Most curriculum consultants have never had to hold the attention of a 4-year-old.
I have. For nearly 20 years. In classrooms around the world. It was not always pretty, but it worked.
I'm Alison Solis. Educator, curriculum designer, illustrator. I build learning experiences that actually work in a room full of small humans who have opinions.
Let's work together
I've been in the classrooms. Many, many times.
Almost 20 years of early years classrooms teaches you things no framework document will ever cover. Like why a perfectly planned lesson can fall apart in the first three minutes or why the font size on a worksheet actually matters.
I bring that instinct into curriculum design and edtech now. Design thinking, systems-level work, and a very specific radar for what young children can and cannot engage with. All from one person.
No coordination overhead.
No gap between the theory and what happens when you actually try it.
Three things, done properly.
1
Curriculum Design
Learning sequences built around how young children actually think and behave. From scope and sequence to individual lesson flow. Grounded in the classroom, not whatever the latest framework says this week.
2
Learning Experience Consulting
Most edtech products are built by people who have never taught the age group they're designing for. I have. If your product isn't landing with teachers or students, I can tell you exactly why. Spoiler: it's usually the design, the pacing, or both.
3
Design That Works for Young Learners
I know what a 4-year-old can actually process visually. Colour, layout, density, hierarchy. Get any of those wrong and you've lost them before you've started. I apply that eye to every learning material I help create or review.
Work that exists in the real world.
Not mockups. Not spec documents. Things I actually built and shipped.
30-Day Field Guide for Teachers
A digital onboarding tool for new teachers and their mentors. Four weekly check-ins, honest questions, privacy-first design. Built to reduce the isolation that kills retention in the first year. Because throwing someone into a classroom and hoping for the best is not an onboarding strategy. Live at fieldguideforteachers.netlify.app
Early Years Lesson Packages
Play-based, literacy, and inquiry-focused lesson packages for early years classrooms. Interactive slides, lesson flow documents, and differentiation built in, designed for international schools and built from scratch. Sample materials available in my carrd portfolio.
Visual Design Capability
Not every educator understands what a young child can actually process visually. I do. That knowledge comes from two decades in the classroom, and I apply it to every material I work on. No guessing. No clip-art.

Want to see more? Ask me directly.
You've probably hired the wrong person before. It's fine. Let's fix that.
Schools and international programs
You need curriculum that works for the age group, not just ticks the right boxes. I close the gap between what looks great in a meeting and what actually works in front of a 4-year-old who has decided today is not a learning day.
Edtech companies
Your product is good. But teachers aren't using it the way you imagined, and students are clicking away faster than you'd like to admit. I find where the learning design breaks down and help you fix it before it costs you users.
Curriculum teams
You need someone who can take a learning goal and run with it without needing a separate designer, a separate subject expert, and three weeks of back and forth. I work fast, I work independently, and I know what done actually looks like.
If this sounds like what you need, let's talk.
Tell me what you're building or what isn't working. I'll be honest about whether I can help. No hard sell, no unnecessary discovery calls that could have been an email.
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