Academics

Promoting Child Development and Learning

Because we have formal education and experience providing us with knowledge of children’s cognitive, physical, social, and emotional needs, we have a professional foundation for developing a nurturing environment for young children to learn and grow.

Building Family and Community Relationships

You know your child best, so we include you as an expert resource and relationship by involving you and your community–honoring all community and family diversity–in your child’s development.

Observing, Documenting, and Assessing to Support Young Children and Families

We provide professional observations with documentation for assessing developmental goals of your child. This may be identifying social interaction goals, learning tool needs per learning style, fine-motor control abilities, speech patterns aligning with maturation, and other needs your family or child may have. Authentic Assessment Portfolios are created digitally to gather work samples and observations on a continuous basis and use California’s Desired Results Developmental Profile (DRDP) as a framework for learning domain objectives.

Using Developmentally Effective Approaches

Understanding how positive relationships and supportive interactions lay the foundation for your child’s trust and cooperation in his/her learning and care, we apply our early childhood education experience to your child’s learning style and level to create a joyful and abundant learning environment with stimulating educational tools and strategies.

Using Content Knowledge to Build Meaningful Curriculum

Beyond knowledge acquisition, learning develops the unique aspirations and joy each child holds within his or her self. Curriculum, materials, teaching and learning approaches, and the environment has been developed to nurture your child as an individual, as part of a community, and here, as part of our extended family.

“…young children are developing not only early language and reading skills but also the desire to communicate, read and write. They are developing not only early math and science skills and concepts but also the motivation to solve problems…Children’s development in the social, emotional and cognitive functioning domains – developing independence, responsibility, self-regulation and cooperation – can be critical to success in the transition to school and in the early grades.” -NAEYC Professional Standards