Terms of Use
Who this is for
Show Your Work is a free tool suite designed for K-12 teachers, special education staff, intervention specialists, school support teams, and parents. Most tools are designed for adult use. Work With Me is designed for student use with adult setup. These terms apply to anyone who uses the tools or content on this site.
What you can do
You are welcome to:
- Use any tool on this site for classroom and school purposes
- Share tool outputs with colleagues, parents, or administrators
- Reference this site in professional development, presentations, or school documentation
- Link to this site from your own professional materials
What you may not do
Without written permission from the site owner, you may not:
- Reproduce, copy, or republish the tool prompts, methodology, or written content from this site
- Sell or license any part of this system under your own name or brand
- Repackage any tool, output structure, or framework from this site as an original product
- Use the Show Your Work name, brand, or system in a commercial product or service
- Scrape, extract, or systematically collect content from this site for training, resale, or redistribution
Ownership and intellectual property
Show Your Work is an original system developed by Mary Debus of sySTEMary. The tool architecture, output structures, prompt frameworks, written content, and brand are protected by copyright.
© 2026 Mary Debus / sySTEMary. All rights reserved.
The research citations on this site reference published academic work by Russell A. Barkley, William B. Benninger, and John Sweller. Those works belong to their respective authors and are cited for reference only.
What the tools do and don't do
Show Your Work includes two types of tools. Some tools use rule-based logic and do not send input to an AI model. Tools that use AI send input to Anthropic's API through a Cloudflare Worker proxy. AI-powered tools currently include: the Attention Load Checker, Assignment Directions Rewriter, Note-Taking Fixer, Task Start Tool, Teacher Language Converter, Long Assignment Simplifier, and Work With Me.
Teacher-facing tools are designed to help educators evaluate and adjust classroom tasks. They are not clinical instruments and do not diagnose students. Output is a draft starting point based on what you provide. Nothing on this site replaces professional evaluation, special education services, or clinical judgment.
Work With Me is a student-facing support tool that requires adult setup. It is designed to help students understand assignments, break them into steps, and recover from stuck moments. It does not complete assignments, write essays, provide quiz answers, or replace student thinking. Adults who set up sessions are responsible for ensuring the tool is used in compliance with their school or district's AI policy and for supervising student use appropriately.
Show Your Work is not responsible for decisions made based on tool output. Use your professional judgment.
Show Your Work is not an educational institution and is not subject to FERPA. Adults using these tools are responsible for ensuring their use complies with their school or district's policies regarding third-party tools and student information.
Changes to these terms
These terms may be updated as the site grows. The effective date at the top of this page reflects the most recent version. Continued use of the site after changes are posted means you accept the updated terms.