1,000 teachers. Every school. Clara became the first stop.
- Jun 13
- 2 min read
Updated: 2 days ago
SUCCESS STORY: DOUGLAS COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM, GA
At a Glance
~26,000 students
35+ schools
~3,500 employees
(county's largest employer)
17th-largest in Georgia ·
Sponsor: Dr. Trent North, Superintendent
Partners: Ka’isha Davis (Asst. Supt. of Curriculum & Innovation) Ginny D’Souza (Dir. of Instructional Technology)
The Problem
New teachers needed answers and AI had to earn its place.
Douglas's 0–3-year teachers were navigating policies, systems, and classroom challenges without the answers they needed between trainings. The district didn't want AI for its own sake they wanted to solve a real, daily problem.
What they did
Launched at scale, school by school not a corner pilot.
1,000 teachers across every school got a district-aligned mentor. Clara became the first stop for any question lesson planning, policy, IEPs, classroom management — grounded in Douglas's own systems.
Results - five months in
Nov 2025 – Mar 2026 · 37 schools
3,511 support questions asked, in their workflow
5,046 total actions completed
~43% of onboarded staff using heyC every month
2,100 hrs of staff time saved, 3.5+ months of capacity returned
In their words
We didn’t want AI for its own sake we wanted it to solve a real problem. So we put a mentor that knows Douglas in front of 1,000 teachers, in every school. It supports our people in the moment, the way training alone never could.
Clara became the first place our teachers go for a lesson plan, a policy, a hard classroom moment. It speaks our district, so support is consistent across every school. Now we’re extending it to the staff who support those teachers, too.
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