Kiddom Offers Materials Customized for the 2025 Tennessee Academic Standards for Science

‍Kiddom will release a new set of high-quality instructional materials adapted by Tennessee science teachers to provide districts with additional resources to address the Tennessee Academic Standards for Science that take effect in 2025-26. The resources will complement Kiddom OpenSciEd Tennessee, an academically rigorous middle school science curriculum developed exclusively for Tennessee and fully aligned to the new standards. 

“Over the last year, Tennessee teachers and OpenSciEd writers collaborated to design and write new units and lessons customized for Tennessee,” said Abbas Manjee, co-founder and chief academic officer at Kiddom. “While these materials are freely available to Tennessee 6^th-8^th grade schools as Google Docs, several teachers suggested we embed them within the Kiddom digital learning environment. We listened and are excited to report we’re now integrating the materials into our platform to help teachers accelerate their planning and instructional delivery.”

Like the Kiddom OpenSciEd Tennessee curriculum, Kiddom’s version of the teacher-adapted units and lessons will empower students to examine the natural world through coherent, storyline-driven phenomena. Kiddom’s materials drive meaningful impact across 1:1, hybrid, and teacher-led classrooms, giving districts the flexibility to meet every school’s needs. 

Knox County Schools — one of the districts that helped adapt the open-source materials — was also one of the first to adopt Kiddom OpenSciEd Tennessee.  Districts, including Knox County Schools, partner with Kiddom to implement tech-enabled, high-quality instructional materials that support phenomena-based instruction in grades 6-8

“Combining Kiddom’s technology-enhanced curriculum and integrating the high-quality instructional materials from open source, which were collaboratively adapted by content experts and educators across Tennessee, gives us the best of both worlds,” said Andrea Berry, science and STEM supervisor for Knox County Schools and president of the Tennessee Science Education Leadership Association (TNSELA). “We appreciate Kiddom as a partner and that they’re committed to helping us meet the new standards while supporting our district’s mission and vision for science.”

In addition to providing a certified version of the OpenSciEd curriculum, Kiddom is an OpenSciEd certified professional learning provider. It supports schools and districts with pedagogical and technological implementation, ensuring the process is tailored to teachers’ and students’ needs.

“Kiddom is a trusted partner, and we’re thrilled to have them bring our proven instructional model to Tennessee teachers through their innovative learning platform,” said James Ryan, executive director of OpenSciEd. 

Kiddom’s forthcoming set of teacher-adapted resources, which have been rigorously vetted by OpenSciEd, will be freely available to districts and schools adopting Kiddom OpenSciEd Tennessee. 

To learn more or request a demo, visit go.kiddom.co/tn-openscied.