The pre-K curriculum, reimagined

Where wonder
becomes a habit.

A complete year-long curriculum for ages three and four — designed to nurture the curiosity, creativity, and brilliance kids are already born with.

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36
Weeks of lessons
200+
Scripted plans
6
Pillars of thinking
3–4
The age that matters
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— 01

A full year of lessons.

Day-by-day, scripted, sequenced. Materials you already own. The lesson is the thing — the materials are the bait.

— 02

Teachers, not babysitters.

A training video for every lesson — what to ask, what to listen for, when to step back, what to do when a child says something extraordinary.

— 03

Real readiness.

Children leave able to ask better questions than the ones we asked them. Assessments map to state kindergarten-readiness standards.

The thesis

The most important year in a human life is the one most people leave to chance.

Three- and four-year-olds notice gravity. They ask why the moon follows the car. They want to know if the spider feels lonely. They are, biologically, in the most fertile cognitive window of their lives — and most of them are spending it watching cartoons in a converted strip-mall classroom.

The window matters more than ever. The children in pre-K today will graduate into a workforce we can barely picture: more automated, more AI-mediated, more dependent on the very habits — curiosity, original thinking, problem-framing, collaboration — that traditional schooling tends to flatten.

We don't accelerate childhood. We honor it — and we structure it.

The six pillars

Six pillars. One year.
A foundation for everything after.

wonder becomes a habit.
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PILLAR 1 / 6

Cosmic Curiosity

The world above.

SAMPLE ACTIVITY

Roll the eight planets to scale and walk them across the yard.

A lesson, in the wild

Pocket Planets / Lesson 14, Cosmic Curiosity

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The teacher rolls eight pieces of construction paper into eight planets — Mercury a marble, Jupiter a softball. She doesn't begin with the planets. She begins with a question: What's above us right now?

Twenty minutes later, the children are walking Jupiter to the far end of the playground — because the Sun, it turns out, is much further away than they thought.

MERCURY → NEPTUNE · to scale
Teacher guiding a child
Teacher training

Your teachers don't need to be scientists. They need to be guides.

A great pre-K classroom isn't run by an entertainer. It's run by someone who knows when to ask a better question and when to step back.

Most early-childhood educators were trained to manage. We retrain them to teach. By the third week, your teachers will be doing things they didn't know they could do. By the third month, you'll see it in the children.

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From the kids

What kids say when their curiosity is taken seriously.

MIRA · 4 · WINDERMERE

"The moon is a rock. And it's our friend."

After a week tracking the moon
THEO · 3 · WINTER GARDEN

"I planted a seed. I think it's thinking about how to grow."

After planting a bean in a jar
OLIVIA · 4 · DR. PHILLIPS

"The Earth has a hot heart."

After the volcano lesson
BEN · 3 · LAKE NONA

"Yellow plus blue equals jungle."

After a color-mixing lesson
ADA · 4 · CELEBRATION

"Gravity is a pull. It pulled my apple. It also pulled me."

After the gravity lesson
KAI · 3 · MOUNT DORA

"I'm not mad. I'm just full of fast."

After a feelings lesson
The composite quote

The moon is a rock.
And it's our friend.

Six children. Six lessons. One thing in common — they were taken seriously.
Parent testimonials

Parents notice
within a month.

Parent Testimonials
WINDERMERE, FL

"My four-year-old asked me at dinner if our cat was a mammal and a predator. I had to think about it."

— Megan R. · parent of a Kids Innovate four-year-old
WINTER GARDEN, FL

"He came home talking about Jupiter being 'big enough to eat all the other planets.' He's three. I'm not exaggerating that quote."

— Jonathan H.
DR. PHILLIPS, FL

"She's writing her name, sorting leaves by symmetry, and explaining that snails leave 'a little wet road.' Same child. The teaching is different."

— Priya S.
LAKE NONA, FL

"We toured nine preschools. The one we picked had Kids Innovate. The other eight had laminated alphabet posters and the smell of goldfish crackers."

— Daniel & Aisha M.
MOUNT DORA, FL

"Yesterday's download was about why the sun is a star, and our star, and 'kind of an old one, Mom.' I had to look it up. He was right."

— Ellie C.

