Quality Improvement Goes Beyond Materials
Kodo partners with early childhood organizations to pair high-quality, open-ended materials with professional development, hands-on workshops, coaching, and implementation support. Because investing in materials is only part of the equation. Helping educators, providers, and families use them with confidence is what turns that investment into meaningful practice.
New materials can transform a learning environment, but materials alone don't create lasting change.
Educators and providers need opportunities to explore, ask questions, build confidence, and understand how open-ended materials can support the children and families they serve.
Kodo brings the two together: materials + education + implementation support.
Support Designed Around Your Program
Professional Development Sessions
Focused learning experiences for educators, coaches, and program leaders that deepen understanding of open-ended play, learning environments, and purposeful materials.
Learn how to encourage an investigation-based learning approach by using styles and techniques that inspire interest and curiosity and support meaningful learning.
Explore how environmental setup can welcome children in, capture their interest, and spark continued curiosity.
Play Workshops
Materials only raise quality if teachers know what to do with them. Our play workshops put educators in the same position as their students: hands-on, with something new, working out how it works.
In every workshop, teachers:
- Explore Kodo materials the way children will, through open, self-directed play
- Surface their own real questions and hesitations about introducing something unfamiliar
- Identify what's actually getting in the way of using a material well in their classroom
- Leave with concrete next steps for how to introduce it differently
Family Engagement Workshops
Quality doesn't stop at the classroom door. Our Family Engagement Workshops bring coaches and teachers together with parents and caregivers for shared, hands-on play — tied directly to our Family Engagement Kits.
These sessions help build:
- A shared language between educators and families around open-ended play
- Caregiver confidence in playing alongside their child at home
- A stronger bridge between classroom quality practices and family engagement standards
*Family engagement workshops are available in conjunction with qualifying Family Engagement Kit Purchases
Coaching
Ongoing support designed to help professional learning move into everyday practice.
Materials That Fit Your Quality Goals
Explore Kodo's Family Engagement kits that combine thoughtfully selected materials with educational resources and opportunities for deeper implementation support.
Kodo STEM at Home Collection: Construct & Explore
Kodo STEM at Home Collection: Ramps & Motion
Earth Sensory Lab Bundle
Cityscapes Bundle
Learning Beautiful Learning at Home Set
Learning Beautiful Classroom Set
From Materials to Meaningful Practice
"This is our mission come to life at Early Partners: preparing children to meet and exceed developmental milestones, sparking a lifelong love of learning, and unlocking human potential, one ramp, one block, and one big idea at a time!"
Abby Bradford
New Orleans, LA
"Thanks to Kodo Kids, our classroom is more beautiful and engaging, and the environment truly plays its role as the third teacher. The Kodo Kids materials in our inclusive classroom support creativity, scientific thinking, identity development, and emotional well-being all at once."
Erika Blackburn
Washington, DC
Let's Build the Right Fit For Your Program
Quality improvement looks different in every community.
Tell us who you're supporting and what you're working toward. We'll help you explore the combination of materials, professional learning, workshops, and implementation support that makes sense for your program.