At imagi, listening is how we build. Every year, we've asked educators how imagi is really working for them. This is more than just a snapshot; this rich information improves our product, and keeps the teacher voice at the core.
This year, teachers responded from classrooms across the globe, in every kind of setting including public and charter schools, private and international schools, homeschools, and coding clubs. Some are seasoned computer science teachers; many are newer to coding and building confidence right alongside their students.
"The students love expressing their creativity by coding their own designs and animations, bridging the gap between art and computer science."
— Creative computing teacher
Theme of the year: creating with AI
Across various subjects including computer science, STEM, art, and even math, teachers are bringing creative AI-assisted coding into their classrooms. Students are using AI through the safe Lovable × imagi platform to build their own apps and projects, learning to create with AI rather than just cheat with it.
80% of teachers found the AI-assisted coding materials clear and easy to follow. Most of these were already fairly comfortable with AI tools, and yet they reported feeling even more confident after using imagi. The engagement held.
Teachers told us, in their own words, that students "became engaged and excited to create their own coding projects" and started to "realize that AI can take them much further." In fact, 63% of teachers got their students to work on an AI-assisted project.
Only 3% of teachers said students found it too difficult... and that 3% is the number we will now focus upon as we develop and iterate.
Whether students are animating pixel art or building an AI-powered app, teachers report the same fun, the same confidence, the same spark.
"imagi's visual, pixel-art approach makes abstract Python and AI concepts immediately tangible, transforming coding from a daunting task into an exciting, hands-on experience."
— 5th-grade teacher
What's worth pausing on is not that imagi is providing one perfect lesson.
It's that imagi gives students something to create.
For students, seeing what comes alive is most effective, regardless of the topic, the grade, or the tool. That's a useful thing to know, because it means that our job isn't to chase the shiniest format. It's to develop creativity, no matter how the technology around it changes.
Coding for everyone
More than two-thirds of teachers, in both our 2025 and 2026 surveys, told us that students underrepresented in tech became more interested in coding after using imagi. Girls. Non-binary students. Kids who don't see themselves as "tech students." When code becomes creative, the door opens wider.
With 67% overall, the number gets sharper when broken down by curriculum track. On the CS curriculum track, 80% of teachers saw an increased interest in underrepresented students. The creative computer science path, with its pixel art and visual output, is imagi's strongest equity lever.
And this year, with AI in the loop, the door opened a little wider again. Students who used to hit a wall of syntax could now describe what they wanted to create and watch it take shape. The creative part, the part that's theirs, made an impact.
The impact on students is the part teachers kept coming back to in their own words. Teachers rated the fun their students had at 4.2/5, increased student interest at 4.0, and a growth in student confidence at 3.9. The averages are strong.
A teacher put it simply: students "began to realize that artificial intelligence can take them much further." And the line that captures why this matters, from a teacher who watched her class shift: imagi "lowers the intimidation factor around coding. Students who might not normally identify as tech students often participate more willingly."
That's the change we're measuring. Not just that students learned to code. That different students saw themselves as people who CAN.
What we build next
Concretely, the team will work on grade-tiered lessons, clearer progress tracking, and removing the access friction. But we're also holding questions we don't fully have answers to yet, like how to make sure the rush toward AI deepens creative learning rather than replaces it, and how to keep reaching those students who need an invitation most.
What this means for educators
If you're a teacher watching AI entering the world of education and wondering where it fits, here's the honest review from your peers.
Students can create with AI and build working projects. What's more, this creative coding, the kind where a student owns something they've built, consistently reaches students who've been left out of coding education.
The difficulty isn't the blocker. The blockers are access, time, safety, and structure, and those are on us. They are solvable.
Bring creative AI coding into your classroom this term.
Start with our CS curriculum if you want the structured creative path, or with Lovable × imagi if you want students to build apps with AI. Either way, you'll see what your fellow teachers have seen.
💜 To every educator who took part in our survey, including those who told us the hard things: thank you. You make imagi better.
