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Comprehensive curriculum and robust resources for teaching social-emotional learning skills

Research shows that social-emotional learning (SEL) is crucial for children to become successful socially and academically. SEL programs in schools help to improve students’ behavior, attitudes ...

An interactive learning experience for aspiring math beasts in grades 2‑5

Beast Academy, developed by Art of Problem Solving (AoPS), is a comprehensive math curriculum for grades 2-5 designed by its creators as “the math curriculum we wish we had when we were kids.” B...

PebbleGo is a curricular content hub specifically designed for K-3 students

PebbleGo is a curricular content hub specifically designed for K-3 students. Packed with informational articles, ready-made activities, and literacy supports for students of all abilities, it bo...

An all-in-one video creation platform to create, share and manage videos to empower learning

Thousands of educators have turned to Screencast-O-Matic to create videos and screencasts for classroom instruction. This easy-to-use and affordable video creation platform takes teaching to the...

Puku helps children 8-12 master vocabulary with Merriam-Webster, America’s most trusted dictionary

Puku is a fun and motivating vocabulary-building app for kids. The app features Puku, a virtual pet that grows and evolves as players master new words, in an engaging display that rewards progre...

A classroom app and curriculum to help students develop emotional regulation and improve behavior

  The KidConnect Classroom App was designed to help students develop emotional regulation and improve behavior. It provides students with effective strategies to identify, understand, and mana...

Book Retriever is a classroom library manager that helps student literacy

Book Retriever is a SaaS application dedicated to helping teachers find the right book for each individual student. Classroom teachers often have a large collection of books in their room that s...

UL Xplorlabs modules teach STEM topics to students using real-world engineering challenges

UL Xplorlabs is an educational platform designed to encourage students to “solve through science.” It is especially focused on engaging middle-school students when their interest in science is s...

Connecting K-12 education communities with websites powered by Edlio’s content management system

Edlio offers the most comprehensive and easy-to-use communication package for school and district administrators, teachers, and parents. Powering over 10,000 school and district websites across ...

Sora helps give K-12 students more access to ebooks, audiobooks and school’s digital collection

The Sora student reading app is a state-of-the-art reading experience that allows K-12 students to borrow ebooks and audiobooks from their school’s digital collection. Available on smartphones, ...

Edsby Capture is the on-the-go way to capture visual evidence of learning.

Edsby Capture gives students and teachers the ability to easily capture photographs of their work and create evidence items within Edsby’s comprehensive learning and analytics platform. Evidence...

Safety and Crisis Response Platform to Prepare for and Respond to Emergencies

CrisisGo builds easy-to-use tools to empower people to take an active role in keeping themselves and others safe. Tools that shorten the distance between seeing something and doing something ab...

Software that allows you to hold virtual objects for active learning and creation

MERGE EDU is a subscription-based AR/VR platform for STEM learning and student creation designed to work with the award-winning MERGE Cube. The platform includes the Explorer app, a premium vers...

Gaze-driven attention training games for children with autism or ADHD

With the right intervention, a child with autism or ADHD can improve attention and reduce distractions. BrainLeap's attention training games, developed at UC San Diego, can help children achieve...

Math in the Fastlane: Fueled by passion, driven by research

Math in the Fast Lane is not a scripted program. Rather, their mission is to take something OFF teachers’ shoulders by providing research-based resources they can incorporate into their lessons ...

ONPASS Pro software makes it easy to create multiple data-supported planning scenarios.

ONPASS® Pro is a geographic information system (GIS) software designed for school district administrators and planners to present their district and school boundaries on a map and to gather, sto...

Ozobot makes STEAM simple with 2 Ways to Code–connected and screen-free

Ozobot makes award-winning robots for the next generation of creators. Their bots can be coded two ways: online with OzoBlockly and screen-free with Color Codes. Ozobot’s mission is to inspire y...

PDF and Document annotation app for Chromebooks

  Formats: web app, also available in the Chrome Web Store and G Suite Marketplace Website: https://www.kamihq.com/ The Kami app helps all educators who have ever had pro...

Magically place 3D animals onto our Classroom Alphabet Rugs with Rugs alive!

  12-word description of app/product: Magically place 3D animals onto our Classroom Alphabet Rugs with Rugs alive TM !   Formats: iOS, Android, Amazon   Website: www.Ru...

PikMyKid Automated Dismissal & Safety Platform for Safer, Faster, & Easier dismissals.

12 word description of app/product: PikMyKid Automated Dismissal & Safety Platform for Safer, Faster, & Easier dismissals.   Formats: iOS (iTunes), Android (Google Play), &...


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