Best of the Best Lists

Are you looking for photography apps, tools, and resources that you can use with your students? If so, we have you covered. Check out our list below. Let us know if there are any that we missed.

ChatterPix Kids– The ChatterPix app lets you use still images taken with your phone’s camera, record your voice over them, and make them chatter! This free app does not collect any personal data, and it does not contain any third-party ads or in-app purchases. Suitable for children between the ages of 6 and 12.

Safari Party– Safari Party is a new puzzle game of match-4 action in which the player takes on the character of a photographer who travels around the universe. As the photographer character, you must take as many photos as you can of four animals of a kind either in a group of 4 or individual animals. Note that the larger the group, the higher the score. There are fixed scores required to advance from each level and move to the next stage.

Nutshell Camera– Take three pictures, edit them with fun cartoons and captions, kick back, and watch Nutshell as it turns your pictures into an exciting, shareable short film in a matter of seconds. Nutshell creates the video with your images in the beginning, middle, and end of the movie. It makes the images the keyframes of the video, but you don’t have to know that because Nutshell has simplified it for you; it delivers the power of visual creative freedom at your fingertips, sort of like Instagram does with videos.

Comic Life– This is an easy-to-use, fun, and quick app useful for creating picture comics. The look and function of the iPhone OS device variant have been changed to give you full control over pictures taken with your camera or imported from the photo library.

Comic Book Camera– This application enables users to create comics and animated photos using their camera phone or pictures from their phone’s file manager. The process can be done in a short time using the user’s preferences for filters and how texts are displayed.

Are you looking for phonological awareness apps, tools, and resources that you can use with your students? If so, we have you covered. Check out our list below. Let us know if there are any that we missed.

ABC Alphabet Phonics– A free app that teaches toddlers and young children who are learning to speak. By applying various senses (sight, sound, etc.), children can learn the alphabet and a few other optional subjects. Parents can also customize the app using their voice and taking photos of their child’s favorite items to make the experience more stimulating and personal.

ABC Alphabet Phonics: Song– An entertaining learning experience for children new to the alphabet. They learn the name and the sound the letters make when used in words while having so much fun that they do not realize they are learning. Supported on both iPhone and iPad.

ABC MAGIC– Help your child master phonology and pronunciation using this app. Children can choose to either match letters to pictures or pictures to letters. This helps them associate letters with their most popular pronunciation. Both the letters and pictures have touch-activated sound features to help children learn and retain what they learn.  

ABC Phonics –  Short Vowel Words– Allows growing kids to master phonics by shooting missiles to identify words from the submarine they are navigating. PhonicsOne is especially for kids learning to read; PhonicsTwo and PhonicsThree are available for middle school kids. Children are rewarded with jewels and a mini game upon completion of a level.

ABC Phonics – Rhyming Words–Helps children to master phonics by matching rhyming word pairs. Children are rewarded with jewels and a mini game upon completion of a level. This app also helps children recognize how consonant and vowel placements affect pronunciation, such as in “ch” and “sh.”

ABC Phonics – Make a Word– Provides both phonics and spelling solutions to children who are learning to read. All the words have short vowel sounds. Phonics Advanced is available for older children, and it comes with longer and double vowel sounds. It also helps children recognize how consonant and vowel placements affect pronunciation.

ABC Phonics – Animated– Designed using the expertise of phonics teachers, this app is an excellent introduction to phonics. Letters are written on the screen with animated tracing for the child to follow, and the app pronounces the letters for the child. This combination helps the child build a solid basis to grow.

ABC Phonics – Word Family Tree– Combines phonics, spelling, beginning sound word family phonics, short vowel sounds, and images with many visual enhancements for each word. The app includes a total of 56-word family groups to be used to teach short and long vowels, spelling, and pronunciation using the Montessori Method.

ABC Spelling Magic 1– With ABC Spelling magic, your child learns the sounds letters make and how to use them to form words. The app also teaches the child to segment, which is a vital part of learning to read. The first portion of the app uses a limited number of letters to form words while the second portion contains all 26 letters of the alphabet. The app teaches the child to spell words using three phonetic sounds and short vowel sounds.

ABC Spelling Magic 2– This advanced stage focuses on using consonant clusters to form words. The app also teaches the child to segment, which is a vital part of learning to read. The first portion of the app uses a limited number of letters to form words while the section portion contains all 26 letters of the alphabet.

ABC Spelling Magic 3– The third stage in the series, t This app gives your child the chance to learn 4- to 7-letter word constructions with multiple syllables. It contains nine sections with 108 words to keep your child interested.

Sound Literacy – Sound Literacy is an instructional tool for building literacy, including phonemic awareness, phonological processing, and morphemic word building. It is primarily meant to be used by a teacher or tutor with the student as no themes or concept packages are included. The app is composed of letter tiles, blank tiles, and all common spelling patterns. Specially designed spelling ladders allow students to build and compare phonemes. Also included are phoneme maps, the ability to customize tile sets, and popovers that indicate various ways to spell each phoneme from most to least common. Sound Literacy is a valuable addition to any word study program or literacy time.

Sound Salad – An app used to train concentration, attentive listening, and imaginative and critical thinking; Sound Salad is a sound-object association game. Students match objects with sounds to help Mr. Ear on his journey toward perfect harmony. There are eight levels with 96 objects and sounds, which can be played at three degrees of difficulty: easy, advanced, and speed. Sound-object association has been shown to improve phonological awareness and perception skills, which are foundational for language development. Sound Salad is safe and child-friendly with no in-app purchases, data collection, or third-party

Funny Phonemes Slang Fest!– The Funny Phonemes slang fest is created for older kids to practice hearing phonemes and the arrangement of missing words. With over 250 words, which include schoolyard epithets, surfing terms, and social media lingo, kids will learn and identify phonemes.