"The Kids Innovate schools were the only ones who could answer specifically — and the answer wasn't 'we follow the child.' It was 'we follow this, and the child follows us into it.'"

REBECCA T. · CHARLOTTE, NC
For schools

Four levers.
All moving in the same direction.

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01

Enrollment differentiator

When parents tour, they ask what makes you different from the school down the road. Now you have an answer they can repeat at the dinner table.

02

Parent-demand driver

Parents notice within a month. Word travels fastest in pre-K markets, and it travels through parents.

03

Readiness, measured

Built-in assessments map every milestone — cognitive, language, motor, social-emotional — to the standards your kindergartens are looking for.

04

Teacher upskilling

Your educators get a training library that turns three months on staff into three years of professional development.

The vision

The kids in pre-K today
will graduate into a
world we can't picture yet.

What we know: it will be more automated. More AI-shaped. More allergic to memorization. More rewarding of original thought.

What it will demand: people who ask better questions than the machines they're working with. Who can frame a problem before they solve it. Who can collaborate, regulate, hypothesize, iterate.

Those aren't subjects. They're habits. And habits start at three.

Schools across America

From coast
to coast.

Schools currently using or piloting Kids Innovate, and the cities joining cohort 2026. Curriculum travels — anywhere a teacher and a child are willing to ask better questions.

· Orlando, FL· Charlotte, NC · Austin, TX· Brooklyn, NY · Denver, CO· Seattle, WA · Nashville, TN· San Diego, CA + Cohort 2026 · 12 new cities
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— Active partner schools across 7 cities.
For school leaders

If you run
a school,
we should talk.

A 30-minute call, a curriculum walkthrough, and an honest conversation about whether Kids Innovate fits your program. We don't sell to everyone. We don't need to.

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For schools

You shouldn't be the only thing holding quality together.

As a director, you're expected to deliver strong child outcomes, consistent teaching across rooms, compliance, retention, and growth — without diluting quality. But most pre-Ks rely on people-dependent systems: curriculum lives in binders, assessments aren't tied to instruction, training is disconnected from daily practice, and quality drops the moment a strong teacher leaves. That's not scalable — and it's exhausting.

— THE OLD WAY
  • · Curriculum lives in binders
  • · Assessments disconnected from teaching
  • · PD is a once-a-year workshop
  • · One teacher leaves, quality drops
— WITH KIDS INNOVATE
  • · One year, scripted, sequenced
  • · Every lesson tied to a readiness benchmark
  • · A 3-min training video for every lesson
  • · Quality lives in the system, not in heroes
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Why directors choose Kids Innovate.

01

Enrollment

Parents tour two, three, sometimes five schools. Most directors describe their program in the same vocabulary. Kids Innovate gives you something concrete to point to — published curriculum, named pillars, scripted lessons, measurable outcomes.

02

Parent demand

Parents notice within a month. We have, on file, a Kids Innovate school in Winter Garden whose waitlist tripled in a single quarter — driven entirely by parent word-of-mouth.

03

Readiness, measured

Every program ships with assessments mapped to your state's kindergarten-readiness standards. Cognitive, language, motor, social-emotional. Data your kindergartens want and parents will trust.

04

Teacher upskilling

Most pre-K teacher turnover is a function of boredom, not pay. Teachers stay where they're growing. Kids Innovate gives them somewhere to grow.

In the box

What you get.

A
Full year-long curriculum
Age 3 and Age 4 — separate, sequenced
B
200+ scripted lesson plans
Teacher questions, expected responses, watch-fors
C
Teacher training video library
One per lesson
D
Materials list
Almost all of which you already own
E
Assessment toolkit
Aligned to state & Common Core readiness
F
Parent-communication templates
Weekly recap, monthly reflection, end-of-year report
G
Implementation lead
Dedicated, weekly check-ins through Pillar 1

Implementation timeline.

WEEKS 1–2
Director onboarding

Curriculum walk-through. Materials audit.

WEEKS 3–4
Teacher training intensive

Live workshops + the video library.

WEEKS 5–8
Cosmic Curiosity runs

First pillar in classrooms. Weekly check-ins.

MONTHS 4–10
Full pillar rotation

Mid-year assessment & teacher recalibration.

MONTHS 11–12
Readiness report

End-of-year assessment, parent showcase.

