Instruction / Curriculum

CodeCombat is a game-based programming curriculum and practice environment. It is designed primarily for upper-elementary through high-school learners beginning or extending computer programming, with computer-science teachers, students, after-school programs, and curriculum leaders using it to support coding syntax, computational thinking, problem solving, and computer-science concepts.

Students write real code to solve progressively structured game challenges while educators assign courses and monitor concept mastery. 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.

CodeHS Pro is the paid school edition of CodeHS’s secondary computer-science curriculum and platform. It is intended primarily for middle- and high-school learners in computer science, cybersecurity, web, and technology courses, with students, computer-science teachers, CTE staff, counselors, and curriculum leaders using it to support programming, computational thinking, cybersecurity, web development, and course assessment.

Teachers deliver sequenced courses, coding exercises, projects, quizzes, sandboxes, and feedback while monitoring progress and code submissions. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Code.org is a nonprofit provider of free computer-science curriculum, tools, and professional learning. It is designed primarily for students from early elementary through high school, including beginners and students historically underrepresented in computing, with classroom teachers, computer-science specialists, students, and after-school programs using it to support computational thinking, programming, digital citizenship, ai concepts, and computer science pathways.

Teachers use sequenced courses, unplugged lessons, block or text coding, projects, assessments, and dashboards to introduce computer science or deliver full courses. 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.

Corgi is CAST’s free accessible digital graphic-organizer suite. It is intended primarily for secondary and postsecondary learners who benefit from structured digital organizers, with students, teachers, special educators, multilingual-learner staff, and accessibility teams using it to support disciplinary reasoning, accessible graphic organization, cause/effect, comparison, and explanation.

Learners organize claims, evidence, sequences, comparisons, and systems thinking in accessible templates that teachers can embed in instruction. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

D’Nealian Handwriting is Savvas’s handwriting curriculum using the D’Nealian manuscript-to-cursive approach. It is intended primarily for elementary learners developing manuscript and cursive handwriting, with students, elementary teachers, occupational-therapy partners, and families using it to support letter formation, manuscript, cursive, fine-motor practice, and written fluency.

Students practice letter strokes, spacing, words, sentences, and connected writing through print and digital resources. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Davis Digital is Davis Publications’ digital delivery platform and visual-arts curriculum portfolio. It is intended primarily for K–12 visual-arts learners using Davis Publications programs, with students, art teachers, curriculum leaders, and library/media staff using it to support artmaking, art history, critique, visual culture, media, and standards-based instruction.

Teachers and students access licensed textbooks, images, lessons, media, portfolios, and instructional resources for specific art programs. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Desmos Classroom is the classroom-activity environment now developed within Amplify alongside free Desmos math tools. It is intended primarily for primarily middle- and high-school mathematics students, with activities extending across grade bands, with students, mathematics teachers, coaches, and curriculum leaders using it to support mathematical modeling, representation, discourse, formative assessment, and conceptual reasoning.

Teachers facilitate sequenced interactive activities and monitor student thinking in real time while students manipulate representations, explain reasoning, and compare approaches. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Duolingo for Schools is the classroom-management layer for Duolingo language practice. It is intended primarily for secondary and adult language learners using independent practice, with students, world-language teachers, families, and independent learners using it to support vocabulary, listening, reading, pronunciation, grammar, and practice habits.

Teachers organize classes and assignments while students complete gamified lessons in a selected language pathway. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

E.L. Achieve Systematic ELD is a systematic designated-English-language-development curriculum and professional-learning approach. It is intended primarily for English learners receiving designated language-development instruction, with courses and materials varying by proficiency and grade, with ELD teachers, classroom teachers, multilingual-learner specialists, coaches, and leaders using it to support english language development, academic discourse, grammar, vocabulary, reading, and writing.

Educators provide explicit, sequenced language instruction connected to academic tasks while monitoring language growth and adjusting grouping and scaffolds. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Edmentum is a broad education-technology portfolio that includes Exact Path, Courseware, Study Island, Apex, and other products. It is designed primarily for K–12 learners across core courses, intervention, practice, assessment, and virtual-school settings, depending on product, with teachers, students, counselors, interventionists, and program administrators using it to support courseware, targeted instruction, practice, assessment, and flexible learning.

Districts use different Edmentum products for different learners—from elementary skill practice to high-school credit recovery—so the instructional experience cannot be inferred from the company name alone. 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.