A CLASS® Guide for Every Unit
Each of our 8 unit guides includes a companion CLASS® Guide connecting daily lessons to Emotional Support, Classroom Organization, and Instructional Support.
A California Early Learning webinar series featuring leading experts
on high-quality UPK curriculum, PTKLF-aligned instruction, DRDP 2025
assessment, and practical next-step support for TK and Pre-K teams.
Experts tackle the challenges educators have faced for years, from classroom readiness and PTKLF implementation to curriculum, assessment, and next steps.
Learning Genie joins California’s county UPK coordinators for a 30-minute spotlight on AI-assisted, job-embedded professional development.
Strengths-based, play-based, PTKLF-grounded TK, not a modified kindergarten curriculum.
How Lindsay USD replaced a patchwork of tools with one connected, PTKLF-based curriculum and assessment system.
With Dr. Erica Dallas, Janice Galarza, Dr. Julie Nicholson, Dr. Dean Tagawa & Cheri DoriaWhat Should High-Quality TK Look Like in 2026?
Regulation Before Rigor: Building a Calm, Ready-to-Learn TK Classroom
Same Goals, Every Child’s World — Personalized TK with AI
The role and application of PTKLF, DRDP 2025, CLASS, and the Pyramid Model vary across Pre-K, CSPP, and TK programs.
PTKLF defines what children are developing and learning.The California Preschool/Transitional Kindergarten Learning Foundations (PTKLF) describe the knowledge and skills children typically develop and provide a research-informed foundation for curriculum, instruction, observation, and intentional teaching across preschool and TK.
An observation-based assessment of children’s developmental progress.DRDP 2025 is California’s developmental assessment instrument used in CSPP and other designated early learning programs to observe, document, and assess children’s progress over time.
A measure of the quality of teacher–child interactions.CLASS is an observational tool used to assess the quality of educator–child interactions, including emotional support, classroom organization, and instructional support.
A framework for promoting social-emotional development and positive behavior.The Pyramid Model provides a tiered approach to nurturing social-emotional competence, building supportive classroom environments, and addressing children’s behavioral needs.
When curriculum, assessment, professional learning, family engagement, and behavioral support live in separate systems, teachers carry the burden of connecting them.
Play-based instruction built directly on PTKLF: 8 units, 31 weeks, 301 activities, with Science of Reading and early math every week.
One path from observation to evidence: portfolio-based PTKLF, DRDP 2025, or direct early literacy and math checks.
Teacher guides that double as job-embedded PD, so staff learn the new PTKLF standards while they teach them.
Accessible communication and family resources, including Spanish-language curriculum, that carry learning home.
Unit 0, Advancing the Pyramid: high-quality social-emotional instruction, small-group targeted support, and individualized intervention.
When these five connect, implementation gets easier for teachers and more coherent for leaders.
See how Learning Genie connects the system ↓Learning Genie helps early-learning teams connect curriculum, observation, assessment, professional learning, and family engagement in a workflow that can adapt to different program requirements.
Discover & Grow connects daily instruction, observation, assessment, and tiered intervention: curriculum informs assessment, assessment informs intervention, and what teachers learn feeds back into the next week of teaching.
Discover & Grow brings HQIM curriculum, assessment, and research-based MTSS Tier 2/3 intervention together in one integrated system, creating a continuous instructional cycle that supports early literacy, early math, and kindergarten readiness. Assessment data shows teachers exactly who needs support, in what skill, and when.
Discover & Grow offers a connected 31-week journey across 8 units, progressing from SEL foundations and identity to community, health, nature, creative expression, and year-end reflection. Each unit blends group and center-based learning with broad alignment to CA-PTKLF Standards and DRDP 2025 Measures.
Each unit includes 18 Center Activities.
157 Group Activities · 144 Center Activities · 301 Total Activities
Six practical guides extend Discover & Grow with focused support for classroom environment, year-long pacing, daily instruction, implementation fidelity, and interaction quality.
Each of our 8 unit guides includes a companion CLASS® Guide connecting daily lessons to Emotional Support, Classroom Organization, and Instructional Support.
Provides a 31-week instructional roadmap with weekly sequencing, PTKLF alignment, curriculum card guidance, and flexible extensions.
Provides sequenced Science of Reading activities for TK, supporting phonological awareness, phonics, comprehension, and early writing.
Connects classroom design to teaching and learning through intentional centers, materials, room layout, and visual supports.
Shows how to use each card set with ready-to-use routines, teacher language, differentiation, and formative checks.
Supports consistent implementation with guidance for routines, differentiation, observation, reflection, and continuous improvement.
Practical guidance for consistent implementation across the school year.
Why: California’s 2026–27 Student Support and Professional Development Discretionary Block Grant identifies professional learning in developmentally appropriate instruction as an allowable use—creating an opportunity for districts to strengthen TK implementation.
How: Learning Genie can help districts translate that investment into classroom practice by connecting developmentally appropriate curriculum, professional learning, assessment-informed instruction, and multilingual learner supports within a cohesive implementation approach.
The opportunity: Move funding from a one-time investment to sustainable improvements in teacher practice, instructional coherence, assessment insights, and child learning experiences.
View official CDE guidance ↗Articles, the speaker series, and California use cases for putting Discover & Grow to work.
The state’s Preschool and Transitional Kindergarten Learning Foundations — the framework Discover & Grow is built directly around, not mapped to.
Read the foundations →
Missed a live session? Every Learning Genie webinar is recorded and posted to our YouTube channel — PTKLF, DRDP 2025, and California early-learning practice, on your own time.
Watch on YouTube →When a class of young children got curious about volcanoes, an educator used Discover & Grow’s curriculum planning tools to turn that spontaneous interest into a three-week, standards-aligned unit — without losing the play-based approach.
Read the use case →
See how Discover & Grow and Learning Genie bring curriculum, assessment, and coaching into one coherent, California-aligned system. Book a demo, or explore the webinars first.
View the Discover & Grow Curriculum Guide