Creative Curriculum
Early in her career, Diane Trister-Dodge, a graduate of the Bank Street College and the author of Creative Curriculum, became interested in the impact of the environment on interactions and learning. The first edition of Creative Curriculum grew out of her efforts to translate the time-tested principles of traditional preschool into guidelines and specific suggestions for effectively arranging environments to promote play, interactions, and learning. Trister-Dodge founded Teaching Strategies, Inc., in her basement in 1988; today Creative Curriculum (5th ed.) is widely known and used across the United States. Like High Scope, the curriculum developers provide alignment information for both states and the national Head Start standards.