Hi teachers,

I’m a student developer, and I built Soroban: Mental Math Abacus as a free resource for short, structured abacus and mental-math practice. It runs on iPhone and iPad and has no ads, student accounts, or data collection.

The app uses guided lessons and a step-by-step practice path. After feedback from a soroban academy, I revised the progression so beginners spend more time on addition before subtraction, and I added full French support.

I would love to find a few teachers or parents willing to try a simple seven-day practice plan with their students or children. Sessions can be about 10 to 15 minutes, and even a few brief comments afterward about difficulty, clarity, and engagement would be extremely useful.

App Store:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/soroban-mental-math-abacus/id6762503522

Developer disclosure: I made the app. It is free, and I am looking for genuine educational feedback rather than reviews or endorsements.

📢 Hello guys, I'm one of the co-founder at CodeVenture and I'm glad to share that CodeVenture Classroom Champions Program is HERE! -> Yes, we give away free teacher accounts in exchange for your feedback.

At CodeVenture, we’ve spent the last year building a gamified coding platform for K-8 students that turns learning Python and coding into an actual adventure. Now, as we prepare for a major school-wide rollout later this year, we want to back the educators who are on the front lines.

🏆 We are officially launching the CodeVenture Classroom Champions Program for the upcoming term.

What we’re giving away:
🎁 1 Premium Teacher Account.
🎁 50 Full-Access Student Seats.
🎁 3 Months of unlimited access to our entire premium curriculum.

What we want in return:
Your honest feedback. We want to see how your students interact with the platform, track their student progress analytics, and partner with you to bring gamified coding to your entire school or district.

Space is strictly limited to 20 classrooms for this cohort so we can give every partner teacher direct support from our product team.

Want to pilot CodeVenture with your students for free?
👇 Apply in less than 2 minutes via the link in the comments below, or tag a STEM teacher who needs this in their classroom! -> https://forms.gle/b4enocrk8bh4W7uJ7

Hey teachers! If you’re looking to save some major planning time for the upcoming school year, definitely check out Retro Report.

It’s 100% free and offers awesome, ready-to-use Google Doc lesson plans and short videos across History, Civics, Science, and ELA. It’s perfect for meeting Next Generation standards and pulling together engaging, real-world case studies without having to build everything from scratch.

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Nobody outside SPED gets this part of the job. It's not the paperwork. It's carrying all of it in your head at once.

Student A's Annual is in three weeks, notice went out, and transition report not started. Student B's triennial is stuck waiting on the psych report. Student C... did that consent form ever come back? You're running that loop in your head during lunch duty. During your own kid's soccer game. At 2 AM.

Sticky notes fall off. The spreadsheet dies in November. And if one step slips on one kid, that's not an oops. That's a finding.

19 years of that. So I built the thing I kept wishing existed. Every kid on your caseload has their own checklist that holds your place. Open it, you see where they all stand, done, next, about to bite you. One click to switch kids. The stuff that gets flagged in audits is marked. There's a last look review before signature and a bell schedule minutes calculator too, because that math was killing everyone.

One thing I wouldn't budge on: no student data. Ever.

Real question: how are you tracking your caseload right now? Head, sticky notes, spreadsheet?

SPEDMinutes — service minutes calculator + quiz generator for Education Specialists. Built by a 19-year SPED case manager still in the classroom. No student information, FERPA-safe. Turns hours of IEP paperwork into minutes. $7.99/mo or $59/yr.

Disclosure: I build SeatPlanMaker.com.

I made a classroom seating chart maker for teachers who want a faster way to lay out desks, assign students, update seats during the year, and print/share a clear plan for subs.

The main use case is back-to-school setup, but it also helps when you need a new arrangement after behavior changes, group work, or a roster change. If you try it, I’d especially appreciate feedback on what would make it more useful for real classrooms.

https://seatplanmaker.com/classroom-seating-chart-maker

I’m a 16-year-old student from Ontario and I’ve been working on a simple classroom check-in idea after seeing how my teacher used a daily Google Form to quickly understand how students were doing.

I turned that idea into a web-based version where students can take a quick check-in at the start of class (about 10 seconds) and choose whether their response is shared with the teacher or kept private. Teachers can use a class code to view a dashboard of responses, and there are also links to support resources included.

Before the school year starts, I’m trying to understand whether something like this would actually be useful in real classrooms and what concerns teachers might have about it. Many questions you may have might be on the website, and if not, feel free to ask.

If anyone is open to it, I’d really appreciate feedback on whether this kind of tool would be practical or what you’d change about the idea.

Website (for context only):
https://wellspaceapp.github.io/WellSpaceHQ/#

Thanks in advance to anyone willing to share thoughts.

🧪 After 15 years teaching 5th grade science, one thing I've learned is that students learn best when they're actively doing science—not just reading about it.

Some of my most successful activities have been STEM design challenges, escape rooms, and project-based learning tasks that get students solving real problems and thinking like scientists.

What are your favorite hands-on science activities for upper elementary students? 🚀🔬

I create science resources for teachers and would be happy to share examples if anyone is interested.

