From the Program Director

• High quality early childhood education meets the total needs of the
  individual child.
• Children learn best through play – actively participating in and
  manipulating their environment.
• Children learn all day long – during teacher directed activities and
  child-selected activities.
• Children learn in a variety of individual ways using all five senses.
• Children learn best in a positive stimulating environment designed to
  enhance their self-confidence and self esteem.
• Our instructional program for children is based upon current research that
  documents developmentally appropriate activities for toddlers, three and four year olds.
• Parents are viewed as important partners with us in their child’s care and education. Partnerships with parents include plans and dreams articulated during the enrollment interview, daily reports and regularly scheduled conferences, volunteer opportunities, readily available information on ages and stages of development and positive guidance.

• Children “learn what they live”. Our example of honest and fair action with
  all children, loving and calming words and gentle hugs of encouragement are the
  most powerful ways we teach children how to live in the world.
• Teachers provide a positive environment where the rules are clear and
  consistent.
• Teachers encourage positive behavior by being well prepared with
  age-appropriate learning activities directing children whose behavior is
  inappropriate to another activity praising and encouraging specific behavior.
• Teachers use positive guidance techniques to direct children’s behavior.
  Physical punishment or verbal abuse by any adult, including parents, is not
  allowed on center property.
• Our goal of discipline is to help children learn an inner control over their
  own behavior. Helping children express emotions using words rather than physical
  force best does this.
• Conferences may be scheduled with parents to discuss concerns about a
  child’s behavior in order to gain their understanding and support of ways to
  work better with the child. Our goal is to work in partnership with parents.
• When persistent behaviors make it difficult for them or the other children
  to fully benefit from classroom activities a written plan is developed to
  involve the parents, teachers, management team, staff, and community
  resources.