Bring IM Curriculum to life in Kiddom

 

Real-World Problems

For Me, For Us, For All of Us

Full Service for Teachers 

 

If you’re already a fan of Illustrative Mathematics curriculum by Kendall Hunt, then we have some great news for you! The Kiddom team is absolutely thrilled to partner with Kendall Hunt to bring a flexible, digital format to the quality curriculum you know and love.

 

About Kiddom

Kiddom is a platform for teaching and learning, online, and in person. By connecting curriculum, instruction, and assessment in one place with communication tools, we enable teachers and learners to unlock their full potential.

Some things you can do with Kiddom:

• Access, share, collaborate on, build, and manage your curriculum. You can even edit and contextualize it, for instance, if you'd like to make last-minute adjustments for a class that was switched to distance learning.
• Create various engaging activities and lessons from your curriculum planner. We make personalization easy by allowing you to assign by skill mastery level or select students.
• Follow expected standards from the curriculum, to the way they're used in instruction, all the way to student mastery reporting, so that you can target the specific areas of improvement.
• Provide feedback to students in various ways, including chat or video, or directly on assignments, making it easy to give private in-person feedback, or keep the discourse going at a distance.

 

Why This Partnership Matters

Curriculum is the foundation of learning, so having high-quality resources is extremely important for student growth. That is why we are grateful to have a partner like Kendall Hunt, who has been known for publishing high-quality materials for the better part of 75 years. This partnership marks a turning point in a storied history of high-quality curriculum. Now, these materials will be accessible in a comprehensive digital platform that enables and measures student growth.

When we speak of access, we can’t go too far along without bringing up equity. Offering more than just technological access, Kiddom enables flexible, equitable instruction with its Contextualize Curriculum feature. This allows teachers to bring their own expertise to the table in order to better connect with their students, for example, if there is a last-minute switch to distance learning and group work needs to be recontextualized for at-home work. And the data component in Kiddom makes it second-nature to personalize instruction in a measurable and effective way.

Whereas Kendall Hunt brings high-quality curriculum to the table, Kiddom is bringing flexibility to the classroom. In a year where instruction took place wherever folks could manage, this flexibility has been particularly helpful for our schools, especially for those who have had to make last-minute switches to virtual learning. We believe that teachers and students shouldn't have to suffer any content loss when the environment switches, and that's where the combined flexibility of Kendall Hunt curriculum and Kiddom come into play.

 

How Kendall Hunt Curriculum Comes to Life in Kiddom

When we dive into the philosophies that guide the curriculum, we see that Kendall Hunt and Kiddom were made for each other. First things first, Illustrative Math is lauded for the real world problems that are found in the curriculum. Students can learn by solving problems and explaining their solutions using precise language. Kiddom brings this to life through a variety of problem types – from multiple choice to multi-select and more – allowing students to solve problems and present answers in a variety of ways. On top of that, teachers can edit problems and question types to suit the unique learning needs of their students.

The second pillar of Illustrative Mathematics curriculum is variety: for me, for us, for all of us. IM lessons include independent, group, and whole class instruction and learning, giving students the opportunity to gain understanding and fluency across a variety of scenarios. Kiddom’s platform has designed supports to enhance each of these scenarios. Our chat and group chat functions (which are, of course, controlled by the teacher) offer a number of ways to break down the class and stimulate discussion of the material.

The third overlap between Kendall Hunt and Kiddom is the commitment to full service for teachers. Kendall Hunt offers a variety of professional learning options, along with an online community of IM teachers designed to make curriculum adoption and success easier. With Kiddom, teachers can access that curriculum from anywhere in a dynamic, digital format, giving them many options to customize lessons in their own unique way. They can also rely on the Kiddom customer success team, with 24/7 access to a platform professional via our in-app chat.

 

In Closing

Kendall Hunt is certified by Illustrative Math, one of the most well-known and trusted names in math curriculum. It is our honor at Kiddom to host this curriculum in a digital environment to make it more accessible to teachers and students.

If you'd like to learn more about our combined offering, we invite you to explore our partnership page here. If you like what you see, you can request a demo from the page to start the conversation that could modernize and streamline learning for your school or district.