Press Releases

To help schools provide educators with more resources to support students at school and at home, Capstone has introduced Stairway Decodables, a supplemental phonics resource for extra practice in small group instruction, independent reading, and at home. The series is organized into six steps, each featuring books that provide students with practice in decoding words with specific phonics sounds.

For more than 30 years, Capstone has supported schools with engaging content through its print books, interactive eBooks, and award-winning PebbleGo curricular content hub. At ISTELive 24, Capstone will debut its newly expanded PebbleGo suite, featuring tools for active learning, content curation features, and other enhancements designed specifically for the classroom. With these digital tools and resources, K-5 classroom educators can create a bridge to literacy while helping students.

The ability to distinguish fact from fiction is an essential skill in school and in life. To equip readers with critical thinking and problem-solving skills to identify credibility in the information they consume, Capstone and the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) have partnered to publish Cyber Sleuths. Educators can get a sneak peek at the middle-grade chapter book series at booth 724 at ISTELive 24 in Denver. 

Capstone, an innovative learning company merging children’s content with easy-to-use edtech tools for K-5 classrooms, libraries, and homes, is partnering with Clever, the platform powering secure digital learning for over 100,000 schools globally, to integrate single sign-on (SSO) and roster management for its award-winning PebbleGo suite of online curriculum resources.

Future Ready Schools® (FRS), a prominent national education organization, and Capstone, an innovative learning company that merges children’s content with user-friendly edtech tools for K-5 classrooms, libraries, and homes, are excited to announce the newest series of Future Ready Schools Leadership Forums later this year.

Amira Learning, the first provider of an AI reading tutor, and Capstone, an innovative learning company merging children’s content with easy-to-use edtech tools for K-5 classrooms, libraries, and homes, announce their strategic partnership aimed at ensuring all students receive meaningful reading practice with the Science of Reading interventions they need and the quality content they crave.

Coughlan Companies LLC, the holding company of innovative learning company Capstone, has named Dr. Charlie Miller as Executive Chair and CEO of its Board. In this new role, Dr. Miller will accelerate Capstone’s strategic ambitions, as well as grow the broader Coughlan Companies portfolio beyond the walls of the classroom with key partners and investments. Capstone CEO Randi Economou will continue to lead the Capstone publishing and digital content business unit.

Greater Mankato Area United Way has teamed up with Capstone on its newest early literacy initiative focused on spreading kindness as well as the love of reading. Now available for purchase, Greater Mankato Area United Way’s picture book, The Kindness Booth, published by Capstone,  follows a group of friends who set out to make the day brighter for their neighborhood through acts of kindness.

In the latest move by the Newsom Administration to expand educational opportunities, pre-kindergarten through second grade students now can access award-winning STEM learning tools in English and Spanish through PebbleGo Science online resources from Capstone. PebbleGo Science is the newest online resource the California State Library provides to public schools and libraries.