Kindiedays

PEDAGOGICAL MANAGEMENT SOLUTION FOR EDUCATORS AND FAMILIES TO SUPPORT CHILDREN’S LEARNING

Kindiedays apps bring the best Finnish practices adapted to your child care center. Kindiedays has been designed by child care professionals with a strong focus on children: • Empowers educators to support the child’s development. • Engages families to be part of the child’s educational development. • Makes daily routines rich and efficient to give educators more time for quality education.

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Overview

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Web presence

2015

Established

15K

Children

20

Countries

Target group

All

Updated

June 2022

Everyone in the field knows that kindergarten can be flat out, so having a tool like this to use is a treat. Nowadays we couldn’t work without Kindiedays.

About the innovation

Kindiedays Introduction

Why did you create this innovation?

According to the early years' curriculum in Finland, the basis for high-quality pedagogy is planning and documentation of the child’s unique learning journey. Portfolios as formative assessment reflect the learning progress and help children to become powerful learners. Cooperation between home and daycare is crucial in the early years. As teachers, we needed a tool to match these requirements

How does your innovation work in practice?

Kindiedays is an online platform consisting of mobile and web apps for educators, families, and the management of an early education center or chain.

The best practices from the National Curriculum for Early Education in Finland are supported with the use of Kindiedays:

Children reach their full potential with playful learning based on world-leading research from Finland

Educators observe and document learning intuitively, allowing them to pay more attention to the children

Parents follow their children’s progress online, appreciating their preschool’s excellent care and pedagogical standards

Preschools develop the teaching and learning based on formative assessment and learning data

Kindiedays offers three alternative packages: Starter, Portfolio, and Premium. All include tools for attendance management, daily routines, and rich communication. And your choice of functionality to support children's learning. And engage families in the child's learning journey.

How has it been spreading?

Kindiedays has been delivered to 18 countries within the past few years. It has been purchased by private preschools/kindergartens or chains in Europe, Africa, Asia, South East Asia, and South America.

Early education development is receiving increasing interest around the world and Finland is looked at one of the leaders in education. Finnish pedagogy, portfolio learning and formative assessment gain appreciation globally. Kindiedays is built in a flexible way, allowing any curriculum added to guide the teaching and learning. The SaaS model enables delivering Kindiedays to countries all around the world.

Kindiedays is available in Finnish, English, Spanish, Swedish, Estonian, and Norwegian.

If I want to try it, what should I do?

Via our website www.kindiedays.com you can order:

Kindiedays Educator test credentials to try the app on your device

Schedule an online demo with one of our experts

Start a free 30-day trial of Kindiedays digital platform

Media

Kindiedays Starter 29 10 21 (EN)

Kindiedays Portfolio 27 10 2021 EN

Kindiedays Premium 5 11 2021 (EN)

Implementation steps

Learn more and sign up for Kindiedays

As the manager for your child care center, you can learn a lot about Finnish education and experience Kindiedays by yourself. We are happy to share information about the Finnish pedagogy, curriculum, learning methods and advice how to test Kindiedays in real life.

Here are the next steps for testing Kindiedays:

Please go to our web site https://www.kindiedays.com and learn more about what Kindiedays can offer to the managers, educators and families.

You can choose between 3 options to learn what Kindiedays can do for you:

- Ask for credentials to test the apps in our demo environment

- Ask for an online demo with our expert

- Sign up for a free trial

Free trial is the most popular way to take the first steps

With a 30 days free trial you can set up Kindiedays by yourself for your own childcare center. You can involve the teachers and parents and experience Kindiedays with your own data. It is well worth investing sufficient time for the trial. Here are the steps:

1. Sign up for a free trial on our web site.

2. We will create an account for you and send you an invitation to define your log in details.

3. You will also get access to our web support page with step by step instructions how to set up your own child care center.

4. We also provide you with online training as required.

Introduce Kindiedays Apps to your team and parents

Engage the teachers in the trial to learn together. Just download the Kindiedays Educator app on your existing smartphones or tablets and set them up:.

1. Share the Kindiedays Educator App credentials and teachers’ individual PIN’s with your teachers.

2. Share the Kindiedays Educator's Quick Guide and plan the trial together with the teachers.

Including the families is important, but for practical reasons you might want to keep the number of users limited in the trial. This way you can collect feedback for the full roll out. Engaging families is easy. Just inform families and ask them to download Kindiedays Family app. Here are the steps you take as manager::

1. Enter Kindiedays Manager and select tab Children. Add each parent’s email address and info in their child’s information.

2. Parents will receive an email with automatic verification link from Kindiedays via which they can create their own password for Kindiedays Family app.

3. Share the Family Manual with the parents.

Note: For the full roll out you should also ask for the parents consent to store personal data in Kindiedays.

Explore Kindiedays features step by step

Here is a proposal for a step-by-step learning journey together with teachers and families.

1. Get started with the Educator app step by step,. You don’t have to master everything right away. You could start by making a Journal post. For instance, share some week’s greetings along with a photo for all the families. They’ll be happy to see some action on their child’s timeline :)

2. When you start sharing photos of children or their activities, family members tend to get activated too.

3. Keeping track of children’s attendances with Kindiedays is also easy and brings added safety to your center.

4. As your confidence grows, explore the rest of the features. You can always contact your sales representative or info@kindiedays.com for any feedback or questions :-)

Our web support site with a lot of useful information is also available 24/7 to help you going.