The California Preschool/Transitional Kindergarten Curriculum Frameworks help guide how we create welcoming, engaging learning experiences for our youngest students. They offer teachers ideas for creating classroom environments where children can learn through play, exploration, relationships, and thoughtfully planned activities. The Frameworks also help teachers choose materials and experiences that support each child’s growth, learning, and well-being.
At SLUSD, we want every child to feel welcomed, known, and supported in the classroom. The Frameworks help teachers plan learning experiences that reflect children’s individual strengths, needs, cultures, and languages. Our teachers also use culturally and linguistically responsive practices so that children can see themselves, their families, and their communities reflected in their learning.
The combination of curricula used in the Transitional Kindergarten program offers opportunities to connect learning topics to student experience and culture, support conceptual understanding and motivation for learning, integrate social-emotional skills across content areas, and develop metacognitive abilities.
The SLUSD Board has adopted the following curricular resources for the Transitional Kindergarten program:
Focus on 4s
Amplify Science
SLUSD History Social Studies
Heggerty PreK Phonemic Awareness
SLUSD TK Handbook 2026