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View allKeyboard Ready: State Test Typing Prep
Teachers need a structured typing curriculum to prepare elementary students for computer-based state tests, but lack resources and guidance. This opportunity addresses the gap between testing requirements and student keyboarding skills.
“Third-grade teachers are frustrated that students are required to take computerized state tests without formal typing instruction, leading to student struggles with keyboarding, spelling, punctuation, and test navigation.”
“Teacher lacks a structured typing curriculum and resources to prepare students for computer-based state tests, leading to students hunting and pecking and potential test score impact.”
Curriculum Align
Teachers need a way to ensure curriculum materials match pacing guides and are available offline to meet screen time restrictions. This opportunity focuses on preventing misalignment between resources, assessments, and teaching schedules.
“A middle school science teacher has a district-mandated 120-minute daily screen time cap but all curriculum materials are only available online, with no physical textbooks or lab workbooks provided and insufficient paper to print materials for 200+ students.”
“A teacher needs tools to ensure they have covered all required educational standards, including tracking learning targets and planning mini lessons aligned to each standard.”
Curriculum Compass: Plan, Access, Teach
New teachers need a structured framework for year-long planning, curriculum access, and resource organization. Existing tools fail to provide a clear roadmap or integrate resources across subjects.
“Savvas Curriculum materials lack depth and require significant supplementation for effective teaching.”
“A 5th-year teacher struggles with lesson prep organization and feels perpetually unprepared, especially when assigned new courses.”
CurriculumWorks
Teachers waste hours piecing together fragmented digital and print materials. This opportunity provides a unified platform to plan, store, and adapt flexible curriculum that works seamlessly across digital and paper formats.
“Traditional high school curriculum and structure do not meet the varied needs and future readiness of many students, especially those who struggle academically, have chronic illness, or need real-world skills and flexible options.”
“Teachers want to create their own language course from scratch but lack a structured process, timeline estimate, and tooling for sourcing authentic reading/listening materials.”
PrepSync Curriculum Builder
Teachers with multiple preps lack structured, adaptable curriculum tools. This app auto-generates pacing guides and lesson plans that adapt to changing assignments.
“First-year teacher spends weekends planning and grading, lacks classroom management skills, and seeks to reclaim personal time.”
“A middle school teacher spends excessive unpaid time re-creating curriculum and lesson plans due to constant changes in grade, subject, and student levels, preventing reuse of past materials.”
CurriculumCraft
A platform that provides standards-aligned, customizable curriculum templates to reduce teachers' unpaid lesson planning time while protecting their intellectual property.
“A teacher moving to a new district lacks advance access to the curriculum and scope and sequence, making it impossible to prepare lesson plans before the school year starts.”
“Teachers without textbooks or curriculum sets are expected to create their own materials, often for courses outside their expertise, and need efficient ways to generate lesson content.”
Individual Problems
AP Research Roadmap
A first-year AP Research teacher lacks a step-by-step instructional roadmap and pacing guide for the course, feeling overwhelmed and lost without prior research experience.
StandardTracker Pro
A teacher needs tools to ensure they have covered all required educational standards, including tracking learning targets and planning mini lessons aligned to each standard.
Curriculum Compass
Teacher struggles with a technology-heavy, confusing curriculum that overwhelms with extraneous material and fails to effectively teach core reading and writing skills.
AnswerKey Assistant
Teacher cannot access answer keys for edited or custom assignments in Savvas Realize, requiring manual solving of each question to review with students.
CurriculumCompass
A first-year high school social studies teacher is overwhelmed by building curriculum from scratch, lack of clear departmental learning goals, emotional drain, workload (90+ students), and excessive meetings, leaving no time for personal life.
Curriculum Craft
A 4th grade teacher finds the HMH curriculum module bloated and poorly designed, requiring significant effort to supplement it so students are not bored and the material is engaging.
LessonLaunch Pro
A new teacher feels overwhelmed and unprepared, spending excessive time on lesson planning and struggling with classroom management without adequate support or resources.
Adaptive Learning Path Builder
Teacher is unable to teach 3rd grade standards to students who are below grade level, leading to disengagement and lack of progress.
FlexiTeach Studio
A passionate chemistry teacher is frustrated by district mandates that force strict adherence to pre-made slide decks, SAVVAS-only materials, and a rigid pacing calendar, stripping away the joy and creativity of teaching.
ELD LessonFlow
A teacher lacks a structured curriculum and daily routines for an ELD 2/3 class, leading to uncertainty about how to best support English learners.
CurriculumCraft ELA
A new 4th grade ELA teacher has no provided curriculum and must build one from scratch, causing long hours and uncertainty.
Adaptive Literacy Suite
Teachers are frustrated with HMH curriculum because texts are too long, the system is disconnected and disjointed, and the pacing guide expects reading coverage in unrealistic time, leading to poor student reading outcomes and instructional constraints.
MakerEd Curriculum Hub
A teacher is struggling to develop a makerspace curriculum without clear direction, proper equipment, or resources, and is seeking curriculum plans and ideas due to lack of administrative support.
LitPlan Pro
A 7th-8th grade reading teacher lacks a structured curriculum and pacing guide, and is seeking advice on novels, bell ringers, projects, and PSSA test prep for a 42-minute class.
CurricuCraft
Teacher struggles with an inadequate science curriculum but has limited time and resources to supplement it, resorting to multiple unreliable workarounds.
PacePerfect
Elementary teacher is overwhelmed by the expectation to teach a full daily curriculum load with insufficient time, no buffer for slow students, and new untrained curriculum, leading to inability to cover all subjects and risk of principal reprimand.
PrepSmart Teacher Suite
A first-year teacher is overwhelmed by preparing materials for three different courses without adequate resources, grading by hand, and managing energetic middle schoolers, feeling that everything is put together hours before class.
PacketPrep Pro
Teachers are frustrated by last-minute requests to create independent study packets for students going on vacation, which are time-consuming and may not be completed, but declining risks loss of school funding.
AlignTest Curriculum Validator
A teacher must give a test that includes a standard not yet taught, risking student failure and damaged trust.
FLES Lesson Planner Pro
A new FLES Spanish teacher lacks a structured curriculum and lesson planning guidance for grades 4–6, and the provided resources are too broad and disorganized to be useful.
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