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As the school year kicks off, we know it’s important for you to have the right tools for creating a learning environment where everyone can thrive.

Microsoft Learning Accelerators are a suite of tools that help students catch up, keep up, and get ahead by building foundational and future-ready skills.

Summer might be fun, but getting ready to go back to school can be exciting and enjoyable, too. Our free summer learning game offers a variety of fun and engaging resources to keep students thinking, collaborating, and building skills until the first day of school!

Information literacy, which involves critical thinking when finding and engaging with information, is a vital skill for students in both their current education and their future careers. However, finding the time and resources to prioritize this skill can be challenging.

At least 350 languages are spoken in the U.S. and, according to the National Education Association, by 2025, 1 out of 4 children in U.S. classrooms will be a multilingual learner of English (MLE).

Reading Progress and Reading Coach, two Learning Accelerators available in Microsoft Teams for Education, are designed to enhance your students’ reading fluency. With Reading Progress, students read a passage out loud while recording video and audio, then turn in their recordings to you.

Over the past few months, AI technology, the surrounding discussion, and learning in the worldwide education community have continued to advance. Back in March, we shared three critical focus areas that continue to guide us as we work towards bringing AI innovation to education.

Immersive Reader is a free, easy-to-use tool that that’s designed to improve reading comprehension and fluency for students of all abilities. Packed with features that can read aloud or translate on-screen text, Immersive Reader incorporates research principles that increase access for all students.

Summer is finally here and that means it’s time for educators everywhere to pause, take a much-deserved break, and relax!

School may be out for summer, but learning doesn’t have to end! We offer a wide variety of solutions and resources that students and families can use to stay engaged in learning all summer long.

In recent years, we have seen technology provide both connection and continuity through the creation of dynamic new digital spaces where people of all abilities, backgrounds, aptitudes, and perspectives can come together and create community.

The past few years have reminded us how motivating and engaging video-based learning experiences are for students. In a recent survey, 75% of school staff now say that video captures students’ attention more than text-based content and results in more interaction with course materials.