What’s new in Brightpath: Back-to-school 2025 product updates

More personalized, inclusive discovery for every student

YouScience® Aptitude & Career Discovery—the foundation of Brightpath—now includes a redesigned brain games experience that makes discovery more engaging and accessible.

Highlights include:

• Smarter engagement: Students receive instant feedback and insights as they complete each exercise, deepening self-awareness and motivation.
• Flexible pacing: Students can stop, save, and resume at their own speed, making it easier to complete within class time.
• Expanded language support: Spanish translation options ensure broader access for English learners.
• Counselor dashboard: A new centralized hub helps school counselors manage student results and provide targeted guidance.
• Results-ready notifications: Educators now receive email alerts when results are available, including a short video and direct link to review.
• Updated career clusters: Brightpath now aligns with the new 14-cluster Advance CTE career framework, mapping every career to today’s industries and standards.

Stronger connections to education and workforce pathways

Brightpath is expanding tools that prepare students for their next steps—whether applying to college or exploring local work-based experiences.

• Education Connections: A new Common App integration helps students and educators manage applications and stay on top of submission deadlines.
• Industry Certifications: 
  • Build career-ready expertise with stackable certifications that progress from core skills to role-ready specializations and culminate in a capstone credential proving readiness and signaling immediate impact to employers.
  • New reports highlight employer recognition and workforce relevance, with enhanced compliance and enrollment reporting for select customers.
  • Updated certificate designs provide a professional, printer-friendly look.
• Work-Based Learning: Integrated directly into Brightpath, new features make it easier for schools to connect students with opportunities, manage employer relationships, and track progress.

For students, this means:

• Opportunity board: Matches students to real-world experiences aligned with their aptitudes and interests.
• Hours logging: Simple tools for tracking hours and reflecting on learning.
• Activities management: Features that build professionalism and accountability through structured employer engagement.

For educators, this means:

• Student-to-opportunity matching: Connects students to opportunities using aptitude data and certifications.
• Employer directory: Build and manage networks with Brightpath’s 5,000+ industry partners.
• Digital document management: Simplifies workflows with built-in e-signatures.
• Reporting: At-a-glance insights into student performance and program impact.

Actionable data and better tools for every role

New and upcoming Data & Reporting updates give administrators, educators, and counselors quicker insights and easier navigation:

• Favorites in reporting: Save most-used reports for faster access.
• Updated report menu: Improved navigation with keyword tagging.
• Tooltip aptitude descriptions: Quick explanations to help educators interpret student abilities.
• Pathways management tool (coming soon): Define and manage local Career Pathways within Brightpath.
• Career Clusters update:We’ve updated Brightpath to align with the new 14-cluster Advance CTE career framework. Every career in Brightpath is now mapped to this modernized model, ensuring your students explore pathways that reflect today’s industries and standards.
• One-page results summary (coming soon): A concise PDF of Discovery results for easier student sharing.

Preparing every student for real opportunity

YouScience helps students discover their aptitudes and connect to real-world pathways. These updates make career-connected learning more engaging and impactful.

To learn more about what’s new, request a demo.