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Important End-of-School-Year Updates for Teacher Accounts

May 2026

Thanks to all of you who have been using Mission US with your students over the past year. We hope that our games and support materials continue to be a helpful resource in your classrooms. As we come to the end of another school year, we wanted to alert you about a couple important updates to your classroom accounts in accordance with Mission US’s Data Retention and Privacy Policies.

1. Deletion of Student Accounts from Dashboard

To protect students’ personal data, all student accounts created via your Teacher Dashboard over the past year will be deleted in two waves:

  • Accounts created June 1, 2025 – July 31, 2025, will be deleted on June 1, 2026.
  • Accounts created August 1, 2025 – May 31, 2026 will be deleted on August 1, 2026. 

This will eliminate the students’ data from our system and clear the way to allow you to generate new classes and student accounts for the new school year. [To accommodate summer school users, student accounts created via Teacher Dashboard from June 1-July 31, 2026, will be deleted on June 1, 2027.]

Please note that students are free to create their own independent accounts by going to “Create Account” and selecting “Student” on the first screen. We encourage students to do this if they plan to continue playing Mission US on their own! These non-Dashboard accounts will never be deleted as they do not require students to provide any personal data. 

2. Opt-In to Continue Using Dashboard

In addition, we require annual confirmation from teachers to allow us to retain their email addresses for purposes of using the Mission US Dashboard. The first time you log in on or after August 1st, you’ll see a pop-up message asking you to confirm before you can use the Dashboard again.

If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to us at missionus@thirteen.org. This process will occur again at the end of the 2026-2027 school year.

Best wishes for the end of the school year and a wonderful summer! We look forward to having you and your students back with Mission US next year.