Save Hours of Planning Time with a Complete PTKLF + DRDP 2025 Early Learning Solution
Academic Success Begins with Nurturing Every Aspect of the Child
Grounded in Cutting-Edge Research & Technology
Our curriculum aimed at PreK and TK is built upon the latest educational studies, ensuring your teaching methods are backed by proven strategies all while using the latest in technology.
Engaging & Interactive Learning
Through customized learning journeys, hands-on experiences, and play-based learning, we make learning an adventure, encouraging curiosity and exploration.
Empowering Educators and Uniting Families
Our approach provides robust support for teachers while fostering strong connections with families, creating a collaborative environment for child development.
Exploring New Horizons with PTKLF 2024:
Empowering Early Childhood Learners
The recently updated California Preschool/Transitional Kindergarten Learning Foundations (PTKLF) aims to provide high-quality, equitable, and responsive early childhood education for 3 to 5.5 year olds. The enhancements foster an inclusive framework that integrates advanced child development insights, supports multilingual learners, and accommodates children with diverse abilities.
Emphasis on Culturally Responsive Practices
Enhances teaching to reflect and incorporate the diverse cultural, racial, and linguistic backgrounds of students, fostering a deeper understanding and respect.
Inclusion of Children with Different Abilities
Provides broader support and resources for inclusive education, accommodating learners with diverse needs to ensure equitable access for all.
Focus on Multilingual Learners
Strengthens programs that support home languages and English learning, recognizing multilingual skills as essential cognitive and cultural assets.
Expanded Learning Domains
Introduces ‘Approaches to Learning’ domain and refines existing ones, allowing for interconnected learning experiences that support holistic development across various areas.
Comprehensive Standards Update
Introduces 45 new standards in areas like science, math, and social-emotional learning to provide a comprehensive and interdisciplinary journey.
Smooth Kindergarten Transition
The updates smooth the transition to kindergarten, aligning with common core standards to ensure continuous educational progress.
Full PTKLF Standards Alignment
Our curriculum is natively designed to align with current PTKLF standards through a cohesive, 8-unit integrated structure. The core program provides a seamless learning journey across standards, giving educators a complete curriculum experience without extra mapping or patchwork.
Children move from exploration to practical application through hands-on, play-based activities that foster cultural awareness, scientific inquiry, and problem-solving skills. Across the integrated units, children explore how the world works—from colors and sounds to energy use in the environment—and engage in community-based projects that connect classroom learning to real-world experiences.
This integrated approach helps educators address PTKLF standards within everyday instruction while delivering a high-quality, engaging learning experience across the full curriculum.
Curriculum
Fully aligned with the UPK curriculum guidance, ready to enrich your weekly plans with ease.
Weekly Planning
Seamlessly connect weekly planning to student assessments with automatic observation notes for day-to-day teaching.
Lesson Library
Access a wealth of engaging, age-appropriate lessons across multiple developmental areas for immediate classroom application.
Assessment Insights
Transform teaching with data insights that support educators in making informed, data-driven decisions.
An All-Encompassing Curriculum for Children, Fully Aligned with DRDP 2025
Empower children with a robust start through our holistic curriculum, meticulously aligned with the DRDP 2025 Assessment.
Designed to nurture social-emotional well-being, physical growth, cognitive advancement, and language skills, our curriculum also lays a solid foundation in literacy, mathematics, science, technology, and the arts.
Crafted to offer daily support to educators, it enables the effortless unlocking of each child's potential, ensuring comprehensive development and compliance with state guidelines.
Empower Learning with UDL and Culturally Responsive Practices
Our innovative solution is built on the latest UDL Guidelines (3.0), integrating Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and culturally responsive practices into every lesson. We develop personalized UDL and CLR strategies to support IEP and ELD students, fostering a welcoming and inclusive environment for children from diverse cultural backgrounds. This approach ensures that every student feels valued and empowered to succeed.
Weekly lesson plans include UDL and CLR strategies personalized to meet your children’s unique needs, promoting an inclusive and diverse classroom environment.
