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Learning Commons is Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s education initiative, which aims to scale proven teaching and learning practices to benefit every learner. Learning Commons became the home of our education efforts in 2025 and will build upon the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s work over the past decade to advance learning science and help translate that research into classroom practice.

Led by Sandra Liu Huang, a product and philanthropy leader, Learning Commons brings together a world-class engineering team, deep knowledge of learning science, and strong connections to researchers, educators, and developers. With our partners, our mission is to build the AI infrastructure that better connects the ways students learn with the tools they learn with.

Our vision is to scale proven teaching and learning practices to benefit every learner.

For far too long, educators have had to stitch disconnected curricula, tools, and technologies together, often at the expense of time, differentiation, and instructional coherence. In turn, students experience inconsistent activities or support that doesn’t fully meet their individual learning needs.

As AI expands the possibilities to better support students and teachers, it also introduces complexity when products aren’t connected or grounded in pedagogy. By collaborating early and often with educators on the development of our products, we’re working to ensure that the evolution of edtech reflects real classroom priorities, aligns to core curriculum, and enables interoperability across tools.

Technology products play a critical role in supporting educators and learners. With our vision to scale proven learning practices to benefit every learner, it is essential that the tools used in every classroom are more consistent and aligned with high-quality curricula, academic standards, and learning science, and rigorously evaluated against expert rubrics and research.

By developing open, machine-readable educational datasets and evaluation methods for AI, we aim to improve the rigor of education technology used by educators to create truly impactful learning experiences.

As a result, we partner with both for-profit and non-profit edtech developers to scale learning science building blocks into their products.

Our current offerings include Knowledge Graph, Evaluators, and Curriculum Sync.

Developers can sign up for a free Learning Commons Platform account to access and explore Knowledge Graph datasets, generate API keys, and use Evaluators.

Districts that are interested in Curriculum Sync can reach out to our partnerships team.

Learning Commons aims to translate what learning science tells us about how students learn best into classroom practice. With the advent of generative AI, that translation work can be accelerated and scaled to have a greater impact. We are building infrastructure for AI tools to make it easier for edtech developers to access pedagogy and research to help create more effective learning experiences for all students.

Our advisory board brings together experts from a range of fields to help guide our efforts to scale proven teaching and learning practices to benefit every learner.

The Advisory Board members are:

Dan Carroll
Former Chief Product Officer and co-founder of Clever

Richard Culatta
CEO of ISTE+ASCD

Bethanie Drake-Maples
Founder and CEO of Atypical AI

Laurence Holt
Senior Advisor at XQ Institute and Teaching Lab, Co-founder/Partner of Coherence Fund

Babak Mostaghimi
Founding Partner of LearnerStudio

We build our tools with care and a deep sense of responsibility, grounded in safety, transparency and responsible design. Learn more about our commitment by reading our Responsible AI Principles.

Learning Commons, which is Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s education initiative, carries out its work through Learning Commons, Inc. a 501(c)(3) private foundation; the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, LLC (which provides strategic, funding, and operational support); and the Learning Commons Donor Advised Fund.

If you have found a bug or have a feature suggestion, please reach out to us at support@learningcommons.org.