Kickstart the school year with fresh multimodal materials and instructional supports—all in one place.
Start the year with an essential toolbox of research-backed, standards-aligned solutions for purposeful, outcome-driven instruction, assessment, and classroom insights—all in one place. With consistent routines, you could see:
Discover new and updated daily instruction and assessment features to drive data-informed decisions across the classroom, building, and district.
Deliver timely, consistent, and standards-aligned differentiation at scale without adding to teacher workload.
Set clear guardrails to align assessments with standards, and leverage the resulting data to guide teaching and district decisions.
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Start the year with a clear plan before students return. Explore these resources during your in-service week, so you’re ready to go on the first day of school.
Jump right in with curated, standards-aligned lessons and activities to spark curiosity, practice skills, and ease into the school year.
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Learn the basics of Formative’s lesson features with easy-to-use resources for K-12 students across ELA, social studies, math, and science.
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Get to know your students to better understand their learning needs and expectations, and prepare for a smooth and rewarding school year.
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Build a digital time capsule to celebrate the United States’ 250th anniversary and help future students learn about 2026.
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Create quick and easy formative assessments like exit tickets, checks for understanding, and more to start evaluating students’ skills and progress early.
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Build student skills and routines with content on taking notes, studying, and productivity with activities from Formative user Matthew Richardson.
Find ways to integrate Formative into your daily instruction and build routines that carry from the first week of school through the end of October and beyond.
Start with quick checks instead of a weeklong, in-depth testing plan.
Exit tickets, warm-ups, pre-assessments, or skills checks can show what students already know and where they need support.
Formative can help you collect this information during daily instruction. Use interactive activities and assessments you’re already planning for each lesson. Then you can view student responses in real time, give feedback, and track mastery in one place.
This can help you learn where students are in their learning and background knowledge without pausing instruction for days.
Use your first assessment as a starting point and then look for patterns. Which questions did most students miss? Which standards need reteaching? Which students need small-group follow-ups?
Formative can support this cycle with real-time responses, auto-graded questions, teacher feedback, and standards tracking. Luna Next Steps, a Balanced Assessment by Formative feature, can analyze real-time performance data, pinpoint student gaps, and generate customizable follow-up activities for targeted support.
We’ve added back-to-school features and updates designed to help you create, assign, analyze, and respond faster.
Edit with Luna uses classroom-safe AI to help you refine existing activities by adding answer choices, creating new questions, and adjusting tone or complexity. We’ve also made updates and improvements to:
Make data collection and analysis part of instruction, not a separate task to do after school.
The strongest data routines come from quick, standards-aligned checks that teachers already use, like exit tickets and quizzes.
Formative helps your school or district do this at scale. Teachers can collect student responses in real time, give in-the-moment feedback, and track mastery. Administrators can support common assessments, shared content libraries, and real-time dashboards across classrooms.
With Balanced Assessment by Formative, leaders can also connect classroom-level data with broader reporting, standards-aligned item banks, and secure assessment tools for a more streamlined, intuitive process.
Give teachers strong resources so they don’t have to build their assessments from scratch.
Formative’s updated Item Bank gives teachers access to expertly written, high-quality items for math, ELA, science, and social studies. The Item Bank can help them build standards-aligned assessments more quickly while maintaining rigor.
For districtwide consistency, Luna Configuration Studio lets leaders set guardrails for AI-generated assessments so they align with standards and instructional priorities.
Secure assessment starts with clear expectations and the right testing setup.
Formative supports secure testing with Respondus LockDown Browser for schools and districts. The browser uses three levels of security, including blocking application switching, printing, screen captures, and copy/paste functions.
This back-to-school season, we’ve updated the browser to support more modes, with easier setup and clearer visibility into potential cheating. This gives you a stronger way to build assessment integrity without giving up the benefits of digital testing and real-time data.
