Newsela is a differentiated instructional-content platform with leveled texts and subject collections. It is designed primarily for upper-elementary through high-school learners reading at varied levels across ELA, science, social studies, and current events, with students, teachers, curriculum leaders, multilingual-learner staff, and interventionists using it to support knowledge building, disciplinary literacy, current events, vocabulary, and text-dependent response.

Teachers assign articles and text sets at accessible levels, connect reading to standards or curriculum topics, and use quizzes, writing, annotations, and reports to guide 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.

NoRedInk is an adaptive writing and language practice platform. It is intended primarily for upper-elementary through high-school writers, with students, ELA teachers, interventionists, and writing instructors using it to support grammar, conventions, sentence structure, revision, writing practice, and diagnostic instruction.

Students complete personalized practice and writing tasks while teachers assign skills, review misconceptions, and use diagnostic information for instruction. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

OpenSciEd is a nonprofit open-source science curriculum initiative. It is intended primarily for elementary through high-school science students, with released courses varying by grade band, with science teachers, students, curriculum leaders, and professional-learning staff using it to support phenomena-driven inquiry, modeling, explanation, argumentation, and three-dimensional science learning.

Students investigate coherent phenomena through discussion, hands-on work, data, models, readings, and explanation while teachers facilitate sensemaking rather than deliver isolated facts. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Otus is a K–12 assessment, data, progress-monitoring, grading, and instructional-management platform. It combines locally created and prebuilt assessments with third-party student data, standards-based reporting, portfolios, classroom tools, and intervention planning so educators can move from evidence to action without switching among separate systems.

Districts can use Otus as an assessment system, a student-data and analytics hub, and selected learning-management or MTSS workspace. It does not replace the district’s authoritative SIS, but it brings roster, demographic, academic, behavioral, attendance, assessment, and intervention information into a shared instructional record.

Ozaria is CodeCombat’s narrative middle-school computer-science curriculum. It is intended primarily for middle-school learners beginning computer science, with students, computer-science teachers, classroom teachers, and curriculum leaders using it to support python programming, computational thinking, problem solving, and digital citizenship.

Students learn Python through story-based coding challenges, projects, collaborative activities, and teacher-led lessons. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

ParentSquare is a unified K–12 school-to-home communication platform that brings district alerts, school announcements, classroom messaging, forms, attendance outreach, appointments, payments, and family engagement into one system.

The platform synchronizes roster and contact data, automatically translates communication, and lets families receive messages through the app, web, email, SMS, or voice according to the activity and their preferences. Districts gain consistent branding, oversight, delivery reporting, and tools for reaching families who have not responded.

Parlay is a platform for written and verbal academic discussion. It is intended primarily for secondary and postsecondary learners participating in structured discussions, with students, teachers, debate coaches, and content-area educators using it to support discussion, argumentation, evidence, reflection, peer feedback, and participation.

Teachers launch roundtables with prompts and resources, students contribute and respond, and educators use rubrics and participation information. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

PBIS Rewards is a schoolwide platform for operating a Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports program. Staff recognize students with digital points tied to school expectations; students redeem those points through stores, events, or raffles; and administrators review usage and outcome data instead of managing paper tickets and disconnected records.

The base platform includes staff, student, and family access and can be expanded with Check-In/Check-Out, behavior referrals, social-emotional status checks, house groups, hall passes, and related intervention products. Districts should distinguish included functions from add-ons when comparing proposals.

Pear Assessment is the current name for Edulastic within Pear Deck Learning. It supports classroom, common, benchmark, and test-practice assessments with technology-enhanced items, item banks, standards alignment, configurable testing settings, accommodations, and district reporting.

Teachers and district teams can collaborate on assessments, use state-released practice content, monitor mastery, and analyze results across students and standards. Districts should align administration, accommodations, score interpretation, data access, and retention with the intended use of the assessment.

Pear Deck Tutor is a 24/7 online tutoring service formerly called TutorMe. It is designed primarily for secondary and postsecondary learners seeking one-to-one academic help, with availability varying by contract and subject, with students, tutors, teachers, counselors, and program administrators using it to support live tutoring, writing feedback, homework support, and just-in-time academic assistance.

Students connect with tutors through live audio/video, chat, whiteboard, screen-sharing, subject tools, or asynchronous writing review while administrators can inspect session activity. 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.

PowerSchool Predictive Enrollment Analytics, formerly DecisionInsite, is a district enrollment-forecasting and geographic planning platform. It combines current and historical enrollment, student locations, school boundaries, capacities, community demographics, and housing trends to project future enrollment and test operational scenarios.

District leaders use the product to inform budgeting, staffing, facility construction or closure, boundary changes, program placement, and board discussions. This is an operational planning system rather than a whole-student instructional dashboard, but it belongs in the analytics landscape because it converts SIS and demographic data into multiyear resource decisions.

Prodigy Math is a game-based mathematics practice platform. It is intended primarily for elementary and middle-grade mathematics learners, with students, teachers, interventionists, and families using it to support standards-based math practice, motivation, assignment, and adaptive review.

Students answer mathematics questions to progress through a fantasy game while teachers assign skills and review performance reports. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Read Naturally is a family of structured reading-intervention programs delivered in print or online. It is intended primarily for developing readers across elementary, secondary, special-education, and adult settings, with students, reading specialists, interventionists, special educators, and teachers using it to support oral-reading fluency, accuracy, vocabulary, comprehension, and progress monitoring.

Students use modeled reading, repeated reading, vocabulary, comprehension questions, and timed or recorded passages with adult feedback. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Readable English is a reading intervention that adds visual pronunciation cues to English text. It is intended primarily for older learners who need explicit support decoding English, with students, interventionists, special educators, multilingual-learner staff, and reading specialists using it to support decoding, pronunciation, fluency, spelling, and independent access to text.

Students learn a visual marking system and practice decoding, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension through structured lessons and converted text. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

ReadWorks is a nonprofit library of passages, article-a-day routines, question sets, and reading supports. It is intended primarily for K–12 readers, including multilingual learners and students needing accessible text support, with students, teachers, reading specialists, and content-area educators using it to support reading comprehension, vocabulary, background knowledge, fluency, and content-area literacy.

Teachers assign texts and paired resources, build knowledge sequences, use audio and vocabulary supports, and review written or selected responses. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.