implementation & Informational  resources

California Preschool/Transitional Kindergarten Learning Foundations

The California Preschool/TK Learning Foundations outline key knowledge and skills that most children can achieve when provided with the kinds of interactions, instruction, and environments that research has shown to promote early learning and development. 

Spanish and Chinese versions now available on the CDE website!

CSPP and TK programs are required to align curriculum to the Foundations. For examples of the PTKLFs in action, head over to our PTKLFs page. 

California Preschool Curriculum Framework

The California Preschool Curriculum Framework presents strategies for early childhood educators that enrich learning and development opportunities for all of California’s preschool children. Applicable to TK classrooms as well.

Framework for Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating P-3 Approaches

The P-3 Framework, comprised of eight major "buckets" of work, will be our pivotal framework as we consider P-3 alignment within our district partners and across our county.

Check out ACOE and our district's P-3 Alignment efforts at our P-3 Alignment page.

Creating Equitable Early Learning Environments for Young Boys of Color

This groundbreaking book provides an honest and comprehensive look at the inequitable experiences our youngest Boys of Color have in early learning programs including disproportionate rates of exclusionary discipline (e.g., pushouts, suspensions, and expulsions). This book highlights the critical need to disrupt these patterns and create strengthbased and equity-oriented early childhood environments that support Boys of Color to thrive.

Family Partnerships for Children

A publication providing early childhood education program administrators and teachers with guidance on practices that support the development of partnerships with families and inclusion of children’s cultural experiences as essential parts of planning curriculum. This publication promotes understanding of children’s cultural or multicultural experiences at home and helps teachers use those experiences as building blocks for teaching and learning in early education settings. 

Designed to complement the other resources of the California Department of Education’s Early Learning and Development System, this publication examines how play, learning, and curriculum work together in early education. It describes the relationship context for early learning and the role of the teacher in supporting children’s active engagement in learning. This discussion illuminates ways in which learning experiences in one domain may also foster learning in other domains.