SAN DIEGO, CA – June 24, 2026. A free, teacher-facing initiative built on a simple idea: learning happens in the moment between a teacher and a student — and the right technology should protect that moment, not crowd it.
Today, OneScreen announced ChalkFree, a free initiative for K–12 teachers built around one conviction: the digital classroom is no longer optional, but teachers don’t have to be resigned to it. They can own it. ChalkFree filters in the tools, flows, and ideas that amplify the moments learning actually happens, organized around the stages of a teacher’s day, so the teacher can be fully present with the students in front of them.
The premise is that teaching has always been one thing: a conversation between a person who knows something and a person who wants to. The tools have changed a hundred times, but the conversation hasn’t. ChalkFree exists to keep that conversation whole in a classroom that now runs on panels, laptops, and apps.
“A teacher recently told us, ‘I don’t mind the new tools. I mind anything that gets between me and my students,'” said Amna Zara, Head of Product Marketing at OneScreen. “That’s the only standard that has ever mattered in a classroom. ChalkFree is built on it. We’re not asking teachers to adopt another platform or admire another catalog. We’re filtering the noise down to what brings them closer to the kids and getting out of the way.”
ChalkFree is organized the way teachers actually think about their work, filtered by the stage of the day, not by brand or feature:
- Before class — preparing: planning, lesson setup, and the Sunday-night work.
- During class — teaching: the lesson, the questions, the moments that click.
- After class — wrapping up: grading, parent-teacher communication, and deciding what to do differently tomorrow.
Inside each stage, ChalkFree surfaces a curated, mostly-free selection of teaching tools, chosen by one test: does it amplify the moment learning happens, or does it add friction? The discipline is in what’s left out. ChalkFree is not a hub of everything; it’s a short, trusted shortlist of what helps, alongside quick how-tos, a teacher can act on the same day, without a webinar, a sales pitch, or a forty-page guide.
ChalkFree isn’t a product. It’s a posture, a name for a teacher who is fully here, fully equipped, fully present in the moment that matters. A ChalkFree teacher uses what helps, makes it their own, and lets everything else fall away. The tools serve the teacher; the teacher serves the student; the interaction stays whole.
“The chalk era was a long, beautiful chapter. This one will be too,” said Sufian Munir, CEO, OneScreen. “The tools are different. The teacher is the same. ChalkFree just makes more room for the part that was always the point.”
ChalkFree is free for any teacher in a digital classroom, with or without an interactive display, and is available now at ChalkFree.com.
