A Year in Review for U.S. Schools

As we enjoy the festive season and 2025 comes to a close, we’re celebrating the teachers and staff who made learning happen across the United States. By revisiting the ClickView content most appreciated this year, we can see what supported classrooms, sparked engagement, and shaped learning the most in 2025.

Top 10 most popular ClickView videos produced in 2025

Elementary

Instrumental piano and guitar tracks calmed and focused classrooms across the country with overwhelming popularity on ClickView, whilst our new Halloween Miniclip proved to be a winner with schools, helping students to learn about the history of one of the year’s biggest celebrations.

Dreamy Piano, 106 BPM (Music to Study to: Instrumental Piano)
Halloween (Miniclips: Global Celebrations and Commemorations)
Pensive Piano, 105 BPM (Music to Study to: Instrumental Piano)
Relaxing Guitar, 105 BPM (Music to Study to: Instrumental Guitar)
Calming Piano, 138 BPM (Music to Study to: Instrumental Piano)
Inspiring Piano, 119 BPM (Music to Study to: Instrumental Piano)
Concentration Piano, 125 BPM (Music to Study to: Instrumental Piano)
Gentle Piano, 139 BPM (Music to Study to: Instrumental Piano)
Focus Piano, 126 BPM (Music to Study to: Instrumental Piano)
Peaceful Piano, 138 BPM (Music to Study to: Instrumental Piano)

Middle School

Middle school classrooms gravitated toward content that blended timely conversations, song and music with practical skill-building. Important calendar moments like Patriot Day, Labor Day, and Halloween were supported by our new Miniclips. Musical videos also proved popular with a strong response to the Music to Study to series as well as the music and lyrics for The Star-Spangled Banner.

Patriot Day (Miniclips: American Celebrations and Commemorations)
Halloween (Miniclips: Global Celebrations and Commemorations)
Characterization in Fiction (Miniclips: Reading Strategies)
Labor Day (Miniclips: American Celebrations and Commemorations)
Ultra-Processed Foods (Spotlight On …)
Dreamy Piano, 106 BPM (Music to Study to: Instrumental Piano)
The Star-Spangled Banner (Music with Lyrics)
Gentle Guitar, 156 BPM (Music to Study to: Instrumental Guitar)
Chill Lo-Fi (Music to Study to: Lo-Fi)
What Is Public Speaking? (Public Speaking)

High School

High school classrooms embraced new ClickView videos that explore research and history in a modern context, revisit classic texts, highlight real-world career pathways, and provide much needed student focus through dedicated study music.
Students examined research and evidence through a modern lens with Research in the Age of AI, explored enduring texts like The Odyssey with added historical context, and what history itself means through inquiry-based resources.

Research in the Age of AI (Contesting History)
The Odyssey in Context (Literary Contexts)
Halloween (Miniclips: Global Celebrations and Commemorations)
A Day in the Life of a… Museum Curator (Careers with Math)
What Is History? (Contesting History)
Instrumental Guitar (20 Minutes) (Music to Study To: Instrumental Guitar)
A Day in the Life of a… Plant Scientist (Careers with Math)
Lo-Fi (30 Minutes) (Music to Study To: Lo-Fi)
A Day in the Life of a… Construction Worker (Careers with Math)
Lo-Fi (10 Minutes) (Music to Study To: Lo-Fi)

Top 10 most popular Movies + TV

2025 saw a wide range of new films and documentaries added to ClickView. Popular films included confronting historical documentaries such as Oprah and Elie Wiesel at Auschwitz Death Camp and Harriet Tubman: They Called Her Moses plus thought-provoking science, literature, and nature features. ClickView’s Movies + TV offering gives teachers flexible narrative and factual content that supports both critical inquiry and meaningful engagement across all subject areas.

Topic 5 Special Events Topics

Throughout the year, key moments in the school calendar created natural opportunities for purposeful learning, with curated topics for events such as Veterans Day, World Music Day, Digital Citizenship Week, Earth Day, and Lunar New Year providing meaningful opportunities for students to connect with history, culture, and community.

January Special Events Topics

We’re supporting teachers with curation for these special events in January. Each curated topic page comes packed full of dedicated resources to support your lessons:

Browse the full calendar for more special events here.

Top 5 Topics

Elementary

From music to sharks the most explored topics by Elementary teachers, reflect a rich blend of language, science, and social studies

Top 5 Topics

Middle

With America250 on the horizon, middle schools enjoyed exploring our rich resources available to support teaching colonial America. Other popular topics showed a variety of exploration into both the academic and practical.

Top 5 Topics

High

High school teachers made the most use of the language topics available, and growth mindset continued to be in high demand.

Top 10 most downloaded Resources

Teachers and students made the most of the thousands of downloadable resources available on ClickView videos, including activity booklets, scenario cards, comprehension questions, and teacher packs on videos such as artificial intelligence, fake news, healthy habits, language roots, and ecosystems.

Reflection and looking ahead

The top ClickView content of 2025 shows U.S. classrooms embracing a wide range of ClickView’s offerings. From the popularity of study music videos creating calm, productive learning environments in elementary classrooms to high school students engaging with research in the age of AI, historical inquiry, and classic texts, ClickView supported learning across every stage. Combined with powerful documentaries, curated special events, language learning, and practical skill-building resources, 2025 highlighted how flexible, purposeful content can support everyday teaching across U.S. schools.

As we look ahead, here’s to celebrating the moments that make teaching rewarding, and to an even more impactful 2026!

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