Shown to Increase Teacher Retention by 54%

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?

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 What's Included Features Increase Teacher Retention

About The Creative Curriculum

The Creative Curriculum for Preschool is a comprehensive curriculum for preschool that builds children’s confidence, creativity, and critical thinking skills through hands-on, project-based investigations. Trusted for decades by early childhood educators, our curriculum

  • respects and nurtures individual skill progression for the whole child,
  • inspires children with project-based, investigative learning,
  • seamlessly connects families to their children’s learning learning, and
  • supports teacher retention with embedded high-quality, flexible professional development,
  • improves quality by giving teachers the curriculum materials, support, and training they need to succeed.

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.

Please note the image reflects The Creative Curriculum for Preschool, Guided Edition. Items included in other versions will vary.

Teach Smarter, Not Harder

Designed to work for your educators, so they can focus on the important work with children that no technology could ever replace.

  • populate and customize planning calendars in moments,
  • save time with auto-populated lesson plans,
  • easily differentiate learning for every child in their class,
  • engage families with pre-populated playlists tied directly to classroom instruction,
  • support for teachers in the moment with embedded video modeling,
  • unlimited access to teacher professional development including all CDA training

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)

 

8 Reasons Educators Choose
The Creative Curriculum for Preschool

1. Aligned to your early learning standards
The Creative Curriculum is aligned to early learning guidelines in each state and the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework.
2. Project-Based, Investigative Learning
Build children’s confidence, creativity, and critical thinking skills through hands-on, project-based investigations.
3. Nurtures the whole child
Balance academic rigor with a whole-child approach through our curriculum, which helps foster all areas of children’s development and learning—from social–emotional, and physical skills to literacy, math, science, and the arts.
4. Provides easy-to-use, smart planning and teaching tools
Instantly plan your year, month, or week; access all your teaching resources at your fingertips; and adjust plans on the fly with smart tools. 
5. Builds early language and literacy skills
Incorporate language and vocabulary, phonological awareness, knowledge of the alphabet, concepts of print, emergent writing skills, and engaging read-alouds with a robust collection of children’s books.
6. Individualizes Instruction
Embedded guidance within daily instructional resources enables teachers to effectively differentiate learning for each child.
7. Develops math skills
Spark meaningful discussions and learning experiences throughout the day to develop essential mathematical skills, such as problem-solving, reasoning, communicating, making connections, and representing.
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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