Kahoot! federal funding alignment

The largest source of federal funding to schools under ESSA is from Title I, providing over $18 billion dollars to schools that serve a high number or high percentage of children from low-income families to ensure that these children are able to meet challenging state academic standards.

How Kahoot! aligns to Title I, Part A

• Kahoot!’s teaching and learning engagement platform supports teachers with creating engaging lessons, assignments, reviews, and formative assessments to ensure every student is able to meet rigorous academic standards. 
• A meta-analysis of independent research reveals that using Kahoot! can, on average, improve academic performance on a typical test by a full letter grade. Kahoot!’s evidence-based platform helps educators engage students, reinforce learning, and create interactive experiences that boost students’ grades. 
• Beyond multiple-choice questions, Kahoot! includes 14 question types, including polls, brainstorming, and open-ended prompts. The diverse assessment types offered help educators evaluate understanding, gather feedback, and adapt instruction based on real-time results.
• Kahoot!’s reporting tools provide teachers with insights from kahoots for formative assessments, helping evaluate student understanding, mastery, and overall learning outcomes. 
• Kahoot! satisfies the ESSA Level III evidence requirements, demonstrating it as an effective solution for driving positive student learning outcomes. Kahoot! collaborated with a third-party educational research company to review an independent study for evidence that using Kahoot! improves student learning. Through this study, researchers found that compared to traditional lecture-based instruction, using Kahoot!’s questions to create an interactive learning experience sparked greater student engagement.  

Through game-based learning, Kahoot! increases student engagement, participation, and motivation. A literature review of 93 academic studies exploring the learning benefits of Kahoot! found that using Kahoot! improved learning outcomes, student attitudes and anxiety, attendance, participation, and classroom dynamics.

Title II is focused on preparing, training, and recruiting high-quality teachers and principals. With a focus on increasing student academic achievement through strategies such as improving teacher quality, Title II funds professional development activities that are sustained, intensive, collaborative, job-embedded, data-driven, and classroom-focused.

How Kahoot! aligns to Title II

• Kahoot! can be used by instructional coaches, administrators, and school leaders to deliver engaging professional development. 
• Kahoot! supports teachers in creating engaging lessons, assignments, reviews, and formative assessments, allowing them to plan more efficiently and prepare more effective instruction. This support helps with teacher quality and retention, as teachers have more time to focus on students’ individual learning needs.
• A dedicated Customer Success team supports Kahoot! EDU districts and schools. Customized professional development resources, including user guides, short learning courses, and longer certification opportunities, are available for administrators and teachers. Synchronous and asynchronous learning opportunities are also available to accommodate the needs of each individual district.  
• Professional development learning opportunities for teachers include the Kahoot! Learning Experience, monthly Teacher Talk webinars, and Kahoot! certified courses. Programs are designed for educators to be eligible to claim professional development credits upon completion.

Title III provides federal funding that is focused on ensuring that English learners, including immigrant children and youth, attain English proficiency and develop high levels of academic achievement in English and meet the same challenging state academic standards of their English-speaking peers.  It can be used to assist teachers and leaders in establishing, implementing, and sustaining effective language instruction educational programs and/or to promote family and community participation in language instruction educational programs for the parents, families, and communities of English learners.

How Kahoot! aligns to Title III

• Kahoot! allows translation into 19 languages, helping to meet learners wherever they are in their language development process. 

• Kahoot! empowers EL teachers to create their own assessments, lessons, assignments, and reviews, which can be built in multiple languages to support the learning and development of speakers of other languages.
• Kahoot! Language Learning helps teach new language acquisition through short, engaging games. It supports 50 languages, and in as little as five minutes a day, students can enhance their language skills and build vocabulary for everyday conversations.
• Kahoot! can be used as a personalized learning tool by education specialists providing 1:1 coaching and tutoring to students, allowing them to personalize instruction to accommodate the unique needs of all students in order to accelerate achievement. 
• Students can use Kahoot! as an asynchronous self-study tool to create flashcards for new vocabulary words and phrases.

Title IV, Part A is a block grant that provides over $1 billion in funding towards school safety, well-rounded education, and educational technology initiatives. Post-COVID relief funding, these funds can now be used to fund any of these three priorities: providing students with well-rounded education, maintaining student health and safety, and purchasing and implementation of education technology and systems.

