Ohio is offering licensed Family Child Care Providers FREE Experience Curriculum and Assessment!
DCY has partnered with brightwheel to offer Ohio Licensed Family Child Care providers access to Experience Curriculum and Experience Assessment - fully integrated with brightwheel!
Each subscription includes:
- A kit with teacher guides, materials, books and more delivered to your door each month
- Activities aligned to the Science of Reading & State of Ohio standards
- Access to Experience Assessment
To secure your spot, please complete the request form above!


The all-in-one toolkit for early educators
- Access Experience Curriculum right from the brightwheel app
- Receive a monthly delivery of learning supplies
- Monitor and assess each child's progress
- Keep families connected to their child's learning progress
Refreshed Developmental Continuum of Skills
- Delivers sharper focus with effective instruction across 8 learning domains, 36 skills, and 73 subskills
- Supports social-emotional growth by emphasizing problem-solving for positive interactions
- Fosters curiosity through “Approaches to Learning” that encourage exploration and flexible thinking
Stronger alignment to the Science of Reading
- Systematic, research-based instruction in phonics and phonological awareness
- Daily language that promotes oral language, storybook reading, and vocabulary
- Early literacy that builds strong decoding and comprehension skills from the start
Expanded Math Foundations
- Deeper number sense with a stronger focus on counting, composing, and comparing quantities
- Core concepts that build early skills in addition, subtraction, shapes, measurement, and patterns
- Early foundations supported by a research-based progression aligned to early learning standards
All-New Spanish Teaching Resources
- Digital teacher guides offered for easy implementation by Spanish-speaking educators
- Spanish literacy kits now available with books and tools for bilingual instruction
- Support for bilingual classrooms that simplifies teaching dual language learners in the classroom
Why educators love Experience Curriculum
Save hours of time each week
Each monthly kit comes with daily lesson plans and materials for each child, delivered directly to you. Teachers can plan and access digital lessons in brightwheel to save even more time.
Support teacher success
Help your teachers succeed with ready-to-go lessons aligned to all 50 states' early learning standards. Lessons weave 35 skills into playful games and projects that keep children engaged and excited to learn.
Elevate program quality
Our research-based approach ensures your program is delivering the highest quality learning. Integrated assessments make tracking child progress and sharing with families easy.
Track growth and support every child with Experience Assessments
Family Child Care providers are also eligible for Experience Assessment. Built directly into the brightwheel platform, Experience Assessment pairs seamlessly with Experience Curriculum and is compatible with any curriculum.
Experience Assessments empowers educators to:
- Capture developmental observations during everyday classroom moments
- Track child growth over time with visual, research-based reports
- Personalize instruction using actionable insights
- Share progress with families, building trust and transparency

What educators are saying
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Brightwheel is the best! I am 100% sure the app is helping grow my enrollment, and it helps me be more in control of my center.
Kaushana J.
Owner of Smarty Pants Learning Center in San Antonio, TX
Get Brightwheel before you think you need it! It’s been a life-saver for us as new business owners, allowing us to focus on the families and children we serve.
Kaitlyn & Kalen S.
Owners at Grow Together Learning in Hilliard, OH
Brightwheel is user-friendly and saves mounds of time. I enjoy all the tools they give Directors. We love it!
Gigi M.
Director at Children’s Day Out Preschool in Sweetwater, TX
Brightwheel gets an A+ for parent satisfaction. A huge piece families love is how brightwheel brings them into the room. We get so many compliments.
Marc H.
Owner at A Strong Start Early Care & Education in Trumbull, CT
Brightwheel’s customer service is phenomenal. I receive quick answers, and I always tell people to write in to Support. They are so informative.
Pam M.
Executive Director in Denver, CO
We were the first ones to use brightwheel in our town. Now, every other center has adopted it as their software. It is an amazing all-in-one tool… Worth every penny!
Melissa & Logan
Owners of Happy Feet Academy in Ellensburg, WA
My staff love attending brightwheel webinars. They’re able to learn how to use the system to its fullest potential. I think we are using every single feature on the platform!
Alyssa D.
Executive Director at McNeilly Center for Children in Nashville, TN
Having everything on one platform makes it easy for us to train teachers. We use brightwheel to set expectations on the quality we expect.
Alicia D.
Director at Riverbend Christian School in Austin, TX
I LOVE how easy it is to record a payment in billing. We no longer cross our fingers hoping our numbers match! It’s beautiful.
Beth C.
Director at Shiloh Preschool in Cincinnati, OH
We have many grandparents and they love using brightwheel. It’s easy for them to use, and they enjoy interacting with an app that is so user friendly.
Beth H.
Director at Weekday School in Orlando, FL
Brightwheel is the best! I am 100% sure the app is helping grow my enrollment, and it helps me be more in control of my center.
Kaushana J.
Owner of Smarty Pants Learning Center in San Antonio, TX
Get Brightwheel before you think you need it! It’s been a life-saver for us as new business owners, allowing us to focus on the families and children we serve.
Kaitlyn & Kalen S.
Owners at Grow Together Learning in Hilliard, OH
Brightwheel is user-friendly and saves mounds of time. I enjoy all the tools they give Directors. We love it!
Gigi M.
Director at Children’s Day Out Preschool in Sweetwater, TX
Brightwheel gets an A+ for parent satisfaction. A huge piece families love is how brightwheel brings them into the room. We get so many compliments.
Marc H.
Owner at A Strong Start Early Care & Education in Trumbull, CT
Brightwheel’s customer service is phenomenal. I receive quick answers, and I always tell people to write in to Support. They are so informative.
Pam M.
Executive Director in Denver, CO
We were the first ones to use brightwheel in our town. Now, every other center has adopted it as their software. It is an amazing all-in-one tool… Worth every penny!
Melissa & Logan
Owners of Happy Feet Academy in Ellensburg, WA
My staff love attending brightwheel webinars. They’re able to learn how to use the system to its fullest potential. I think we are using every single feature on the platform!
Alyssa D.
Executive Director at McNeilly Center for Children in Nashville, TN
Having everything on one platform makes it easy for us to train teachers. We use brightwheel to set expectations on the quality we expect.
Alicia D.
Director at Riverbend Christian School in Austin, TX
I LOVE how easy it is to record a payment in billing. We no longer cross our fingers hoping our numbers match! It’s beautiful.
Beth C.
Director at Shiloh Preschool in Cincinnati, OH
We have many grandparents and they love using brightwheel. It’s easy for them to use, and they enjoy interacting with an app that is so user friendly.
Beth H.
Director at Weekday School in Orlando, FL
Licensed family child care programs in Ohio may apply for this subscription through DCY. Eligible programs will be notified if they have been selected.
