Every day in K12, people quietly build software to solve real problems. A teacher automates a tedious workflow. A district technologist creates a tool to manage data. A school leader spins up an app to support students or staff. These projects save time, reduce friction, and improve school life — but they rarely get seen beyond the hallway where they were born.
Made in K12 is a place to surface that work. It is a curated showcase of tools, apps, automations, and digital resources created by people who understand schools from the inside. Each project is reviewed for usefulness, clarity, and relevance to K12 so that what appears here is genuinely helpful to other schools.
The showcase is not just about discovery; it is also about learning. Each project highlights the problem it addresses, who it serves, and what the builder learned along the way. By sharing stories and implementation details — not just screenshots — Made in K12 helps practitioners borrow ideas, avoid dead ends, and adapt solutions to their own contexts.
Some projects should stay local. Some should spread informally from school to school. Some may grow into sustainable products or organizations. Made in K12 supports all of those paths. By connecting builders with peers, feedback, and community, we aim to help K12 creators see themselves not only as problem-solvers for their own schools, but as potential founders and collaborators in a broader ecosystem.
We believe the people closest to students and schools are often the ones best positioned to design meaningful tools. We believe that sharing this work openly makes the whole K12 community stronger. And we believe that the journey from "I built this for my school" to "this could help others" should feel supported, collegial, and grounded in the reality of classrooms.
Want to share something you've built? Submit a project, or join the community to meet other builders and see what they are working on.