The Joy of Reading – Designed to support early reading, The Joy of Reading includes nine multi-level games with explicit instruction in phonics and phonemic awareness. The Joy of Reading includes these foundational skills, which are all aligned to Kindergarten Common Core State Standards: phonemic awareness, letter tracing, letter recognition, rhyming and blending sounds, differentiation of long and short vowel sounds, spelling, recognition of compound words, recollection of common high-frequency words, and reading emergent-reader texts with fluency. There are three different game modes for teachers or parents to choose from, including a guided learning path, free play, and practice with specific words in the ABC dictionary. This app can be used as an early preparatory tool at home or as a complement to in-class instruction.

Hairy Phonics 1– Hairy Phonics is a continuation of the Hairy Letters app. After learning the alphabet using Hairy Letters, the next stage is to know the basics of consonant digraphs ( the point of meeting of two consonants and the sound they make as one). Hairy phonics improves phonemic awareness, which is an essential skill for kids with dyslexia.

Harry Phonics 2 – This app is designed to help children between the ages of 4 and 6 learn phonics. Then, the child is introduced to necessary phonemes that are easy to learn, which includes, ai, ay, ee, ea, i.e., oa, oi, oy, oo.

Harry Phonics 3 – This app is designed to help kids between the ages of 4 and 6 learn phonemes such as ar, or, er, ir, ur, a-e, o-e, i-e, o-e, u-e. This is the final app in this series, and it helps provide an easy guide for a child through a uniquely structured sequence of learning.

Sound Literacy – Sound Literacy is an instructional tool for building literacy, including phonemic awareness, phonological processing, and morphemic word building. It is primarily meant to be used by a teacher or tutor with the student as no themes or concept packages are included. The app is composed of letter tiles, blank tiles, and all common spelling patterns. Specially designed spelling ladders allow students to build and compare phonemes. Also included are phoneme maps, the ability to customize tile sets, and popovers that indicate various ways to spell each phoneme from most to least common. Sound Literacy is a valuable addition to any word study program or literacy time.

Are you looking for phonemic awareness apps, tools, and resources that you can use with your students? If so, we have you covered. Check out our list below. Let us know if there are any that we missed.

ABC Alphabet Phonics– A free app that teaches toddlers and young children who are learning to speak. By applying various senses (sight, sound, etc.), children can learn the alphabet and a few other optional subjects. Parents can also customize the app using their voice and taking photos of their child’s favorite items to make the experience more stimulating and personal.

ABC Alphabet Phonics: Song– An entertaining learning experience for children new to the alphabet. They learn the name and the sound the letters make when used in words while having so much fun that they do not realize they are learning. Supported on both iPhone and iPad.

ABC MAGIC– Help your child master phonology and pronunciation using this app. Children can choose to either match letters to pictures or pictures to letters. This helps them associate letters with their most popular pronunciation. Both the letters and pictures have touch-activated sound features to help children learn and retain what they learn.  

ABC Phonics –  Short Vowel Words– Allows growing kids to master phonics by shooting missiles to identify words from the submarine they are navigating. PhonicsOne is especially for kids learning to read; PhonicsTwo and PhonicsThree are available for middle school kids. Children are rewarded with jewels and a mini game upon completion of a level.

ABC Phonics – Rhyming Words–Helps children to master phonics by matching rhyming word pairs. Children are rewarded with jewels and a mini game upon completion of a level. This app also helps children recognize how consonant and vowel placements affect pronunciation, such as in “ch” and “sh.”

ABC Phonics – Make a Word– Provides both phonics and spelling solutions to children who are learning to read. All the words have short vowel sounds. Phonics Advanced is available for older children, and it comes with longer and double vowel sounds. It also helps children recognize how consonant and vowel placements affect pronunciation.

ABC Phonics – Animated– Designed using the expertise of phonics teachers, this app is an excellent introduction to phonics. Letters are written on the screen with animated tracing for the child to follow, and the app pronounces the letters for the child. This combination helps the child build a solid basis to grow.

ABC Phonics – Word Family Tree– Combines phonics, spelling, beginning sound word family phonics, short vowel sounds, and images with many visual enhancements for each word. The app includes a total of 56-word family groups to be used to teach short and long vowels, spelling, and pronunciation using the Montessori Method.

ABC Spelling Magic 1– With ABC Spelling magic, your child learns the sounds letters make and how to use them to form words. The app also teaches the child to segment, which is a vital part of learning to read. The first portion of the app uses a limited number of letters to form words while the second portion contains all 26 letters of the alphabet. The app teaches the child to spell words using three phonetic sounds and short vowel sounds.

ABC Spelling Magic 2– This advanced stage focuses on using consonant clusters to form words. The app also teaches the child to segment, which is a vital part of learning to read. The first portion of the app uses a limited number of letters to form words while the section portion contains all 26 letters of the alphabet.

ABC Spelling Magic 3– The third stage in the series, t This app gives your child the chance to learn 4- to 7-letter word constructions with multiple syllables. It contains nine sections with 108 words to keep your child interested.

Sound Literacy – Sound Literacy is an instructional tool for building literacy, including phonemic awareness, phonological processing, and morphemic word building. It is primarily meant to be used by a teacher or tutor with the student as no themes or concept packages are included. The app is composed of letter tiles, blank tiles, and all common spelling patterns. Specially designed spelling ladders allow students to build and compare phonemes. Also included are phoneme maps, the ability to customize tilesets, and popovers that indicate various ways to spell each phoneme from most to least common. Sound Literacy is a valuable addition to any word study program or literacy time.

