Passport Publisher Program Addendum

Modified on: May 14, 2026

Effective Date: July 1, 2026

Effective immediately, if this is the version that was presented to you and accepted by you when you joined the program.

This is a Binding Addendum: This document is a binding addendum to the Boom Learning Publisher Addendum. By enrolling in the Passport Publisher Program, you accept these additional terms and conditions. If you do not accept all the terms, do not enroll in the Passport Publisher Program.
Program Purpose
1. The purpose of the Passport Publisher Program is to identify Publishers of superior pedagogy, design skill, and knowledge whose materials meet the curricular, privacy, and security requirements of public schools. Participants in the Passport Publisher Program will participate in the Boom Passport subscription product, marketed and sold by the Boom Learning sales and marketing teams to Districts (as defined in our District Terms of Service). Boom Learning takes care of the legal, vendor, security, and other requirements necessary to make these sales happen.
Program Participation: Participation in the Passport Publisher Program is by invitation and application. To be selected you will be evaluated against a selection criteria rubric. We may invite external parties with relevant education, experience, and expertise to assist with evaluations from time to time. The final decision is at the sole discretion of Boom Learning. You may decline an invitation to join the program.
Benefits:
1. Publishers selected for the Passport Publisher Program will receive the following benefits.
  1. A badge on their products and listings inside the Boom App.
  2. Quality nudges in search results.
  3. Inclusion in the Boom Passport product sold to Districts.
  4. Opportunities for recurring revenue through the Boom Passport program.
  5. Enhanced support.
2. The Passport Publisher badge is reserved for the exclusive use of Boom Learning and may not be reproduced or used on any external website.
Marketing: Passport Publishers agree that we can use their names and product names in marketing materials to Districts. They further agree to provide curriculum maps, teacher guides, and other supporting materials upon request to the Boom sales team. They agree that Boom Learning may offer free trials of Boom Passport for up to 90 days (a "pilot") to Districts who are considering the program and that there will be no compensation for usage during the free trial.
Compensation
1. Passport Publishers are required to participate in the Boom Passport subscription product. Boom Passport is sold to Districts and via select resale arrangements. It is a flat-rate product advertised, marketed, and sold by Boom Learning. Proceeds from the sales are split between Boom Learning and participating Passport Publishers. Boom Learning is responsible for all marketing, sales, contracting, collection, and related duties.
2. Passport Publishers are compensated from royalty pools created from our contracts with Districts. Each District has a unique royalty pool tied to the contract for the District (a "District Pool"). Passport Publishers are compensated for Use by Educators in a District from the District Pool. We do not publicize which District Pools a Passport Publisher participates in to prevent misconduct. "Use" means a teacher or student in a District used a product for instruction; uses include assignments, Fastplays, and Presentations. Boom Learning reserves the right to aggregate a portion of each District Pool into a Shared Pool and distribute the Shared Pool across all Passport Publishers. Royalties will be distributed monthly. The amount a Passport Publisher is paid each month depends on whether their resources were used in one or more active District Pools. Monthly distributions are subject to caps to ensure District Pool royalties are fairly allocated over the contract term for the District Pool. This accounts for seasonality of Use. When the contract for a specific District Pool ends, catch up distributions of undistributed amounts are made to Passport Publishers whose materials were Used by the District. Each Passport Publisher's portion of the undistributed amounts from a District Pool at the end of the District Pool contract are based on Use over the entire period of the District Pool contract.
3. Royalties are listed as a separate line item in the Sales report. At Boom's sole discretion, Royalties may be paid separately from standard sales payouts. Our standard payout schedule applies.
Leaving the Program: Program commitment is a minimum of twelve months from the date you were admitted to the program. Your program participation automatically rolls forward for another year if you do not contact us to withdraw. If you wish to leave the program, you must contact us and give us 30-days notice of your intent to leave. Once contacted by you, and after confirming that you have been in the program at least twelve months, our Publisher team will remove you from the program. Removal may occur on any day after you give notice, but not later than the 30th day after the date of notice. Removal from the program means you will cease to earn "Use" in the District Pools and will not be eligible for distributions from the Shared Pool. We can terminate your participation in the program in our sole discretion, and at any time, if you violate our Acceptable Use Policy or otherwise no longer meet Selection Criteria.

