The Creative Curriculum^® is a comprehensive system that includes curriculum, assessment, implementation and evaluation, and professional development. We help programs put the pieces of the system together to motivate teachers, create high-quality learning environments, and promote successful curriculum implementation that supports positive outcomes for children. Our products and services meet the needs of programs serving infants, toddlers, and twos and preschoolers (ages 3-5).

Curriculum

The Creative Curriculum is the country's leading scientifically based, research-validated, comprehensive curriculum with guidance on teaching literacy, mathematics, science, and social studies. Our materials show teachers not only what to teach, but how and why. This inclusive, strengths-based approach is appropriate for all children, including dual- and English-language learners and children with disabilities.

The Creative Curriculum^® for Infants, Toddlers & Twos translates research and theory from the field of early childhood education into a practical, easy-to-understand approach to working with children and their families. It is a comprehensive curriculum with a clear organizational structure and a particular focus on routines and experiences.

The Creative Curriculum^® for Preschool balances both teacher-directed and child-initiated learning with an emphasis on responding to children's learning styles and building on their strengths and interests. Resting on a firm foundation of research, it has an environmentally-based approach that defines the vital role of the teacher in connecting content, teaching, and learning for preschool children and offers a practical, easy-to-understand approach to working with children and their families. It is a comprehensive curriculum with a clear organizational structure and a particular focus on interest areas.

The Creative Curriculum^® for Family Child Care shows how to organize the home environment for child care and how to plan appropriate activities with mixed-age groups in a variety of interest areas ranging from cooking to outdoor play.

Assessment

The Creative Curriculum^® Developmental Continuum is a valid and reliable tool that uses the goals and objectives of The Creative Curriculum. By linking curriculum and assessment, teachers can use the information from ongoing strengths-based assessment to inform their teaching. Children benefit because teachers use what they learn from assessment to plan instructions. We provide both Web-based and paper materials as well as tools to support access to the general curriculum for children with disabilities.

Professional Development

Teachers make a difference in the lives of children. Our approach helps teachers increase their knowledge of child development and learn new teaching strategies.

We customize professional development services to meet the specific needs of teachers and administrators through on-site training, national conferences, sessions at our professional development center, and technical assistance. Our professional development services are provided by our Staff Development Network.

Implementation and Evaluation

High-quality curriculum implementation supports positive child outcomes. We provide the tools and technical assistance for successful curriculum implementation and program evaluation. Our extensive outcomes-reporting tools help programs meet Head Start, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), and state mandates. These tools also assist internal program-improvement efforts.