About Lily, Creator of Curiosity Forever
Chances are, Lily Jones has had a hand in creating the materials your kids use at school. After a decade as a curriculum developer for major publishers, nonprofits, ed tech companies, and school districts, Lily created Curiosity Forever to go back to what she does best: show kids how FUN learning can be.
Holding an M.A. in Education and Elementary School Teaching Certification, Lily studied at UC Berkeley’s Developmental Teacher Education Program. Through the program, she learned to steep her teaching practice in knowledge about child development. She spent seven inspiring and exhausting years as a kindergarten and first grade teacher, working with an incredible teaching team to design engaging learning experiences like having students create a huge rainforest in the hallway complete with bamboo, steam, and rainforest sounds.
Now she works as a curriculum developer, education consultant, and writer. She has had articles published at Forbes, BabyCenter, Woman’s Day, Education.com, WeAreTeachers, and more.
Learn more about Lily’s work here.
Ever since she was a kid, Lily has been dreaming about how to make school more interesting and relevant. As a fourth grader, she wrote about her dream school, which contained some of the same integration of subjects and joy that she works to build with schools and families today.
As a high schooler, Lily remembers feeling detached and unengaged from school. She never wants kids to feel that way and has devoted her career to making sure all kids are empowered to enjoy learning. She believes that engagement is the key to academic success and that all students can learn when provided relevant, interesting contexts and problems to solve.
10-year-old Lily’s essay on her dream school, written in 1991.
Picture of Lily in high school (drawn by Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs) that accompanied her essay on making high school more engaging, created in 1996.
