Integrating Technology: Online Curriculum Support Options

BrainPOP® is a leading producer of educational animated movies targeted to students in grades K–8, but enjoyed by students of all ages. BrainPOP movies explain concepts in a voice and visual style that is accessible, educational, and entertaining. This is a current vendor with CWCS.

The Calvert School® is a time-tested, rich, academically stimulating curriculum used extensively by families who home school as well as in the classroom. We integrate many components of the Calvert program into the Connections Learning curriculum, supplementing and enhancing with materials from other providers along with our own content. This is a current vendor with CWCS.

Compass Learning®, a leading provider of educational technology, provides a browser-based curriculum and assessments to promote differentiated instruction. The program allows students to move forward at their own pace, and provide opportunities for students who need remediation or enrichment.


Discovery Education® streaming is the only digital video-based learning resource scientifically proven to increase student achievement with comprehensive K–12 curriculum coverage in six core subject areas. Discovery Education streaming is correlated to state standards provides increased choice of resources appropriate to what educators are teaching.

Discovery Education Science powers your elementary and middle-school science curricula with up-to-date, standards-based virtual labs, simulations, reading passages and more, coupled with a real-time assessment component that measures student’s progress. Organized around an inquiry framework and covering Physical, Earth and Space, and Life Sciences, Discovery Education Science is designed to encourage exploration, stimulate critical thinking, and deepen understanding of science. This is a current vendor with CWCS.


DreamCalc™ is a virtual scientific calculator. It gives the intuitive feel of using a real hand-held calculator, but on a PC or laptop for a very competitive price!

The First in Math® Online Program provides students the opportunity to play the 24® game online and improve their math fluency. More than just a fun activity, First In Math offers substantive content that supports the core curriculum. Eight Skill Set®groups offer a full range of challenge and tie into national and state standards. On year licenses are about $8/student!  

The Great Books Foundation is an independent, nonprofit educational organization with a mission to help people think and share ideas. The Foundation works to promote reading, thinking, and the sharing of ideas for people of all ages and to make high-quality literature and Shared Inquiry™ discussion a part of the K–12 curriculum. This is a current vendor with CWCS.

Headsprout™ offers fun, interactive online lessons that are designed especially for young readers. This is a current vendor with CWCS.

Hotmath.com serves over a million students with instant explanations for odd-numbered homework problems for over 250 math textbooks. Believing that providing immediate assistance to students with assigned math work improves math learning, they offer step-by-step answers, math videos, and math tutoring. Prices start about $29/year!

Knowledge Adventure is a leader in multimedia educational software for use in both schools and homes. Our curriculum includes Knowledge Adventure’s JumpStart Learning System™ educational software. Membership to JumpStart includes access to Math Blaster.

 Membership to Math Blaster includes access to JumpStart. From simple addition to more advanced topics like fractions and equivalents, Math Blaster makes practicing math fun! With membership, your kids will have access to our complete selection of math challenges. Unlock new levels based on 1st - 6th Grade curriculum; Build speed and accuracy in high-speed challenges, Reinforce math lessons learned in the classroom.

K to the 8th Power provides an easy-to-use platform for developing computer-literate and technology-savvy students while reinforcing national and state academic standards. This powerful combination assists with practical computer lab activities and exercises that reinforce not only what is being taught, but also what is being tested and measured annually.


The Little Planet Learning series "Take Me To Your Readers" contains videos to help students become better readers. Research-based reading themes come alive with variety and fun for emergent readers. Skills include thoughtful conversation, building vocabulary and knowledge, and comprehension of material.


The McGraw-Hill Companies is a global information services provider in the education, financial services, and information markets. McGraw-Hill Education (including textbook publisher Glencoe) addresses virtually every aspect of the education market—from pre-K through professional learning—with printed textbooks and many online resources. This is a current vendor with CWCS.


Pearson, the global leader in education services, education technology and school solutions, provides innovative print and digital education materials for preK through college, student information systems and learning management systems, teacher professional development, career certification programs, and testing and assessment products that set the standard for the industry. This is a current vendor with CWCS.


