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Empowering the Next Generation of Storytellers: The 2026 California Student Media Festival

May 29, 2026
5 min read
How to balance digital citizenship & workplace preparedness with concerns over screen time
End-of-year energy all April long with classroom resources

April Classroom Resources: End-of-Year Energy That Actually Inspires

March 31, 2026
3 min read
April brings state tests, spring restlessness, and the first real conversations about wrapping up the school year. These April classroom resources from the Book Creator and Kami libraries to help
Summer Reading Resources

Summer Reading Resources: Journals, Author Studies, and More

March 27, 2026
3 min read
Summer break doesn't have to mean a reading break. The research is clear: students who participate in summer reading consistently over the summer maintain their skills, and students who don't

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June classroom activities

June classroom activities for summer learning

June arrives with a lot going on at once. The calendar fills with celebrations, cultural observances, and end-of-semester energy, all while teachers are trying to keep learning meaningful through the last days of school and into summer programs. These June classroom activities are built for that stretch. Each one connects to a real moment in…
June 2, 2026
3 min read
Same iPad, better Book Creator: why to switch to the browser

Same iPad, better Book Creator: why districts switch

In a recent Kami Unstoppable 15 webinar, Andrew Campbell, Account Executive at Kami, sat down with Gemma Sanderson, Education Support Officer for Digital Learning in Fife. Gemma is primary trained and taught at Kirkton of Largo Primary School for nine years before moving into a central role supporting the use of digital across nurseries and…
May 29, 2026
3 min read
Graphic for the California Student Media Festival 2026

Empowering the Next Generation of Storytellers: The 2026 California Student Media Festival

How to balance digital citizenship & workplace preparedness with concerns over screen time
May 29, 2026
5 min read
Kami Companion and the UDL principles

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
May Classroom Activities

Five joyful May classroom activities to celebrate the spark

The final stretch of the school year often fills the calendar all at once. Field trips, testing windows, and big end-of-year feelings land in the same few weeks. You still want meaningful learning to happen, but planning time has never been tighter. These May classroom activities are designed for the days when you need something…
May 5, 2026
3 min read
Accessible documents a teachers guide to WCAG

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
Summer camp resources for K-8 learners

Summer Camp Activities K–8 Learners Will Love

You survived the school year. Now you're on summer program duty. Summer programs face a real tension: campers need structure, but textbook-style lessons kill the energy that makes camp worth attending. The gap between "educational" and "engaging" is where most summer learning falls apart.Book Creator's summer camp collection closes that gap. These ready-made activity books…
April 9, 2026
3 min read
End-of-year energy all April long with classroom resources

April Classroom Resources: End-of-Year Energy That Actually Inspires

April brings state tests, spring restlessness, and the first real conversations about wrapping up the school year. These April classroom resources from the Book Creator and Kami libraries to help you channel that energy productively, from test prep support to reflection and celebration. How to use: Remix any Book Creator classroom resource template into your…
March 31, 2026
3 min read
Summer Reading Resources

Summer Reading Resources: Journals, Author Studies, and More

Summer break doesn't have to mean a reading break. The research is clear: students who participate in summer reading consistently over the summer maintain their skills, and students who don't often return in the fall behind where they left off. The National Summer Learning Association estimates that students can lose up to two months of…
March 27, 2026
3 min read
March templates for various educational resources.

Your March Classroom Activities, Planned

Save time this month with ready-to-use classroom activities from the Book Creator and Kami libraries. Whether you need a quick bell-ringer or a deep-dive project, we have you covered. Book Creator Classroom Activities March Highlights & Holidays Bring the celebrations of the month to life with the Book Creator March Activity journal and Kami templates…
March 2, 2026
3 min read
Drawing house plans

Kami Companion in the mathematics classroom

Use this passage with the Kami Companion toolbar to see what students in science class may experience. The Architect of Broken Things A Secondary School Mathematics Reading Passage Mara had always been better at breaking things than building them. That changed the summer her uncle handed her a set of blueprints and said, "Tell me…
January 19, 2026
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Farmer looking at dry field

Kami Companion in the Social Studies Classroom

Use this passage with the Kami Companion toolbar to see what students in Social Studies class may experience. When the River Runs Dry A 9th Grade Social Studies Reading Passage The river had always been there. For the farmers in the valley below, it was not simply a water source — it was the boundary…
January 19, 2026
3 min read
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