Units of Inquiry are projects strategically designed to foster curiosity and a problem-solving mindset by introducing children to problems that matter to them. These projects invite children to explore, inquire, innovate, plan, and do, while discovering their own thinking. Units connect month to month, promoting that children make connections and extend learning from one project to the next.
Elevate your preschool experience with VESS
An evolving curriculum for an evolving world
Florida approved curriculum for 0-5 year olds
• Exceeds the florida developmental Standards
• 100% aligned with CLASS
• Prescriptive yet flexible
• Focused on differentiation for various learning levels
The VESS curriculum integrates international and Florida developmental and learning standards
with tools and engaging experiences that nurture excitement for learning and encourage higher-level thinking in children. It enriches the environment in which children grow and learn. Simply put, the VESS curriculum promotes meaningful learning within a thinking culture.
The VESS Model supports itself on the concept of Thinking as a Pedagogical Strategy. As such, this model understands that early childhood education must transcend the learning of academic content in order to achieve a significant pedagogical impact on the children and the community.
VESS is a visionary curriculum that gathers the best ideas from multiple perspectives and vast educational research from around the world, to integrate it all with the explicit purpose of nurturing balanced and happy young learners that live purposefully and add value to every situation they face
Why VESS matters to children’s development
Neuroscience tells us that childer learn best through fun, experiential and sensory experiences that challenge them. Such experiences incite childres’s curiosity
Exploration leads to DISCOVERY
Curiosity leads to EXPLORATION
and discovery (With the right quidance) leads to DEEP LEARNING
Exploration leads to DISCOVERY
Curiosity leads to EXPLORATION
and discovery (With the right quidance) leads to DEEP LEARNING
in addition, we know (base on decades of research) that teaching academic content is not enough, but rather the development of a series of skills, behaviors, dispositions and habits of mind that allow children to become balanced , purpose – driven, and independently – learning individuals.
The VESS Curriculum includes monthly modules strategically designed to:
Connect children to real world content
incite curiosity and exploration
promote questioning and a desire for deeper understanting
Nurture Higher – level thinking skills
Ensure deep comprehension of academic content
Develop empathy and expose to multiple perspectives
Units of inquiry
Exploring the World brings the world to the classroom by exploring a country or region each month. The goal is to integrate a wide understanding of our world in which diversity and multiculturalism are the main components. The “Exploring the World” module supports a vision of the world based on empathy, awareness, and respect for diversity.
Exploring the world
Exploring the Arts explores artists and artistic movements, as well as the history, techniques, and stories behind them.
Exploring the Arts
Why your preschool should implement the VESS Curriculum
1. A Florida approved early childhood curriculum that exceeds the Florida Developmental Standards
2. Meets and exceeds the needs for School Readiness
3. 100% Aligned with all CLASS Assessment Requirements
4. All schools that follow the VESS Curriculum in 2023 exceeded expectations of the first Florida CLASS Assessment
5. Flexible but prescriptive, it guarantees mathematics, literacy and scientific thinking development in 0-5 year olds
6. Neuroscience-based 7. Utilizes Thinking as a Pedagogical Strategy to accomplish true comprehension and maximum brain development
8. Nurtures the thinking skills and dispositions needed for babies, toddlers and children to excel in life beyond school
9. Provides a holistic approach to child development including emotional educational strategies for life.
10. Provides more than 40 pre planned experiences per month that guarantee full developmental coverage per age group.
11. Each activity is designed with differentiation in mind.
1. An all Digital curriculum with free access to printable resources
2. Includes a year of learning-units with rich pre-planned experiences per project based unit of Inquiry, country, and artist of the month.
3. Includes curriculum-specific lesson planners that conveniently track the teacher’s completion of all Florida-based developmental standards
4. Access to more than 90 hours of pre-recorded curriculum training videos, certified by the University of Barcelona chair of neuroscience.