SkillsTutor provides age-specific content and instruction in the fundamental skills of reading and math. Today's students face a multitude of new challenges in their pursuit to learn. With SkillsTutor solutions all students can experience success on many platforms including mobile! A sound understanding of fundamental skills is quickly achieved through practical, focused instruction for students in grades K - Adult. Standards-aligned instruction helps students develop a foundation for learning. Quizzes and tests quickly identify skill deficiencies and prescribe appropriate lessons. Self-paced learning engages students and makes them feel comfortable practicing skills in an interactive environment!  This is a current vendor with CWCS (See Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).

Study Island is a leading provider of easy-to-use, web-based, state standards mastery products. Study Island’s rigorous, research-based content provides web-based instruction, practice, assessment, and reporting to match individual states’ standards in math, language arts, and science. This is a current vendor with CWCS.

Virtual Sage is an online educational publisher employing effective methods of instruction while leveraging the advantages of the Internet. Its curriculum is structured to strengthen online learning by providing multiple paths of learning, multimedia and graphics, linear lessons, and online supplements.

Zaner-Bloser is one of the premier publishers of research-based reading, writing, spelling, handwriting, and study skills programs. Its handwriting program has been a national institution for several generations. This is a current vendor with CWCS.


The Partnership for 21st Century Skills is a national organization that advocates for 21st century readiness for every student. As the United States continues to compete in a global economy that demands innovation, P21 and its members provide tools and resources to help the U.S. education system keep up by fusing the three Rs and four Cs (critical thinking and problem solving, communication, collaboration, and creativity and innovation).


BrainGrow is an organization established specifically to meet the needs of individuals and organizations needing a book and CD based version of Power-Glide courses. Power-Glide is focusing its full efforts to create new and innovative fully online language courses. Because Power-Glide understands that many people want and need book based courses, Power-Glide has negotiated with BrainGrow to service this specific need. BrainGrow is dedicated to giving you an outstanding foreign language learning experience when you purchase a Power-Glide book and CD based course. This is a current vendor with CWCS.

Children’s Software Online offers educational software that was developed to enhance a child's education. Self-paced learning combined with vivid graphics and animation. Create an exciting learning environment... all that fun and the kids don't even know they're learning! This is a current vendor with CWCS.

LearnThat Foundation aka eSpindle Learning is a comprehensive, resource-rich tool that manages the learning process, self-adjusting to the goals, the individual ability and skill level of each learner to help expand vocabulary and spelling skills. This is a current vendor with CWCS.

Global Student Network offers cost effective comprehensive online curriculum for grades 2 thru 12 with over 90 user friendly courses, multiple features to strengthen individualized education plans;  customizable curriculum for appropriate subject grade level; web-based and aligned to national curriculum standards. This is a current vendor with CWCS.

Growing Stars offers affordable online tutoring to provide students with effective and convenient help in all subject areas. Whether your child requires math tutoring, science tutoring, or help with any other subject, Growing Stars has an online tutor to fit your needs and your budget. This is a current vendor with CWCS.

Virtual Nerd uses a patent-pending e-learning platform to provide anytime, anywhere access to online tutorials. They are focused on helping students, but have a lot to offer educators as well, starting with free access to their entire library of tutorials!

Mad Dog Math is a supplement to any math curriculum used in any classroom, home school setting, or any home situation. The basic facts are a very small piece of the academic pie, but a crucial piece for future success as children move on to higher levels of math.


Facts First is an online math program that helps students achieve automaticity in the basic facts of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Students practice basic number facts over many sessions to build and reinforce their understanding of those facts. This is a current vendor with CWCS.


Mangahigh.com is one of the world’s first games-based-learning sites, where students learn Mathematics via purpose-built casual games that balance fun and learning. Mangahigh was founded by an experienced team of mathematicians and game specialists who strive to balance game play and education. It is absolutely FREE!


