Every child deserves a personalized learning journey, and your educational programs are no different. In today's ever-discerning educational landscape, crafting unique and distinctive program kits is key to communicating your programs' unique message, differentiating it from the competition, and the attention of your customers. So, if you're an educational publisher, here are a few ways to enhance your K-12 classroom 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 is visually inspiring. Consider using as many bright, eye-catching colors as possible on your packaging and individual kit items to attract attention and draw 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 information materials is to reduce the cognitive effort required to understand them," according to The e-Learning Coach.
Incorporate meaningful characters or animals to actively engage students on their learning journey. If your K-12 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.
Balance Use with Appeal
Your kits must be both beautiful and functional to standout in today’s market. So, how can you balance form and function in a way that appeals to students? Well, without changing the curriculum’s content, you can design multiple versions simply by modifying the corrugate 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 K-12 curriculum kits. But the reality is that you have a specific number you need to hit for your finished product to align with your business goals. So, if time is on your side, you may want to consider sourcing your sample and curriculum kits offshore. International vendors can have a favorable fee structure and currency exchange rates that would allow you to reinvest more of your dollars back into your corrugate packaging or kit items. This can be particularly tricky if you don’t have an established overseas supply chain network and may want to investigate working with an end-to-end service provider that can both manage and procure your manipulatives, ancillary products and corrugate.
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Kodi Educational Experiences Can Help
We are a leading end-to-end provider of expertly produced curriculum kits in North America with the flexibility, scale and focus to efficiently manage your manipulatives, ancillary products and corrugate. 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, Kodi Educational Experiences is here to help.