Sound Salad – An app used to train concentration, attentive listening, and imaginative and critical thinking; Sound Salad is a sound-object association game. Students match objects with sounds to help Mr. Ear on his journey toward perfect harmony. There are eight levels with 96 objects and sounds, which can be played at three degrees of difficulty: easy, advanced, and speed. Sound-object association has been shown to improve phonological awareness and perception skills, which are foundational for language development. Sound Salad is safe and child-friendly with no in-app purchases, data collection, or third-party

Funny Phonemes Slang Fest!– The Funny Phonemes slang fest is created for older kids to practice hearing phonemes and the arrangement of missing words. With over 250 words, which include schoolyard epithets, surfing terms, and social media lingo, kids will learn and identify phonemes.

The Joy of Reading – Designed to support early reading, The Joy of Reading includes nine multi-level games with explicit instruction in phonics and phonemic awareness. The Joy of Reading includes these foundational skills, which are all aligned to Kindergarten Common Core State Standards: phonemic awareness, letter tracing, letter recognition, rhyming and blending sounds, differentiation of long and short vowel sounds, spelling, recognition of compound words, recollection of common high-frequency words, and reading emergent-reader texts with fluency. There are three different game modes for teachers or parents to choose from, including a guided learning path, free play, and practice with specific words in the ABC dictionary. This app can be used as an early preparatory tool at home or as a complement to in-class instruction.

Are you looking for persuasive writing apps, tools, and resources that you can use with your students? If so, we have you covered. Check out our list below. Let us know if there are any that we missed.

Virtual Writing Tutor – This website is a free grammar and essay checker that also proofreads your work. Simply copy and paste your writing into the text box and click a button. Virtual Writing Tutor can also provide word counts, calculate average sentence length, and assess word choice. The website does not automatically correct errors. Instead, students must review a list of suggested errors and make the corrections themselves. This forces students to think about the errors they are making, and over time, can improve their writing. The Virtual Writing Tutor also offers an error correction game for students to practice finding and correcting common English language errors and has a portal for teachers to set up pen pal exchanges.

Writing Prompts – Writing Prompts uses current events, random words, scenes, sketches, genres, and text to provide hundreds of writing prompts for whole class or individual student use. Simply swipe through the available prompts until one strikes your fancy or save favorite prompts in a favorites folder for easy access later. With additional packs of prompts available for purchase, there are millions of prompt possibilities so students will never run out of things to write about.

Writing Challenge – Turn freewriting into a game with the Writing Challenge app. Helpful for students that struggle to free write or waste valuable literacy time trying to think of a topic, the Writing Challenge offers a set of prompts and allows the student to select the one they want. Then, every minute (or longer if the app settings are changed), it offers additional prompts to further the student’s writing, such as adding new characters, words, places, or actions. The best way to improve writing is to practice, and for students that struggle to practice independently, the Writing Challenge can decrease writing anxiety and help deal with the fear of the “blank page.”

Grammarly– Grammarly is your personal grammar coach and an automated proofreader that helps students get better in the proper use of grammar and gain confidence in their writing ability. Grammarly helps correct about 10 times more mistakes than common word processors, and it corrects more than 150 types of grammatical errors and does a plagiarism check.

No Red Ink– This platform uses student self-assessments to construct sentences that pretest, practice, and evaluate students’ grammatical prowess and acquired learning. The app helps build stronger writers through interest-based curriculums, adaptive exercises, and actionable data. With the authentic assessment feature, students can rephrase sentences, modify and mark up texts, organize ideas into outlines, and manipulate multi-paragraph documents. The unlimited, adaptive practice feature personalizes instructions to meet each user’s needs and includes support for learners when they get confused. To make learning fun and interesting, lesson content is generated from topics that interest the user, such as popular celebrities, friends, and hobbies.

Penzu Classroom– This is a platform that helps young writers and teachers in their job. Penzu classroom covers all classes of writers, no matter what type of writing they do. Whether it helps with your diary or journal, keeping track of a diet, or a pregnancy journal, Penzu has something for you. It has all the resources you need to preserve your ideas and develop rather than wasting valuable time writing it. You can also become one of 2 million happy users of this platform from around the globe.

Quill– Quill is a writing tutorial app for teachers designed to help students become better writers. Quill is a nonprofit organization, and its goal is to provide tools such as Quill to help make students better writers. Quill uses web applications to create engaging content for students that helps them learn grammar, writing skills, and vocabulary. Using the teacher dashboard, you can monitor students’ progress according to the Common Core Standards; this feature also makes grading more intuitive and meaningful.

Are you looking for personalized learning apps, tools, and resources that you can use with your students? If so, we have you covered. Check out our list below. Let us know if there are any that we missed.

Freckle Education– Students can easily fall in love with schooling again as this app enables them to work in various subjects at their pace. Teachers can monitor students’ progress across various subjects such as science, social studies, math, and English language arts.

Study Island – Study Island is an all-in-one practice website for students to work on literacy, math, science, and social studies skills. It is built specifically around state standards, so regardless of your school’s location, you can rest assured that the content and practice provided on the website will align with your classroom teaching. Study Island is a great tool to use for high stakes testing preparation and provides real-time progress monitoring for teachers and parents. Beyond simple practice, Study Island can also be incorporated into classroom lessons for formative assessment and differentiation. It even allows teachers to import NWEA MAP assessment information for individual students and calculates a targeted learning path to fill in knowledge gaps!

