NEW YORK – September 19, 2025 – Newsela, a leading provider of high-quality instructional and assessment products for K-12, announced today that its Formative solution has won in this year’s Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence: Back to School 2025 within the Secondary Education category.
Formative by Newsela connects daily instruction with district-wide assessments, giving educators the insights they need to inform teaching, learning, and decision-making at every level.
Formative supports daily learning and assessments—from bell ringers to benchmarks—with one platform for collaborative instruction, real-time assessment, shared insights, and purposeful AI tools. Educators can create and administer high-quality assessments with a standards-aligned item bank, over 20 technology-enhanced item types, and secure testing settings. Plus, AI-powered supports like item and activity generation from Newsela’s new AI teaching assistant, Luna.
“We know that timely feedback and high-quality insights are linked to better learning outcomes, and we designed Formative to enable teachers to provide targeted feedback to their students for each question answered—in real time,” said Pep Carrera, CEO at Newsela. “It’s an honor to accept this award from Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence on behalf of Newsela. We’ll continue to put educators and students first in all of our solutions, and our incredible team will keep pushing forward on the path to meaningful classroom learning for every student.”
Back for the 2025-26 school year, the Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence celebrate the most outstanding products offering schools versatility, value, and solutions to specific problems to support innovative and effective teaching and learning. Judged by a panel of industry experts, winning an Award of Excellence is more than just acknowledgement from Tech & Learning’s editors; it is a showcase of which products are truly going above and beyond to contribute to the education sector.
The awards’ editorial team has shared that “The 2025 awards welcomed an abundance of high-quality entries. Our panel of industry experts judged the winning products and solutions to be of the highest standard in supporting effective teaching and learning practices when moving into the new school year. Every winner should be immensely proud of their accomplishments - a well-deserved congratulations from the entire Tech & Learning awards team.”
About Newsela
Newsela products are purpose-built to unlock student motivation, inspire teachers, and drive long-lasting learning outcomes. With a suite of products to support knowledge- and skill-building, writing practice, daily instruction, and assessment in K-12 classrooms, Newsela offers solutions backed by learning science research to drive student outcomes and support teachers in their instructional goals. To learn more about Newsela, visit the company’s website.
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