News & Updates

Current Events: Connecting Our Students to the World Around Them

Helping our students grow into confident, capable adults means giving them the ability to connect classroom learning to the real world. For students with moderate to severe disabilities, regularly integrating current events into instruction is an essential bridge to this independence. While we recognize this can be challenging to implement, this practice builds necessary background knowledge and helps students better understand the community and world around them.

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Now Available: enCORE Elementary Unit Assessments by Domain (ELA and Math)

enCORE Elementary Unit Assessments are now available both in their regular format of all domains in the same assessment AND in a new format where we focus on only one domain.

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TeachTown enCORE – User Experience Update

We took your feedback seriously. Teachers and administrators asked for a more intuitive layout, easier access to content, and better visibility into where they are within a unit – and the result is a newly modernized enCORE interface that delivers on all fronts.

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Fortune Media and Great Place To Work Name TeachTown to 2025 Best Workplaces for Women List, Ranking No. 38 in the Small/Medium Category

Great Place To Work® and Fortune magazine have selected TeachTown as one of the 2025 Fortune Best Workplaces for Women™. This is TeachTown’s first time being named to this prestigious list, this year coming in at No. 38 in the small/medium category. Earning a spot means that TeachTown is one of the best companies to work for in the country. To determine the Best Workplaces for Women, Great Place To Work analyzed the survey responses of nearly 605,000 women who work for Great Place To Work Certified™ companies that were eligible for the list. To be considered, a company must employ at least 50 women, have at least 20% of non-executive managers who are women, and have at least one female C-suite executive.

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A Powerful New Tool for Special Education Administrators: The Unit Assessment Summary Report is Here!

We're excited to announce the release of our brand new Unit Assessment Summary Report, a powerful tool designed specifically for special education school and district administrators. We know how critical it is for you to have clear, actionable data that demonstrates student growth and the impact of your programs. This new report gives you just that, with a clear view into both teacher engagement and measurable student outcomes.

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TeachTown Named to 2025 Best Medium Workplaces List, Ranking No. 43

Great Place To Work® and Fortune magazine have selected TeachTown, a leading provider of special education curriculum for students with disabilities, for the 2025 Fortune Best Medium Workplaces™ List. This is TeachTown’s inaugural time being named to this prestigious list, this year coming in at No. 43. Earning a spot means that TeachTown is one of the best companies to work for in the country.

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New Decodable Readers in enCORE Elementary

enCORE Elementary now includes a brand new library of decodable readers! These readers are specifically designed to support students as they build foundational reading skills aligned with the Science of Reading.

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Michigan Public Agencies Can Purchase TeachTown Curricula with Incentivized Pricing through CoPro+ Statewide Purchasing Program

TeachTown is pleased to announce its designation as an official contractor of Cooperative Procurement Plus (CoPro+), a Michigan-based purchasing consortium program that was designed to make procurement easier for public-sector agencies. As a result of a successful competitive bid, schools in Michigan are now eligible to purchase TeachTown’s PreK-12+ curricula with incentivized pricing through the CoPro+ program without the need for a separate RFP process. 

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LEAP into the New School Year with TeachTown

As you prepare to welcome your students back to the classroom, we’re here to help you start strong with brand new updates to enCORE that support Literacy, Empowerment, Access, and Progress for students with moderate to severe disabilities. This year, we invite you to LEAP into the school year with TeachTown!

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Driving Student Success on California’s Alternate Pathway to a Diploma with TeachTown’s enCORE

California’s Alternate Pathway to a Diploma presents an important opportunity and a significant responsibility for special educators working with students with moderate to severe disabilities. For students with significant cognitive disabilities who qualify for the California Alternate Assessment (CAA), this pathway ensures access to a meaningful, standards-aligned high school diploma that can open doors to future academic, vocational, and life goals. But supporting complex learners on this pathway requires more than compliance. It requires an appropriately rigorous, adapted core curriculum that meets each student where they are – without lowering expectations.

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