For federal agencies & government programs

Built for every classroom — including the ones on bases, in hospitals, on reservations, and out of reach.

TeachSmartHQ™ wasn't adapted for federal use after the fact. It was built for the hardest cases first — homebound and hospital-bound learners, students in residential care, kids on remote reservations and overseas bases. The accessibility floor, the four output modes on every artifact, the audit-ready data posture — those are how the platform works, not a federal add-on.

This page serves three audiences without making any of them dig: federal agencies that run schools directly, districts spending federal grant dollars on instructional tools, and the counsel or contracting officer who needs the compliance posture in one place.

This page is for

DoDEA & BIE education teams
federal grant-funded district administrators & business managers
federal counsel, contracting officers & procurement reviewers
special-services, accessibility & Section 504 / IDEA leads

Four accessible output modes on every artifact Built for homebound & under-served learners DPA / NDPA review available FERPA / COPPA / IDEA aware Powered by Anthropic AI

Start a federal inquiry → Jump to the compliance posture

First response target: within 2 business days, from a person on our team — not an autoresponder.

Audience one

Federal agencies as customers.

The agencies that run classrooms directly — and buy the curriculum and tools that go in them.

This is for you if… your agency operates schools or instructional programs directly, and procures the tools teachers use inside them.

Most ed-tech is built for a school district and then asked, awkwardly, to fit a federal program. We start from the other end. The populations federal agencies serve — children of deployed and stationed service members, kids in hospital and homebound instruction, and learners on remote reservations — are exactly the cases TeachSmartHQ™ was designed around. Below are the two federal school systems at the center of this page.

DoDEA (DoWEA) 161 schools
11 foreign countries

Department of Defense Education Activity

Schools serving children of military and DoD-civilian families across 7 U.S. states, Guam, and Puerto Rico, plus installations overseas. Deployment-disrupted learning, frequent transfers, and continuity-of-instruction needs are the norm — not the exception TeachSmartHQ™ has to be retrofitted for.

BIE 183 schools
64 reservations
23 states

Bureau of Indian Education

Schools across 64 reservations in 23 states, many remote and under-connected. Print-first output and offline-friendly artifacts aren't a downgrade here — they're a primary access mode the platform ships by default.

Audience two

Federal grant-funded districts.

Districts spending federal dollars on instructional tools — and the business managers who have to defend the line item.

This is for you if… you fund instructional tools with IDEA, Title I, ESSER successor, or Section 619 dollars and need allowable-use clarity before you commit.

A district doesn't need a federal contract vehicle to put TeachSmartHQ™ in front of teachers — it needs to know the purchase is defensible to the funding authority. Most federal instructional dollars flow to differentiation, intervention, IEP-related documentation, and accessibility supports. That's the work TeachSmartHQ™ does. Use the map below as a starting point for the conversation with your business manager — not as a determination.

Funding source	Common allowable use	Where TeachSmartHQ™ fits
IDEA Part B§611 / §619	Special education & related services for students with disabilities, ages 3–21.	PLAAFP drafting, IEP-aligned materials, and differentiated worksheets for students on IEPs.
IDEA Part DNational activities	Personnel development, technical assistance, and capacity-building.	Teacher and SPED-team enablement — building documentation and differentiation capacity.
Title I, Part ADisadvantaged students	Supplemental instruction & materials for students in high-poverty schools.	Intervention-ready and scaffolded materials for tiered and supplemental support.
ESSER & successorStabilization funds	Learning recovery, instructional support, and educational technology.	Teacher-workflow tooling for accelerated learning and recovery efforts, where funds remain available.
Section 619Preschool · ages 3–5	Special education services for preschool-aged children with disabilities.	Early-learning differentiation and documentation for preschool special education.

Allowable use is determined by your funding authority and the specific terms of your grant — this map is a conversation-starter, not a guarantee. We're glad to provide documentation your business manager or grants office needs to make the call.

What your business manager can ask us for

A plain-English use-case description per funding source
A data-privacy agreement (DPA / NDPA) for review
Security & procurement questionnaire support
Accessibility documentation for instructional materials
An itemized quote suitable for a grant budget line
A pilot scope sized to your funding cycle

The differentiator

Bridge-the-Gap.

The reason this page earns its place. Every population here is federal, under-served, and already served.

Bridge-the-Gap is the part of TeachSmartHQ™ written for the learner who isn't in a standard classroom on a standard day. A kid whose parent just deployed. A student finishing the semester from a hospital bed. A child in residential treatment. A learner two hours from the nearest reliable connection. These are not edge cases to us — they are federal populations, and they are the populations the platform was built around.

