As a growing number of governments in low- and middle-income countries take on the provision of early childhood education (ECE), they face the challenge of building a capable workforce of ECE teachers who can provide high-quality, developmentally appropriate instruction to learners at a critical period in their cognitive and social-emotional development. This project implements a pilot kindergarten program by taking teachers beyond traditional, lecture-based instruction to play-based, student-centered approaches for teaching oral language skills and emergent literacy.