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- Teaching Preschool Partners believes in co-creation with our partners, and that our partners are a wellspring of inspiration and wisdom. We do not subscribe to conventional ideas of the “expert.” Learn more about how we work!
- - Our Team
  - Our Approach
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Programs & Partners
- We cherish our partnerships and acknowledge the boldness of what our partners are doing. They are creating worlds for children that build on their capabilities and gifts, and upholding a vision of a transformed public education system. Get to know our partners and arrange for a visit!
Classroom Resources
- This resource library was created with educators in mind. It includes tools and stories from TPP collaborating classrooms and Opal School. We hope you’ll explore these resources to find inspiration, get curious, and imagine next steps for your work with children. This is for you.
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About Us
- Teaching Preschool Partners believes in co-creation with our partners, and that our partners are a wellspring of inspiration and wisdom. We do not subscribe to conventional ideas of the “expert.” Learn more about how we work!
- - Our Team
  - Our Approach
  - Our Board of Directors
Programs & Partners
- We cherish our partnerships and acknowledge the boldness of what our partners are doing. They are creating worlds for children that build on their capabilities and gifts, and upholding a vision of a transformed public education system. Get to know our partners and arrange for a visit!
Classroom Resources
- This resource library was created with educators in mind. It includes tools and stories from TPP collaborating classrooms and Opal School. We hope you’ll explore these resources to find inspiration, get curious, and imagine next steps for your work with children. This is for you.
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Environments and Materials

Setting the Table: Cardboard

Environments and Materials

Setting the Table: Cardboard

Classroom Environments Galleries

Classroom Environments Galleries

Building a Chain Filled by Love

Playful Inquiry

Building a Chain Filled by Love

FROM THE OPAL ARCHIVE: 02/2017 – Written by Opal School Teacher Researcher Lauren Adams In this story/video, the kindergartners and first-graders were exploring self in…Read More.

Family Explore: Texture

Playful Inquiry

Tools and Publications

Family Explore: Texture

FAMILY EXPLORE Family Explore features family resources aligned with Teaching Preschool Partner’s Invitation to Explore Curriculum resource. Family Explore can also serve as a stand…Read More.

First Experience with Tempera Paint

Environments and Materials

First Experience with Tempera Paint

First Experience with Tempera Paint (excerpt from The Field Guide, Chp. 3) written by Melinda Hayward, former Prescott Teaching Preschool teacher and Carolyn Potts, Studio…Read More.

Suggested Classroom Materials List

Environments and Materials

Tools and Publications

Suggested Classroom Materials List

We often go into schools and conduct workshops where people ask us where we get all of the interesting art materials we use. We’ve prepared…Read More.

Using Potter’s Clay with Young Children

Environments and Materials

Using Potter’s Clay with Young Children

For young children the sensory world is a source of satisfaction, and imagination is the source of exploratory delight. And, it is these inclinations…Read More.