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See How Students Explore, Create, and Learn with Discovery Education Experience
Explore how Experience ignites student curiosity and supports meaningful learning every day in this tour. You’ll get a firsthand look at the tools learners use to interact with engaging content, complete assignments, and bring their ideas to life. From Curated Results for content search to collaborative project spaces, everything is designed to empower learners and keep them inspired.
Take the interactive tour to see the many options students can choose from!
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Meet Discovery Education Experience: Your Essential Teaching Companion
Make teaching easier and learning more engaging when you add Discovery Education Experience to your school or district. It’s an all-in-one platform that offers supplemental K–12 resources and content across ELA, math, science, social studies, and career-readiness.
With research-based strategies, real-world connections, and tools that simplify differentiation, Experience helps educators motivate, empower, and engage students every day.
Watch our video for a look at Experience in action and what teachers say about it.
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Plano Independent School District
Plano, TX
How Plano ISD Builds Future-Ready Skills Today
Plano Independent School District is a large, dynamic district in north Texas that takes a student-centered approach to everything they do. When the district realized educators needed more support and guidance to ensure they were meeting student needs, they took a fresh look at their Strategic Plan and leaned on Discovery Education for help.
Turning Complex Ideas into a Simple, Effective Plan
Plano ISD’s Strategic Plan has always focused on student learning outcomes. But at one point, the plan felt too big and complex to manage, and the district needed to do more to increase teacher effectiveness. “For years we worked with an instructional model to increase teacher effectiveness . . . ensuring they understood the what,” explains Mary Swinton, “But we’ve learned over the years the how was not as tight as it could be.”
In 2023, district leaders refocused the Strategic Plan’s instructional model on high-yield strategies that align teaching across content areas and reinforce the how behind teaching excellence. They also simplified the goals and strategies so they could easily assess their progress and model them effectively for campuses.
“We’ve really come a long way over the past few years,” says Laurie Taylor, Chief Learning Officer at Plano ISD. “Today our Strategic Plan has five pillars, all of which focus on strong student outcomes.”
From Strategy to Success: How Plano ISD Brings its Vision to Life
The district’s academic teams are intentional about how they can best serve their teachers and students through the Strategic Plan. According to Laurie, “our teams really live within the plan’s first three pillars,” and Discovery Education works alongside them to ensure their success.
Pillar One: Teaching & Learning Pillar One
Teaching & Learning, prioritizes student growth through engaging, differentiated instruction. The district uses Discovery Education’s research-backed SOS Instructional Strategies to help teachers design learning experiences that boost student cognition and engagement, meeting the goals of Pillar One. These strategies are easy for the district to model across campuses, ensuring consistency in teaching practices.
Pillar Two: Life Ready
One of the biggest priorities for the district is preparing students for their future, which is Pillar Two of the Strategic Plan, Life Ready. “We’re all about creating opportunities for students to explore career pathways, starting as early as elementary,” says Laurie. “That’s why we launched Plano for Your Future, which brings CTE opportunities into middle schools.” Educators also use Discovery Education to bring real-world, career-focused learning into the classroom.
Jennifer Collins, first-grade teacher at Centennial Elementary, uses Experience regularly to introduce career pathways to students: “My students love researching different careers in Experience,” Jennifer explains. “I don’t know what their careers will be in 20 years, but I can help them learn to be problem solvers, explorers, and deep thinkers with real-world learning in Experience.”
Pillar Three: Talent Acquisition, Support & Growth
The third pillar, which is Talent Acquisition, Support & Growth, helps teachers grow in their craft through targeted professional development. It’s critical that teachers feel supported and invested in, especially by their district leaders. As Mary Swinton puts it, “Our teachers have shared with us that the professional learning provided by Discovery Education, whether that’s resources within Experience or through the DE professional learning team, is one of the reasons they stay in Plano ISD.”
