What’s Included in Our Infant Curriculum
Attract and engage families with a research-based infant curriculum that adapts to each child’s unique needs and discover print and digital resources that make planning, teaching, and family engagement easier.
Daily Resources
- 3 Teaching Guides (4 months per guide)
- Curriculum Guide
- Skill Development Card Organizer
- Skills for Infants booklet
- Skill Development Cards
- Infants: 309 cards; age range 0–18 months
- 12 baby-proof, easy-to-clean books by Barefoot Books
- 50 age-appropriate Photo Cards
- Foundation Volumes (digital only)
Digital Resources
- Pre-populated plans in Teaching Guides, The Creative Curriculum Cloud, and the Teaching Strategies Teacher App
- 12 months of curriculum content
- Weekly plans with six distinct times of day
- Weekly Family Playlists
- Age-based care routine strategies designed to support relationship-building during these important moments
- Dynamic Individual Child Plans optimized for mobile delivery but also offered via The Creative Curriculum Cloud
- Guided assessment and progress monitoring
Provides customizable planning and smart teaching tools, digital access to curriculum resources, resources for engaging families, embedded microlearning, and more
Includes routines, curricular experiences, and guided assessment—everything you need in the moment at your fingertips
Includes online professional learning community of 75K educators; hundreds of embedded microlearning videos; and flexible courses provided in a variety of formats, including all CDA and CCDF training
Transformational Insights
That Unlock Your Program’s Potential
Our ALL-NEW Entry Screener and guided assessment help teachers and caregivers
personalize skill development for every infant, every day.
Planning and Teaching Tools
for Every Caregiver
Build Meaningful Relationships
With Families
Strengthen the home-to-care connection with automated weekly playlists filled with books, videos, activities, and resources in English and Spanish. Two-way communication makes it easy to share updates on each child’s routines.
“We are all very excited about how developmentally appropriate it is for infants and how much more user-friendly…I am hopeful for how this curriculum is going to support not only the growth of our children and families but the staff as well.”
Steffi Wright
Director of Curriculum Quality and Practice, The Dimock Center
Top 6 Reasons to Love Our ALL-NEW Infant Curriculum
Granular skills aligned to the objectives of development and learning capture rapid progress.
An Entry Screener identifies children’s developmental stages and directly feeds Individualized Child Plans.
Ongoing guided assessment dynamically updates Individualized Child Plans and sets GOLD preliminary levels.
Pre-populated weekly plans and care routines save teachers time.
Distinct age-targeted curriculum focuses exclusively on infant development.
A deeply integrated digital and print experience allows for seamless responsive planning.
See a Demo of The Creative Curriculum for Infants
Infant FAQs
This curriculum is designed to help educators and caregivers promote granular skill development during the critical period of development from birth to 11 months. Progress the learning in additional age groups with The Creative Curriculum for Toddlers, The Creative Curriculum for Twos, The Creative Curriculum for Preschool, and The Creative Curriculum for Pre-K.
Choose the curriculum designed for the age range of the majority of the children in your care. Each curriculum includes digital access to the full set of Skill Development Cards for both infants and toddlers, allowing teachers to start with resources designed to meet the needs of the most children and then adapt activities for the developmental levels of older or younger children.
- If you have children in the 0–18-month range, but the majority are in the 10–18-month age range, we recommend the toddler curriculum.
- If you have children in the 0–18-month range, but the majority are in the 1–6-month age range, we recommend the infant curriculum.
- If you have children in the 0–27-month range and are not sure what is right for your classrooms, please contact a member of our team to determine the best curriculum choice for your program.
- If you have children in the 24–36-month range, we recommend our twos curriculum.
Developed in response to feedback from our customers, The Creative Curriculum for Infants is a groundbreaking print and digital solution that provides tools, resources, and support to empower every teacher, whether new or experienced, to easily individualize the developmental support offered to each child.
The Creative Curriculum for Infants provides teachers with personalized learning plans that are fueled by both our entry screener and ongoing guided assessments, so that teachers can nurture the granular skills that are attuned to each infant’s unique stage of development. Teaching Guides and pre-populated weekly plans include embedded videos and step-by-step guidance to support new and experienced teachers every step of the way.
The Foundational Skills for Infants outlines the progression of fundamental skills that lay the foundation for future growth in four domains of development and learning: social–emotional, physical, cognitive, and language. Two more domains, literacy and mathematics, are introduced starting at age 1 with our The Creative Curriculum for Toddlers product.
New Skill Development Cards are guided activities that target foundational skills to support infants’ social–emotional, physical, cognitive, and language development. Our curriculum includes more than 300 cards that are available in print and also automatically recommended for each child digitally.
There are 3 full-color Teaching Guides included with this curriculum. Each Teaching Guide includes four monthly topics and provides weekly guidance to support responsive routines, meaningful experiences, and strong family partnerships. QR codes blend the digital and print experience, allowing teachers to access microlearning videos that offer quick implementation support, professional development, instrumental music, and more.
Your program will have access to a dedicated Partner Success Team that will guide you through onboarding and implementation and provide ongoing support to make adopting our curriculum seamless. We’ll get you up and running with onboarding webinars, teacher engagement sessions, on-demand courses, and an optional 8-week onboarding program. You’ll also have access to continuous technical support and live office hours to help you define and execute on your goals, strategy, and plan. Our Teacher Acceleration Program offers flexible coursework to help teachers get prepared and confident quickly.
Educators will also receive a Professional Development Teacher Membership, which connects them to an online professional learning community of more than 75,000 educators. They’ll also have access to hundreds of embedded microlearning videos and flexible courses provided in a variety of formats, including all CDA and CCDF training. The Teacher Acceleration Program offers coursework to help teachers get prepared and confident quickly.
Yes. The Creative Curriculum for Infants meets the early learning standards of each state, as well as the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework. To learn more about the alignment with your own state’s early learning standards, click “View State Alignments” here.
