Your impact continues after 3pm.
Free for every family. No one left behind. Reinforce what you teach at home, on every device — your students' growth doesn't have to stop at 3pm.
- Built on child development research
- Free for every family you refer
- 5-minute setup for families
Tasks, Coins, Games — That's the Loop
Parents set routines and tasks
Chores, reading goals, wellness habits — configured once.
Kids earn Kudo Coins
Completed tasks earn coins. Educational games earn them back.
Screen time self-regulates
Fun games cost coins. No timers, no fights — kids budget themselves.
Tap any screen to see it full size.
Free plan available for families — tasks, games, wellness tools, and the parent dashboard cost nothing.
You already know these three children — here's the one thing you can hand their families, free, with nothing to run and nothing to roster.
The morning before they get to you
The child sitting in your office at 9:15 already lost the morning — the fight over getting dressed, the breakfast nobody ate, the yelling in the car. Whatever makes that morning go differently matters more to that child than anything a thirty-minute pull-out can reach.
Why this works
When the mornings get easier, the parent who used to brace at the sight of your name on the caller ID starts picking up.
A whole free app where the child earns Kudo Coins for finishing real routines, tasks, and responsibilities — and the parent decides what those coins buy, including off-app device time the parent sets, with a countdown. The morning has a reason in it instead of a fight. The parent runs all of it; there is nothing for you to set up, monitor, or see.
Across a meta-analysis of parents' involvement in their children's schooling, greater involvement in home-based and school-based activities was associated with better social adjustment, better emotional adjustment, and fewer behavior problems, at similar strengths across children's age, gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. Barger et al. (2019), Psychological Bulletin.View source →A child who has words for it
Most of the K-6 kids on your list can't yet tell you what they feel — they show you, usually at the worst possible moment. A child who gets asked every single day, warmly, is getting practice at putting words to it long before the day it actually matters.
Why this works
The child starts trusting you differently once the thing you sent home turned out to be kind to them — you become the adult who sent something good home, not the adult they get sent to.
A daily check-in that is never scored and never graded. It produces no result, no rating, and no report — nothing from it goes to you, to a teacher, or to anyone else at the school. It is not an assessment or a screener of any kind; it stays with the family. Their companion answers warmly, and a comfort flow follows if the child wants it: breathing, a meditation, or just staying with the companion. Affirmations and meditations appear only in the categories the parent approved. Free.
In a study of children at risk, five-year-olds' ability to recognize and label emotions predicted their social behavior and academic competence at age nine, controlling for verbal ability and temperament. Izard et al. (2001), Psychological Science.View source →The kid who only hears what they did wrong
By March, a child on your list has collected a long record of everything they did wrong — the notes, the calls, the reset chair — and almost nothing in that child's week is built to notice what they actually finished. They know exactly what the phone call home is about before it rings.
Why this works
The next hard conversation with that parent has something in it besides a list of deficits, which is often the first time that family has heard you say anything about their child that isn't a problem.
A parent side — Family, Inbox, Insights, Settings — where the parent can see in plain language what their child is earning, finishing, and playing at home, and approve things in one tap or in a batch, so a family walks in with something specific instead of an apology. It is entirely parent-held: when you pass it along there is no roster, no student data, and no agreement for you to get signed. Families sign up themselves, and nothing they see is ever sent to the school or attached to any school process.
In a meta-analysis of 23 group-design studies of structured family–school engagement programs run by schools, the programs had a significant positive effect on parent–teacher relationships, strongest on parent–teacher communication specifically, with larger effects for families of students with externalizing behavior concerns. Smith et al. (2022), School Mental Health.View source →
These citations are the research behind how KudoKids is designed. The researchers and institutions named have not endorsed or evaluated KudoKids, and we make no claim about results for children who use it.
None of this waits on your school.
Separately from anything you do, a school can decide to run a pilot or fund KudoKids for every family in its community. It runs in a set window with a real end date, the school funds it, and families still enroll themselves — so there's no roster to build and no student data shared. That decision belongs to the institution and is made without you: nothing on this page depends on it, and sharing the free app with your families stays exactly as it is either way.
