Lucía Marmolejo Jiménez M.Ed.
IB Educator · Author · Founder
Differentiation is the Language of Belonging.
Jiménez
For nearly two decades I have taught across cultures and languages in international IB classrooms, most of them as a secondary Foreign Language Specialist. As an EAL Coordinator, I have sat beside the student who understands the lesson but not the language it arrived in. And I have watched good teachers run out of hours long before they run out of care.
That is the work behind everything I make. My book, The Differentiation Trap: From Framework to Belonging, argues that differentiation was never really about worksheets or levels. It is about whether a child feels worth investing in. My article for ECIS put it in a single line: differentiation is the language of belonging.
Educator Companion™ grew out of the same conviction. In the age of AI, the most irreplaceable thing a teacher can do is make a student feel worth investing in. So I built a platform that handles the paperwork and frees the teacher to carry the child.
A philosophy first. The tools came after.
- Author
- The Differentiation Trap: From Framework to Belonging
- Article
- Differentiation: The Language of Belonging, published with ECIS
- Speaker
- ECIS webinar, 2026
- Founder
- Creator of Educator Companion™, an AI-powered platform (Claude by Anthropic) that partners with teachers to help them differentiate across three dimensions: academic, social, and emotional
- Anthropic Academy
- Holds official Anthropic Academy certificates in AI Fluency for Educators, Teaching AI Fluency, AI Fluency: Framework and Foundations, and Claude 101
- Technical Training
- Trained directly through Anthropic Academy in the Claude API, Claude Code, agent skills, and the Model Context Protocol, the technical foundation behind how Educator Companion™ is built
- Practice
- IB Educator; MYP Spanish Language Phases 1-4, DP Spanish Ab Initio, DP Spanish Language B HL/SL, DP Spanish Language A: Language and Literature HL/SL, DP English B HL, Curriculum Development, EAL Coordinator, WIDA Framework
- Degree
- Master of Education (M.Ed.)
AI carries the paperwork. The teacher carries the child.