--- title: "gpa-companion" description: "Grosse Pointe Academy's teaching practice as Agent Skills, for grades 1-8. Planning curriculum builds a unit or a term backwards from what students should understand. Supporting students diagnoses what is in a child's wa" canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/gpa-companion last-updated: 2026-10-21 --- # gpa-companion Grosse Pointe Academy's teaching practice as Agent Skills, for grades 1-8. Planning curriculum builds a unit or a term backwards from what students should understand. Supporting students diagnoses what is in a child's way before planning around it. Writing assessments produces quizzes, tests and rubrics that measure the outcome. Communicating with families writes to one parent or all of them, and a human voice skill keeps it sounding like the teacher. A router says which skill owns the request. - Slug: gpa-companion - Publisher: Grosse Pointe Academy - Repository: https://github.com/isterin/gpa-companion - Manifest: plugin.json - Version: 0.1.0 - License: UNLICENSED - Category (editorial): productivity - Skills: 6 (communicating-with-families, planning-curriculum, supporting-students, using-gpa-skills, writing-assessments, writing-in-a-human-voice) - MCP servers: 0 - Stars: 0 - Repository created: 2026-08-31 - Repository last pushed: 2026-09-01 - Publisher type: User - Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/gpa-companion - Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json ## What gpa-companion does, in the publisher's words GPA Companion is Grosse Pointe Academy's teaching practice, written down so that Claude can work the way we do. It helps with the writing and planning that fills a teacher's evenings, a unit, a quiz, a rubric, a plan for one child, a note home, and it asks the questions a thoughtful colleague would ask before it starts drafting. It works in the Claude app, in Cowork, and in Claude Code, for grades 1 through 8. In the Claude app or Cowork. Your Claude administrator publishes GPA Companion to the school's plugin catalogue. Open Customize → Plugins in the sidebar and install GPA Companion. Depending on how the school has set it up, it may already be there. Type / to see what is available. From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/isterin/gpa-companion/HEAD/README.md ## Skills - communicating-with-families: Write to a child's parents, or to every family in the class. Use when a teacher needs to tell one family something about their child, progress, a concern, a behaviour incident, good news worth sending, or to send the whole class a newsletter, a unit overview, a trip letter, or a reminder. Works o… - planning-curriculum: Plan what a class gets taught and in what order. Use when a teacher wants to build or rework a unit, lay out a term or year as a scope and sequence, turn a set of standards into something teachable, or tighten a unit whose activities and assessments have drifted apart. Settles the understanding a u… - supporting-students: Plan for one child, or a few named children, who need something the class plan does not give them. Use when a student is stuck, falling behind, missing a prerequisite, losing confidence, or so far ahead they have stopped working. Finds out what is actually in the way before planning anything, a mi… - using-gpa-skills: Use at the start of any teaching conversation to decide which Grosse Pointe Academy skill applies and route to it. Applies when a teacher brings a class to plan, a unit or term to lay out, a subject that is not landing, a child who is stuck or bored, a quiz or test or rubric to write, a note that h… - writing-assessments: Write something that measures what students actually learned. Use when a teacher needs a quiz, a test, an exit ticket, a set of practice questions, or a rubric for a project or piece of writing. Starts from what the assessment is for, because a check to find out who needs reteaching and a test that… - writing-in-a-human-voice: Rewrite school writing that sounds machine-generated so it reads like the person who sent it, without changing what it says. Use when a note home, a report card comment, a newsletter, or a message to families reads stiff, generic, padded, or oddly formal, when a teacher says a draft sounds like AI… Descriptions come from the frontmatter of each SKILL.md, punctuation lightly normalized.