"Implementing Learning Genie into our Transitional Kindergarten program has been a game-changer for our teaching staff and the way we approach early childhood education. The intuitive design with the AI Unit Planner and comprehensive curriculum have significantly reduced our planning and assessment time, allowing us to focus more on what truly matters: engaging with our students and fostering their growth. The integration of the DRDP 2025 assessment tool has streamlined our evaluation process, making it easier to track and report on each child’s progress. Thanks to Learning Genie, we’ve reclaimed countless hours once spent on administrative tasks, which we now invest in enriching our classroom experiences and connecting with families. It’s more than a curriculum; it’s a tool that has transformed our program’s efficiency and effectiveness."
About the curriculum
Let Learning Genie free up your time and energy, so that you can focus on more important things – spending time with each child.
A Data-Driven Approach Inspired by the Circle of Inquiry
Our integrated approach encompasses a ‘plan’, ‘implement’, ‘observe’, ‘assess’, and ‘reflect’ methodology, rooted in the ‘Circle of Inquiry’ framework, as depicted in the California Preschool Curriculum Framework. This process is enhanced by automatically generated DRDP 2025 Assessment progress reports and detailed insights into each child’s development, empowering educators to tailor personalized education plans for every student. Our data-driven strategy significantly bolsters planning for children with Individualized Education Programs (IEP) and those in English Language Development (ELD), focusing on unique growth and learning outcomes.
Lesson plans are built around California Preschool Learning Foundations and CDE UPK requirements, helping teachers move from observation to instruction with confidence. Teachers spend less time interpreting standards and more time delivering meaningful learning experiences.
Built-in professional development tools help teachers become classroom-ready with confidence. Administrators can share model observations, reflections, and lesson plans across classrooms, helping reduce DRDP 2025 onboarding time by up to 50% while turning best practices into a scalable training system for the entire program.
Access a library of age-appropriate lessons and activities pre-aligned with California Preschool Learning Foundations, DRDP 2025, and CCSS. Teachers can quickly adapt existing resources or contribute their own without spending hours mapping standards from scratch.
Support teacher growth through real classroom practice. Coaches can review lesson plans, provide structured feedback, and facilitate PLC discussions using classroom examples, creating a continuous coaching cycle that strengthens instructional quality across the program.
Customizable PreK and TK Curriculum for Diverse Classrooms
The platform also enables Preschool and TK teachers to share age-appropriate lessons and activities from original creation or existing resources/curriculum. In this platform, resources are pre-aligned with CA preschool foundation DRDP 2025 as well as CCSS. This allows teachers to focus on providing high-quality, standards-based instruction that meets the needs of each student.
Dive into Our Curriculum Units: A Peek into Excellence
Unlock the door to an exceptional educational journey with our diverse PreK and TK curriculum units, designed to cater to the unique needs and interests of every classroom. Each unit is a treasure trove of knowledge, creativity, and engagement, promising to transform your teaching experience and captivate your students. Here’s a glimpse of what you can explore:
In this unit, children will explore foundational social-emotional concepts that support their learning, relationships, and participation in the classroom community throughout the year. They will learn what it means to feel safe, understand feelings, build friendships, and work together as caring members of the classroom community. Through high-quality social-emotional instruction and responsive support, this unit helps children build confidence, responsibility, and a sense of belonging.
Extending the learning experience beyond the classroom promotes home-school collaboration.
Streamlining material preparation with early insights into the required resources allows teachers to teach with greater efficiency and effectiveness.
In this unit, children will embark on a journey of self-discovery, learning about their unique identities, families, emotions, and relationships with others. Through engaging activities and discussions, they will explore what makes them special, the diversity of families and homes, their bodies and feelings, and the importance of friendships and community, fostering a sense of belonging and self-awareness.
Extending the learning experience beyond the classroom promotes home-school collaboration.
Streamlining material preparation with early insights into the required resources allows teachers to teach with greater efficiency and effectiveness.
In this unit, children will explore the concept of community, starting with their families and expanding to include neighbors and community helpers. They will learn about different roles people play, important places in their community, and how everyone can work together to create a caring and supportive environment.
