Curriculum-Informed AI™ for World Language Classrooms
AI Is a Choice, Not a Requirement
At Wayside, educators are always in control of how technology supports their classrooms. Our core world language programs are designed to build proficiency with or without AI.
Nualang™ offers supplemental AI-powered conversation practice for educators who choose to use it, adding opportunities for students to practice language in engaging, interactive ways. It’s an added benefit—not a requirement.
With AI or without it, the goal remains the same: helping students become confident, proficient communicators.
Our Curriculum-Informed AI Principles
- Boost Teacher Impact: Multiply your teaching effectiveness and efficiency with easy-to-use features and services you control.
- Safety Built In: Every AI feature or service is reviewed against the EdSafe AI SAFE Framework—ensuring fairness, efficacy, and security.
- Built for Proficiency: Designed around real communicative objectives to support language growth, not just test scores.
- Teachers Stay in Control: Turn AI on or off for any activity or class. When AI is off, students still get scripted conversation practice.
How We Support Education Priorities
Built to deliver what matters most in today’s classrooms.
Learn More About Our Safety Practices
We’ve built safeguards into every stage of AI development and classroom use. Here’s how we keep students, teachers, and data safe:
- Rigorous Evaluation: Every AI feature follows Imagine Learning's Responsible AI Framework for equity and fairness, academic integrity, and student privacy, and is tested against the EdSafe AI SAFE Framework before release.
- Human Oversight: Real people review AI behavior during development to ensure outputs align with learning goals and classroom appropriateness.
- Data Privacy: Personal information is removed before any AI processing. Student data is never used to train or finetune AI models, and we comply with FERPA and COPPA.
- Clear, Transparent Policies: Teachers and administrators always know what data is collected, how it’s used, and how to manage AI settings.
- Age-Appropriate Safeguards: Filters, content limits, and use restrictions ensure the AI experience is suitable for each learner’s age group.
Want to go deeper?
Read the EdSafe Framework
How AI Works in Nualang
This table shows which Nualang features use generative AI and which don't, so you know exactly what students are working with. Teachers can turn AI features off at any time.
FAQs
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We use a controlled, education-first implementation of AI with strict guardrails to keep students safe. Our systems detect and anonymize any personally identifiable information (PII) before it’s processed, so private details are never shared with the AI model. This means students can interact naturally while staying protected. All AI features are built on secure, vetted technology.
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Wayside aligns our AI practices with the EdSafe AI SAFE Framework, which sets high standards for safe, accountable, fair, and effective AI in education. This means we:
- Set clear boundaries on how AI can be used.
- Audit and monitor for safety, accuracy, and bias.
- Foster transparency so educators know how and why AI is used.
- Empower teachers to control AI features in their classrooms.
Following this framework ensures our AI enhances learning without replacing teacher expertise.
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Teachers have full visibility when AI is active and can decide exactly how to use it. They can enable or disable AI at the activity or class level, and choose when it’s the right fit for their students. This flexibility allows AI to support, not dictate, the instructional flow. When AI is turned off, students still get scripted, non-AI conversation practice.
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Student interaction data is used only to power the learning activity and provide feedback to the student and teacher. Student data is never used to train or fine-tune any AI model, ours or anyone else's. Anonymized, aggregated usage data may be used to improve the learning experience and check that our AI tools are working as intended.
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Yes. Teachers can turn off AI for individual activities or entire classes. This ensures AI use always matches class needs, student comfort, and district policy.
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No. Nualang's AI gives practice feedback to help students improve. It never assigns scores or grades. Teachers make all grading decisions.
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Students keep practicing. Nualang switches to a scripted, non-AI version of the same conversation activities, so schools that limit AI can still use the full program.
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In chatbot conversations with AI turned on, student responses are processed with personal information removed. In Discuss activities, AI feedback is generated only when a teacher requests it.
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Wayside is part of Imagine Learning. Nualang follows Imagine Learning's Curriculum-Informed AI™ approach: AI built to work inside the curriculum, support teachers, and protect students