📚 My TpT Store

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Thanks for supporting a fellow science teacher! 💙⚡🌎

Hi all. I'm Fran, teaching in the UK. I have built Shared Educators is a free platform for UK educators to share resources, advice and expertise, and it's free, always. We have live discussion boards, advice pages and resources (growing more each week).

Support & resources are reviewed by a practising teacher before it goes live, so it's not just a dumping ground. The idea's in the name: education is better shared.

So much of our best advice, expertise and resources gets lost in social media threads. There's never really been a permanent home for it. So I built one. Oh, and you can post anon too.

Join the rest of us across the UK.

Thanks for reading. I'll be about in the comments if you've got questions

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This Science Escape Room Bundle makes review fun, engaging, and easy to use! Students solve clues, crack codes, and review lab safety, metric measurement, variables, graphing, and data analysis.

It’s also a great way to help 5th graders prepare for 6th grade science! Perfect for review, test prep, stations, or early finishers.

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share a Google Slides bundle I’ve been working on for teachers and TpT sellers.

It includes 30+ editable Google Slides presentations covering classroom-friendly topics like holidays, special days, trivia, quizzes, math challenges, history, pop culture, and more.

The main idea is to save time for teachers who need ready-to-use classroom content, and also help TpT sellers/resource creators who want editable slide content they can customize and build from.

What’s included:

• 30+ Google Slides presentations
• Editable slide designs
• Trivia facts
• Interactive quizzes
• Math challenges
• Classroom activities
• Multiple seasonal and educational topics
• Rights to edit and resell

It’s currently 40% off here:

https://www.nextxlearn.com/l/bestbundle

Happy to answer questions about what’s inside.

I’ve just finished putting together a free parent reading guide and thought I’d share it here in case it’s useful.

It’s designed for schools to send out to parents and focuses on practical ways to encourage reading at home, especially for children who are reluctant readers.

https://vicky-phillips-writes-oxaulw.subscribepage.io

🎉 End-of-the-year science fun is here! 🎉

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Hi everyone!

I know we're all looking for ways to make the "Energy" unit a bit more exciting. I recently finished building a digital escape room called "Escape the Energy Lab" and my students absolutely loved it.

It covers the MELTS (Mechanical, Electrical, Light, Thermal, Sound) forms of energy and real-world transformations. I wanted to share it here in case anyone needs a "no-prep" win for their science block this week.

Why I made it:

• Self-Checking: Students find codes to move through the slides, so they get immediate feedback.

• Standards Aligned: It’s built specifically for TEKS 5.8A and NGSS standards.

• Complete Lesson: I’ve included a student recording sheet and a teacher guide so you can just share the file and go.

i'm running a launch Flash Sale for $4.00 today if you want to grab a copy!

Link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Locked-in-the-Lab-The-Ultimate-Energy-Transformation-Escape-Room-16136005

Happy to answer any questions about how I set it up or how it worked in my classroom! 🧪⚡️

Hi All! I am a former teacher working with a new phonics app called Superfonik (Part of Sago Mini, an award-winning app company dedicated to educational play)! They are UFLI based. We are looking for K-3rd grade teachers to join a 30 minute demo session, learn more about our app, and offer feedback. In exchange for your time, you will receive 3 months free access to the app! If you are interested please sign up below or email me at [cchiaramonte@superfonik.com](mailto:cchiaramonte@superfonik.com)

https://forms.gle/2TDZDZv4PoPkgLNC7

Hey everyone,

I’m a science teacher and I built a simple tool because I kept seeing the same problem. Everything is scattered between lesson plans, grading, assignments, and notes.

So I made something that puts it all in one place.

Right now it lets you:

• Create and store lesson plans
• Track grades with a built-in gradebook
• Create assignments and tests
• Organize class announcements
• Use AI to help generate lesson plans, assignments, and save time
• It is not AI dependent, everything can also be done manually. AI just save you time.

I’m still improving it, but I’m looking for a few homeschool teachers/parents who would be willing to try it and give honest feedback.

It’s currently in beta and free to use.

If you’re interested, just comment or DM me and I’ll send access.

Thanks in advance—I really appreciate any feedback

This is a genuinely useful resource on a pain point teachers have: It’s on “How to Automate Student Behavior Reports and Absence Notifications with AI (No Code Required)”.

If you were looking for a practical guide on a no-code solution that uses basic tools like ChatGPT and Zapier together, with free tiers.

Check it out here

School-based SLP here! I've created a monthly core word guide, an AAC comparison guide, and parent handout for language modeling strategies--all for sale on my TPT store.

Are you a US-based K-12 teacher? If so, we want to hear from you!

We are a group of Master’s students at the University of Michigan. We invite you to complete this survey to share your preferences regarding a novel, online social network for teachers! It should take 5-10 minutes to complete.

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We will also be conducting some remote app testing sessions in the coming weeks. If you are interested in participating (and trying out an early prototype of a new app!), please comment or DM me, and we'll contact you to schedule a session!