Class Disrupted The AI Startup Aiming to Help All Students Find their ELA Mojo
Apr 24, 2026
Dacia Toll, Co-CEO of CourseMojo and co-founder of Achievement First, is an education entrepreneur focused on ELA and AI. She explains how CourseMojo supports middle school classrooms, the human-centered design process, classroom examples like poetry scaffolds, and how AI boosts engagement, teacher insight, and scalable professional development.
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AI As Transformational Classroom Electricity
- AI can be transformational in classrooms when it augments core instruction rather than only creating small efficiencies.
- Dacia positions Course Mojo in a 'model two' that keeps schools' core design while using AI to change the teaching and learning experience, not replace it.
Target The Hardest Thinking Segment
- Course Mojo zeroes in on the 'hardest thinking part' of each lesson and scaffolds student work there.
- After partner work Mojo surfaces the two biggest class misconceptions and a suggested discussion question for the teacher to facilitate.
Classroom Demo Where Mojo Hums And Teachers Target 15 Percent
- In a middle school lesson students worked in partners while Mojo acted as a learning buddy giving affirmations, hints, and next just-right questions.
- Teachers watched a live dashboard showing every student's understanding and focused on the 15% of students who needed human intervention.