5. printable learning and thinking tools, as well as examples of the best way to put these into practice
6. Includes a step by step lesson planning and implementation guide
7. Includes monthly virtual coaching sessions for educators and school leaders
8. Includes all teaching modules in both English and Spanish
Includes family monthly modules per learning unit that promote the family-school partnership and evidence the strength of your school’s educational program
1. Backed by over 25 years of research, practice and implementation by over 2000 teachers in 125 schools around the globe
2. Has impacted over 14,500 children
3. Owned by Education First Inc., a family company that has owned and operated successful preschools in South Florida for over 20 years
Utilized by over 2000 educators, the VESS Curriculum is designed with a variety of tools that help teachers close the gap between pedagogical neuro educational theory and practice:
Digital curriculum: Access to our leadership booklets, curricular resources and a year of learning-units, which include: Rich experiences per project based Unit of Inquiry, country, and artist of the month, along with teaching modules (both in English and Spanish) found throughout the VESS digital Platform.
Training and resources: virtual campus with access to over 90 hours of pre-recorded curriculum training videos, learning and thinking tools, as well as examples of the best way to put these into practice.
Curriculum-specific lesson planners which track the teacher’s completion of all Florida-based developmental areas
Monthly virtual coaching sessions for educators and school leaders
Free access to printable resources
The VESS curriculum includes family monthly modules per learning unit that promote the family-school partnership and make evident the uniqueness, significance and high quality of your school’s educational program
VESS has been successfully implemented in 125 schools in 7 countries, including USA, Europe, and Latin America, impacted over 14,500 students and has been implemented by over 2,125 teachers since its beginnings 25 years ago
Elevate your preschool experience with VESS
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The VESS curriculum
a practical tool for teachers:
Utilized by over 2000 educators, the VESS Curriculum is designed with a variety of tools that help teachers close the gap between pedagogical neuro educational theory and practice:
Access to our leadership booklets, curricular resources and a year of learning-units. Each monthly learning unit includes a monthly country, artist, and “unit of inquiry” with project-based learning experiences for each.
our virtual campus has access to over 90 hours of pre-recorded curriculum training videos, learning and thinking tools, as well as examples of the best way to put these into practice.
lesson planners which track the teacher’s completion of all Florida-based developmental areas
Monthly virtual coaching sessions
Free access to printable resources
All schools that followed the VESS Curriculum in 2023
exceeded the expectations of the first Florida CLASS Assessment
“Colleagues, for over 20 years, we have promoted change through VESS We invite you to become protagonists of this change”
All schools that followed the VESS Curriculum in 2023
exceeded the expectations of the first Florida CLASS Assessment
“Colleagues, for over 20 years, we have promoted change through VESS We invite you to become protagonists of this change”
Steps to acquire the VESS Curriculum
1. Fill your information and request a demo
2. Attend your demo and get a quote
3. Make your purchase and create your user accounts
4. Access your curriculum schedule your onboarding session and start your VESS journey!
This curriculum is designed to help you achieve your dream of running a distinctive, high-quality preschool program
*Shipping, handling and travel expenses not included
Our demo and sales process is crafted to provide you with a comprehensive understanding of the VESS curriculum’s functionality and its potential to assist your in reaching you business goals. Our demo will demonstrate the various tools through which your team of teachers will implement the VESS Curriculum, including our VESS Digital Platform, which contains all activities, lesson plans, teaching tools, family modules, and theoretical background; our VESS Campus, where you will find over 90 hours of curriculum-specific certified teacher training; and the Lesson Planning tool, which conveniently tracks teacher progress in all developmental areas.
Program per age group
Digital Version
Digital + Printed
0-2 years
$3,000
$5,000
3-5 years
$3,900
$5,500
0-5 years
$5,990
$8,400
Additional products and services
Onsite training “the power of making thinking visible”
1,500
On-site one day training on any selected topic
TBD based on # of participants and # of hours
Additional printed curriculum units set
$600
Additional thinking tools kit
$900
Additional virtual coaching hour
$100
On site coaching
$1,000
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