Selection Criteria: Our full selection criteria are detailed in the SELECTION CRITERIA table below.

Category	Element	Minimum Standard
Materials Quality	The use of sound, evidence-based pedagogy in the development and implementation of the materials.	Commit to tagging resources with the appropriate educational standards (up to 5). This requirement only applies if we provide an applicable standard. You are encouraged to provide information for additional standards in your description. All products must have a meaningful description. Example: "Fun game to teach math facts" would NOT qualify. "Fun game to teach multiplication math fact fluency" with standards tagged would qualify. As would "fun game to teach multiplication math facts using CVI design for low vision students." Be specific about how it meets the needs of students if it is not a general education product. Resources that teach basic reading skills for English-first learners must follow the science of reading principles. Sight word resources should focus on phonics-based learning of high-frequency words.
	Materials align with any research cited.	If there is a claim of research alignment, a review of the materials establishes that the research underlying the concept is implemented in the materials.
	Factual accuracy.	All factual claims are accurate and verifiable from reputable sources.
	Does not use discredited or harmful methods.	In particular, reading instruction methods such as guessing proven to have adverse outcomes on reading skills are prohibited. We will not accept reading materials based on the following philosophies: whole language method, look-say, whole-word, balanced literacy, cueing, and embedded phonics.
Credentials	Has completed an appropriate degree, training, or certification for the claimed expertise and provides proof of at least three years of active classroom or therapy experience.	Includes a description, where applicable, of the relevant credentials to create the materials in all author descriptions and the requisite experience. Must provide satisfactory proof of the claim, such as current credentials. If credentials are not current, must prove that they were not lost for disciplinary reasons and that the Publisher has taken steps to remain current in the field (such as teaching at the university level or attending continuing education programs).
	If the Publisher produces materials in an area with enhanced credentials or special training (such as Reading Intervention, CVI, or SLP), the Publisher has received the applicable credential and has maintained it, if active maintenance is required. If the author is retired, the author must demonstrate how they have remained informed of current developments in the practice area. Publishers must have three years of experience delivering services or instruction in the listed area.	Publishers may not include material outside of their credential or experience level in the Boom Passport catalog. Those will need to be excluded. For example, if a Publisher has an elementary education certificate and homeschools through high school, only the elementary materials can be included in the Passport catalog.
	If the publisher claims exceptional credentials, such as significant experience as an author in the education or textbook space, the Publisher provides proof of such credentials.
Other Claims	Materials added to the Passport catalog are correctly tagged by subject and tags align to the Publisher's credentials and experience.	Subject category tagging must follow the requirements for special categories specified in our Optimizing Your Content article. Passport Publishers may not use category tags that do not align with their credentials and experience. For speech-language pathologists, if the material would be searched for and used by a speech-language pathologist and was created by a speech-language pathologist - it must be tagged "Speech and Language" and may not be cross-tagged as Special Education & ABA. If the material would be searched for and used by a special education service provider who may or may not be a speech-language pathologist, such as behavior materials, and the material does not require speech-language pathology skills to deliver, it may be marked as "Special Education & ABA" instead of "Speech and Language" if created by a speech-language pathologist, but may not be cross tagged as "Speech and Language". We require proof from any person tagging with Special Education tags that they have at least three years of experience providing special education services, such as autism behavioral therapies, that are not merely core speech and language therapies. Only trained and certified Occupational Therapists with the required three years of experience may use the "Occupational Therapy" subject tag. Subtags under Occupational Therapy such as "Handwriting" may be selected if you have the requisite experience and you do not tag the top-level Occupational Therapy subject. Special Education Educators may use the subtag of Pre-Vocational skills under the Occupational Therapy category, but should not select the top-level Occupational Therapy category when using the Pre-Vocational skills subcategory.
	Publisher makes no claims that cannot be verified.	All claims are subject to audit at any time.
	Profile completed.	Publishers must complete their profile on the Settings/Grade page of the Boom account by answering all of the following that apply: Subjects I teach, Grades, Author Grades, Role that best suits you.