Mission in Motion: Empowering Every Student to Succeed
Since the revision of the Strategic Plan, Plano ISD can confidently say that its mission is in full effect: educating, inspiring, and empowering every student to activate their unique potential in a dynamic world. The results are palpable. Leaders like Mary and Laurie recognize the positive impact of their efforts and attribute much of this success to their strategic planning and laser focus on student outcomes. But they also contribute their success to the longstanding partnership with Discovery Education, which played a key role in bringing their Strategic Plan to life.
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]]>At-a-Glance
Type:
Research Brief
Time Period:
2016 – 2022
Source:
Discovery Education Research & Analytics
Grade Level:
K-12
Products:
- Discovery Education Experience
- Science Techbook
- Math Techbook
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Our award-winning K-12 platform, Discovery Education Experience, empowers educators with a vast collection of multimodal resources vetted and curated to support differentiated, scaffolded learning in any environment. Experience is built upon a theory of action about how best to enhance the K-12 teaching and learning experience. Based on this theory of action, Discovery Education produced a logic model that serves as a conceptual map for Experience.
Findings from multiple studies tell a consistent and promising story of how use of Discovery Education’s curricular resources is related to outcomes that matter across the country for students overall, and especially for racial/ethnic minorities and students impacted by poverty, disabilities, and limited English proficiency. Discovery Education access is, in fact, making a significant difference in teaching and learning.
Download the full research brief to learn more about how Discovery Education makes an impact on student achievement across multiple states and supports educators with innovative ways to connect and collaborate with one another.
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At-a-Glance
Type:
Executive Summary
Time Period:
2022-2023
Source:
McRel International
Grade Level:
3-8
Product:
Discovery Education Experience
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McREL recently conducted a study to examine the impact of Discovery Education and school-level academic achievement in the state of Arizona. Using a correlational design, the study explored the relationship between usage of Experience and students’ results on the 2022-23 Arizona state mathematics and ELA assessments for grades 3-8.
In particular, this study intended to find out if schools who use Experience achieve better assessment results than schools that don’t use Experience, as well as the ideal threshold of Experience usage to impact academic performance.
The findings indicate that Arizona schools using Experience saw a meaningful increase in test scores and overall academic achievements. Importantly, large effects were seen when 20+ teachers and 20+ students interacted with Experience for two consecutive years.
Source
Erichsen, K., Morris, A., Clark, T., Arens, S., Osendorf, A., Kreuzer, A. (2024). Discovery Education Experience: Arizona Executive Summary. McREL International.
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Manchester School District
Manchester, New Hampshire
Manchester School District is the largest district in New Hampshire and serves one of the most diverse communities in the state. As such, the district is on a mission to elevate learning across classrooms for all students. With a focus on addressing literacy gaps and creating cross-curricular learning opportunities, the district turned to Discovery Education Experience, an all-in-one digital learning platform with standards-aligned resources, real-world content, time-saving tools, and trusted instructional strategies. It’s been a game-changer for teachers, students, and administrators alike.
The Initial Challenge
Before adopting Discovery Education Experience, Manchester schools faced a common yet challenging issue—balancing literacy instruction with other essential subjects like science and social studies. Students were dedicating up to 2.5 hours daily to literacy, leaving little room for other critical subjects, and the instructional team desired better tools to integrate learning.
Lisa Delacey, Director of Academics and Instruction for Elementary at the district, saw an opportunity to address this challenge with Discovery Education Experience. She and her team needed an easy-to-use and effective platform that enriched learning across multiple subjects and addressed the diverse needs of the district’s learners, like a high population of English Language Learners (ELL). Experience checked every box.
A Versatile Tool Across Subjects
Currently, Experience is being used for science, math, English Language Arts, and social studies in elementary and middle schools throughout Manchester School District. Teachers across K-8 are finding innovative ways to incorporate the platform into their lesson plans, such as creating cross-curricular lesson activities that are engaging and fun. They particularly love Studio, the platform’s collaborative activity and presentation tool, because it allows them to easily build and share multimedia lessons seamlessly across entire grade levels, saving valuable time.
