There’s no slow season in special education.
The work is complex, constant, and profoundly important. Every day, teachers, specialists, and administrators show up with patience, creativity, and heart, finding ways to make learning work for every student, no matter what the day brings. At TeachTown, we know this isn’t easy work. It’s the best and hardest job there is, and we’re endlessly grateful to be part of the solution.
This year, our focus was clear: build curriculum and platform tools that make teaching smoother, data smarter, and learning more accessible. Together, we celebrated some of our biggest achievements yet: the completion of two brand-new solutions (Launch for PreK and Language Accelerator), a comprehensive set of 300+ benchmark assessments across K-12, the addition of Spanish content and decodable readers in enCORE Elementary, and a complete refresh of the enCORE user experience designed to make lesson prep faster, personalize the teaching experience, and make the whole navigation experience more intuitive.
These aren’t just product milestones. They’re steps toward a bigger goal – giving educators more time for what matters most and giving students the tools to reach their fullest potential. We built, refined, and rethought our solutions this year with one simple principle in mind: great teaching deserves great support.
With that in mind, we organized our 2025 work around the following: making it easy, expanding our impact, and proving what works – all focused on helping educators spend less time managing and more time teaching.
We know time is the rarest resource in special education, so we spent 2025 giving some of it back!
Every update was built to remove friction and keep focus where it belongs: on teaching and learning.
This year, our curriculum grew in new and meaningful ways to meet more learners where they are.
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Every update this year was made with one purpose in mind: to give teachers practical tools that make it easier to reach every learner and help every student see themselves in the work they do.
We’ve always been committed to showing that our solutions lead to measurable student outcomes and a quantifiable return on investment. To that end, this year included:
When we say ‘data-driven,’ we mean data that drives instruction and program evaluation – not just numbers on a screen.
Real progress is seen in real classrooms with real students and real outcome data. This year, we had the privilege of partnering with districts who are leading the way in redefining what’s possible for students with diverse learning needs.
In the San Mateo County Office of Education, special educators piloted TeachTown’s K-12 standards-first, adapted core curriculum, enCORE, alongside another special education curriculum, to ensure its students received high-quality instruction and opportunities for enhanced student success. enCORE led to improved data and outcomes, decreased problem behaviors, and excellent customer support.
At Patchogue-Medford School District, teachers and administrators showed how enCORE and supporting tools are driving measurable gains in student engagement and academic growth. In fact, 93% of students who used enCORE scored proficient on the New York State Alternate Assessment (NYSAA) compared to 63% of students using a competitor. Their success story continues to inspire our entire team!
We also celebrated meaningful milestones with Redford Union School District, Pflugerville ISD, and YES Prep, each demonstrating unique ways that TeachTown supports consistent, high-quality instruction and increased confidence for both students and educators.
Each of these districts reminds us that the best measure of our work is in the moments when students are truly connecting with their learning and seeing real outcomes – not in new product features or releases.
Behind every number is a story of students and educators making real progress: a Level 1 student finding their voice; a brand new teacher finding their rhythm and gaining instructional confidence; a whole class celebrating end-of-year progress that once felt out of reach; an administrator seeing the return on their investment in TeachTown.
What we’re building in 2026 is all about continuing the work that matters: helping special educators across PreK – 12+ do their jobs with clarity, confidence, and joy. To every teacher, specialist, and administrator who trusted TeachTown this year: thank you. You inspire every improvement we make!
Here’s to 2026: more learning, more growth, and more moments that remind us why we do this.
Watch our 2025 Year-in-Review video and celebrate the progress made in classrooms across the country.
Post your favorite classroom moment from 2025 on social using #TeachTownTogether – we’d love to feature your work in the year ahead.