PLAY GAMES

Personalized ELA learning delivered through games kids love to play.

Help your teachers love teaching again.

What’s your role?

District Leader

See your district’s strategic vision brought to life with tools you can trust.

A proven solution that really works.​

Shoelace is validated by both independently conducted research studies 
and district pilots.

Invest in critical thinking.

Carry your investment in the Science of Reading across Grades 3-8, moving students from foundational skill-building to critical reading, knowledge building, and broadened thinking.

School Building Leader

Earn kudos from teachers and students and tap into valuable, actionable learning data.

Proven history of teacher retention.

Our 2024 pilot participants demonstrated 88% license activation, proving significantly higher engagement than the 65% industry standard.

Move from actionable insights to actioned insights.

Our feature My Coach auto-intervenes for students in need, and surfaces valuable data to inform teachers’ direct instruction, grading, and reporting.

Curriculum Specialist

Cultivate classrooms of deeply engaged learners without sacrificing on content quality.

Fully game-based design for deeply engaged learning.

Award-winning games that ease performance anxiety, eliminate tedium, and create classrooms of deeply engaged learners.

A customizable, flexible platform that meets each classroom's needs.

This platform works: across states, across curricula, across state and local standards, and across classroom practices.

Technology Integrator

Protect student safety and preserve your peace of mind with a trusted platform that’s easy to implement.

Reliable tech support.

Self-serve support so your district can get what they need when they need it, as well as real-time, live assistance at times that call for it.

Data security and integrity.

We value learner data privacy and security, with a team equipped to satisfy your district’s Data Privacy Agreement (DPA) requirements

Believe in Better

School districts are carefully evaluating which platforms to invest in for their students and teachers, with usage rates being a critical metric. While many platforms struggle with less than 30% engagement, Shoelace stands out by consistently delivering exceptional results.

As the most engaging supplemental ELA tool for grades 3-8, Shoelace boasts an impressive activation rate of over 80%. Teachers find it easy to activate on the first day, and 100% of students express a keen interest in using the platform again. Choose Shoelace for a transformative educational experience that keeps students and teachers coming back for more.

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Shoelace activation rate 80%
Shoelace student engagement 100%

School and district pilot highlights:

Students who play for 30 minutes a week will predictably increase one grade level of reading comprehension in 11 to 20 weeks of play.

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of students report that they felt better after playing Shoelace games.

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of students report they identify more as a reader after playing Shoelace games.

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of respondents reported that their students reacted positively to the academic content.

Get the information you need

Access personalized support and discover tailored solutions for your educational needs.

How Shoelace compares:

Focus on Comprehension
Supplemental Product
Analytics
Game-Based Learning

How Shoelace compares:

Specific ELA Comprehension Focus
Supplemental Practice Product
Analytics/ Diagnostics
Engagement via Game-Based Learning

Shoelace versus:

VS.

Is Prodigy a hit during your math instruction? Students often refer to Shoelace as “The Prodigy of English Language Arts”! Yet, we’re not simply an alternate.

We outperform, with a far more comprehensive content library, a more extensive reporting catalog, and a targeted intervention system.

VS.

Tired of listening to students bemoan the drudgery of trying to reach a skill score of 100? Shoelace offers practice in 100s of ELA topics and skills with comparable reporting (AND, no complaining!).

Our game-based learning leads to kids begging to play!

VS.

Whereas i-Ready advertises itself as “almost… fun”, Shoelace’s game-based design and stealth assessment system are wholly fun.

With our in-the-moment data and long-trend progress monitoring reports, get the same degree of insight you get from i-Ready with much more student buy-in.

VS.

Expand your students’ digital reading experiences beyond news articles and current events with Shoelace. Our content library features 1000s of high-interest texts across dozens of genres that cannot be found elsewhere.

Shoelace empowers students to build content knowledge, learn genre characteristics, and encounter text structures.

VS.

Like you, we love Tim and Moby. BrainPOP’s videos are an excellent way to introduce new ELA topics. However, what comes next?

Follow up BrainPOP’s videos and activities with adaptive, student-specific practice on the Shoelace platform.

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Collecting interim assessment data doesn’t have to feel high-stakes.

With our in-the-moment data and long-trend progress monitoring reports, get the same degree of insight you get from MAP testing from Shoelace—with much more student buy-in.

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Collecting interim assessment data doesn’t have to feel high-stakes.

With our in-the-moment data and long-trend progress monitoring reports, get the same degree of insight you get from MAP testing from Shoelace—with much more student buy-in.

Get personalized insight from our Director of Education

As a former classroom teacher and a leader in the ed-tech industry, Lauren Lutz-Coleman understands the intricacies of modern education. During your call, Lauren will offer tailored strategies and solutions to help you leverage the Shoelace platform to overcome your unique challenges. With a platform that supports assessment, practice, intervention, and more, let’s work together to enhance your literacy programs and achieve your educational goals.

Meet Dr. Kris

Follow along with Dr. Kris Alexander, Professor of Video Games, as he explains how gaming can be a potent educational instrument that turns learning tasks into engaging experiences.

Watch the whole Dr. Kris video series here.