Specialized areas like reading intervention and Essentials classes (for students needing extra intervention) have found particular value in the platform as an easy way for students to learn new topics and build background knowledge in their group learning centers. “A great example of this,” explains Lisa, “is how Experience can help our immigrant students learn topics they may initially have no context or knowledge about, like the American Revolution.” Special education and ELL teachers also find the platform exciting because it presents an opportunity to differentiate learning and support their students’ learning needs. Overall, for students who might otherwise feel overwhelmed by traditional classroom lessons, Experience offers a user-friendly way to discover topics, build background knowledge, and bridge gaps in learning.
Setting Up Teachers for Success
Once the district introduced Discovery Education Experience, the leadership team made sure to set up their teachers for success, starting with a district-wide professional development day. Led by Lisa Delacey and advocates like middle school principal Kelly Espinola, scheduled trainings continued so that educators had hands-on experience navigating the platform and could experiment with its many resources and tools to find how it can best serve their needs and those of their students.
The district’s professional learning strategy has not only amplified teacher confidence and collaboration but also unlocked the full potential of Discovery Education Experience. They ensure teachers have access to:
- Personalized Training: Professional learning sessions tailored for each discipline, and for groups like K-5 reading specialists, STEM teachers, librarians, and special education instructors, ensure that every teacher can uncover how the platform uniquely supports their instructional needs.
- On-Demand Support: Discovery Education’s Partner Success Team works closely with the district to provide ongoing assistance, acting as an extension of the instructional team to empower teachers and build their confidence over time in using the platform.
Harnessing the Full Potential
After meaningful professional learning and successful experimentation with Experience, the platform has become an integral tool for educators. Lisa Delacey has also noticed that the platform is having a positive impact beyond their initial expectations. She loves how it provides students with a digital environment that is safe and accessible. Because all resources are vetted and contained within Experience, teachers are reassured that students can easily access and explore real-world content that is high-quality, engaging, and relevant.
Manchester is also leaning on Experience to support its district-led projects like flipped-classroom models. For example, teachers are exploring ways to use Experience for at-home assignments, preparing students for in-depth discussions and activities during in-person sessions.
Looking Ahead
Looking ahead, the district is committed to strengthening not only its usage of Experience, but also its partnership with Discovery Education. The Discovery Education team for New Hampshire continues to provide professional learning support, as the district explores new strategies to expand Experience across more schools and grade levels.
Experience has proven to be more than just a digital learning platform for Manchester School District—it’s a bridge to new opportunities for students and teachers alike. With Manchester’s commitment to high-quality content, adaptability to diverse learning needs, and focus on professional learning, Experience is helping Manchester move beyond traditional learning models into a world of discovery and possibility.
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Type:
Survey
Time Period:
September 2022
Source:
Discovery Education Research & Analytics
Grade Level:
K-12
Products:
- Discovery Education Experience
- Professional Learning
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South Carolina Feedback Survey on Discovery Education Experience
The DE Research & Analytics team conducted a feedback survey in September of 2022 to learn more about the use of Discovery Education Experience among South Carolina educators, Specifically, they wanted to glean insights into digital teaching and learning, and how professional learning plays a critical role. The final survey featured a total of 17 responses from experienced educators that taught a range of subjects and grades.
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]]>The Relationship Between Discovery Education and State of Florida Grades 3-12 Achievement
At-a-Glance
Type:
Executive Summary
Time Period:
2018-2019; 2021-2022
Source:
McREL International
Grade Level:
3-12
Products:
- Discovery Education Experience
- Science Techbook
- Social Studies Techbook
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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between Discovery Education’s market presence and academic achievement in the State of Florida. The study used a correlational design, where the outcomes of interest were school average state assessment scores in Math, Science, English, and Social Studies for Spring 2019 and 2022; and the focal predictor was if a school had a Discovery Education license or not (i.e., treatment or comparison).
The research question this study aimed to answer was whether or not schools with one or a combination of Discovery Education products report higher achievement scores than schools who do not have access to any DE product. The results showed instances where Discovery Education had positive effects on student achievement.
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