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Prodigy Scales District-Wide Adoption Without Sacrificing Its Zero-Cost Teacher-First Model
June 9, 2025
Emilie Murphy
Prodigy scaled to over 8,300 districts in one year鈥攑reserving its free, teacher-first model鈥攂y partnering with 国产精品 to deepen district trust, streamline rostering, and drive both top-down adoption and daily engagement from first-time educators.
8,300+
Districts reached in Year 1
26%
Above average approval rate by district admins
1,600+
Average daily logins for first-time teachers
About Prodigy
Prodigy Education is a global leader in game-based learning. Its mission is to help every student in the world love learning, motivating more than 20 million students a year to practice standards-aligned math and English. Prodigy maximizes student engagement and is completely zero-cost for all educators. More than 800,000 teachers use Prodigy as a free instructional tool which adapts to individual student needs while supporting differentiated instruction. Fun, motivating, and research-based, Prodigy is the edtech platform students actually ask to use. Visit www.prodigygame.com to learn more.
Challenge
Navigating the Shift from Teacher Choice to Top-Down
Prodigy began by integrating with the 国产精品 Library, quickly gaining traction classroom by classroom. But as post-COVID district priorities shifted toward privacy, rostering, and centralized control, that bottom-up model necessitated extra care.
鈥淲e鈥檙e not a typical B2B company. We don鈥檛 do long procurement cycles. We were loved by hundreds of thousands of teachers, but we still needed to make sure we were earning trust at the district level.鈥
Cara Yarzab, Director of Product at Prodigy
When considering bringing in new edtech offerings, district leaders now expected:
- Rostering access with secure, scalable integrations
- Privacy assurances and data governance
- District-level oversight for tool adoption
- Strategic partners, not just tools
Teacher-led momentum for Prodigy was no longer enough. The company needed a way to drive increased support at district level without losing what made its model work.
Automated rostering is critical to help make Prodigy adoption seamless at the district level.
Dr. Josh Prieur, Director of Educator Enablement at Prodigy
Solution
A Flexible Path to District-Wide Adoption with 国产精品
Rather than reinvent a product offering which had made it the leader in game-based learning with teachers and students alike, Prodigy deepened its partnership with 国产精品. The goal: Unlock district-wide adoption, preserving teacher engagement while enabling central IT buy-in.
Together, 国产精品 and Prodigy launched a multi-pronged strategy:
- Secure Sync integration to support scalable rostering
- Joint webinars and PD sessions to onboard admins and teachers
- Conference co-marketing to increase visibility with district leaders
- Contests and campaigns to keep teachers excited and engaged
One standout tactic: 国产精品 and Prodigy ran a targeted teacher campaign with built-in incentives鈥攊ncluding raffle entries for completing a Prodigy training, favoriting the app, and sharing it with colleagues. By meeting teachers where they already are鈥攊n their Portal and inboxes鈥攖his campaign drove meaningful action.
The partnership went beyond just technology鈥攊t gave Prodigy a new way to reach users by aligning their approach with how users were already engaging within 国产精品.
Results
Trusted by Districts. Loved by Teachers.
With 国产精品 as a strategic partner, Prodigy achieved a sustainable, district-aligned growth model 鈥 without compromising its core approach.
- 8,300+ Districts reached in Year 1
- 26% Above average approval rate by district admins
- 1,600+ Average daily logins for first-time teachers
To complement teacher-focused campaigns, Prodigy and 国产精品 executed a strategic district outreach effort through bulk invitations. In its first year, the campaign reached over 8,300 districts.
What鈥檚 especially notable: the acceptance rate on those invites by district admins was 26% above the 国产精品 average. The high acceptance rate also validates the success of Prodigy鈥檚 transition from a teacher-led model to a more district-focused approach.
What鈥檚 more, another campaign reached nearly 100,000 unique teachers who had never accessed Prodigy through 国产精品. After adding Prodigy as an app to their Portal pages, these teachers averaged 1,691 logins per day, peaking at over 8,000鈥攕howing sustained product engagement even months after the campaign ended.
About one in four children in America have used Prodigy. This growth so far wasn’t because we sold to districts. It was because teachers loved the fact it was both zero cost and that it motivated their students. Now, rostering with 国产精品 has enabled us to deepen our relationships and trust at a district level.
Cara Yarzab, Director of Product at Prodigy
You don鈥檛 have to trade off control or educator trust to scale your product. Let鈥檚 accelerate your growth鈥攖ogether. Get in touch with a 国产精品 representative to see a demo, find the right solution, or build a customized package.
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