New GenAI tool is now available to K-12 educators in more than 50 school districts across 21 states; enables educators to adjust reading level to improve student outcomes.
Today, Gale, part of Cengage Group, announced the launch of AI Leveler, a generative AI-powered (GenAI) tool within Gale In Context: For Educators that allows K-12 educators to adjust and personalize the reading level of instructional content for each student.
AI Leveler provides a safe and convenient way for K–12 educators to efficiently adapt Gale educational resources, enabling personalized learning that improves reading comprehension. This personalization is crucial, especially as the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reports that 1 in 3 American students fail to demonstrate basic, age-appropriate reading skills.
“Educators are at the heart of learning, and our focus is on giving them the tools they need to personalize instruction and drive student success,” said Darren Person, Chief Digital Officer at Cengage Group. “With AI Leveler, we’re enabling educators to tailor instruction at scale—especially in critical areas like reading and STEM—while maintaining full control over content quality and the classroom experience. Adjustments to reading levels can be made discreetly, respecting student privacy and allowing learners to engage with material at the level that suits them best. We developed this tool based on direct educator feedback to ensure it supports efficient, safe, and high-quality instruction tailored to individual student needs.”
AI Leveler helps educators deliver tailored scaffolding to students to address gaps in reading comprehension. This approach enables more learners to engage with grade-level concepts while building and strengthening their skills. Unlike some standalone AI tools that generate content, AI Leveler does not create instructional material. Instead, it works exclusively with trusted, authored and sourced content from Gale, helping personalize how that content is delivered. This ensures source transparency and keeps high-quality, curriculum-aligned materials at the center of the learning experience.
Key features include:
- Customizable Text Levels: Educators can adjust Gale content to 12 different Lexile reading levels, allowing educators to modify text complexity on demand and create multiple leveled versions of the same resource for each individual student.
- Editable Results: Once content is leveled, educators can edit and customize content to their exact needs. This enables educators to add formatting and headings to support student comprehension, remove sections of content that aren’t relevant to their instruction or ensure vocabulary needed for the lesson is incorporated into the text.
- Auto-Generated Citation: Every modified resource includes a citation that notes AI-assisted adjustments for transparency and proper sourcing, which is critical for information literacy.
AI Leveler is part of Cengage Group’s broader commitment to advance AI and machine learning technologies to personalize learning, improve student outcomes, enhance and scale the instructor experience and, ultimately, connect education to real-world careers. It follows recent launches of Cengage’s Student Assistant, Faculty Insight Dashboard and Infosec’s Skills Navigator, all of which are AI-powered tools designed to enhance the human element of education.
“At Cengage Group, we continue to evolve learning and prioritize technologies like GenAI to reimagine what’s possible for both educators and learners,” said Person. “Improving and enhancing learning outcomes – with the help of personalized learning tools – is our main priority, and GenAI-powered enhancements, like AI Leveler, allow educators to strategically and safely personalize learning to improve reading comprehension. We want educators to feel empowered to change the trajectory of learning for each student in a safe, controlled environment, and AI Leveler is just one example of how we’re making that a reality. We look forward to introducing this product to our customers and continuing to complement their teaching efforts with tools that will help them continue making a difference in the classroom.”
Integrated directly into Gale In Context: For Educators, the tool allows educators to save and assign this adapted content through platforms such as Google Classroom, Canvas and Schoology. The AI Leveler beta release also leverages AI techniques to strengthen the “Find Resources by Standard” tool to provide better alignment between standards and content.
Gale In Context: For Educators is an award-winning instructional tool developed by curriculum experts that merges current, relevant, standards-aligned content with rich lesson plans.
For more information about Gale and its new AI Leveler tool, visit the product webpage.
