Instruction / Curriculum

Sight Reading Factory is an online generator and assessment platform for music sight-reading practice. It is intended primarily for instrumental and vocal music learners developing sight-reading skills, with students, music teachers, ensemble directors, and private instructors using it to support music notation, rhythm, pitch, ensemble readiness, and sight reading.

Teachers generate level-appropriate exercises by instrument, voice, key, meter, and difficulty and assign practice or assessments. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Smarty Ants is a game-based foundational-literacy program now associated with McGraw Hill’s Achieve3000 portfolio. It is designed primarily for preschool through early-elementary learners, including developing and multilingual readers, with young students, classroom teachers, reading specialists, and families using it to support phonological awareness, phonics, word recognition, fluency, vocabulary, and early comprehension.

Students progress through animated lessons, songs, stories, and practice while educators review early-literacy performance and usage. 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.

Sooth is a student-focused search and research platform emphasizing vetted sources. It is intended primarily for secondary and postsecondary learners conducting online research, with students, teachers, librarians, and debate or research programs using it to support source discovery, media literacy, bias, reliability, citation, and research organization.

Learners search curated web sources, compare reliability and media-bias information, save sources, take notes, build collections, and create citations. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Sora Schools is an online private-school model rather than the OverDrive Sora reading app. It is designed primarily for primarily middle- and high-school learners seeking a full-time alternative, project-based, or flexible online-school experience, with students, families, online educators, mentors, and program administrators using it to support interdisciplinary projects, individualized pathways, mentoring, and virtual secondary education.

Learners participate in virtual cohorts, projects, seminars, advising, and individualized academic planning through a school-delivery model. 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.

Soundtrap for Education is Spotify’s browser-based collaborative audio-production environment for education. It is intended primarily for upper-elementary through high-school learners creating music, podcasts, and audio projects, with students, music teachers, classroom teachers, language teachers, and media staff using it to support music production, audio storytelling, collaboration, speaking, and creative expression.

Students record, edit, loop, mix, compose, interview, narrate, and collaborate on audio projects from school-managed workspaces. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Sown To Grow is a student reflection and engagement platform. It is designed primarily for upper-elementary through high-school students developing reflection, goal-setting, and learning habits, with students, teachers, counselors, advisory staff, and school leaders using it to support student voice, metacognition, social-emotional check-ins, goals, and educator response.

Students complete recurring academic or well-being reflections and goals while educators review patterns, respond, and identify learners needing connection or support. 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.

ST Math is MIND Education’s visual instructional mathematics program. It is designed primarily for prekindergarten through middle-school mathematics learners, including students benefiting from language-light visual models, with students, math teachers, interventionists, special educators, and administrators using it to support conceptual mathematics, spatial reasoning, productive struggle, and problem solving.

Students solve increasingly complex visual puzzles and receive immediate feedback while teachers connect representations to classroom mathematics and monitor progress. 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.

STEMscopes is Accelerate Learning’s digital and print curriculum portfolio. It is designed primarily for students across elementary and secondary grades, depending on the licensed science, math, or STEM product, with classroom teachers, students, curriculum leaders, and instructional coaches using it to support standards-aligned science inquiry, engineering, mathematics, phenomena, and hands-on learning.

Teachers combine investigations, phenomena, readings, simulations, discourse, assessment, intervention, and hands-on materials within a structured instructional sequence. 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.

Studies Weekly is a print-and-digital elementary curriculum built around weekly publications. It is intended primarily for elementary students, with programs varying by state and grade, with teachers, students, curriculum leaders, and multilingual-learner staff using it to support social studies, science, current connections, informational reading, and inquiry.

Students read short standards-connected articles, use multimedia and primary sources, discuss topics, and complete writing and assessment activities. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

SuccessMaker is Savvas’s adaptive personalized-learning system. It is intended primarily for elementary and middle-grade learners receiving supplemental practice or intervention, with students, teachers, interventionists, and administrators using it to support adaptive mathematics and reading practice, diagnostics, and progress monitoring.

Students follow individualized mathematics or reading paths while educators monitor skill performance and growth. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Summit K12 is a digital curriculum portfolio for English learners, science, and literacy. It is intended primarily for K–12 multilingual learners and students using supplemental science or literacy programs, with students, ELD and science teachers, specialists, and administrators using it to support language proficiency, literacy, science knowledge, assessment preparation, and progress monitoring.

Students complete standards-connected lessons, listening, speaking, reading, writing, vocabulary, and assessment activities in licensed programs. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Sutori is a collaborative multimedia story and timeline authoring platform. It is intended primarily for upper-elementary through postsecondary learners creating sequenced presentations, with students, teachers, librarians, and project-based-learning programs using it to support research, chronology, multimedia composition, collaboration, and presentation.

Learners combine text, images, video, audio, links, questions, and discussion in a vertical narrative. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

TCI History Alive! is a family of interactive social-studies curricula from TCI. It is intended primarily for upper-elementary through high-school social-studies students, depending on the specific TCI course, with teachers, students, curriculum leaders, and multilingual-learner staff using it to support history, geography, civics, economics, inquiry, discussion, and source analysis.

Teachers use structured experiential lessons, readings, primary sources, maps, simulations, discussion, writing, and assessment to help students investigate social studies. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

TeachingBooks is a curated database of resources connected to children’s and young-adult books. It is intended primarily for K–12 readers, educators, librarians, and families exploring books and authors, with teachers, librarians, students, literacy coaches, and families using it to support book discovery, author context, read-aloud support, vocabulary, and literature-based instruction.

Users find author interviews, book guides, pronunciation recordings, text complexity information, and instructional connections for specific titles. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

ThinkCERCA is a literacy curriculum and platform organized around claims, evidence, reasoning, counterarguments, and audience. It is intended primarily for upper-elementary through high-school learners writing across subjects, with students, ELA and content-area teachers, literacy coaches, and curriculum leaders using it to support argument writing, close reading, evidence, reasoning, discussion, and disciplinary literacy.

Students read differentiated texts, discuss ideas, plan arguments, draft writing, and receive teacher feedback across ELA and content areas. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

ThinkLink is School Specialty’s digital curriculum-delivery platform. It is intended primarily for students and educators using School Specialty programs such as FOSS, Delta Education, ScienceFLEX, or Success Coach, with teachers, students, curriculum administrators, and technology staff using it to support digital access to science, ela, mathematics, ebooks, and program resources.

Users access licensed ebooks, multimedia, assignments, and teacher materials associated with participating School Specialty curricula. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

TIME for Kids is a classroom news magazine and digital resource from TIME. It is intended primarily for elementary and middle-grade readers, with editions organized by grade level, with students, classroom teachers, literacy staff, and families using it to support current events, informational literacy, civics, science, vocabulary, and discussion.

Students read age-appropriate journalism in print or online and respond through discussion, writing, quizzes, and connected activities. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Tinkercad is Autodesk’s free browser-based design and simulation environment. It is intended primarily for upper-elementary through high-school makers and designers, with students, teachers, CTE staff, library/makerspace staff, and robotics programs using it to support 3d design, circuits, coding, engineering design, and prototyping.

Learners create 3D models, simulate circuits, code designs, and prepare files for fabrication or presentation. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.