DoDEA · military-connected

Children of deployed service members

Instruction that survives a mid-year move, a time-zone change, or a parent suddenly overseas — continuity built for families that don't get a stable nine months.

Pediatric & hospital · hospital-bound

Hospitalized & homebound students

Print-ready and low-stimulation digital artifacts for a learner working from a hospital bed, a recovery room, or home — without assuming a full device setup.

Residential & federal care

Students in residential treatment

Calm, scaffolded materials for restrictive and therapeutic settings where pacing, predictability, and a teacher-controlled artifact matter most.

BIE · remote & under-connected

Learners on remote reservations

Print-first output that works where bandwidth doesn't — the same quality of differentiated material, with no assumption of a one-to-one device.

The accessibility floor — on every artifact

Every worksheet TeachSmartHQ™ generates ships in four output modes by default, so the format meets the learner instead of the other way around.

01 PrintClean, printable artifacts for offline, low-device, and locked-down settings.

02 Digital-fillType-in answers for students working on a screen with a keyboard.

03 Digital-clickTap-to-answer for touch devices and limited motor control.

04 Digital-color / tap-to-colorColor-mode work for students who can't grip a pencil — a principle, not a feature.

the kid on the other end is the whole point ✿

Compliance & trust

The posture, in one place.

The page a federal counsel or contracting officer can bookmark — written plainly, hedged honestly.

Language under review

Read this section as posture, not certification. The standards below describe how TeachSmartHQ™ is designed and what it is built to support. Exact compliance wording is being finalized with counsel before publication; nothing here should be read as a formal certification or a contractual representation.

FERPAAware · by design

Built as an educator-facing workflow tool, not a student-information system. Designed to support districts' FERPA obligations around education records.

COPPAAware · by design

Not a student-account platform. The product is used by educators; it is not designed to collect data directly from children under 13.

IDEAAligned · by use case

Workflows map to IEP-related documentation, PLAAFP drafting, and differentiated materials for students with disabilities.

Section 504Aligned · by use case

The accessibility output modes are built to support access and accommodation goals for students with 504 plans.

WCAG 2.1 AATargeted

Building toward WCAG 2.1 AA. Accessibility is treated as the floor — four output modes on every artifact — with documentation available on request.

DPA / NDPAReview-ready

A data-privacy agreement is available for review, including NDPA-style terms, as part of a structured procurement process.

TeachSmartHQ™ is Powered by Anthropic AI. Student names and identifying details are kept generic in generated artifacts by design, and the platform is built so teacher inputs aren't used to expose one student's data to another. Full data-handling specifics are provided during DPA review.

How to engage

Federal procurement is slow and structured.

So are we. No mystery on how to start a DPA, an NDA, or a contract-vehicle conversation.

We know federal and government procurement doesn't move like a classroom signup, and we don't pretend it does. The path below is the one we actually run — a real person reads your inquiry and routes it to the right next step, whether that's a discovery call, a privacy-agreement review, or a procurement questionnaire.

You reach out

Tell us your agency or district, what you're evaluating, and your procurement constraints. The form below routes to a real person.

We scope & route

Within 2 business days we reply with the right next step — and start any DPA, NDPA, or NDA your process requires.

Pilot or program path

We structure a pilot or program scoped to your funding cycle, populations served, and accessibility requirements.

Contract conversation

When a formal vehicle is the right fit, we take up federal pricing and contracting as its own dedicated conversation.

On federal pricing & contract vehicles: federal pricing is its own conversation, and formal vehicles (SAM.gov, GSA Schedule, EDU SEWP) are a future step we'll open as district pilot data matures. For now — contact us for federal pricing, and we'll meet your process where it is.

06 Federal & government inquiry

Start a federal or government inquiry.

Tell us about your agency, program, or district and what you're evaluating. We review every inquiry and respond with the right next step — a discovery call, an allowable-use write-up, a DPA / NDPA review, or a pilot scoped to your funding cycle.

What to include

Your role and the agency, program, or district you represent
The populations you serve — and any accessibility requirements
What you're evaluating — agency license, grant-funded use, or pilot
Funding source, if known (IDEA, Title I, ESSER successor, §619, agency budget)
Whether a DPA, NDPA, or NDA is part of your process

Inquiries are read by our team — which includes a senior enterprise IT leader, an active SPED teacher, and a K-12 paraprofessional with prior business leadership. You'll hear from one of us, not a bot.

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