Partnership with Coursera Focuses on AI Skills Development for Teachers and Students in K-12 Schools
San Antonio, TX (ISTELive 25), June 30, 2025 —Today, SchoolDay announced the launch of the SchoolDay Academy, powered by Coursera Plus, offering over 9,000 online courses, including professional certifications, intended for both K-12 teachers and students to further their digital knowledge and skills. Essential to SchoolDay Academy courses are hands-on virtual labs that require learners to demonstrate skill mastery.
SchoolDay Academy courses are delivered on the award-winning Coursera platform, integrated through SchoolDay’s Zero-Trust integration platform for schools. SchoolDay Academy allows for a safe yet dynamic online learning experience. Learners are empowered to explore rich content and share understandings through various assessment models. Along with the lab course component, learners deepen the personal relevancy of their course experience.
“SchoolDay Academy addresses an immediate need in the market today by offering thousands of Gen-AI courses and hands-on certification-based training programs for both K-12 teachers and students”, said Robert Iskander, CEO of SchoolDay. “We are proud of our partnership with Coursera, allowing us to customize their market-leading platform to meet the needs of K-12 teachers and students.”
SchoolDay Academy is available to schools to license as a teacher professional development and continuing education program. Examples of the newly released SchoolDay Academy courses for K-12 teachers include:
- Dyscalculia: Strategies for Students in Elementary School
- Enhance Writing Instruction with AI: Practice and Pedagogy
- Empowering SEL Through Storytelling
SchoolDay Academy also offers high school Career and Technical Education (CTE) students virtual internships in IT in addition to career certificates in over 50 career pathways. Teachers can offer these courses as student assignments directly from their Learning Management Systems (LMS), through SchoolDay’s two-way PII-free data integration.
School Academy’s affordable academic annual licenses, with unlimited access to over 9,000 Coursera Plus courses and thousands of certifications, are available for purchase on SchoolDay’s online catalog.
For more information or to request a custom proposal, please visit schoolday.com/academy and stop by SchoolDay’s booth at ISTE Live (Booth #2234) to participate in an hourly raffle for a free annual license.
About SchoolDay (Formerly Global Grid for Learning, PBC)
SchoolDay safeguards student privacy and educational data by providing a secure zero-trust ecosystem orchestration platform for schools and classrooms. Serving over 36,000 schools, 3,000+ districts and colleges, and hundreds of EdTech vendors, SchoolDay champions open standards and secure data exchange, solidifying its role as a trusted leader in educational technology.