Math-Whizz Tutoring Plus improves students' Math through online math tutoring. They guarantee that 5 to 13 year olds will improve using fun math games and exciting online resources. Math-Whizz uses award-winning interactive Math animations and unique tutoring methods to deliver measurable results. Math-Whizz includes Math resources and Math games covering elementary Math, including Fractions and Multiplication. Developed by leading experts, Math-Whizz aligns with Common Core Standards and covers the NCTM Focal Points. Student access for fact practice is FREE!

TimezAttack uses a standard approach to educational gaming to offer an extremely focused subject in math fact mastery. They have several keys to their approach to curing core educational needs. They offer an engaging, effective program, with built-in assessment, so that children always walk away with total mastery.

At Khan Academy you can learn almost anything for free with a library of over 2,600 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 215 practice exercises, Khan Academy is on a mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace. It is absolutely FREE!

www.thatquiz.org A website that provides math test activities for students and teachers of all grade levels including math vocabulary practice! It is absolutely FREE!

ALEKS Corporation is a leader in the creation of Web-based, artificially intelligent, educational software. ALEKS assessment and learning technologies were originally developed by a team of cognitive scientists and software engineers at the University of California, Irvine, with major funding from the National Science Foundation. ALEKS is founded on groundbreaking research in mathematical cognitive science known as Knowledge Space Theory. Through adaptive questioning, ALEKS accurately assesses a student's knowledge state and then delivers targeted instruction on the exact topics the student is most ready to learn. This is a current vendor with CWCS.


Kinectic Books (AKA: Perfect Learning) offers comprehensive, completely digital math and science textbooks that are fully interactive and engage students with hundreds of activities and whiteboards, thousands of interactive problems, audio, video lectures, built-in scoring, and much more.  This is a current vendor with CWCS.

MathTV.com produces quality materials for mathematics instruction, including textbooks (both print and electronic) videos, online homework, and worksheets. They offer products at a reasonable price, with professional, accessible service. Study skills, success skills, and common mistakes are integrated in with all our materials.

IXL's math skills are aligned to the 2010 Common Core State Standards, the 2008 California Preschool Learning Foundations, and the 1997 California Content Standards, providing comprehensive preparation for the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) program. With IXL's state standards alignments, you can easily find unlimited practice problems specifically tailored to each required standard in grades K-Algebra.  Even better, IXL automatically tracks student progress and displays proficiency scores in the state standards reports. These reports allow you to quickly evaluate student aptitude and identify trouble spots.

Math Playground includes a wide variety of math topics, from problem solving and mathematical art to real world math. The primary goals of Math Playground are to help students feel more confident about their math skills and to help them form more positive attitudes toward the subject of math. It is absolutely FREE!


Time4Learning is a new approach that takes advantage of today's technology. It's a convenient, online home education program that combines learning with fun educational teaching games. The online language arts and math comprise a comprehensive program for preschool, elementary school, and middle school. Science and social studies programs are provided as a free bonus for most grades. This is a current vendor with CWCS.


FreeRice is a non-profit website run by the United Nations World Food Programme. There is math, science, geography, art history, foreign languages and more. Freerice has a custom database containing questions at varying levels of difficulty. There are levels appropriate for beginners and levels that will challenge the most scholarly professors. In between are levels suitable for students of all ages. Freerice automatically adjusts to your level. It starts by giving you questions of increasing difficulty and then, based on how you do, assigns you an approximate starting level. You then determine a more exact level for yourself as you play. FreeRice has two goals: (1) Provide education to everyone for free. (2) Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.  It is absolutely FREE!


ODYSSEYWARE is a revolutionary web-based learning management system that features a media-rich curriculum for elementary, middle, and high school students. Administrative and teaching tools give schools the solutions and flexibility they need to individualize instruction and manage student data. Automatic grading and lesson planning provide time-saving tools for teachers, allowing them to spend more time interacting with students to enrich their learning experiences. This is a current vendor with CWCS.