated vocab / conjugation / dialogue drills across 11 languages. |
coloring-page | Printable SVG/PDF coloring pages by theme and age. |
(Legend: ✅ shipping, blank = in development.)
What do I do once it is installed?
Just talk to Claude Code naturally. For example:
- "Plan a 50-minute 8th grade lesson on the water cycle, hands-on if possible."
- "Help me tutor a student through this algebra problem without giving away the answer."
- "Give me five circle time prompts for the first week of school."
Claude will recognize when a skill fits and use it automatically.
Requirements
- Claude Code installed. See https://claude.com/claude-code for install instructions.
- For the
npx path: Node.js 18 or newer.
- No other software required for the seven shipping skills.
Feedback and issues
This is an early alpha. If something is broken, confusing, or you wish a particular skill existed, please open an issue:
https://github.com/Jellypod-Inc/school-skills/issues
Teacher feedback is the whole point.
License
MIT. See LICENSE.
