Key Insights:

• Designing curriculum kits with vibrant colors and meaningful characters enhances student engagement and lesson retention.
• Balancing visual appeal with functionality ensures curriculum kits are attractive to students and practical for educators.
• Sourcing kits offshore through strategic marketing procurement can help reinvest savings into higher-quality materials.
• Continuum offers end-to-end marketing execution services, managing the entire process to create distinctive and effective educational kits.

Elevating learning experiences involves creating an environment and implementing tools that promote deeper understanding, engagement, and curriculum collaboration. Whether you’re an educator or publisher, here are a few ways to craft distinctive curriculum kits.

Build a Visual Story

No matter the subject or grade level for which you’re developing a curriculum kit, you want to design a product that visually inspires students. Consider using as many bright, eye-catching colors as possible on your packaging and individual kit items to attract attention and draw their interest.
 

“Color helps us represent reality, provide focus, express emotion, connect information, increase legibility, and create psychological impact. One of the main goals of designing learning and informational materials is to reduce the cognitive effort required to understand them.”
   •  Source: TheELearningCoach.com

Incorporate meaningful characters or animals to engage students on their learning journey actively. If your curriculum kit has a theme, weave this story into the packaging and kit items through special die cuts, textures, and finishing touches to enhance sensory stimulation and lesson retention. This approach combines design execution with storytelling for a more immersive experience.

Balance Use with Appeal

Your kits must be both beautiful and functional to stand out in today’s market.  So, how can you balance form and function in a way that not only appeals to students, but the educators, adoption committees, and other key decision-makers that will ultimately bring your kit to the classroom? Well, without changing the curriculum’s content, you can design multiple versions simply by modifying the packaging.

For example, rather than printing a heavy, oversized hardcover textbook consider producing a lightweight, saddle stitch workbook that would allow for annual content updates and easy handling by students. Readers that may contain multiples of different skill levels can be cumbersome to handle in a classroom due to the amount of product and its weight. To overcome these challenges, you can poly wrap or bellyband readers by skill level for quick and accurate lesson plan distribution.

Uncover Opportunities to Reinvest in Your Product

If budgets didn’t exist, we know that the sky’s the limit on what you could do and achieve with your sample and curriculum kits. However, when you need to work within budget constraints, consider marketing procurement strategies such as sourcing kits offshore. By partnering with international vendors, you may benefit from favorable fee structures and currency exchange rates, allowing you to reinvest more into packaging or kit items. For those without an established supply chain, it’s essential to work with a procurement leader who can manage and procure your materials, like Zaner-Bloser, who successfully optimized their sample kit production through expert procurement strategies.

Continuum Can Help

Every child deserves a personalized learning journey, and your educational kits are no different. But getting your ideas done can be complicated, time-consuming, and costly. As you prepare for adoption seasons, those challenges may only seem to get worse. That’s where Continuum can help.

Our Educational Experiences team makes building your curriculum kits easy, efficient, and on budget. As an extension of your team, our experts manage the production, implementation, and fulfillment process every step of the way. Whether it is a high-visibility marketing demo kit for review by an adoption committee or a fresh take on curriculum kits, Continuum Educational Experiences has deep expertise, scale, and network to help bring your ideas to life.