IXL Learning– IXL Learning has been proven to be effective in providing comprehensive, curriculum-based math and English language arts content for kindergarten to grade 12. It also provides an immersive learning experience in science, math, language arts, and social studies for K-12. It produces real results, which is why it is trusted by top teachers and presently used by The Elite 100

Speed Reading– This app can help you become a proficient reader in the English language while eliminating old habits that hold you back. With 7 Speed Reading, students can learn to recognize large clusters of words and read without first vocalizing in their heads.

Banyan – Banyan is an engine built to influence human learning through machine capabilities by providing an insightful, personalized learning experience. It has three modules that help you advertise and hire skilled talents and provide customized learning experiences and workflow management courses, respectively.

BrandLX – BrandLX is a mobile-first cloud learning management system that provides personalized learning materials to users on their devices. It also offers online certifications, product training, and consumer enlightenment. It is a single platform providing multiple services; hence, users save money and resources.

OttoLearn Microlearning – This app delivers mobile-friendly training that allows for easy tracking of performance and achievements. OttoLearn Microlearning features adaptive training, which allows each user to set the parameters for subsequent training to match the student’s performance. It provides users with engaging daily activities to sharpen their skills.

Cerego – Cerego is a personalized learning platform that helps people learn faster, remember longer, and objectively measure their knowledge using AI-assisted predictive algorithms. It helps organizations improve productivity as employees learn better and are better motivated and more capable. The app uses predictive learning features to deliver individual-specific learning materials to its users. Available on Android and iOS devices

Flipick – This app creates a personalized learning experience for every student and helps to develop curricula. It also creates an interactive and collaborative learning environment for learning to take place.

Kytabu – A textbook subscription app developed in Kenya. The app provides access to digitized versions of all Kenyan textbooks from Standard 1 to Form 4 at rates that are affordable for African families. Kytabu uses machine learning to help provide personalized learning for learners. The learners can access educational content that includes books, videos, audios, tests, as well as exams. A great advantage of the app is that it can be used offline. This is a crucial issue in Africa where internet access is limited and often unreliable.

HippoCampus– HippoCampus.org was designed as part of a worldwide effort to improve access to quality education for everyone. It contains presentations and lectures that can serve as supplemental instruction. Teachers project HippoCampus content during classroom learning and assign it for computer labs and homework. Students use the site in the evenings for study and exam prep as an open resource for personalized learning

LoudCloud – LoudCloud uses cloud-based technology to provide a class management system, assessments, a course builder, a grade book, and many more features aimed at improving the learning process. With this platform, colleges and universities can make use of personalized learning to support their students. Tools include the competency learning platform, learning analytics, and OER courseware.

MATHiaU– MATHiaU is math learning software is offered by Carnegie Learning. It provides college-level math assistance, including one-on-one tutoring. With this app, students take thorough assessments and are given feedback that includes a personalized learning path. MATHiaU provides affordable, easy-to-use artificial intelligence-based tutoring.

Mindprint Learning– Penn Medicine’s lab on Brain Behavior developed a website that will give any student of any age a personalized learning profile. Mindprint Learning consists of a cognitive test of over 10 skills for a student to complete. The test is then evaluated to generate feedback and tools that will best help that student learn. The test is only one hour long and covers executive functions, complex reasoning, memory, and speed. This can be used for school districts or for homeschools.

Moodle – Module is a free, open-source learning platform designed for educators, administrators, and learners. The system uses a robust, integrated, and secure platform to helps its users create personalized learning environments. The software can be downloaded onto the user’s web server.

Odysseyware– The Odysseyware Learning Management System is a platform that offers information and support to teachers, students, administrators, teachers, and guardians. It provides personalized learning through a variety of customization tools, and it monitors student progress and gears them toward success. It also allows learners to become active participants in their quest for success, grow to their maximum potential, and discover how they can add value to the world around them.

Owl School – Owl School is a platform that aims to help your company create a personalized learning structure and create more revenue by selling courses to customers and partners. It can also be used to organize training to help develop employees and gain better efficiency.

Recruit – This app helps to design career paths and create personalized learning experiences. The platform helps to bring students, parents, and teachers together. Recruit also generates useful reports to influence decision-making.

Reflex– This app offers a potent, adaptive, individualized solution to help a student increase their fluency in math facts, and it includes powerful reporting capability. It is easy to use for educators to use, and it helps them monitor each student’s performance to create the optimal experience for every child.

Zoomi – With Zoomi, the one-size-fits-all corporate training is thrown out the window to make room for each individual learner’s style. Using its proprietary Artificial Intelligence for Learning®, Zoomi maximizes a company’s training efforts through increased learner engagement, lower training costs, and improved course effectiveness. Zoomi’s unique learning solution is based around three cones: learning intelligence, learning analytics, and personalized learning. Learning intelligence lets companies know if their training is having the intended outcome with their employees. Learning analytics collects real-time behavioral data to ensure individualized training solutions. And personalized learning uses an artificial intelligence system that customizes learning in real time by diagnosing learners’ weaknesses or points of misunderstanding.

Are you looking for performance assessment apps, tools, and resources that you can use with your students? If so, we have you covered. Check out our list below. Let us know if there are any that we missed.

