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Checking for understanding in independent work
July 6, 2026
3 min read
What does checking for understanding look like during independent work? Checking for understanding means noticing student thinking while it is still forming, while students are still working. During independent work, this means finding a misconception early, instead of discovering it after their exit ticket, as they walk out your classroom door. Checking for understanding means…
An update on the Kami and Book Creator communities
June 16, 2026
5 min read
Discover the Kami Community and how to become a Kami Collaborator. Connect with educators, share what works, and help shape what’s next in edtech.
What is Kami? A connected family of learning products
June 9, 2026
10 min read
Kami is now a connected family of products, helping teachers make learning visible, accessible, and meaningful.
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Kami Companion for multilingual learners: built-in language support that works
It's the second week of June. School's been out for ten days. A student is at the kitchen table with a tablet, watching a YouTube video about volcanoes because she got curious. She speaks Tigrinya at home, attended school in Eritrea for three years, and spent this past year in a classroom where a teacher…
June 15, 2026
3 min read
What is Kami? A connected family of learning products
Kami is now a connected family of products, helping teachers make learning visible, accessible, and meaningful.
June 9, 2026
10 min read
Kami Companion and UDL — how built-in supports bring the framework to life
May is a complicated month in K-12 classrooms. The year is almost over, which means there's urgency around students who still haven't quite gotten there, and exhaustion among the teachers trying to reach them. It's also the moment when the distance between what UDL promises and what's actually in place becomes hardest to ignore.Kami Companion…
May 19, 2026
3 min read
Accessible documents: a teacher’s guide to WCAG 2.1 AA | Kami
Every student deserves to access content without barriers. But for too many learners, the documents and digital books teachers create every day put up walls before class even begins. A poorly structured PDF, an image without alt text, a video with no captions — each of these quietly excludes someone. Creating accessible documents for students…
April 14, 2026
5 min read
What is Kami Companion? A teacher guide to accessibility across the web | Kami
What is Kami Companion? Its the Universal Report for learning! Watch this webinar to find out more!
March 4, 2026
3 min read
From ancient academies to AI-enabled classrooms
Education has long been one of humanity’s defining endeavors. More than 2,300 years ago, the Ancient Greeks established the Academy in Athens - a place where inquiry, debate, and mentorship laid the groundwork for modern learning. The Romans later developed formal schooling systems aimed at preparing citizens for civic responsibilities. Similarly, in the Middle East,…
May 27, 2025
5 min read
Myth buster: Kami is only used by certain grades
Welcome to the second ‘myth buster’ article in our brand-new series. Today, we’re looking at a persistent misconception: that Kami is only useful for certain age groups or grade levels. At first glance, it’s easy to see why some people might think that. A tool known for PDF annotation might seem more suited to high…
April 10, 2025
4 min read
5 Tech Tools to use With Kami
“Tech” in the classroom If you’re reading this, chances are you’re a teacher. But, before you were a teacher, in times of yore, you were also probably a student. It’s plain to see that classrooms have changed quite a bit since “the old days”. Blackboards and chalk are gone, overhead projectors sit in storage, and…
April 18, 2023
5 min read
Benefits of Personalized Instruction
Personalized instruction, sometimes called Personalized learning, is a powerful new approach to education. It emphasizes students’ autonomy in their own education. It lets them choose what they learn, and at what pace. It’s a well-documented approach to education that is picking up momentum around the world. This approach is complemented by a similar approach called…
April 18, 2023
6 min read
Audio and Accessibility in the Classroom
Teaching has always been a balance between implementing new technology and respecting tried and tested traditional education tools. In a world where it seems a new device is invented every eight hours, this balance is becoming even more difficult to navigate. This is also a component in the Universal Design for Learning that we discuss…
April 18, 2023
6 min read
Adaptive Teaching: What Is It and How Does It Work?
Anyone who has been in the education industry for more than a week will understand teaching is always evolving. As the world changes, so do young people, and the teachers’ standards and lesson plans need to change with them. Each year, more research and studies show different approaches and how each student is a unique…
March 28, 2023
5 min read
Kami and UDL
What Is UDL? Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a method of teaching and learning that focuses on accommodating the wide variety of learner variability in classrooms. UDL takes into account individual learners’ abilities, as well as any measures that help them to learn more effectively. A teacher working with UDL in mind understands that,…
January 31, 2023
8 min read
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