Renaissance Next Integrations

Freckle is a digital learning and practice platform for K–12 that delivers differentiated, adaptive practice in both math and English Language Arts, continuously adjusting to meet every student at their “just-right” level. It begins by placing students, via a brief adaptive assessment or existing standards data, at an initial level, then offers self-paced or teacher-assigned exercises aligned to standards. In math, Freckle supports foundational through high-school math (addition, subtraction, number facts, algebra, geometry, etc.), while in ELA, it provides hundreds of fiction and nonfiction passages, grammar, sight-words, word-study, phonics, reading-comprehension activities, and more. As students work, Freckle adapts in real time; if a student struggles, the system offers easier or scaffolded content, and if they excel, it advances them, supporting skill development, mastery, and confidence.

myON is a personalized digital reading platform that gives students 24/7 access to thousands of enhanced, age-appropriate fiction and nonfiction books, over 6,000 titles in its core collection, matched individually to each student’s reading level, grade, and interests. It offers a “close reading” environment with embedded supports, audio-read-aloud functions, reading-level adjustments, and interactive tools, enabling readers to engage with texts that are suitably challenging yet accessible. For students with limited or no consistent internet access at home, myON provides free mobile apps that allow offline reading; content is downloaded and syncs when the device reconnects. It also includes a news-reading component, “myON News,” offering daily, age-appropriate news articles enriched with multimedia (videos, slideshows, photo galleries) to encourage reading beyond traditional books.

FastBridge provides research-based assessments in reading, math, and social-emotional behavior (SEB) to help educators identify student needs quickly and guide targeted instruction. The platform combines computer-adaptive tests (CAT) with curriculum-based measures (CBM) to offer valid, reliable screening and progress monitoring from Pre-K through 12th grade. With results delivered in under 30 minutes, educators can spend less time testing and more time teaching. FastBridge enables schools to spot skill gaps, determine risk levels, and align the right interventions at the right tier of support. Its Screening to Intervention (s2i) report offers classwide, small-group, and individual intervention recommendations based on student data. By providing actionable insights and early predictions of growth, FastBridge helps districts accelerate learning and promote equitable outcomes.

Accelerated Reader is a digital reading-management program developed by Renaissance that helps schools, teachers, and librarians manage, monitor, and motivate independent reading practice among students. Students choose books at their reading level and read them at their own pace. After finishing a book, they take a computerized comprehension quiz via AR to assess their understanding. Each book in the AR catalog is assigned a readability level (via the ATOS readability formula) and a point value based on length and complexity; when students successfully pass the quiz, they earn points. These points contribute toward personalized reading goals set by teachers. Teachers (and in some cases parents) receive detailed feedback and reporting on each student’s reading behavior, including books read, comprehension, progress toward goals, and reading volume.

Lalilo is a web-based foundational literacy program for early elementary (grades K–2) that delivers adaptive, standards-aligned practice in phonics, phonology, phonemic awareness, word recognition, sight-words, word families, reading comprehension, grammar and conventions, and vocabulary. From the first session, students take a placement test, and the system uses artificial intelligence to tailor the subsequent lessons to their level, ensuring each student works on “just-right” content. Lessons combine interactive exercises, voice/sound cues, and scaffolded reading tasks; as students progress, they unlock new stories, collect badges, and engage with content in a visually appealing, game-like journey. Teachers get detailed dashboards and reporting at class- and student-level, allowing them to assign custom lessons, monitor progress on individual skills (from phoneme recognition to comprehension), and identify areas needing support.

SchoolCity is a K–12 assessment platform that empowers educators and districts to build, administer, and analyze standards-aligned assessments, whether classroom formative, summative, interim, or common assessments. It features a large item bank (including over 65,000 TEKS- and DOK-tagged items for Texas), plus additional item banks such as TX Prebuilt Assessments, TEKSbank, and TEKSready, giving teachers. Administrators' access to high-quality, state-aligned questions. Educators can create custom assessments by mixing original items with bank-sourced ones, deliver tests online via the redesigned Student Portal or on paper, and support students with accommodations imported nightly from an integrated accommodations system (including support for online testing, partial-credit scoring, and multiple item types from multiple choice to hot-text, graphing, ordering, multi-select, and performance-based tasks).

SAEBRS is a universal social-emotional behavior screener designed to help K–12 schools assess students’ social, academic, and emotional behavior. In a quick 1–3 minute teacher-administered survey per student (or 3–5 minutes for the student self-assessment version, mySAEBRS), SAEBRS measures both the absence of problematic behaviors and the presence of positive, pro-social or resiliency skills, giving a broad view of a student's well-being and readiness to learn. It includes one overall “Total Behavior” scale and three sub-scales; Social Behavior (e.g., ability to understand social norms, empathize, interact appropriately), Academic Behavior (e.g., readiness for class, attention, work habits, participation), and Emotional Behavior (e.g., emotion regulation, stress response, internal well-being). Administrators, teachers, and support staff can screen entire classes, grades, or schools, then filter and analyze results at the district, grade, or demographic-group level.

Renaissance DnA is a K–12, standards-based assessment creation and administration platform that empowers educators to build, deliver, and analyze formative, benchmark, and summative assessments in a unified system. It includes a large, high-quality item bank (with over 80,000 items spanning ELA, math, science, and history), and more than 600 prebuilt assessments that can either be used directly or customized to match a school’s scope and sequence. Teachers can also author their own items and passages to address local standards or curricula. DnA supports many item types, from traditional multiple-choice or constructed-response to technology-enhanced items like drag-and-drop, hot-spot, graphing, and evidence-based selected-response, letting assessments reflect the full range of student skills. Administrations are flexible; assessments may be given online, via paper/pencil, or a hybrid of both.

STAR Phonics is a web-based phonics assessment tool from Renaissance, intended to help educators quickly and precisely evaluate foundational reading skills in students. The assessment measures mastery across 12 key phonics categories and diagnoses 102 specific phonics skills, giving detailed insights into which phonics patterns a student has mastered and which require further instruction. The screening is efficient, typically taking only 2–5 minutes per student, and results are available immediately, without manual data entry. It provides diagnostic reports at the student, class, and grade level; these reports highlight patterns of error and skill-level gaps, helping teachers tailor instruction for individuals, small groups, entire classes, or whole grades. Recently, STAR Phonics has added enhanced features like audio pronunciation for every assessment word (to support correct scoring), and improved exportable screener data (by phonics category and by individual word).

eduCLIMBER is a whole-child data and MTSS (multi-tiered system of support) management platform that integrates academic, behavioral, attendance, social-emotional, intervention, and qualitative data into a single interactive system. It gathers information from multiple sources, assessments, student information systems, behavior tracking, surveys, attendance logs, interventions, and custom inputs to build a comprehensive, longitudinal profile of each student and the school as a whole. It provides built-in modules for early-warning detection, intervention tracking, collaborative workflows, and effectiveness reporting, enabling educators to monitor student risk factors (like chronic absenteeism, behavior issues, or academic decline) in real time. With its “Observations” module, teachers and staff can record behavior- or time-sample data directly.

Star Assessments provide Pre-K–12 educators with fast, reliable data that supports reading and math growth throughout the school year. The suite includes computer-adaptive tests, curriculum-based measures, and custom standards-based assessments available in both English and Spanish. With quick, accurate screening, teachers can immediately understand what students know and which skills they’re ready to learn next. District and school leaders gain visibility into performance trends, enabling smarter allocation of instructional resources and support. Families benefit from clear insights into progress, growth, and overall achievement. By linking directly to ACT, SAT, and state test benchmarks, Star helps schools predict future performance and intervene early to keep students on track.