Design Quality	Images are self-made or licensed and credited.	All images used are either self-made or licensed and credited. Use of Pixabay, Canva, Pexels, FreePix, or other stock sources will require proof of a license to use the materials for commercial use. AI images must follow our AI guidelines and must be disclosed as AI-generated images with the generating tool named in the product acknowledgements.
	Minimum store size.	50 decks, with at least 25 decks with accessibility elements.
	The products have a consistent and common visual design.	The materials have a consistent and common visual design in each material. There are no discordant design elements. There may not be routine formatting errors in covers or decks, such as text overflow, blurry images, or distorted images. If errors are identified, the Publisher demonstrates prompt error correction.
	The design is age and subject-appropriate.	The materials' design should be appropriate to the targeted developmental age of the students to whom they are directed.
Accessibility	At least 25 decks in the Publisher's Passport catalog use two or more accessibility features in the student player or the Publisher has been granted an exception because the nature of the materials created address a different disability and adding all accessibility features would defeat the purpose of the material. In such cases, Publisher is expected to provide all forms of accessibility that would not cause the resource to fail of its educational purpose.	Publisher has at least 25 decks that meet two or more accessibility criteria (motor, visual, and audio) available in their catalog. All new decks and decks first published on or after July 1, 2025 must have accessibility metadata indicating whether the specific deck does or does not meet a particular accessibility criteria.
Author Reputation	No strikes.	Publishers who have received strikes for violating the acceptable use policies or other applicable terms are barred from the program. With sufficient passage of time (at least one year), Publishers who have been barred may be considered at the discretion of the Integrity team. Among other factors, Integrity will evaluate whether errors were inadvertent or deliberate, the level of cooperation in correcting materials, the seriousness of the offense relative to District requirements, and the risk to Boom of a repeated offense. The decision of the Integrity team is final and is not subject to appeal.
Author Reputation	No controversy.	Publishers must not engage in conduct detrimental to supporting education in any setting, including criminal, harassing, or inflammatory conduct. Boom may investigate allegations of unbecoming conduct and determine in its sole discretion whether or not the Publisher may remain in the program after the investigation.
Compliance	No HREF links (hyperlinks) in publisher or product descriptions. No reference to other marketplaces.	Any live links added to author or product descriptions make an author immediately ineligible for the program due to security commitments. References in the description, biography, or other location to any external marketplace will immediately make a Publisher ineligible. The only permitted reference to an external marketplace are links added to image acknowledgments to comply with credit requirements imposed by the image author.
	No advertisements in decks.	Any links to videos that serve an advertisement are immediately disqualifying. No YouTube videos.
	No content that teaches a religion as a religion.	This program targets secular purchasing entities that require content to be secular. While it is acceptable to include objective religious studies and surveys of world religions content, Publishers must exclude from the catalog any theological content. Theological content teaches a religion's theology to convert or educate adherents into the religion. Publishers who make theological content can participate if they exclude all theological content from the Passport catalog.
	Not biased or discriminatory.	Content must not make claims that are biased or have discriminatory content. Materials may not contain outdated content, such as the use of offensive terms to describe indigenous peoples. Materials may not contain explicit or implicit bias against a class. No content may assert the superiority of a class of individuals over other classes based on immutable characteristics such as race or sex. A report to Integrity of any single deck for biased content will result in withdrawal from the program and require a full review of all decks, certification of full review, and an Integrity team review before the Publisher can reenter the program.
	Controversial topics.	Content on controversial topics must be fact-based and informative. It should not suggest that the student should feel guilt or shame.
	Other failures to meet the needs of Districts.	State regulations and laws change from time to time. If a rule or law changes that makes content no longer suitable, it will be withdrawn from the program. We reserve the right to add suppression lists to exclude select content from access in select locations.

Archived versions available on request.

COMPENSATION EXAMPLE table

Boom Passport Sample Publishers	Boom Passport Sample Customer	Content Used by Customer	Month of Use by Customer	Who Gets Paid	When Paid
Kinder Cards - PreK to 1st resources SLP Cards - Speech resources	Giga School	Kinder Cards SLP Cards	September to June	Both Kinder Cards and SLP Cards	October to July
	Therapy Now Co	SLP Cards	All	Only SLP Cards	Monthly (One Month After Use)
	Summer Fun Camps	Kinder Cards	May to August	Only Kinder Cards	June to September

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