Khan Academy unveils a suite of free resources, including the Khan Academy Kids app, screen time guidance, and printable activities, designed to support families, teachers, and district leaders at the start of the new school year amidst changing funding landscapes.
Khan Academy is rolling out a set of free back-to-school tools aimed at families, teachers and administrators of PreK and elementary students as the new school year gets under way. The package is built around the company’s Khan Academy Kids platform and extends beyond the app itself to include guidance on screen time, planning support for school leaders and printable activities for young children. The idea is to give adults in different roles something practical to use from the first day of term through the early months of the school year.
At the centre of the offer is Khan Academy Kids, a free education app for children ages 2 to 8. According to Khan Academy, it includes thousands of standards-aligned activities across literacy, maths and social-emotional learning, alongside a large library of read-aloud books. The app is ad-free and available for use at home, in classrooms and, through a paid school offering, across larger district deployments. Khan Academy says the school version adds a teacher dashboard, reporting tools and implementation support for $5 per student.
For teachers, one of the most practical additions is the Managing Screen Time Together toolkit. It is designed to help schools talk to families about digital habits without turning the conversation into a warning about screens in general. The materials include a short Back-to-School Night presentation, a longer parent-engagement session and a worksheet families can take home. The toolkit centres on three questions: content, context and crowd-out, and it also draws on the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Five C’s framework.
Khan Academy Kids is also pitching a broader explainer called Beyond Screen Time, which reframes the discussion around quality rather than minutes alone. The guide asks what children are doing online, how they are doing it and what may be missing from the wider mix of play and learning. That positioning is meant to help parents and educators who want a deeper rationale behind the worksheet-based advice.
For school and district leaders, the Post-ESSER Playbook for Elementary Administrators arrives at a moment when many budgets are no longer cushioned by federal relief money. ESSER, the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief programme created during the pandemic, has largely wound down, leaving administrators to decide which software and classroom tools are worth keeping. Khan Academy says the playbook examines nine programmes that were not dependent on ESSER funding, outlines research behind them and gives leaders a set of questions to ask about cost, scalability and implementation before widening use across a district.
The package is rounded out by two free printables for young children: a first-day-of-school page and an All About Me sheet. Both are intended as simple classroom or at-home activities that give children a chance to introduce themselves and settle in on the first day. Together, the resources show Khan Academy trying to position itself not just as a learning app provider but as a broader back-to-school support system for families and schools navigating everything from screen-time debates to tighter budgets.
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