Teacher Resource Network

Teacher Resource Network is a full-stack educational search platform built to help teachers discover relevant classroom resources faster. I helped design and build a resource ingestion pipeline that normalized videos, articles, activities, simulations, and other teaching materials into searchable records. The system used AI-generated metadata, keyword extraction, standards alignment, and semantic embeddings to make resources searchable by instructional meaning instead of simple keyword matching.

Overview

Teacher Resource Network is an AI-powered search platform built to help teachers find high-quality classroom resources faster. Instead of relying on basic keyword matching, the system used AI-generated metadata, standards alignment, and semantic search to connect teachers with resources based on instructional meaning, learning goals, and classroom use case.

My Role and Contributions

• •Search Architecture: Helped design a semantic search system that ranked teacher resources by meaning, standards alignment, and resource type instead of simple keyword overlap.
• •AI Metadata Pipeline: Built systems to process educational resources, extract useful metadata, generate keywords, and prepare content for vector-based search.
• •Full-Stack Engineering: Worked across the Flask backend, PostgreSQL database, and JavaScript frontend to turn the search pipeline into a usable teacher-facing web application.

Results

• •Developed as part of a humanities lab group project focused on improving how teachers discover and organize instructional resources.
• •Created a scalable foundation for searching across videos, articles, activities, simulations, games, and other educational materials.

Why This Matters

This project shows my ability to build AI-backed tools around messy, real-world information. I worked on the architecture behind resource ingestion, metadata generation, semantic retrieval, and full-stack implementation, turning a broad education problem into a searchable system teachers could actually use.