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Bring Georgia’s standards straight into Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini.

Georgia Homeroom offers a free connectorthat lets the AI assistant you already use look things up directly in Georgia’s official standards while you work: the exact standards, the Georgia Milestones (GMAS) blueprints, and the mastery descriptors, with no copying and pasting.

What it is, in plain language

A connector (the technical name is an MCP server) is a secure bridge between your AI assistant and a focused library of Georgia’s official standards. You add it once, then ask questions the way you normally would. When a question is about Georgia’s standards, the assistant quietly looks up the real standards and writes its answer from them, instead of guessing from whatever it happened to learn during training.

It’s powered by the same library of Georgia standards that runs the Georgia Homeroom chatbot and the Standards Explorer on this site. The difference is that the connector brings that library into Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini, so you can use it alongside your lesson planning, your other documents, and everything else those tools already do.

How it helps teachers and administrators

  • Plan from the actual standards. Draft lessons, units, and learning objectives grounded in the exact standards for your grade or high-school course, cited by code, the same codes on your curriculum maps.
  • Pace and align vertically. See how a skill builds year over year so you know what students should already have, and where this year’s work is heading.
  • Prepare for the Georgia Milestones. Pull the GMAS blueprint for a test: what’s assessed, how the points are weighted, the depth-of-knowledge mix, and the question types, so test prep targets what actually counts.
  • Differentiate and remediate. Read the mastery descriptors for a standard (what Beginning, Developing, Proficient, and Distinguished work looks like) to set targets and plan support.
  • Translate old textbook codes. Paste legacy codes from older materials (like MGSE or ELAGSE) and get the current Georgia equivalent, or a suggestion when a strand was renamed.
  • For administrators and coaches. Check curriculum alignment, audit coverage against the blueprints, and ground coaching conversations in the same official source every school works from.

Why this beats asking ChatGPT or Claude directly

  • Straight from the source. The connector reads Georgia’s official standards, published by the state at case.georgiastandards.org. A general chatbot answers from its training data, a mix of the whole internet that may be stale or from another state’s standards.
  • No made-up codes. It returns only standards that actually exist in Georgia’s list. If a code isn’t there, it says so instead of inventing a plausible-looking one.
  • Milestones coverage built in. The GMAS blueprints and achievement-level descriptors aren’t something a general model has on hand. The connector does, including point weights, claims, and what each mastery level looks like.
  • Kept current. When Georgia renames or restructures standards (for example, math fractions moved from the NF strand to NR), the connector knows the current names and maps the old ones for you.

Things you can ask once it’s connected

  • “Find Georgia 5th-grade math standards about adding fractions with unlike denominators.”
  • “What does 5.NR.3.3say, and what does Proficient look like for it?”
  • “Show me how this reading skill develops from grade 3 to grade 8.”
  • “Break down the Grade 8 ELA Milestones blueprint: which claims carry the most points?”
  • “What’s the current Georgia code for MGSE5.NF.1from our old textbook?”
  • “Walk me through the Biology standards one strand at a time.”

How to connect it

You’ll need an AI assistant on a plan that supports custom connectors (these are usually paid plans), plus the Georgia Homeroom connector address:

https://YOUR-CONNECTOR-URL

There’s no sign-in or password to set up. In every app, the step is simply to paste in that address. (Exact menu names can shift as these apps update.)

Claude · easiest

Works on the Claude web app, desktop, and phone.

In Claude, open Settings Connectors, choose Add custom connector, paste the address above, and click Add. That’s it. You can ignore any “advanced” or OAuth fields. The connector then syncs to every Claude app you use, on any device. To use it in a chat, click the + (or “Search and tools”) and turn it on.

Custom connectors require a Claude Pro or Max plan. On a school’s Team or Enterprise plan, an owner adds it once under Organization settings and staff connect to it.

ChatGPT

Turn on Developer Mode, then add the connector.

In ChatGPT, open Settings Apps & ConnectorsAdvanced and switch on Developer Mode (a beta feature). Then add a new connector and paste the address above. This is available on Plus, Pro, and Business plans.

Gemini · more technical

Today, Gemini support is through the Gemini CLI.

Google’s consumer Gemini app doesn’t yet let you add custom connectors. If you (or your school’s IT) use the Gemini CLI (a tool that runs in a terminal), add the connector to ~/.gemini/settings.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "georgia-homeroom": {
      "httpUrl": "https://YOUR-CONNECTOR-URL"
    }
  }
}

Restart the Gemini CLI and run /mcp to confirm it connected.

Good to know

  • Free to use, but the AI plan may not be. The connector is free. Custom connectors themselves generally require a paid plan from Claude, ChatGPT, or Google.
  • It only looks things up. The connector reads Georgia’s public, official standards to answer your questions. It doesn’t change anything or store your students’ information.
  • Anyone can use it. It’s built for teachers and administrators, but parents are welcome to add it too.