Kide Science is Accelerate Learning’s play-based early science curriculum. It is intended primarily for preschool and primary-grade learners, with young learners, early-childhood teachers, families, and curriculum leaders using it to support inquiry, play, science practices, language, and imaginative investigation.

Children investigate science questions through stories, dramatic play, hands-on experiments, discussion, and documentation. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Kids Read Now is a managed book-distribution and family literacy program with supporting technology. It is intended primarily for preschool and elementary readers participating in school or summer reading programs, with students, families, teachers, literacy leaders, and community partners using it to support book ownership, summer reading, reading motivation, family engagement, and comprehension.

Children choose books for home delivery, families receive reading prompts and reminders, and schools monitor participation across a campaign. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Koha is a free and open-source integrated library system for cataloging, circulation, patrons, acquisitions, serials, authorities, reporting, notices, and public discovery. It supports single libraries, multi-branch systems, and consortia through browser-based staff and patron interfaces.

The software has no license fee or single required vendor, but it is not operationally free: districts must provide hosting, security, upgrades, backups, integrations, migration, configuration, and support themselves or contract with a Koha service provider. The quality and cost of the implementation depend heavily on that operating model.

Kuta Works is Kuta Software’s online assignment and assessment system. It is intended primarily for middle- and high-school mathematics students, with math teachers, students, interventionists, and department leaders using it to support practice assignment, procedural fluency, automatic scoring, and problem generation.

Teachers build assignments from Kuta problem banks, distribute them online, and review automatically scored student work. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Kyte Learning is an online professional-learning platform focused on practical technology and classroom-implementation training for educators. Teachers choose short, self-paced video courses and collections, allowing districts to provide on-demand learning without relying entirely on scheduled in-service sessions.

Administrators can assign or recommend content, organize district-created training, monitor participation, and recognize completed professional-development credit. The platform is most useful for differentiated, asynchronous skill development; districts should confirm how locally required hours, approvals, and transcript records are handled.

Lalilo is Renaissance’s adaptive early-literacy practice platform. It is intended primarily for early-elementary learners developing French or English foundational literacy, depending on regional availability, with students, early-literacy teachers, interventionists, and families using it to support phonological awareness, decoding, word recognition, fluency, and differentiated practice.

Students complete personalized literacy exercises with feedback while teachers review progress and assign targeted practice. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Learning A-Z is a portfolio that includes Raz-Plus, Reading A-Z, Science A-Z, Vocabulary A-Z, and related services. It is intended primarily for early-childhood and elementary readers, with some resources extending higher, with classroom teachers, reading specialists, multilingual-learner staff, students, and families using it to support foundational literacy, leveled reading, science reading, vocabulary, and language development.

Educators select printable and digital texts, lessons, practice, quizzes, and progress information from licensed Learning A-Z components. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Learning Ally Audiobook Solution provides human-read audio e-books and textbooks for learners who need reading access support. Reading features include highlighted text and adjustable playback, with educator tools for reviewing engagement. Learning Ally offers a web reader and supported applications for mobile and desktop devices.

LearnPlatform by Instructure is an edtech-management and evidence platform for inventorying digital learning products, monitoring usage, supporting privacy and compliance review, organizing approvals, and evaluating effectiveness and return on investment. It helps districts replace disconnected spreadsheets used for software requests and renewals.

The platform is directly relevant to the user’s original reason for creating the Workflow category, but its clearer home is EdTech Management, Software Governance, or Application Portfolio Management. Existing interoperability values are preserved pending the future connector redesign.

LETRS is professional learning for educators and school leaders focused on the science of reading and literacy instruction. Online coursework accompanies the professional learning program. Course offerings and participation requirements vary by role and program. Grades remain blank because the direct users are adults receiving professional development.

Level Data State Validation is a PowerSchool-embedded data-quality service that identifies missing, inconsistent, or noncompliant student information before districts submit it to state reporting systems. It applies state-specific and district-defined business rules directly within the SIS so staff can find problems during ordinary data work rather than waiting for a rejected submission.

The service presents groups of affected records through PowerSchool screens and supports guided, bulk correction where appropriate. Level Data maintains rule libraries as state requirements change, while RealTime Validation can flag errors at the point of entry. The result is a continuous data-quality process shared among registrars, attendance staff, program teams, and district reporting personnel.

Lexia Learning is a portfolio of adaptive literacy programs including Core5, PowerUp, and English-language development products. It is designed primarily for students in prekindergarten through high school, especially developing and struggling readers, with classroom teachers, reading specialists, interventionists, multilingual-learner staff, and administrators using it to support foundational reading, language, comprehension, and adolescent literacy.

Students receive sequenced practice while educators use diagnostic and progress data to target small-group or individual instruction. The product should be evaluated for the specific learners, instructional setting, and intensity of support a district intends—not simply as another source of digital activities.

LibraryWorld is a hosted library automation service for school, academic, public, and special libraries. It provides cataloging, circulation, patron management, inventory, serials tracking, reports, and an online public access catalog without requiring the library to maintain local server software.

The platform is a practical full-library system for smaller or less complex environments. Districts should compare its multi-site administration, identity and SIS integration, accessibility, data-security documentation, reporting depth, and support model with products built specifically for large K–12 districts.

LightSail is a digital reading, content, and literacy platform. It is intended primarily for K–12 readers using digital texts and literacy activities, with students, teachers, reading specialists, librarians, and families using it to support independent reading, comprehension, vocabulary, writing, and progress monitoring.

Learners access ebooks and texts, respond to embedded questions, write, and receive differentiated recommendations while educators monitor activity. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Student safety monitoring software that identifies concerning activity in supported school-managed digital environments. Lightspeed Alert supplies context and notifications to help school teams investigate potential self-harm, violence, and other safety concerns. Human review and response coverage depend on the purchased service.

Not to be confused with: Lightspeed Filter governs browsing access; Alert supports student safety review.

Education technology analytics software for understanding digital application use and supporting app governance. Lightspeed Insight helps districts review engagement, license use, and privacy information when evaluating their digital resource portfolio. The product was previously called Lightspeed Digital Insight.

Not to be confused with: Lightspeed MDM is a device management product; Insight analyzes the application portfolio.