FAQ.

Do we need to throw out our current curriculum?+

No. Most schools layer Kids Innovate on top of an existing routine; we replace the academic spine, not the daily flow.

What if our teachers aren't degreed in early-childhood education?+

Then they're our ideal candidates. Our training videos were designed for teachers who weren't trained as scientists.

Will this work in a faith-based or independent charter context?+

Yes. Our pillars are domain-based, not ideological. Schools tailor framing where it matters.

Can we pilot it in one classroom first?+

Yes. Most schools start with a single classroom and expand the following year. We'd rather grow with you than oversell you.

The curriculum

Six pillars. One foundational year,
taught twice.

Built for ages three and four — separately sequenced, materials-light, and designed so every lesson asks a question worth asking. Once at three to wake the wonder. Once at four to deepen it.

In every classroom, every week

Four systems that stop quality from depending on heroes.

— 01 CURRICULUM

Sequenced & scripted.

A values-aligned, year-long plan that sets clear expectations for teaching and learning. No binders. No improvising.

— 02 ASSESSMENT

Tied to instruction.

Every lesson maps to a kindergarten-readiness benchmark. Data that actually informs the next lesson — not a binder you file away.

— 03 TEACHER DEVELOPMENT

Three minutes per lesson.

A short training video for every single lesson. Practical, in context — not a once-a-year workshop disconnected from daily practice.

— 04 STANDARDS & SUPPORT

Consistent, year over year.

Clear teacher rubrics, weekly director check-ins through Pillar 1, mid-year recalibration. Quality lives in the system.

The six pillars

What three- and four-year-olds learn to think about.

A sample week. Mid-year, age 4.

MON · L14
Pocket Planets
Cosmic Curiosity
TUE · L14b
The wolf tells his side
Word & Story
WED · L14c
The paper bridge
Maker Mind
THU · L14d
The bean has a plan
Living World
FRI · L14e
Inside-weather report
Heart & Self
✨ The promise

Where wonder
becomes a
habit.

Not a feeling. A trained disposition. The thing that turns a child into a person who keeps asking, keeps building, keeps noticing — long after the lesson ends.

curious · brave · kind · wide-awake · curious · brave · kind · wide-awake ·  curious · brave · kind · wide-awake · curious · brave · kind · wide-awake · 
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Tell us about
your school.

A 30-minute walkthrough, no sales pressure, and an honest conversation about whether Kids Innovate fits your program.

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The founder

Marnie
Forestieri.

Educator, builder of schools, and the reason this curriculum exists. Marnie has spent two decades making the case that pre-K is the most undervalued moment in a person's education — and the most leveraged.

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"We spend the first five years of a child's life entertaining them. Then we spend the next thirteen wondering why they don't think for themselves."

Marnie started as a pre-K teacher. She built a school network. Across two decades and thousands of classrooms she watched the same pattern repeat: warm, well-meaning rooms producing children who could recite the alphabet but couldn't ask a real question — and a quality bar that quietly rose and fell with whichever heroic teacher happened to be in the room that year.

Kids Innovate is the curriculum she always wanted to hand to other directors — a year of scripted, sequenced lessons that meet three- and four-year-olds where their wonder already lives, and grow it from there. Built across a decade of classroom iteration, refined with thousands of children, and rebuilt again every summer.

"The classroom changed thousands of children. The curriculum can change millions."

That's why she's stepping back from running schools and going all-in on the curriculum. The promise to directors is simple: if your teachers can't run the lesson on day one, that's our fault — not theirs. Every lesson ships with a 3-minute training video, a script, the questions to ask, the responses to listen for, and the watch-fors. No binders. No guesswork.

She lives in Orlando with her family, and is, by her own admission, the toughest critic of every lesson that ships.

— BACKGROUND
20+ years in early childhood
— BUILDING
Kids Innovate curriculum
— BASED
Orlando, FL
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For parents

Want this for
your child?

We sell to schools — not families. But you can find a school near you that already uses Kids Innovate, or send a one-click note to your director asking them to consider it.

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Parents are noticing

What changes, in the first month.

