NEW YORK, NY – June 10, 2026 – Newsela, the leading data, instruction, and assessment system that transforms fragmented data into meaningful actions for every student, today announced that its STEM product has been selected as winner of the “STEM Reading Solution of the Year” award in the 8th annual EdTech Breakthrough Awards program conducted by EdTech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies and solutions in the global educational technology market.
Newsela STEM offers a comprehensive K-12 instructional solution that integrates high-quality, differentiated STEM texts with Generation Genius videos, interactive Tuva datasets, and PhET simulations. The platform anchors core concepts into real-world phenomena, allowing students to move from simply reading about science to experiencing it through a multimodal, inquiry-inspired approach.
Newsela’s robust library offers over 18,000 pieces of classroom-ready content and activities that can be differentiated at five reading levels and assigned with minimal prep. Newsela STEM content supports the 5E inquiry-based framework, three-dimensional learning, multimodal learning, and the claim-evidence-reasoning (CER) framework. It also aligns with NGSS and state standards, providing curriculum complements for major providers like McGraw-Hill and HMH.
The platform’s AI-powered teaching assistant, Luna, supports educators with intentional lesson planning. Features like teacher-set Lexile levels, 42 language translations, generated graphic organizers, recommended off-screen activities, and explicit resource guidance help educators effectively meet every learner where they are.
Newsela STEM’s breakthrough solution integrates seamlessly into existing teacher workflows through standards-based search tools, LMS integration, and curated complements to supercharge existing curriculum investments. Bridging reading and writing with STEM, Newsela addresses proficiency deficits in science and math, inviting a cross-curricular approach that gives students agency to explore phenomena and make real-world connections.
“Newsela STEM enables literacy and multimodal learning, both key elements of effective STEM instruction. STEM learning helps students build critical thinking skills and prepares them for today’s world. However, incorporating it into the classroom is a challenge due to inequality in reading levels and keeping students engaged,” said Steve Johansson, Managing Director, EdTech Breakthrough. “Newsela STEM makes complex content accessible to all learners and provides a clear progression from elementary through high school. By decoupling a student's reading level from their opportunity to engage with phenomena, Newsela STEM offers access to scientific discourse and inquiry, ensuring that everyone is included and supported.”
“We launched Newsela STEM in 2025 to transform concepts into curiosities, making real-world science relevant for every student through real-world connections. Newsela STEM’s ready-to-go lessons and instructional guides make it easy for teachers to fit STEM instruction into their blocks, regardless of whether they have 10 or 60 minutes, integrating high-interest media like Generation Genius video lessons, Tuvadatasets, and PhET Simulations within a differentiated literacy experience,” said Pep Carrera, CEO of Newsela. “We built the product to ensure cross-curricular connections across STEM concepts and literacy in order to give students the vocabulary, context, connections, and confidence to participate in scientific discourse and inquiry.”
The EdTech Breakthrough Awards program returns for its 8th annual cycle with its largest and most competitive field yet, drawing a record number of nominations from innovators across more than 20 countries. The program is dedicated to recognizing breakthrough educational technology products and companies reshaping how the world learns—in classrooms, campuses, boardrooms, and beyond. Thousands of entries were evaluated across a wide range of categories spanning the full edtech spectrum, including Student Engagement, Classroom Management, School Administration, Adaptive Learning, STEM Education, Corporate Learning, Career Preparation, Language Learning, and many more.
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About Newsela
Newsela transforms data into meaningful actions that remove barriers and accelerate growth for every student, every day. By unifying behavioral and learning science across its integrated suite—including Newsela, Formative, Schoolytics, and EveryDay Labs—the company provides a single, evidence-based solution for instruction, assessment, and intervention. With a suite of products to support knowledge and skill-building, writing practice, daily instruction, assessment, and analytics 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.
About EdTech Breakthrough
Part of Tech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence and recognition platform for global technology innovation and leadership, the EdTech Breakthrough Awards program is devoted to honoring excellence in educational technology products, companies and people. The EdTech Breakthrough Awards provide a platform for public recognition around the achievements of breakthrough educational technology in categories including remote learning, student engagement, school administration, career preparation, language learning, STEM education and more. For more information, visit EdTechBreakthrough.com.
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