App of the Week

Free “Learn-to-Read” 12-Hour Fully Narrated, Simulated, One on One Tutoring App

  The FUNetix® 12 Hour Reading App is a “Learn-to-Read” app that is the culmination of 18 years of working to battle the illiteracy crisis in America.  At the American Youth Literacy Foundatio...

The Young Inventors Club is Empowering Kids to Invent the Future

The Young Inventors Club  is a website destination ( https://ifnotyoubooks.com/inventors-club/ ) tied to a book series that brings the world of invention and inventors to young children. The ...

Brain-based, on-line 3-hour PD designed to help educators foster mental wellness.

Pathways: Educator-First Professional development programs are three-hour self-paced PD programs designed specifically for K-2, 3-5, and 6-12 educators to help them understand how to foster thei...

BrainWare builds attention, processing speed and memory skills that improve reading comprehension and academic performance

  BrainWare SAFARI is the most researched, comprehensive cognitive training program delivered online in the world. Winner of many awards, BrainWare SAFARI incorporates decades of proven clinic...

EdSERT Digital is an online social and emotional learning professional development program for educators

  EdSERT Digital, from Aperture Education, is an online social and emotional learning (SEL) professional development program for educators. The EdSERT (short for Educator Social-Emotional Refl...

Mind maps of history and the humanities in a multimedia-rich environment

  WisdomMaps work well as a stand-alone alternative to a text. And they work even better when paired with a text. The text helps students keep to the straight-and-narrow of the historical narr...

Empatico is a free digital platform for connecting children’s classrooms worldwide

Empatico is a free digital platform that empowers students and educators to connect their classrooms with others around the world. The non-profit organization gives kids the opportunity to learn...

SplashLearn is a game-based learning platform that strives to create fearless learners

SplashLearn is a game-based learning program that intelligently adapts to each child’s skill level and helps them master appropriate skills for Math and Reading at their own pace. Covering pre-k...

The Playlearning™ app for kids ages 2-8 years old

  Lingokids is the playlearning™ app in English for children 2 to 8 years old with over 25 million registered families. The apps’ playlearning™ method enables children to expand their vocabula...

BOOKR Class is a storytelling-based English teaching app with animated stories and games

  BOOKR Class is a research-based 2-in-1 complementary tool to teach English as a Second Language (ESL): an easy-to-use gamified library application with a curated selection of engaging int...

Self-paced, accredited, anywhere, anytime online courses, offered by real industry experts

Lead Academy is a leading provider of online training, practical courses and professional training. Their wide range of courses are certified by CPD, IPHM and endorsed by Quality License Schem...

Self-paced platform teaches real-world coding skills through creating games and animations

Used by schools and coding academies throughout the United States, Blackbird was built to address the gap in coding education – in a fun and engaging platform that can be administered by non-tec...

ParentSquare is the premier unified school-to-home communications platform for K-12 education

  ParentSquare is the premier school-to-home engagement platform for K-12 education. It is the only fully unified product that engages every family with school communications and communication...

Transformational social-emotional support delivered with an abundance of care

EmpowerU’s proven approach to social-emotional learning helps students replace anxiety and depression with resilience and confidence. As active participants in their wellness journey, students c...

Online, Mindsets-Based Social Emotional Learning Program for Educators and Students Success

7 Mindsets offers a proven, research-based social emotional learning (SEL) solution that helps K-12 districts and schools create and sustain positive school cultures rooted in healthy relationsh...

Learning Tools for AP® Courses offer a full suite of AP resources

Learning Tools For AP ® Courses offers educators all the resources they need to empower their students to succeed in their AP classes, reach their target scores on AP exams, and earn college cr...

Pixton is a web-based comic creation platform designed for classroom use

Pixton engages students across the curriculum through the magic of comics with an easy-to-use, web-based comic creation platform. Teachers can bring writing assignments to life with a visual com...

TutorMe connects students with tutors in more than 300 subjects within seconds

  TutorMe is an online platform that levels the academic playing field by providing quality academic support to all students, regardless of location, time of day, or financial resources. Tutor...

Award-winning apps where users manipulate physical objects to interact with a tablet

The Osmo for Schools Elementary Learning System is designed to outfit an entire school. These game-based activities can be integrated into any core or supplemental program to make it more well-r...

An award winning ed-tech platform that teaches kids the fundamentals of coding

Parent Choice Awards winner, codeSpark Academy, is the #1 learn-to-code gaming app for children, making education look and feel like play. The platform teaches kids aged 4-9 years-old the ABCs o...


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