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Explore The Creative Curriculum
for Preschool

An easy-to-use preschool curriculum that helps build children’s confidence, creativity, and critical thinking skills through hands-on, project-based investigations.

 

 

About The Creative Curriculum

The Creative Curriculum for Preschool is the #1 research-based preschool curriculum that nurtures kindergarten readiness for 3- and 4-year-old learners. Our fun-filled preschool curriculum empowers Head Start programs, public and private preschools, and child cares with updated and ALL-NEW resources and tools that simplify planning, teaching, and family engagement.

  • Honor the way children learn best through play-based studies.
  • Save teachers time with intuitive print and digital tools.
  • Nurture language, literacy, math, and social-emotional skills daily.
  • Implement with ease with video support when and where you need it.
  • Available in English and Spanish

Comprehensive Preschool Curriculum

Nurture children’s curiosity and promote development and learning in every area that is critical to their success as learners with these three components:

  • smart planning and teaching tools,
  • professional development, and
  • print resources.
Print Resources

The Foundation

  • Curriculum Guide
  • Getting Started Checklist
  • 9 Teaching Guides
  • 262 Intentional Teaching Experiences (bilingual)
  • 100 Mighty Minutes
  • 44 Children’s Books
  • 44 Book Discussion Cards
  • 12 Read-Aloud Strategy Cards
  • 128 Photo Cards (bilingual)
  • 20 Numeral Cards (bilingual)
  • 52 Letter Cards (upper and lowercase)

Digital Resources

The Creative Curriculum Cloud streamlines planning, teaching, and family engagement anywhere, anytime, with 24/7 access to bilingual preschool curriculum resources in English and Spanish; engaging, multimedia family-friendly playlists tied directly to classroom instruction; an extensive Digital Children’s Library; and two-way communication with families.

  • Curriculum Guide
  • Getting Started Checklist
  • 9 Teaching Guides
  • 262 Intentional Teaching Experiences (bilingual)
  • 100 Mighty Minutes
  • 200+ Children’s Books
  • 44 Book Discussion Cards
  • 12 Read-Aloud Strategy Cards
  • 128 Photo Cards (bilingual)
  • 20 Numeral Cards (bilingual)
  • 52 Letter Cards (upper and lowercase)
  • 7 Foundation Volumes
  • Preschool Foundation Checklist
  • Printable Resources for each study

Professional Development

Teachers scan QR codes within daily resources for quick-reference videos offering in-the-moment guidance. Plus, the Professional Development Teacher Membership provides the following resources.

• 8-week onboarding program
• 24/7 access to over 400 hours of content
• Flexible CEU-bearing classes and courses, including all CDA • training
• Support from a community of 100K educators and experts

What Our Preschool Curriculum Teaches

Our research-based, whole-child approach ensures kindergarten readiness in all areas of development and learning: language, literacy, mathematics, social-emotional, physical, cognitive, social studies, science & technology, the arts, and English language acquisition.

Did you know that a recent NIEER study showed that The Creative Curriculum and our connected ecosystem helped improve both teacher retention rates and academic outcomes?

  • Multi-district, 180 classroom, 3-year independent, randomized, controlled trial
  • Teacher retention rates increased by 54%
  • Child growth increased across all learning domains (social-emotional, physical, language, cognitive, literacy, and mathematics)

 

Why Programs Choose Our Preschool Curriculum

1. Aligned to your early learning standards
Demonstrate your program is meeting state early learning guidelines or the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes with this preschool curriculum.
2. Evidence-based and classroom-proven
Ensure real-world impact for children and educators. Our curriculum is continuously updated based on peer-reviewed research and proven practices.
3. Project and play-based, investigative learning
Build children’s confidence, creativity, and critical thinking skills through hands-on, project-based investigations.
5. Daily focus on kindergarten readiness
Create confident, kindergarten-ready learners with a daily focus on math, language and literacy, and social-emotional skills.
6. Individualizes instruction
Embedded guidance within daily instructional resources enables teachers to effectively differentiate learning for each child.
7. Multilingual and Spanish curriculum options
Discover daily guidance to support multilingual classrooms with curricular resources in English and Spanish. Or, order our Spanish or bilingual preschool curriculum for your immersion program.
8. High-quality professional development
Includes flexible professional development in a variety of formats, including embedded microlearning and a built-in online professional learning community with over 81,000 active early childhood educators.

Set Children Up for Lasting Success

Explore the difference The Creative Curriculum for Preschool can make.

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