Instructional / Curriculum

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.

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.

Learning Explorer and Educational Leadership Solutions (ELS) merged in January 2024. The publisher now presents Pathways Learning Studio as a connected environment for learning, assessment, analytics and instructional resources, with a phased rollout announced for 2026. Learning Explorer, Lesson Planet, ScootPad and the Pathways assessment products retain distinct product histories; a company merger does not establish that a district uses every component.

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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.

Lexia Reading Plus is an ambiguous catalog record that combines the unrelated Lexia and Reading Plus brands. It is designed primarily for students receiving digital reading practice or intervention, but the intended product is unclear, with reading teachers, interventionists, and students using it to support reading fluency, comprehension, vocabulary, or foundational literacy depending on the intended vendor.

The current name and Lexia URL conflict with the separate Reading Plus record in this batch, so accurate instructional claims cannot be assigned without district verification. 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.

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.

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.

McGraw Hill StudySync is a secondary English language arts curriculum with print and digital resources. It is designed primarily for middle- and high-school English language arts students, including learners needing differentiated access, with ELA teachers, students, curriculum leaders, and intervention/support staff using it to support literature, informational text, writing, language, discussion, and media literacy.

Teachers use thematic units, close reading, collaborative discussion, writing tasks, grammar, assessment, and scaffolds to build grade-level literacy. 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.

Minecraft Education is Microsoft’s education edition of Minecraft with classroom controls and lesson resources. It is intended primarily for K–12 learners participating in teacher-designed game-based lessons, with students, teachers, instructional coaches, library/media staff, and technology teams using it to support collaboration, computational thinking, design, simulation, creativity, and cross-curricular problem solving.

Students build models, solve challenges, code agents, collaborate in shared worlds, and document learning within teacher-facilitated activities. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Mosa Mack Science is an inquiry-based digital science curriculum organized into lesson cycles. It is intended primarily for upper-elementary and middle-school science learners, with students, science teachers, interventionists, and curriculum leaders using it to support phenomena, inquiry, argumentation, modeling, and three-dimensional science learning.

Students investigate mysteries through multimedia, discussion, hands-on activities, engineering tasks, and assessment. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.