"From day one our son came out with a big smile. Every day he tells us how great his teachers, friends, and the day were. Something about how they're being taught is finally clicking."
— Jesica F., parent of a 4-year-old
"They offer such a varied, diverse day — really keeps her stimulated and expecting something new. She's eager to go every morning. We feel completely supported."
— Nita V., parent of a 3-year-old
"They instill kindness, integrity, and curiosity. Field trips have become her favorite word. I'm grateful this curriculum is part of my village in raising my kids."
— Josie R., parent of a 4-year-old
"Everyone gives each child the time and attention they need. Our daughter is always excited to see her teachers. The whole environment feels intentional, not improvised."
— Christopher S., parent of a 4-year-old
Schools using Kids Innovate

Twenty schools.
Six states. More each month.

Tell my school

Send your director
a note.

We'll pre-write a short, professional message. You add your school. Your director gets it from you, not us.

Want us to reach out?

We'll make the case for you.

Tell us about your school and we'll send our team to introduce the curriculum, share a sample week, and answer questions — no pressure on the director or on you.

About

Pre-K is
the leveraged year.

Most of who a child becomes — cognitively, socially, intellectually — is wired in by five. We built Kids Innovate because the industry wasn't acting like it.

Our manifesto

Six things we believe
about teaching three- and four-year-olds.

— 01

Pre-K is the leveraged year.

Most of the brain's architecture is wired by five. Teach to that — or waste it.

— 02

Curiosity is already there.

Three- and four-year-olds are born wondering. Our job is to keep that fire lit and give it somewhere to go.

— 03

Curriculum, not crafts.

The materials are bait. The thinking is the lesson.

— 04

Teachers don't need to be scientists.

They need a script, a question, and a 3-minute video that shows them how.

— 05

Wonder is a trained disposition.

Not a personality. Not a vibe. A habit you build, day after day.

— 06

Quality should not depend on heroes.

It should live in the system. The moment your best teacher leaves shouldn't be the moment your program drops.

The founder
M

Marnie Forestieri

Educator, builder of schools, and the founder of Kids Innovate. Two decades inside early childhood and a refusal to accept that pre-K should be glorified daycare.

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Insights

Why ages three and four are the leveraged years.

Most of the architecture of a person — language, self-regulation, curiosity, the willingness to ask — is laid down before kindergarten. This is the highest-leverage window in human education. We built Kids Innovate because most pre-K programs aren't acting like it.

85%
of brain architecture is wired by age 5.

Harvard Center on the Developing Child.

4 → 11
Vocabulary at four predicts reading at eleven.

Hart & Risley follow-up studies.

> IQ
Self-regulation at four predicts adult outcomes more than IQ.

Dunedin longitudinal study.

Three and four are the years when a child's mind is most plastic — when wonder either gets trained into a habit or quietly drained out by drills, screens, and well-meaning adults who don't know what to ask.

Most pre-K programs treat this window as glorified daycare: a holding pattern until "real school" begins. We treat it as the most important year of a child's life — because the data says it is.

How young kids learn

Four principles that guide every lesson we ship.

— 01

Wonder is a trained disposition.

Not a personality trait. Not a vibe. A daily habit built by adults who keep asking, "what do you notice?" — and waiting for the answer.

— 02

Hands and language, not worksheets.

Children build understanding by doing and naming. Worksheets at this age teach compliance, not thinking.

— 03

The teacher's question matters more than the activity.

Same materials, different question, different child. We script the questions because they're the lesson.

— 04

Repetition with variation beats novelty.

Three- and four-year-olds want the same idea, again, with one new wrinkle. That's how mastery is built — not through a parade of new themes.

Conversations

Marnie and her teaching team, in their own words.

Five long-form conversations with the master teachers, founders, and specialists who shaped this curriculum. Watch one. You'll hear how seriously we take this age.

How do we become our child's first teachers?
— Marnie Forestieri
Raising innovators at age two: a master teacher's playbook.
— Genesis Arreola
Helping your child set boundaries — without fear or guilt.
— Dr. Chelsie Smyth, PsyD
The baby whisperer: connecting with and teaching your infant.
— Leslie Bermudez
Where big ideas begin: why libraries matter to young thinkers.
— Melissa Schneider
More on the way
A new conversation, every month.
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Soon.

This page is being written with the same care as the rest of the site. In the meantime, the homepage and our school deck will tell you most of what you need to know.

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