Welcome to the Children's Center!
Mission
To provide a nurturing, high quality learning
experience that enhances the self-esteem
of all participants and promotes mutual
respect and caring while respecting
diversity
To provide a nurturing, high quality learning
experience that enhances the self-esteem
of all participants and promotes mutual
respect and caring while respecting
diversity
Guiding Principles
The Children’s Center program:
The Children’s Center program:
- is supportive and encouraging and
focuses on the needs of the children
and their families; - is creative, innovative, and flexible;
- improves the quality of life for children
and their families; - results in positive self-esteem for
children, teachers, volunteers, and all
participants; - enriches each individual physically,
mentally, spiritually, and socially; - requires the understanding and
respect of other communities,
cultures, and generations in order to
participate and thrive in our diverse
community and global society; - promotes the transfer of knowledge,
experience, and values from culture to
culture, generation to generation; - creates a home-like, family
environment; - fosters unconditional love.
Our Mission and Philosophy
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Philosophy
The Children’s Center goal is to provide a
program that is “child-centered” and that
revolves around and responds to the
individual needs of the children in our
care.
We maintain low child-to-teacher ratios to
ensure a learning environment that allows
children to independently plan and explore,
and that gives teachers many
opportunities daily for one-on-one
“teachable” moments.
We offer the children stimulation and room
to move, make noise and make mistakes
in a safe and positive environment.
We acknowledge the importance of self-
awareness and self-confidence by offering
the children many ways to express
themselves and to be proud of their
accomplishments. Each child at The
Children’s Center feels valued and
develops a sense of self-worth.
We encourage and foster parent and
family involvement.
We work to promote critical thinkers who
will participate in creating a caring culture
in a world of differences.
The Children’s Center goal is to provide a
program that is “child-centered” and that
revolves around and responds to the
individual needs of the children in our
care.
We maintain low child-to-teacher ratios to
ensure a learning environment that allows
children to independently plan and explore,
and that gives teachers many
opportunities daily for one-on-one
“teachable” moments.
We offer the children stimulation and room
to move, make noise and make mistakes
in a safe and positive environment.
We acknowledge the importance of self-
awareness and self-confidence by offering
the children many ways to express
themselves and to be proud of their
accomplishments. Each child at The
Children’s Center feels valued and
develops a sense of self-worth.
We encourage and foster parent and
family involvement.
We work to promote critical thinkers who
will participate in creating a caring culture
in a world of differences.
Anti-bias Curriculum
The goals of an anti-bias program:
The goals of an anti-bias program:
- To nurture each child’s construction of a knowledgeable, confident self-concept and
group identity – creating educational conditions in which each child learns to like who
he/she is without feeling superior to anyone. - To promote each child’s comfortable, emphatic interaction with people from diverse
backgrounds. - To foster each child’s critical thinking about bias – teaching each child to identify unfair
or inconsistent images, comments, and behaviors. - To cultivate each child’s empathy and ability to stand up for himself/herself and others
in the face of bias.