No Red Ink– This platform uses student self-assessments to construct sentences that pretest, practice, and evaluate students’ grammatical prowess and acquired learning. The app helps build stronger writers through interest-based curriculums, adaptive exercises, and actionable data. With the authentic assessment feature, students can rephrase sentences, modify and mark up texts, organize ideas into outlines, and manipulate multi-paragraph documents. The unlimited, adaptive practice feature personalizes instructions to meet each user’s needs and includes support for learners when they get confused. To make learning fun and interesting, lesson content is generated from topics that interest the user, such as popular celebrities, friends, and hobbies. Zoom In – Zoom In includes 18 interactive, document-based inquiry units for American History classes. It is Zoom In’s goal to ensure that teachers are challenging students with authentic, engaging texts; working with students to write explanatory and argumentative essays; teaching debate with claims and counterclaims, and ensuring students use evidence, including period documents, to back up their ideas. Zoom In provides teachers with assessment tools such as interactive rubrics to give personalized writing feedback to students.

Seesaw– Seesaw is a digital portfolio that shows you real-time glimpses into your child’s school day, which can be easily shared with parents to help them stay in the loop and support their child’s learning at home. Thus, this app helps clarify parent-educator communication and gives students more control of their education. It is a tool for drawing and recording, which makes it authentic and fun.

Remark Test Grading Cloud Edition– Remark Testing Grading Cloud is a flexible and cost-effective platform that allows busy educators to effortlessly construct and grade tests in the cloud—getting more proficient with less. It enables educators to develop a test answer sheet, print a generic or personalized copy for all students involved, scan the results, grade accordingly, and generate authentic reports.

Freckle Education– Students can easily fall in love with schooling again as this app enables them to work in various subjects at their pace. Teachers can monitor students’ progress across various subjects such as science, social studies, math, and English language arts.

Study Island – Study Island is an all-in-one practice website for students to work on literacy, math, science, and social studies skills. It is built specifically around state standards, so regardless of your school’s location, you can rest assured that the content and practice provided on the website will align with your classroom teaching. Study Island is a great tool to use for high stakes testing preparation and provides real-time progress monitoring for teachers and parents. Beyond simple practice, Study Island can also be incorporated into classroom lessons for formative assessment and differentiation. It even allows teachers to import NWEA MAP assessment information for individual students and calculates a targeted learning path to fill in knowledge gaps!

IXL Learning– IXL Learning has been proven to be effective in providing comprehensive, curriculum-based math and English language arts content for kindergarten to grade 12. It also provides an immersive learning experience in science, math, language arts, and social studies for K-12. It produces real results, which is why it is trusted by top teachers and presently used by The Elite 100

Are you looking for parent communication apps, tools, and resources that you can use to collaborate with your student’s parents? If so, we have you covered. Check out our list below. Let us know if there are any that we missed.

Appademic – Appademic is a school communication solution based in Australia that delivers notices, forms, communications, and more to mobile devices. It includes apps that can be deployed to communicate efficiently with parents; data collected by the app is stored securely.

ClassDojo– Keep parents informed about their children’s behavior and academic progress using this app. Record student behavior and development; upload photos that were taken throughout the school day to this platform. Students can also add assignments to their portfolio with just one click. You can also send visually aesthetic reports to parents and staff members. 

1st Class GradeBook – The 1st Class GradeBook app provides modern grading features, including class and student activity, marks, QuickMarks, reports, and more. Teachers can also send reports to parents to keep them informed of their children’s progress. This app comes with a

ACTIVE Educate – ACTIVE Educate provides a complete, web-based registration and management solution for all types and sizes of classes and schools. Subjects covered include language, music, dance, art, vocational schools, and childcare centers. All the data is securely stored in the cloud; the app provides useful reports that give parents valuable insights into their child’s progress.

ChildPilot – ChildPilot provides streamlined administrative software and parent communication tools at a reasonable price. Websites that register with ChildPilot receive a personalized website that covers marketing services, a family portal for guardians and student registration, and a teacher portal. Tools include interactive calendar/schedules, online document storage, and personal and bulk messages; ChildPilot can be accessed from anywhere on any device.

Daycare Works – DayCare Works is a web-based solution for managing before/after-school programs, community education centers, and childcare operations. The software delivers everything you need, including registrations, secure payments, staff, and student schedules, attendance, billing, third-party subsidy payments, lead management, meal tracking, class ratios, family and staff portals, mobile apps, parent communications, assessments and more.

Hello Parent – This system provides schools with an easy solution for parent communication and allows parents to pay online. The system is parent-friendly. It has automated fee reminders with digitized fee receipts, which removes all manual intervention.  The system is hosted on a reliable cloud server on the cloud, and data is 128-bit SSL secured (bank-level security).

KigaRoo – KigaRoo is a cloud-based daycare solution designed to help with administrative tasks and organization. The platform helps to perform tasks related to parent communication, billing, statistics, and any form of analysis. KigaRoo is designed with a simple interface to ensure that using the smartphone app and the parent portal is as seamless as possible. The software can handle group and staff management, central file storage, remote access.

Moment – Moment app was created for childcare school administrators to communicate with parents effectively, manage day-to-day activities, accept online signups, and collect payments. The app helps users build communities around its classes and enhance the communication channel with parents while handling the day-to-day events, staff, and families. The app has sections devoted to parent communication, class management, and online signups.

SimplyCircle – SimplyCircle serves as an all-in-one parent communication app. Consider it your virtual personal assistant for things like field trips, class announcements, volunteer signups, and other classroom or school events. It can provide automatic parent reminders, collect RSVPs, ask for volunteers, manage permission slips, and more! In four easy steps, you can streamline (and ensure privacy!) for all manner of classroom activities. SimplyCircle can even assist with photo sharing for class parents.

TodLog – This app is designed to help the childcare and preschool market streamline operations and parent communication using mobile technology. TodLog helps educators improve communications and engage parents in the learning process. It helps track attendance, fill out daily reports, schedule events, and send real-time updates.

