Truly knowing your students takes time

Every new school year starts with a classroom full of students you don't know yet. 

You don't know who needs more time to process
Who thrives with structure. 
Who needs to talk things out
Who needs space when they're overwhelmed
Who naturally takes the lead
Who has incredible strengths you haven't had the chance to see yet. 

And your students don’t know these things about each other either. 

Normally, that kind of understanding develops slowly through weeks and months of conversations, observations, misunderstandings, conflicts, and everyday moments together. 

But your classroom has to start learning, working, and doing life together right now. 

Classtopia Gives your Classroom a Head start.

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For Teachers
So the work of understanding doesn’t live only with the teachers. It becomes something your entire classroom shares. 

Instead of spending months figuring students out, Classtopia helps teachers understand strengths, needs, and classroom dynamics from the start.
For Students
Students gain a shared language for understanding themselves and others, appreciating differences, and working through conflict when those differences clash. 

PRICING

Building deeper relationships with your students shouldn’t mean adding another complicated program to your plate. So we built Classtopia to be...

Built with Teachers.
Designed for Real Classrooms.

Plug-and-play
Minimal prep
Flexible
Relationship-centered
Group maker
Parent-connection tools

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Create your class zoo

We give you the framework. You bring the humans. 
The Week of Connection is where your Class Zoo begins. 

In six simple, 1 hour, ready-to-use experiences,  you'll build the foundation for a classroom where students understand themselves, appreciate differences, support one another, and thrive together.

Create your Class Zoo

Connected Class Zoo Community Acheived

Give your class a relational foundation from the start

Class zoo experience: Identity

Who am I?

Gain instant insight into student strengths, needs, preferences, and class dynamics.

activity 1: Belonging

Who are we?

Understand the strengths and dynamics that shape their classroom.

Use the Animal Genius Quiz® to discover language for describing the strengths, needs, and preferences they see in themselves.

Teachers

students

Teachers

students

emotional shift

No language → Self-understanding

Discover how their unique ways of experiencing the world help shape and strengthen the classroom community.

emotional shift

Individuals → Community

Activity 2: understanding

how are we different?

Begin understanding how student differences shape communication, collaboration, and classroom dynamics.

Discover that people think, learn, communicate, and contribute in different ways—and that different doesn't mean wrong.

Teachers

students

emotional shift

Different = Wrong → Different = Different

Activity 3: coMMunity

how do we work together?

Gain insight into what students need to work together, while building a classroom culture with students instead of for them.

Teachers

students

Classroom community doesn't just belong to them—they help create it through the choices they make and the way they treat others.

emotional shift

Me → We

Activity 4: Regulation

What do our bOdy Batteries each need?

Learn to recognize behavior as a clue and better understand the needs that may be impacting student learning.

Learn to recognize their needs, understand how those needs affect learning, and identify ways to recharge their Body Battery.

Teachers

students

emotional shift

Judgment → Curiosity

Activity 5: Find a path Forward

How do we navigate our differences?

Gain a framework for guiding students through misunderstanding, conflict, and repair.

Teachers

students

Learn how to approach misunderstandings with curiosity, ask thoughtful questions, and better understand different perspectives.

emotional shift

Conflict→ Connection

By the end of the Week of Connection, your student haven’t just learned more about themselves. They’ve learned how to better understand each other. And you’ve gotten a head start on understanding all of them. 

The Journey to a Connected Class Zoo 

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When students have the words...everything changes.

imagine knowing your students faster

This student probably needs more processing time.

This group may need support navigating different working styles

This classroom dynamic makes a lot more sense now.

When students have language for understanding themselves and each other, classroom patterns become easier to recognize and support. Imagine being able to say:

The Animal Genius Quiz® is grounded in developmental science
Explore the Science
Integrates CASEL competencies and ASCA Mindsets & Behaviors, ensuring every lesson supports social-emotional learning goals.
Aligned with Standards

we listen to teachers. a lot.

