Instruction / Curriculum

Khan Academy is a free nonprofit learning platform with videos, articles, exercises, courses, and teacher assignment tools. It is designed primarily for learners from elementary grades through college-level work, with strongest K–12 use in mathematics and test preparation, with students, teachers, tutors, and families using it to support standards-aligned explanations, guided practice, mastery learning, and independent study.

Students learn or review concepts at their own pace while teachers assign skills and inspect progress; Khan Academy can supplement instruction but does not itself provide local pedagogy or intervention staffing. 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.

Kialo Edu is a free education platform for mapping arguments and facilitating structured discussion. It is intended primarily for secondary and postsecondary learners examining debatable questions, with students, teachers, debate coaches, and content-area educators using it to support structured discussion, claims, evidence, counterarguments, source evaluation, and civic discourse.

Learners contribute pro and con claims, attach evidence, evaluate reasoning, and navigate a visual argument map synchronously or asynchronously. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

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.

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.

Lab-Aids is a publisher of secondary science curricula, kits, and digital resources. It is intended primarily for middle- and high-school science students, with science teachers, students, laboratory staff, and curriculum leaders using it to support hands-on investigation, evidence-based reasoning, issue-oriented science, and laboratory learning.

Students investigate phenomena and societal issues through laboratory materials, data, models, readings, discussion, and written explanations. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

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 Explorer is a standards-aligned instructional-resource search and lesson-building platform. It is intended primarily for K–12 educators finding and organizing instructional resources, with teachers, coaches, curriculum leaders, and students using it to support resource discovery, lesson planning, curriculum mapping, and differentiated assignment.

Educators find, curate, adapt, and assign lessons and digital resources from multiple providers. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

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.

Lightbox Learning is a publisher of interactive ebooks, databases, and curriculum-aligned digital resources. It is intended primarily for K–12 learners using interactive nonfiction and curricular media, with students, teachers, librarians, multilingual-learner staff, and families using it to support informational reading, research, vocabulary, media literacy, and background knowledge.

Learners explore nonfiction titles enhanced with video, audio, maps, activities, links, and accessibility supports through school or library access. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Listenwise is a classroom audio and video lesson platform built around authentic public-media content. It is intended primarily for elementary through high-school learners, including multilingual learners, with students, ELA and content-area teachers, multilingual-learner staff, and literacy specialists using it to support listening comprehension, academic language, current events, speaking, reading, and writing.

Students listen to curated stories with transcripts, vocabulary, comprehension supports, discussion prompts, and connected assessment or writing. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Pearson Mastering is Pearson’s discipline-specific Mastering courseware family. It is intended primarily for advanced high-school, AP, dual-enrollment, and postsecondary STEM learners, with students, science instructors, dual-enrollment staff, and administrators using it to support stem homework, tutorials, simulations, assessment, and course management.

Learners complete publisher assignments, interactive tutorials, simulations, problem sets, and tests linked to a course text. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Math 180 is HMH’s blended intensive mathematics-intervention program. It is intended primarily for middle- and high-school students needing intensive mathematics intervention, with intervention teachers, students, special educators, coaches, and administrators using it to support foundational numeracy, proportional reasoning, algebra readiness, and mathematical confidence.

Students rotate among teacher-led instruction, collaborative work, and adaptive software within a structured intervention period. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

MathXL is Pearson’s online mathematics homework and assessment system. It is intended primarily for high-school and postsecondary mathematics learners, depending on the course, with students, secondary math teachers, dual-enrollment instructors, and administrators using it to support online homework, practice, assessment, and course management.

Teachers assign publisher problem sets, tutorials, quizzes, and tests while students receive automated feedback and course-level practice. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

McGraw Hill ConnectED is a legacy or ambiguously named McGraw Hill digital curriculum platform. It is designed primarily for students and educators using older McGraw Hill K–12 digital programs; the linked page currently points to higher education, with teachers, students, curriculum staff, and technology administrators using it to support access to mcgraw hill digital textbooks, assignments, and program resources.

Historically, ConnectED provided sign-in and delivery for adopted K–12 programs; current product identity and successor platform must be confirmed locally. 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.

MidSchoolMath is a middle-school mathematics curriculum and digital learning system. It is intended primarily for middle-grade mathematics learners, with math teachers, students, interventionists, and curriculum leaders using it to support conceptual understanding, problem solving, mathematical discourse, and practice.

Teachers use story-based contexts, classroom discussion, practice, assessment, and reporting to organize middle-grade mathematics instruction. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.