Brightwheel

About

Brightwheel runs the day-to-day operations of early learning programs in one place, replacing the mix of paper sign-in sheets, spreadsheets, and separate billing tools that most centers piece together. Teachers take attendance on a tablet at the door and send daily reports, photos, and messages straight to families through the parent app, so families stay informed without staff fielding calls. Administrators handle the rest of the business from the same platform: tuition plans and invoicing with autopay, state subsidy billing with the attendance and reporting documentation publicly funded programs have to supply, staff records and scheduling, and ratio and licensing checks that need to hold all day. Curriculum and assessment tools give directors a view of classroom quality and child progress, and multi-site operators roll the same setup across every location. Brightwheel is used by tens of thousands of programs across the United States, including centers serving Head Start, state pre-K, and child care subsidy families, where accurate attendance records and clean subsidy billing decide whether the program gets paid.

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