MIDAS Education currently provides Data Forge for secure, role-based education analytics together with professional-development management and microcredential systems. Its public offering focuses on connecting disparate data, producing reproducible insights, managing professional learning, and documenting demonstrated educator skills.

This differs substantially from the catalog’s former description of MIDAS as an all-in-one SIS, LMS, website, compliance, and district-management system. The company remains active, but SDLA should confirm which generation of MIDAS each California district actually uses before treating those relationships as current Data Forge or professional-learning deployments.

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.

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.

MySchoolBucks by Heartland is a K–12 family payment platform for meal accounts, school fees, invoices, stores, programs, and other district collections. Families can manage multiple students, add funds, review purchases, receive alerts, and use supported web or mobile payment options.

District tools support online and in-person collection, reconciliation, reporting, and connections with Heartland nutrition products and other supported systems. Its primary role is payments, so Food Services should be a cross-list rather than its only category.

Mystery Science is Discovery Education’s elementary science lesson program. It is intended primarily for elementary science learners, with elementary teachers, students, curriculum leaders, and families using it to support phenomena, inquiry, discussion, hands-on investigation, and science explanation.

Teachers use short videos, guiding questions, discussion, readings, and low-preparation hands-on activities organized into standards-connected units. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Naviance is PowerSchool's college, career, and life-readiness platform for middle and high schools. It gives students a structured place to identify interests and strengths, explore careers and postsecondary options, build plans, and manage the work required to move from high school into college, training, military service, or employment.

Counselors and administrators use Naviance to assign readiness activities, monitor student plans, coordinate college applications and supporting documents, and report on progress across schools. Its connection with PowerSchool SIS and Schoology can reduce duplicate data entry and place planning information alongside the district's broader student and learning records.

Nearpod is Renaissance’s interactive lesson, activity, and content platform. It is intended primarily for K–12 learners participating in live or self-paced lessons, with students, teachers, coaches, and curriculum administrators using it to support interactive lesson delivery, formative assessment, multimedia, and student participation.

Teachers combine slides, media, simulations, questions, collaboration, and virtual experiences and review responses during or after lessons. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

Netop Vision was a classroom-management product that enabled teachers to monitor student computers, guide web use, present content, communicate with learners, and intervene when students went off task. Chromebook support extended those classroom controls to school-managed ChromeOS devices.

Impero acquired Netop in 2021 and subsequently released Impero Classroom as its cloud-based classroom-management platform. Because current Impero materials no longer clearly position Vision for Chromebooks as the primary product, districts with this record should confirm whether they still run Vision, have migrated to Impero Classroom, or use another Impero product before the listing is renamed or consolidated.

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.

NWEA MAP Growth is a computer-adaptive interim assessment from NWEA, now part of HMH. It measures achievement and growth in subjects such as reading, language usage, mathematics, and science and reports results on the RIT scale.

Districts administer MAP Growth during planned testing windows to examine growth over time, compare performance with norms, set goals, group students, and connect results with instructional resources. Districts should align administration, accommodations, score interpretation, data access, and retention with the intended use of the assessment.

Nystrom World is Social Studies School Service’s digital platform for Nystrom geography and social-studies resources. It is intended primarily for K–12 social-studies learners using Nystrom maps, atlases, lessons, or digital resources, with students, social-studies teachers, curriculum leaders, and multilingual-learner staff using it to support geography, history, civics, map literacy, spatial reasoning, and inquiry.

Students use interactive maps, atlases, lessons, primary sources, activities, and assessment connected to licensed programs. Districts should evaluate how the product fits adopted curriculum, student needs, instructional time, and the work educators must do around it.

OER Commons is ISKME’s public digital library and collaboration platform for open educational resources. It is intended primarily for educators and learners finding openly licensed instructional materials, with teachers, curriculum teams, librarians, students, and professional-learning staff using it to support resource discovery, adaptation, collaboration, open licensing, and curriculum development.

Users search, evaluate, organize, adapt, create, and share resources and collections under varied open licenses. 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.

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.