Hello Parent – This system provides schools with an easy solution for parent communication and allows parents to pay online. The system is parent-friendly. It has automated fee reminders with digitized fee receipts, which removes all manual intervention.  The system is hosted on a reliable cloud server on the cloud, and data is 128-bit SSL secured (bank-level security).

Athena’s Workshop– This software program allows direct communication between students, teachers, and parents through SMS texts. The program has an anonymity feature that masks phone numbers. Teachers can send out messages to parents and students, and they can reply in private conversations. Children under the age of 12 cannot receive messages except with a parent’s authorization. Athenaallows integration of data from the Edmodo platform.

Are you looking for apps, tools, and resources that you can use to collaborate and communicate with your student’s parents? If so, we have you covered. Check out our list below. Let us know if there are any that we missed.

Appademic – Appademic is a school communication solution based in Australia that delivers notices, forms, communications, and more to mobile devices. It includes apps that can be deployed to communicate efficiently with parents; data collected by the app is stored securely.

1st Class GradeBook – The 1st Class GradeBook app provides modern grading features, including class and student activity, marks, QuickMarks, reports, and more. Teachers can also send reports to parents to keep them informed of their children’s progress. This app comes with a

ACTIVE Educate – ACTIVE Educate provides a complete, web-based registration and management solution for all types and sizes of classes and schools. Subjects covered include language, music, dance, art, vocational schools, and childcare centers. All the data is securely stored in the cloud; the app provides useful reports that give parents valuable insights into their child’s progress.

Brightwheel – Brightwheel is childcare, daycare, and preschool management software for your ECE program. Explicitly designed for directors and administrators at mid- to high-capacity centers, Brightwheel provides essential features, such as seamless attendance tracking, intuitive digital daily sheets and reports, paperless billing, robust parent communication support, and free training and technical support.

ChildPilot – ChildPilot provides streamlined administrative software and parent communication tools at a reasonable price. Websites that register with ChildPilot receive a personalized website that covers marketing services, a family portal for guardians and student registration, and a teacher portal. Tools include interactive calendar/schedules, online document storage, and personal and bulk messages; ChildPilot can be accessed from anywhere on any device.

Daycare Works – DayCare Works is a web-based solution for managing before/after-school programs, community education centers, and childcare operations. The software delivers everything you need, including registrations, secure payments, staff, and student schedules, attendance, billing, third-party subsidy payments, lead management, meal tracking, class ratios, family and staff portals, mobile apps, parent communications, assessments and more.

Hello Parent – This system provides schools with an easy solution for parent communication and allows parents to pay online. The system is parent-friendly. It has automated fee reminders with digitized fee receipts, which removes all manual intervention.  The system is hosted on a reliable cloud server on the cloud, and data is 128-bit SSL secured (bank-level security). ParentSquare– ParentSquare is a tool that increases parent involvement in school management and planning by providing a safe and secure platform for parent-educator correspondence. It helps to maintain a tightly knit, proactive group of educational stakeholders by offering two-way group messaging, private chats, area-wide alerts and announcements, and a simple user interface. ParentSquare brings parents from silent spectators in their children’s education to more active participants by establishing an open, two-way communication channel between them and their children’s educators.

KigaRoo – KigaRoo is a cloud-based daycare solution designed to help with administrative tasks and organization. The platform helps to perform tasks related to parent communication, billing, statistics, and any form of analysis. KigaRoo is designed with a simple interface to ensure that using the smartphone app and the parent portal is as seamless as possible. The software can handle group and staff management, central file storage, remote access.

Moment – Moment app was created for childcare school administrators to communicate with parents effectively, manage day-to-day activities, accept online signups, and collect payments. The app helps users build communities around its classes and enhance the communication channel with parents while handling the day-to-day events, staff, and families. The app has sections devoted to parent communication, class management, and online signups.

SimplyCircle – SimplyCircle serves as an all-in-one parent communication app. Consider it your virtual personal assistant for things like field trips, class announcements, volunteer signups, and other classroom or school events. It can provide automatic parent reminders, collect RSVPs, ask for volunteers, manage permission slips, and more! In four easy steps, you can streamline (and ensure privacy!) for all manner of classroom activities. SimplyCircle can even assist with photo sharing for class parents.

TodLog – This app is designed to help the childcare and preschool market streamline operations and parent communication using mobile technology. TodLog helps educators improve communications and engage parents in the learning process. It helps track attendance, fill out daily reports, schedule events, and send real-time updates.

Are you looking for spelling apps, tools, and resources that you can use with your students? If so, we have you covered. Check out our list below. Let us know if there are any that we missed.

ABC Phonics – Make a Word– Provides both phonics and spelling solutions to children who are learning to read. All the words have short vowel sounds. Phonics Advanced is available for older children, and it comes with longer and double vowel sounds. It also helps children recognize how consonant and vowel placements affect pronunciation.

ABC Phonics – Animated– Designed using the expertise of phonics teachers, this app is an excellent introduction to phonics. Letters are written on the screen with animated tracing for the child to follow, and the app pronounces the letters for the child. This combination helps the child build a solid basis to grow.

ABC Phonics – Word Family Tree– Combines phonics, spelling, beginning sound word family phonics, short vowel sounds, and images with many visual enhancements for each word. The app includes a total of 56-word family groups to be used to teach short and long vowels, spelling, and pronunciation using the Montessori Method.

ABC Spelling Magic 1– With ABC Spelling magic, your child learns the sounds letters make and how to use them to form words. The app also teaches the child to segment, which is a vital part of learning to read. The first portion of the app uses a limited number of letters to form words while the second portion contains all 26 letters of the alphabet. The app teaches the child to spell words using three phonetic sounds and short vowel sounds.

