ATOMIC

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING FOR EDUCATION AND PUBLISHING

ABOUT

We help our partners build the most effective, highest-quality digital applications for students, teachers, and readers.

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Engineering for Learning

Your vision for learning will change lives. We can help you build it. We can get you started with a testable prototype, work together on the perfect MVP, and scale your idea to the next release.

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Better Tools for Teachers

Your curriculum, planning tools, and assessment ideas can make teaching easier. We can help you build more effective, content-focused tools for the classroom and remote learning.

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Innovations in Reading

You can imagine a better reading experience. We are experts at realizing ideas for sharing, exploring, promoting, and selling books for readers of all ages.

We work for education leaders and ed-tech startups, non-profits with ambitions for scale, the largest media companies in the world, and small publishers with big ideas.

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PARTNERS

Since 1999, Atomic has built some of the most important platforms and applications in the industry. Here are a few favorites.

Web Page from Scholastic Literacy Pro application

Web Page from Heinemann's Listening to Learn® application

Web Page from Nell Duke's Starwriter for great First Eight application

My Products Web Page from Heinemann application

Web Page from READ 180® Universal and Teacher Central application

Web Page from We Are Teachers' Dollars and Decisions game

CASE STUDIES

APPROACH

The Atomic engineering approach delivers better products at a lower total cost of development.

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Start from Content

We believe that the most effective products for reading, teaching, and learning start from an understanding of what people want to learn, teach, or communicate. We build with content as part of our stack from the beginning.

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Focus on Users

Our mission is to achieve your goals for the users. As the engineers on your team, our work is to understand those goals, so that we can plan, build, and test for the ways real people will use your product in the classroom, at home, and anywhere in between.

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Build with Transparency

Our team knows that successful product development is the result of clear communication about the purpose, reasons, and expected outcomes of our work. We succeed best when you can see our progress.

We help partners make technology choices that are strategic and human-centered because we understand the goals.

Accessibility Engineering

We engineer for accessibility from the beginning, with WCAG Level AA as a baseline. Mural credit: https://www.groundswell.nyc/projects/recovery-diaspora-144

Quality Engineering

We move quality assurance to the beginning of development. Mural credit: https://www.groundswell.nyc/projects/here-goes-something-part-two-196

Product Consulting

We provide options for ways to start, evolve, and scale up. Mural credit: https://www.groundswell.nyc/projects/moving-along-150

Agile Development

Our scrum process goes from nothing to something starting with Sprint One. Mural credit: https://www.groundswell.nyc/projects/here-goes-something-part-two-196

Content Engineering

We work with authors, editors, and designers to integrate proven content management systems. Mural credit: https://www.groundswell.nyc/projects/connectivity-320

Standards Expertise

We build with LTI 1.3, NRPS, Caliper, and OneRoster to make it easier for schools to say "yes" to your product. Mural credit: https://sagmeister.com/work/yes-dumbo-improvement-district/