Brightways Global Academy provides our enrolled families a number of valuable online subscriptions and partnership resources to enhance and support quality teaching, learning, and testing prep. If purchased individually, the content of these resources could cost a family thousands of dollars, and some can only be purchased by schools or libraries.

Our families are able to use these resources to fulfill many of their curriculum needs, which ultimately saves a lot of money.

We encourage you to review this page, which provides an overview of these resources that families can access — either free or as special discounts — as part of their enrollment benefits in Brightways Global Academy.

ALEKS

ALEKS is available for a variety of math courses for students in Grades 3-12. ALEKS is a web-based, artificially intelligent assessment and learning system. ALEKS uses adaptive questioning to quickly and accurately determine exactly what a student knows and doesn’t know in a course. ALEKS courses are very complete in their topic coverage, and they avoid multiple-choice questions.

The regular subscription fee is $180 per student per year if purchased independently. For BGA Families, the subscription cost is just $45 per student for the year — an annual savings of $135.

BrainPOP & BrainPOP Jr.

BrainPOP offers hundreds of animated educational videos & related materials for K-8 students, covering a wide variety of topics in a fun and easy-to-understand format. They are aligned to the standards of all 50 U.S. States and National Standards. Subject areas include:

Science
Social Studies
Art & Music
Health
Technology
English

Brightways Global Academy’s subscription includes access to all videos and additional content. Purchased by an individual family, the annual subscription rate ranges from $265 (for BrainPOP Jr. only) to $590 (for Jr. and regular) or more.

Prodigy Math and Prodigy English

This Ultimate Bundle combines Prodigy's Math and English.
~Adaptive math practice meets engaging game-based learning with Prodigy Math. Help students build new math skills with their standards-aligned game-based learning, for grades 1-8.

~Form foundational reading and writing skills through Prodigy English's engaging, adaptive language arts content aligned to Common Core standards, for grades 1-6.

Science4Us

Science4Us is designed for grades K-2. It combines science with literacy and math-integrated experiences to introduce students to Inquiry, Physical Science, Life Science, and Earth & Space Science. 28 content-rich modules include thousands of online and offline activities that can be completed in as little as ten minutes, perfect for centers, small groups, or whole-group instruction.

Gizmos

Gizmos science and math simulations provide advanced opportunities for inquiry-based learning, what-if experimentation, scientific reasoning, and investigation as students dig deeper into concepts with 500+ virtual labs. STEM Cases put students in the roles of professionals tasked with solving real-world problems, exposing them to STEM careers while boosting class engagement. This is great for grades 3 and up.

Dumb Ox Learning

Dumb Ox Learning offers live, online Advanced Placement, Enrichment, SAT, and IGCSE prep classes. The College Board administers Advanced Placement exams and, in the UK, are accepted as equivalent to A levels for university entrance. Some of their 10- or 15-week enrichment courses include Debate Club, Chess Club, Lord of the Rings Class, and Icon Writing Class.

To receive a $25 discount on their already reasonably priced AP classes, add the code BRIGHTWAYS when signing up.

Let's Go Learn

The Let's Go Learn assessment tools are excellent and easy for children to take. The reports are very parent-friendly and easy to understand. Unique Reader and Unique Math, the instructional portion of each program, can be used very effectively as they differentiate to each student's specific needs. If purchased individually by a family, the expense would be $100 per test.

Includes:

DOMA (Diagnostic Online Math Assessments) for K-5 students, which includes individual student assessment and reporting
DORA (Diagnostic Online Reading Assessments) for K-12 students, which includes individual student assessment and reporting
Ability to use the same testing more than once during the year to gauge ongoing learning progress
Websites designed to capture the imagination while maximizing creativity, learning and enjoyment
Interactive reading and math instruction
Theme Units and more

Mathseeds

Mathseeds teaches kids aged 3-9 the core math and problem-solving skills needed to be successful at school with fun, highly interactive and rewarding lessons. Mathseeds combines highly structured lessons with fun motivational elements that keep children engaged and keen to learn. A family on their own would pay $60-90 annually; BGA families get access for free.

Reading Eggs & Reading Eggspress

A dynamic, 2-in-1 literacy solution to ensure reading proficiency, Reading Eggs and Reading Eggspress are designed to build and reinforce literacy skills aligned to the five pillars of reading in a captivating online environment. Used by nearly 60,000 teachers, our highly rewarding programs foster independent learning and drive classroom instruction to ensure that your pre-K through 6th grade students become lifelong readers. A family on their own would pay $60-90 annually; BGA families get access for free.

World Book Online Reference Center

World Book Online is comprehensive repository of research and study materials. Individual subscriptions cost $250 per year. To collect a similar off-line resource (printed books and CDs), a family would need to buy several World Book packages — spending thousands of dollars — and even then would not include all of the content found here.