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Empower Confident,
Creative, Caring Learners

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Inspire Children With Project-Based, Investigative Learning

Build children’s confidence, creativity, and critical thinking skills through hands-on, project-based investigations. Promote discovery and inquiry with opportunities for children to think critically and develop process skills with rich, hands-on investigations of relevant and interesting topics in the classroom. Reinforce learning with family-friendly activities designed for home.

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Teach Smarter, Not Harder

Discover smart tools for responsive planning and meaningful engagement with every child and family. Designed to work for you, The Creative Curriculum Cloud streamlines planning, teaching, and engagement so you can focus on the important work with children that no technology could ever replace.

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Differentiate Learning
for Every Child

Individualize instruction by understanding how children’s abilities progress and supporting them with unique color-coded progressions that show the typical development of skills from birth through third grade. Effectively scaffold learning experiences to respond to each child’s current strengths and needs, including those with disabilities, with embedded guidance and strategies located on curricular resources.

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Boost Teacher Confidence and Joy

Unlike any other curriculum, embedded video-modeling supports teachers when and where they need it for each focused learning experience. With guidance, support, and encouragement for effective implementation, teachers feel confident creating joyful learning experiences for every child.

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Bring Imagination to Life Without Compromising Academic Rigor

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Promote Language and Literacy Skills

Each day, utilize daily resources focused on language and literacy skill development, and read aloud using our children’s book collection and Digital Children’s Library from a wide range of genres that explore life in other cultures, celebrate diversity, spark curiosity, and inspire children’s imaginations.

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Inspire a Love for Reading

Nurture Mathematics Skill Development

Throughout the day, include meaningful discussions and applications to develop the essential mathematical process skills of problem-solving, reasoning, communicating, making connections, and representing. Just like these skills are used by children in their daily lives, we integrate mathematics skill each day in our pre-k curriculum.

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Build the Social–Emotional Foundation Children Need

Promote social–emotional development with support from a new foundation volume focused on social–emotional, physical, and cognitive development; Teaching Guides with a special social-emotional, including The First Six Weeks: Building Your Preschool Classroom Community; Daily Resources designed to build social-emotional skills; and embedded coaching and support for social-emotional development.

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Connect the Dots Between Curriculum and Assessment

Amplify the power of The Creative Curriculum for Preschool by adding GOLD formative assessment. Capture observations in the moment and automatically connect assessment data to daily instructional resources, creating an instantaneous feedback loop for the teacher to effectively and easily individualize learning for each child.

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The Creative Curriculum provides a scalable way to support a novice teacher to grow into a masterful teacher.
Aaron Ross-Franco, Early Childhood Education Coach
Edmonds College, Bellevue, WA
The Creative Curriculum is a rigorous framework of study that is developmentally appropriate while still meeting the needs of individual learners. The team of experts at Teaching Strategies have supported our district in ways that exceed expectations.
Carrie Pearson, Ed.D., Director Early Learning Program
Keller Independent School District, Keller, Texas

More Reasons to Love The Creative Curriculum for Preschool

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Improves Kindergarten Readiness

Read an independent study exploring the effectiveness of The Creative Curriculum for Preschool.

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Supports the Whole Child

Watch the video to learn more about our whole-child approach and how it supports academic learning alongside social-emotional, cognitive, and physical development.

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Research-Based. Field Proven.

Early childhood development research provides the foundation for The Creative Curriculum for Preschool.

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Aligned to Your Early Learning Standards

Our preschool curriculum is aligned to early learning guidelines in each state and the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework, so you can demonstrate that your program is meeting all requirements while focusing on the needs of individual children.

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Improve Learning Outcomes for Every Child

Let us help you begin your journey of transforming your program with The Creative Curriculum for Preschool.

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