Our classroom teachers will:

- Have degrees, are working toward degrees or have years of experience with monthly professional development classes.

- Will provide the nurturing, developmental and individualized attention that helps each child feel secure because of low teacher/child ratios.

- Have established morning procedures that welcome both child and parent: labeled individual cubbies for children’s belongings, opportunities for parents to share information about their child, and support for both parent and child to ease transition.

- Communicate with parents frequently about their child’s day and provide parents with written reports for each child’s day. Parents are encouraged to call and to visit throughout the day.

- Create developmentally appropriate experiences to encourage sensory-motor exploration for infants/toddlers.

- Engage children in a dialogue through books, music, art and conversation to stimulate and support their language and literacy skills.

- Set up the classroom with learning centers for children to access materials and put them away independently.

- Interactions with one another and with the materials in the learning centers provide opportunities for open-ended exploration, conversation and problem solving.

- Allow ample time for independent choice and play. Through observation, teachers will facilitate the play and provide resources to expand on the children’s learning.

- Support peer relationships throughout the day and establish a sense of community through morning meetings.

- Plan experiences through a theme-based lesson plan that expands children’s knowledge and understanding of the world around them. The lesson plan helps children focus on a topic or concept.

- Facilitate and provide resources when children wish to explore in more depth a topic or idea of personal interest that may emerge during the day.

- Encourage social skills with respect, responsibility and caring.