- Families still enroll themselves — no roster either way
- We write the note home and the recap
- A set start and end date, agreed with the school
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Everything that's in the app
Your students practice what you teach — every day, at home. KudoKids is organized around the same developmental stages that guide strong elementary instruction, and it works the way good classrooms do: kids earn credit for what they finish, and nothing is ever taken away. Every functional feature is free, so you can recommend it to every family without hesitation.
What You Teach in the Classroom Keeps Going at Home
KudoKids is designed as a home-side counterpart to the habits you build in school — daily routines a parent sets up and a child completes, with coins earned for finishing them. It gives the work you do in the classroom a place to keep going after the school day ends.
Recommend It to Every Family — No Equity Concerns
We built it so you never have to think twice about equity. Every functional feature — SEL tools, routine management, task library, parent analytics — is free for every family. The only optional spending is Premium — the other themed worlds, companions, backgrounds, and companion looks and extras. A family that never spends a dollar gets the same learning experience as any other.
What You Build in School, They Build Every Day at Home
The habits children develop in the classroom — consistency, follow-through, structured effort — have the most lasting impact when they are reinforced at home. KudoKids gives families a practical system for doing that, organized around the same developmental stages that guide strong elementary and early childhood instruction — and built on encouragement, with nothing ever taken away.
What partners receive, and how to start
Your Work Continues After 3pm
Every family you tell gets the whole free app — routines, tasks, coins, the daily check-in, and the parent side — so the habits you build have somewhere to keep going after the bell.
Reach Every Student
There is nothing a family has to buy, and nothing you have to buy or sell. Every functional feature is free, so the child whose family can't spend anything gets exactly the same thing as everyone else.
See Your Community Impact
Track how many families you've connected — useful for newsletters, back-to-school nights, or just the satisfaction of knowing your reach.
Strengthen Each Other's Community
Feature KudoKids in your school communications and we add your school to our provider directory — more families find you, and every family you connect finds a trusted resource backed by your school.
Shape It for Students
Early access means your classroom perspective goes directly into how the app develops.
Direct Support
Questions about sharing with families or navigating the app — reach the team directly, not a help desk.
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Get Your Materials
Receive your Letter of Understanding and the materials to share.
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Introduce KudoKids to the families you work with.
Common Questions
A Letter of Understanding (not a commercial agreement), a referral tracking link, and a professional listing on kudokids.org after admin approval. That's the whole list — there is nothing you buy and nothing you are given to sell.
No, and there is nothing to disclose. We never pay educators, and educators are never asked to sell anything: no commission, no revenue share, and no payment or gift of any kind from KudoKids. That keeps the arrangement consistent with education ethics codes and public-employee gift rules, and your Letter of Understanding documents it explicitly. A school can separately choose to fund KudoKids for every family in its community — that is an institutional decision made without you, and it changes nothing about your side of this. If someone asks you where that goes, it's kudokids.org/partners/schools.
No. When you pass KudoKids along you are sharing a family resource, not procuring a vendor: families enroll directly and voluntarily, KudoKids never receives student education records, and no Data Processing Agreement (DPA) is needed. If a school ever decides to fund family access itself, that agreement is handled with the school — it never runs through you.
Individual educator partnerships are your personal endorsement — not your school's or district's official recommendation. If a parent or administrator asks, you can say: 'This is my personal recommendation, not a school-endorsed program.' Your Letter of Understanding documents this distinction.
Yes. We recommend disclosing any endorsement relationship in your professional communications — in classroom newsletters, parent communications, or school websites. This isn't about FTC requirements (there's no financial relationship to disclose), it's about professional transparency and the trust you've built with families.
Applications are reviewed within 3–5 business days. You'll receive an email when your application is approved.
No. KudoKids is completely free for families. Premium ($11.99/mo or $99/yr) is optional — it gives kids an in-app place to spend the Kudo Coins they earn (themed worlds, companions, backgrounds, and companion looks and extras) instead of those coins all converting into screen-time negotiations at home. Every core feature — SEL tools, routines, task library, parent dashboard — is free. Educational games are also free.
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