Discovery Education Announces Updates to Experience, DreamBox Math

• By Rhea Kelly
• 03/21/25

K-12 learning solution provider Discovery Education has announced enhancements to its Discovery Education Experience and DreamBox Math products, designed to create a more personalized, engaging learning experience for students. The updates were informed by feedback from the company's school-based partners, according to a news release.

Updates to Discovery Education Experience include:

• Improved personalized recommendations for teachers: A new "Core Curriculum Complements" feature in Experience automatically surfaces resources "handpicked to enhance school systems' core curriculum, simplifying lesson planning, and ensuring tight alignment with district priorities," the company said. The platform is also introducing Personalized Content Recommendations for educators, content suggestions based on individual teachers' profiles and preferences.
• An enhanced AI-powered assessment tool: With the tool, educators can utilize AI to create high-quality assessments using resources within Experience, and customize them according to reading level, question type, Bloom's Taxonomy, and more. More AI-powered teaching tools are currently under development, the company said.
• Discovery Education's Career Connect career exploration tool is now accessible to all Experience users: To build career awareness, classrooms using Experience can use Career Connect to "directly connect to the professionals, innovations, and skills of today's workforce," the company said. Experience also features a variety of new career pathway resources, virtual field trips, and career profiles.
• A newly enhanced Instructional Strategy Library: Discovery Education has streamlined the way educators can find and use popular, research-backed instructional strategies and professional learning supports, as well as connected model lessons and activities.

Updates to DreamBox Math include:

• Major lesson updates, designed to make it easier for students to start, play, and complete lessons successfully. These include updated scaffolding, enhanced visuals, easier interactivity, and added context on mathematical concepts.
• Updated middle school user interface: "Middle school students will encounter a more vibrantly colored and upgraded user interface featuring a reorganized Lesson Chooser whose intuitive design makes it easy to identify teacher-assigned lessons from their personalized lesson options," the company said, with more updates to come throughout the year.
• New Interactive Curriculum Guide: Educators can now explore DreamBox content by grade and standard to locate, preview, and play lessons. Updates to standards and curriculum alignments will be made throughout the year.

"Discovery Education understands teachers' sense of urgency about closing the achievement gaps highlighted by recent NAEP scores," said Pete Weir, chief product officer for Discovery Education, in a statement. "In response, we accelerated the development and deployment of what has traditionally been our 'Back-to-School' product enhancements. The stakes for our students have never been higher, and Discovery Education is dedicated to putting the highest-quality, most effective resources into teachers and students' hands as soon as possible."

For more information, visit the Discovery Education site.