How Kahoot! aligns to Title IV, Part A

• Kahoot! supports districts in implementing education technology initiatives into existing curriculum with purpose–to enhance learning outcomes, engagement, and assessment. 
• Kahoot! supports a well-rounded education with features that promote student engagement, participation, and motivation through game-based learning. 
• A literature review of 93 academic studies exploring the learning benefits of Kahoot! found that using Kahoot! improved learning outcomes, student attitudes and anxiety, attendance, participation, and classroom dynamics. 
• Kahoot! provides integrations with learning management systems and a variety of edtech tools, including Google Classroom, Canvas, Clever, and Schoolology, allowing teachers to seamlessly assign and assess student work.

Title IV, Part B is the 21st Century Community Learning Center (21st CCLC) program, intended to provide grants to local school districts and community learning centers for afterschool, before school and summer programs serving students in low-performing schools.

How Kahoot! aligns to Title IV, Part B

• Kahoot!’s flexibility in implementation allows for resources to be used by districts in a variety of educational settings, including before and after school programs, summer enrichment courses, and at home for extended learning. 
• Kahoot! can be used as a personalized learning tool by education specialists providing 1:1 coaching and tutoring to students, allowing them to personalize instruction to accommodate the unique needs of all students in order to accelerate achievement. 
• Kahoot! is a particularly useful tool for engaging students with content and providing formative assessments in remote or asynchronous virtual learning environments.
• Students can use Kahoot! as an asynchronous self-study tool to review and practice content and prepare for assessments. 

Title V, Part B directs funding to rural and low-income school districts that frequently lack the personnel and resources to compete for competitive funding streams.

How Kahoot! aligns to Title V

• Students in rural and low-income school districts may have limited to no internet connectivity at home. The ability to access Kahoot!s in offline mode on mobile apps allows students to access Kahoot! regardless of internet availability.

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is the federal law ensuring students with disabilities receive a free and appropriate public education. IDEA governs how states and public agencies provide early intervention, special education and related services to eligible infants, toddlers, children, and youth with disabilities. Second only in size to Title I funds, school districts receive IDEA funds to help pay for the cost of providing services and education to children with disabilities.

How Kahoot! aligns to IDEA

• Kahoot! aligns with the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), a framework for designing learning experiences that elevate strengths and eliminate barriers. Using Kahoot! to support instruction offers opportunities for differentiation to meet the diverse needs of students. Kahoots created with multi-modal options for questions and answers allow teachers to scaffold instruction to address individual learning styles, strengths, and areas for improvement, ensuring that all students receive the support they need to succeed academically. Teachers can assign kahoots to specific students, allowing them to tailor the learning experience to each student’s needs.  
• Kahoot! provides a variety of accessibility features to support students with visual impairments, reading difficulties, or those who need assistive technologies. These include read aloud, high-contrast mode, text scalability, and the ability for educators to display questions and answer options on individual student devices. 
• Time limits on a quiz in Kahoot! can be adjusted or removed for extended time accommodations. In Accuracy Mode, everyone gets the same amount of time, and points are awarded only for accuracy, not speed, making it a more accessible experience for students who want to take additional time to answer. Teachers can also remove the timer when assigning kahoots to students. 
• Kahoot! can be used as a personalized learning tool by education specialists providing 1:1 coaching and tutoring to students, allowing them to personalize instruction to accommodate the unique needs of all students in order to accelerate achievement. 

The Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act provides funding to states for the improvement of vocational and technical education programs. Federal funds are provided to states which then each use their own system to allocate funds and/or competitive grants to schools and post-secondary institutions. Generally, funds are used to create and maintain CTE programs in middle schools, high schools and technical education programs. 

How Kahoot! aligns to Perkins Funding

• Kahoot! is widely used in professional settings for employee engagement, training, onboarding, meetings, and events. Classroom use of Kahoot! allows students to learn in simulated professional environments and present and create with real-world tools used in professional settings. 
• Kahoot! provides a platform for industry recognized credential support in school and professional settings – training and practice towards earning IRCs, as well as the capability to provide a platform for an IRC assessment. 
• Kahoot! has a robust ecosystem of career exploration content across disciplines and career pathways that educators at all levels, K-12, can use to explore the world of work and build durable skills with students.
• Content relevant to Career & Technical Education pathways, as well as Engineering and other STEM-specific content is a large part of the Kahoot! materials available to educators.