Start · Upgrade · Grow
Preschool Entrepreneurship Program
A done-with-you program for people starting a preschool, or fixing one that has stopped growing. Curriculum, teacher training, academic systems, setup, registration, and someone on the phone after you open. Built and run by the people behind The ZERO Curriculum, India’s first modular ECCE curriculum.
What this actually is
Opening a preschool looks easy from the outside.
Rent a floor, paint it in primary colours, hire a few teachers, put up a board. Plenty open exactly like that. Many are full by April and hollow by the second year, because nobody decided what gets taught, in what order, or why.
That decision is the whole thing. Everything parents eventually judge you on, whether the child can hold a pencil, sit through a circle, recognise a number without a worksheet to prop them up, comes from it.
This program puts that decision on solid ground and then helps you run it. You pick one of our five curricula, we adapt it to your city and your building, we train the teachers who will actually deliver it, and we stay reachable once the doors open. You can take the full thing or one piece of it. Most people start with one piece.
I am not going to pretend every school needs all of this. Part of the first call is telling you what you can skip.
Three ways in
Three reasons people come to this program. Yours is probably one of them.
Start a new preschool
You have the space and the intent and no background in education. We bring the curriculum, the daily structure, the hiring brief, and the academic system, so you are not improvising in your first term.
Upgrade one that has plateaued
The school runs, admissions are flat, and you suspect the academics are the reason. We find the one or two things actually dragging it down and fix those first, not everything at once.
Train the team you already have
No setup, no new curriculum, just teachers and supervisors who need to get better at delivery, classroom management, assessment, and talking to parents. We run focused training and leave you with material you keep.
What you get
The full program covers six areas. Take all of them or the ones you need.
Curriculum, chosen and fitted
We help you pick from our five programs, Global, Whimsy Wonder, Spark, Montessori Mosaic, and Knowledge Quest, then fit it to your context. A two-room playschool in a tier-three town and a six-classroom premium preschool do not run the same curriculum, and we do not pretend they should.
Teacher training that sticks
Delivery, classroom management, how children at this age actually learn, assessment without testing them to death, and running a room that does not descend into noise by eleven o’clock. Done on your floor where possible, because training in a hotel conference hall rarely survives contact with a real classroom.
Academic systems
Assessment frameworks, progress tracking, report formats parents can read, a parent-communication rhythm, and an academic calendar mapped to the Indian school year. The boring scaffolding that separates a school from a daycare with a signboard.
Setup guidance
Classroom layout, learning corners, what materials to buy and what to skip, safety, and a prepared environment that matches the curriculum you chose rather than fighting it.
Registration and compliance
State rules differ and they change. We point you at the registrations, licences, and documentation your state expects, so you are not learning this from a WhatsApp group three weeks before opening.
Support after you open
You are not alone once the cheque clears. Periodic reviews, refresher training, curriculum updates, and a direct line to us when something is not working.
How it runs
From the first call to a school that is still standing.
A first call
You tell me your vision, budget, location, and who you are trying to enrol. This shapes everything after it. If the program is wrong for you, I say so on this call.
A plan built for your school
Not a template with your name swapped in. Curriculum, training scope, setup, and timelines specific to what you are building.
We do the work together
Curriculum fitting, training workshops, setup guidance, systems installed. Hands-on, not a PDF emailed over.
You open, we stay
The school launches. We check in, we are reachable, and we adjust when reality disagrees with the plan, which it will.
Who it’s for
Built for four kinds of people. You will recognise yourself.
First-time founders
Passion and capital, no education background. We supply the part you are missing.
Existing owners
Running but stuck. Upgrade the curriculum, retrain the teachers, put real systems in.
Chains and franchises
Several branches that need to teach the same thing to the same standard, with training and quality control that scales.
NGOs and CSR programs
Early-childhood centres on tight budgets that still want real quality. We build for that constraint instead of ignoring it.
And it is modular. Take the whole package or one component. We work inside your budget, not against it.
Start with the free curriculum
Before you pay anyone, including me, use what is already free on this site.
Hundreds of day-by-day plans, mapped to the Indian school year, the same curricula this program fits to your school. Open any of them, run a week, and you will know far more about what you actually need.
When the free version stops being enough, that is usually the right time to talk.
Free, ready-made, or built for you
Three ways to get a curriculum from us, and I am not neutral about them.