Extending the learning experience beyond the classroom promotes home-school collaboration.
Streamlining material preparation with early insights into the required resources allows teachers to teach with greater efficiency and effectiveness.
In this 4-week art-based unit, children explore visual arts through the styles of renowned artists. Each week focuses on a different artist, inspiring creativity, imagination, and appreciation for artistic expression. Children will engage with various art forms to express themselves and see the world in new, colorful ways.
Extending the learning experience beyond the classroom promotes home-school collaboration.
Streamlining material preparation with early insights into the required resources allows teachers to teach with greater efficiency and effectiveness.
Within this unit, students will learn about different ways to promote good physical health and well-being so their bodies can thrive. Students will expand their knowledge about human anatomy; the importance of good nutrition and healthy daily routines, including exercise; and good health and safety practices when at school and in one’s community.
Extending the learning experience beyond the classroom promotes home-school collaboration.
Streamlining material preparation with early insights into the required resources allows teachers to teach with greater efficiency and effectiveness.
In this unit, children will embark on an exploration of the natural world, focusing on plants, animals, weather, and Earth's resources. They will investigate the parts of plants and how they grow, discover the diverse animals, learn about the impact of weather on the environment, and explore essential natural resources and conservation efforts.
Extending the learning experience beyond the classroom promotes home-school collaboration.
Streamlining material preparation with early insights into the required resources allows teachers to teach with greater efficiency and effectiveness.
In this second 4-week art phase, children explore how artists use light, color, pattern, and repetition to express feelings and tell stories. Each week features a different artist—Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Alma Thomas, and Yayoi Kusama—through observation, experiments, and creative projects that deepen imagination and artistic appreciation.
Extending the learning experience beyond the classroom promotes home-school collaboration.
Streamlining material preparation with early insights into the required resources allows teachers to teach with greater efficiency and effectiveness.
This final unit celebrates how much children have grown—physically, socially, emotionally, and cognitively—throughout the year. Through hands-on experiences, playful reflection, and meaningful traditions, children will look back on their learning, embrace their strengths, and share joy with their classroom community. The unit will conclude with a Big Kid Celebration, where children take part in familiar routines and activities while marking this special moment in a meaningful way.
Extending the learning experience beyond the classroom promotes home-school collaboration.
Streamlining material preparation with early insights into the required resources allows teachers to teach with greater efficiency and effectiveness.
Learning Genie: Your Partner in Early Education Success
Empower your educators and support families with Learning Genie's comprehensive solutions:
Efficient Program Management: Simplify administrative tasks with our all-in-one platform, from enrollment to reporting, freeing up time to focus on quality.
Data-Driven Insights: Make informed decisions with our analytics dashboard, tracking progress against state standards and identifying areas for improvement.
Community Engagement: Foster a strong learning community with tools designed to facilitate collaboration and the sharing of best practices among educators and parents.
Our intuitive platform is designed to simplify the creation of personalized learning to make your teaching more impactful:
Customized Learning Paths: Tailor the PreK and TK curriculum to meet the diverse needs of every child, ensuring inclusivity and accessibility.
Engaging Instructional Materials: Access a vast library of multimedia resources that bring lessons to life, fostering creativity and curiosity
Real-Time Progress Tracking: Monitor each child's development with easy-to-use tools, helping you make informed decisions to support their growth.
For Parents: Be an Integral Part of Your Child's Learning Journey
Learning Genie bridges the gap between the classroom and home with several Family Engagement features:
Seamless Communication: Stay connected with teachers through real-time updates, sharing precious moments and milestones.
At-Home Learning Activities: Engage with your child using our curated activities that complement their classroom experiences, enhancing their learning at home.
Insightful Resources: Access a library of resources designed to support you in nurturing your child's potential, from developmental tips to educational strategies.
Learning Genie is Committed to California's PreK and TK Success
Learning Genie is dedicated to supporting California's vision for early childhood education. Our platform is aligned with state standards, ensuring every child in Universal PreK and Transitional Kindergarten has the foundation for lifelong learning and success. Join us in shaping the future of education in California.
Let’s Transform Early Education Together
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