Early learning leaders must consider a wide array of learner needs, plus multiple educator roles, settings, and governance structures. Too often, though, curriculum and professional learning live in silos, making it hard to build coherence and and lasting impact.
Collaborative Classroom helps bring it all together.
A mission-driven nonprofit organization, Collaborative Classroom offers evidence-based curriculum and professional learning solutions that foster play-rich, supportive early learning environments, empower educators, and prepare every child for K–5 success.
Discover how a partnership with Collaborative Classroom can support your early learning goals.
“Collaborative Classroom’s stance with us has always been responsive and about keeping our students at the center of all we do and all the decisions we make… They are our partners in making sure our students and educators get what they need to be successful.”
–Laura Mendes, Director of Literacy, Early Childhood & Elementary Education, Springfield Public Schools, MA
One Partner. Flexible, Cohesive Solutions.
A long-term partner from adoption through implementation. Solutions that meet you where you are.
When you partner with Collaborative Classroom, you get a cohesive approach to early learning that adapts to support diverse programs—without sacrificing instructional quality.
Our curricula and professional learning:
- Align with the research on early childhood development, learning science, and literacy science
- Honor the experiences and knowledge that your educators, aides, and caregivers bring
- Adapt to meet different program models and local contexts
- Encompass the whole child—developing academic, social, and self-regulation skills for K–5 success
Start where you are. Grow over time. We partner with you for the long-term. Our solutions scale with your program.
Strengthen Educator Practice with SEEDS of Learning
Strong early learning systems start with confident, supported educators.
SEEDS of Learning is Collaborative Classroom’s evidence-based professional learning framework, designed for all early childhood educators who serve children ages 3–5, including teachers, aides, and paraeducators.
Through curriculum-agnostic coaching, SEEDS of Learning helps educators hone their skills to successfully build students’ emergent literacy, social skills, and self-regulation skills.
What sets the SEEDS of Learning framework apart? Its focus on quality interactions with adults as the foundation for child growth and development.
Educators engage in coaching and professional learning that:
- Helps them cultivate sensitive, responsive relationships in every interaction
- Embeds the “Big 5” early literacy skills into daily routines
- Provides structured opportunities to observe, reflect, and apply learning
Designed to work alongside any early learning curriculum, SEEDS enhances your program and builds educator expertise while honoring local decision-making and program flexibility.
A Comprehensive Early Learning Curriculum: Every Child Ready
A proven, playful curriculum that is doubling the rate of kindergarten readiness.
Every Child Ready is a comprehensive, evidence-based curriculum for preschool and pre-kindergarten children (PK3 and PK4) that spans all domains of learning.
In classrooms using Every Child Ready, 89% of children are kindergarten-ready — nearly double the national average.
Designed to be flexible and customizable, this bilingual program provides two full years of instruction, assessment, and differentiation support, with educator training and family engagement on one user-friendly platform.
Build Strong Literacy Foundations with Pinecone Path
Where the science of literacy, joyful learning, and quality relationships meet.
Pinecone Path™ is Collaborative Classroom’s literacy curriculum for the year before kindergarten. Intentionally designed for the four-year-old learner, Pinecone Path helps students build early literacy and social skills through:
- Short, purposeful whole-group literacy lessons
- Targeted small-group literacy instruction
- Play-based learning that reinforces oral language, social skills, and executive functioning skills
Pinecone Path also connects seamlessly with our K–5 Collaborative Literacy curriculum, ensuring instructional cohesion as children transition into elementary school.
Instructional Alignment Continues in Elementary School
Coherence doesn’t stop at kindergarten.
With Collaborative Classroom, students continue on their cohesive instructional journey from early learning all the way through grades K–5.
Explore our aligned K–5 curricula, including the highly regarded core curriculum, Collaborative Literacy (comprised of Being a Reader and Being a Writer), and the accelerative foundational skills program SIPPS.