Cimo Spelling Sight Words Sight Words– Help Cimo, the penguin, catch fish by reaching icebergs using the bridges you help him build. This is a spelling game for children in kindergarten through third. It helps them learn to spell words they see frequently or cannot learn by visual images. The lite version of this game contains 50 words; the full-scale version contains 255 words. This game helps your child develop a solid spelling and reading foundation.

Come Learn Spellings– This is an easy-to-use app that consists of over 150 words split between eight sections. It makes use of flashcards that are programmed to help children learn word spelling. Learned words are also repeated to allow for mastery of both simple and more difficult words. The app can be used without parental or adult supervision.

EzSchool – This is an educational portal that offers online educational games and worksheets. It organizes a year-round spelling program with daily activities and provides scores of tutorials and summaries.

Happi Spells– Has your child just learned how to read? (If not, start by downloading Happi Reads.) If your child is just learning to read, it is time for the next stage—spelling. Come with Happi and try to solve difficult mini crossword puzzles. The fewer mistakes, the more “snails” you earn. Every solved puzzle opens a new one.

Magic Spell-first words– Little kids are fascinated by fantasy and the expansive world of magic. They are also fascinated by the world of communication when they begin learning to speak and read. Magic Spell is a perfect app for little ones just learning how to read. By teaching spelling and pronunciation using fun magic illustrations, animations, and sounds, Magic Spell will help your child learn fast. The app includes reinforcement and lots of rewards for correct answers; Magic Spell will make sure your toddler will be confident in the beginning words of their journey.

Rocks – Rocket Speller is a fun, engaging spelling app designed for kids from age three to seven. It has five levels of difficulty in which the kids are to fuel the spaceship by correct spelling of words. They also choose the rocket pieces needed to build the spacecraft, and then they steer the craft into the galaxy to collect stars as rewards. The app is widely endorsed by educators, occupational therapists, special education teachers, and parents as an engaging and effective learning app.

RoomRecess – RoomRecess is a free learning game app in which students can simply load a game activity and have fun while learning. It is committed to providing children with essential skills that are vital to elementary students and their educational process. This game app was developed by primary school teachers committed to basic education in math, reading, spelling, language arts, and basic problem-solving.

Simplex Spelling Light – Combining a unique “reverse phonics” approach and contextually relevant spelling rules, Simplex Spelling Light is an interactive way to improve reading and spelling skills. Students are prompted to build each word individually to gain skills beyond straight memorization. If needed, the app provides spelling rule hints to explain the pattern behind specific word spellings. Simplex Spelling Light allows the teacher or adult to get a taste of the Simplex Spelling products and determine if they want to purchase the full version, Simplex Spelling HD. There are an additional 50 high-frequency spelling words included in Simplex Spelling Light that are not present in Simplex Spelling HD, so owning both versions is useful.

Spelling Balloons – Spelling Balloons helps students read and learn to spell words in a game environment. With a focus on sight word recognition skills, increasing proficiency and fluency in reading, and practice with auditory processing, this app fits well in a balanced literacy classroom routine or as additional at-home practice for elementary students. Spelling Balloons is customizable with the ability to create individualized word lists and to adjust word pronunciation and spelling based on location; for example, British vs. English pronunciation and spelling. The app has both speed and difficulty settings for further customization.

Spelling Notebook – Spelling Notebook was originally designed to replace students’ paper spelling notebooks, where they listed the words to be learned each week. But this app has moved far beyond the functionality of a simple paper spelling notebook. Students can hear each word spoken aloud, focus on mastering only those words they don’t already know and earn stickers for correct word spellings. It contains a fully searchable spelling dictionary with over 100,000 words, so students can avoid manually entering words (and avoid entry errors!). Spelling Notebook is an excellent way for students to continue spelling practice outside of the classroom or independently during literacy centers.

SpellingCity – SpellingCity is an app for vocabulary building, phonics instruction, and spelling practice. With over 40 games and activities, students are guided through customizable word lists to increase vocabulary or keep up with the weekly spelling words. Designed to be used independently, SpellingCity provides instant feedback for students and downloadable reports for teachers and parents. Boasting a 21.5% reading comprehension increase for native English speakers, SpellingCity is research proven and effective. With their focus on reading, hearing, speaking, writing, breaking down, and playing with words, students learn new words across all the language domains and have fun while doing it.

TeachMe: Kindergarten – With an animated teacher, Mimi Mouse, to give verbal instruction and feedback, TeachMe: Kindergarten is an educational app that can be played by children independently. It includes six age-appropriate subjects for parents or teachers to select: sight words, addition, subtraction, spelling, writing letters, and writing numbers. Parents also can choose each subject’s difficulty level and even specific questions. TeachMe: Kindergarten has a unique reward system to help keep children motivated and engaged. For every three correct answers, children earn a coin. These coins can be used to purchase stickers to create elaborate sticker scenes or to purchase items for a virtual aquarium. Sticker scenes can be exported and shared with parents and other family members.

Toddler Toy Factory – With a focus on spelling, reading, and memory skills, children build and match toys in this app designed for children aged 1-7. Toddler Toy Factory comes with 10 free toys, with the option to purchase an additional 70 toys. There are three rooms in the app: Make, Find, and Ship. In the Make room, children select and drag letters into a machine to build words. When correct words are built, toys come out of the machine. In the Find room, children search through crates to find matching toys. When toys are matched, children can play with them or clean them up by putting them into another machine. In the Ship room, children put toys into barrels to practice counting. When full, the barrels can be shipped.