We're Kara & Jason — founders of Know & Love, creators of the Animal Genius Quiz®, and parents to four wildly different kiddos.

Classtopia was born from hundreds of conversations with teachers who generously shared what drains them, what helps them, and what they wish existed for their classrooms.

We simply listened, partnered with educators, and built what they asked for.

The result is a classroom connection system designed to help teachers understand students faster and give students a shared language for understanding themselves and others.

We are so happy you are here!

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Start the School Year with                  
Not Guesswork

Every tier includes the full Animal Genius framework and the complete Week of Connection. Price reflects implementation support. 

one-class zoo

multi-class zoo

Best for: One Teacher. One Classroom. Up to 40 students. 

Best for: One Teacher. Multiple Classes — Subject Teachers, Counselors. Up to 7 classes, 280 students.  

$199

$149

Start the School Year with                   Not Guesswork

connection,

Connection,

$199 year

/year Founding Member Rate

Founding members lock in their pricing for life. 

WHAT YOU GET

Understand your students faster with the Animal Genius Quiz® Class Experience.

Build belonging from day one with the complete Week of Connection.

Reduce planning time with plug-and-play lessons and done-for-you classroom resources.

Create a shared language for behavior, learning, and relationship differences.

Take the guesswork out of group work by creating intentional student groups based on how students may communicate, collaborate, and contribute.

Keep connection alive all year with 15-minute Morning Meetings already planned for you.

Make parent conferences easier with ready-to-share student reports.

Stay supported through the Zoo Keeper Community.

Support: Self-paced. Ready when you press play. No PD required, additional training provided if interested.

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$299 year

/year Founding Member Rate

Founding members lock in their pricing for life. 

WHAT YOU GET — everything in one-class zoo, plus...

Reduce the stress and guesswork of team building by creating custom groups from all your classes and instantly seeing the dynamics that shape how students work together.

Spot patterns across multiple classes before behavior, disconnection, or overwhelm grow.

Reduce mental load with class-level insights already organized for you.

Stay supported throughout the year with direct email access and monthly Zoo Keeper Office Hours whenever you need implementation help, ideas, or encouragement.

Support: Self-paced. Ready when you press play. No PD required, additional training provided if interested.

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Created specficially for student ages 7-14.

Need administrator or PTA approval?

We've already done the hard part. Get a customizable funding request letter you can personalize and use to request administrator or PTA approval for Classtopia. The letter explains how Classtopia supports student belonging, strengthens classroom connections, and helps reduce teacher overwhelm.

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School Partnership

Founding Rate

Best for: Schools wanting coordinated implementation across multiple teachers and grades — with a counselor or admin championing the work.

Go from “Every classroom is doing something different.” to “Every classroom is speaking the same language of belonging, connection, and understanding.”

WHAT YOU GET — Everything in One-Class Zoo and Multi-Class Zoo, plus...

7-10 Teachers

$3,000/year

$1,500

Founding Rate

11-14 Teachers

$2,500

$5,000/year

Founding Rate

15+ Teachers

$4,000

$8,000/year

Ensure a successful school-wide rollout through guided onboarding, implementation planning, and partnership with your school counselor or administrator.

A school-wide classroom connection system instead of isolated classroom initiatives.

One shared language for students, teachers, counselors, and families.

School-wide reporting and trend summaries for leadership conversations.

Data to support board, family, and funding discussions.

Counselor and administrator partnership support.

A scalable framework that grows with your school.

Implementation support: Live team onboarding, structured rollout planning, ongoing counselor partnership, and admin reporting templates.

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Classtopia is COPPA and FERPA conscious: Students join with a class code using only their first name and last initial. No student email addresses, no student ID's, no student accounts, and no unnecessary student data collection.

For more information about how we protect student information, please review our Privacy Policy.

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2016-2023 Know and Love, LLC.
All rights reserved. 

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