Use the free one
It is real and it is complete. For a home setup or a brand-new playschool finding its feet, it may be all you need. Start there.
Buy one of the five
Global, Whimsy Wonder, Spark, Montessori Mosaic, or Knowledge Quest, ready to run and lighter on cost than custom work. Good when you want structure fast and your context is close to standard.
Have it built for you
This is the one I actually recommend for a school that means to last. We start from your need, your parents’ expectations, and your budget, and build the curriculum around them instead of forcing your school into a template.
A customised curriculum draws on the people who actually worked out how young children learn. Montessori on the prepared environment and the child’s own pace. Waldorf on rhythm and imagination. Piaget on why a four-year-old’s thinking is not a small adult’s. Vygotsky on the gap between what a child manages alone and what they manage with a little help. We do not pick one and pledge allegiance to it. We take what fits your children.
- Early literacy and early numeracy designed in from day one, not bolted on later.
- Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN) training for your teachers, matched to where Indian policy is actually heading.
- Handholding through the first terms, not a handover and goodbye.
- Daily or weekly mentoring, at the intensity you want.
- Parent-teacher meetings designed and structured, so they do real work instead of turning awkward.
- Worksheets carrying your own logo and school name, so the material parents take home builds your brand, not ours.
Custom costs more and takes longer. For a school you want still standing in ten years, it is the only one of the three I would choose.
About the authors
Who you are actually working with.
Rewati Raman Vishewar
Preschool Consultant & Curriculum Developer · Co-Founder
M.Ed. (ECCE) & MBA, pursuing a Ph.D. in the Sociology of Childhood. His ECCE research with the Square Panda Foundation was submitted to the Ministry of Women & Child Development; his Bihar ICDS curriculum review was accepted at Ambedkar University Delhi. Two decades across premium, company-owned and chain preschools.
Abhidha Seth
Early Childhood Education Expert & Curriculum Developer · Founder
Gold-medal M.Sc. (Child Development) and Assistant Professor; former Head of the Delhi Government Preschool Project. Has worked with NCERT, Ambedkar University Delhi, CECED and MS University Baroda, and set up premium preschools across Delhi NCR, Bengaluru, Pune and Mumbai.
Work directly with Rewati
Most preschool curricula are repackaged worksheets. Yours does not have to be.
Starting a new preschool from scratch, fixing one that has stopped growing, or training the teachers you already have, the hard part is the same. Someone has to decide what gets taught, in what order, and why. I built The ZERO Curriculum, India’s first modular ECCE curriculum, after 23 years inside classrooms, teacher-training rooms, and policy fights. I sit with you and build the thing that works for your setup.
Talk to me.
Rewati Raman Vishewar · Education systems consultant · 23 years
WhatsApp 99106 80423Starts at ₹3,000 per hour. No retainer to start. One call tells you if it is worth more.
Questions people ask
The questions that come up on the first call.
Do I need a teaching background to start a preschool with you?
No. Most first-time founders come in with capital and intent and no education background. That is the part we supply.
Which of the five curricula will I use?
We decide that together on the first call, based on your city, building, budget, and the parents you are trying to enrol. A small-town playschool and a premium urban preschool do not run the same one.
Should I use the free curriculum, buy one, or have one customised?
Free is the right start and sometimes enough. Buying one of our five gets you running fast. For a school meant to last, I recommend a customised curriculum built around your need, budget, and parents, drawing on Montessori, Waldorf, Piaget and Vygotsky and carrying your own branding. That is the one I would pick.
Can I take just the training, or just the setup?
Yes. The program is modular. Plenty of people take one component. We quote for what you actually need.
Do you help with registration and licences?
We point you at what your state expects, since rules differ by state and change often. You handle the filing; we make sure you know what to file.
What does it cost?
Consulting starts at ₹3,000 per hour. The program itself is scoped to what you take, so the number comes after the first call, not before it. No retainer to begin.
Do you work outside your city, or remotely?
Yes. Much of the work is done remotely, with on-site training where it matters. We have set up and trained schools across several states.
How is this different from buying a curriculum off the shelf?
An off-the-shelf curriculum is a document. This is the document plus the people who wrote it, fitting it to your school and training the teachers who deliver it. The curriculum is the easy part. Making it run is the work.