Trilo Spelling – Designed for students in grades K-2, Trilo Spelling is a phonics-based spelling game. The phonics sequence that is followed in the game is short vowels, consonant diagraphs, FLoSS rule, and beginning and ending consonant blends. With over 250 words included in the game, students expand their vocabulary while studying phonics. There are five levels of play, progressing from simpler concepts such as short vowels to more challenging concepts like ending consonant blends.

Word Wizard for Kids – For children aged 4-10, Word Wizard for Kids includes a moveable talking alphabet and three spelling activities. The moveable alphabet allows children to experiment with phonics and word building. It includes four font sizes, uppercase and lowercase letters, natural-sounding pronunciation (three American voices, one British voice, and one Australian voice are included), and spell-check. Word Practice, Scrambled Letters, and Spelling Quizzes are the three included spelling activities. Word Practice says and displays the word to spell and asks the child to use the moveable alphabet to spell it. Scrambled Letters says the word and displays the letters needed to build it, then asks the child to unscramble the letters. Spelling Quizzes is a standard spelling test. The app comes with 184 word lists and allows teachers and parents to create their own.

Wordful – With 580 levels to test students’ vocabulary and spelling, Wordful offers tons of challenging and fun word puzzles. The main gameplay involves hunting for words in random combinations of letters to find as many as possible. Wifi is not needed to access the game and play. There are also daily exercises to keep students’ brains alert.

Are you looking for open educational resources, apps, and tools that you can use with your students? If so, we have you covered. Check out our list below. Let us know if there are any that we missed.

Coursera– This app is designed to help college students make the right choices when it is time to decide what courses they want to take in college. It helps to prevent waste of money. It also helps with the elimination of the course they don’t have interest in by providing free online courses beforehand.

Gibbon – Gibbon is an open-source school management system that helps educators plan and share lessons, allocate resources, and manage students. This software collates student information, helping teachers to understand, contact, find, and improve their students. Teachers, students, parents, and administrators can access Gibbon from the same web-based platform.

Moodle – Module is a free, open-source learning platform designed for educators, administrators, and learners. The system uses a robust, integrated, and secure platform to helps its users create personalized learning environments. The software can be downloaded onto the user’s web server.

Quill– Quill is a writing tutorial app for teachers designed to help students become better writers. Quill is a nonprofit organization, and its goal is to provide tools such as Quill to help make students better writers. Quill uses web applications to create engaging content for students that helps them learn grammar, writing skills, and vocabulary. Using the teacher dashboard, you can monitor students’ progress according to the Common Core Standards; this feature also makes grading more intuitive and meaningful.

Flickr– Store, search, share, and sort pictures online through Flickr! Flickr helps you organize your large images and enables you, your friends, and family to tell stories about them. To learn more about Flickr, upload some photos, explore the site, make some friends, and join some groups. A free version of Flickr is available, but it is somewhat limited; however, you can still get more with a paid subscription.

iversity– iversity lets schools provide their students with course materials on the Internet. They do this by allowing faculties to set up a website for their courses and upload teaching materials, so their students to have access to it. It’s free and can be used to share observations, links, and references in research groups; and announce guest lectures, conferences, and calls for papers.

Pixton– Pixton allows people to communicate with media files using the Click-n-Drag Comics™ system, which is a new patented technological innovation. Pixton allows almost anyone to create amazing comics on the web. Use your students’ interest in comics to gain and retain their attention and trigger their imagination. This app has over 4,000 backgrounds, 3,000 props, and 700 subject-specific comic templates. You can control every aspect of a comic using a perceptive click-n-drag motion. The format encourages kids to learn to communicate in a coherent and concise manner.

Udacity – Udacity is an online learning environment for university-level classes at a fraction of the cost of a traditional university. With a focus on Artificial Intelligence, technology, and business, all Udacity classes are hands-on and interactive. To help graduates succeed in their chosen careers, class projects are designed to mimic real-world activities and can be easily included in portfolios for future job searches. Udacity also provides career assistance to graduates, including resume reviews and interview prep.

Khan Academy– Khan Academy has more than 40,000 interactive Common Core-aligned practice questions and above 10,000 videos and explanations in economics, history, math, and more. This is the best study app and tutoring app for students of all ages who are struggling in science and other subjects. You can easily bookmark your best content to “Your List,” which can be used offline when you’re not connected to the Internet.

Lumen5– Lumen5 is designed for video-making beginners. Whether you need to make a commercial for brand promotion, a promotional video for your hot new business, or a video to promote your next hiking meetup or cooking class, you will surely have no problem learning how to use this software. Lots of copyright-free media material is built in for ease-of-use, and the app allows you to add clips you have recorded outside the app. Because the tool is easy to learn, you can focus on the quality of your video instead of the intricacies of the editing software.

CK-12– Helps students and teachers to improve elementary learning worldwide by making personal education tools available. Learn more than 5,000 math and science topics at a speed that suits you. Math topics include arithmetic, measurement, algebra, geometry, probability, statistics, trigonometry, analysis, and calculus. Science subjects include geography, life science, physical science, biology, chemistry, and physics. Other subjects include SAT exam prep, engineering, technology, astronomy, English, and history.

Science 360– Science 360 is a website that contains video collections from highly respected scientists, colleges, and universities in all fields of science and engineering explorations. Videos are hosted by the National Science Foundation.

Scratch– Scratch is a free open network made available by MIT to assist young folks in learning to think and reason systematically. Scratch makes room for students to design and share their coding work with others around the universe. It allows them to create stories, games, and animations to assist in sharing their vision with others on the platform. On this platform, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations and share your design with others in the online community.