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We are committed to operating programs that reflect our commitment to the academic, social, physical, and emotional health of our students. Highlights include:

• Providing learning and care by nurturing, highly credentialed teacher-providers.
• Implementing award-winning curriculums:
  • Success for All Foundation^® curriculums, which align with the Lawrence Public Schools’ curriculum, for center-based preschool and kindergarten programs.
  • Creative Curriculum^® in family provider homes and in center-based toddler programs.
  • Junior Achievement^® curriculum for school age program.
• Promoting literacy by implementing the Raising a Reader^® program in early learning programs and family provider homes and engaging students in regularly occurring reading and literacy activities in school age program.
• Offering field trips to extend learning; past field trips include visits to farms, museums, the zoo, aquarium, and the library.
• Assessing children’s development and developing plans to address areas of need; sharing assessment results with parents every 6 months (every 3 months with parents of infants).  
• Implementing special services on-site, including speech, occupational, and physical and mental health therapy; providing clinical support to parents and teachers through observations and meetings.
• Offering a summer camp experience in the countryside for center-based preschoolers and kindergarteners as well as school age students; swimming and a range of other outdoor activities are included.
• Working in partnership with parents; sharing with parents through newsletters, curriculum notes, parent conferences, and the Raising a Reader^® program that sends books home with early learners.
• Providing healthy meals and snacks.
• Offering tuition subsidies and transportation for eligible families.
• Offering priority placement in our school age program for families with a child in our early learning or FCC programs.

Curriculums

Infant/Toddler Classrooms and Family Provider Homes
Research-based Creative Curriculum^® guides the practices of family child care providers and infant/toddler teachers. The program provides a framework for creating environments that move and flow with children’s developing interests and changing needs. Children learn about themselves and the world around them and are encouraged to feel capable as learners; teacher-caregivers are guided through a process of observing and monitoring the healthy development of children.

Preschool Classrooms
Preschool classrooms implement the Success for All Foundation’s Curiosity Corner^® curriculum. This research-based, developmentally appropriate program stimulates children and engages them in learning. Curiosity Corner^® promotes development of the whole child; active, integrated experiences enhance children’s language and literacy as well as their cognitive, mathematical, social, personal, creative, and physical development.

Used with permission of Success for All Foundation, Inc. 2009-2010

Kindergarten Classrooms
Kindergarten programs implement the Success for All Foundation’s KinderCorner^® curriculum. This research-based, developmentally appropriate program prepares children for first grade by helping children master the language skills, early literacy, numeracy concepts, social skills, self-help skills, and self-confidence necessary for success. Students are introduced to concepts, engage in concrete activities related to those concepts, and are re-introduced to them on their paths of demonstrating mastery.

School Age Program
In addition to working with the Lawrence Public Schools to extend learning for our students and offering educational activities and homework help, our school age program implements Junior Achievement^® (JA) curriculums. Junior Achievement’s purpose is to inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy; the organization is dedicated to educating students about workforce readiness, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy through experiential, hands-on programs. Junior Achievement programs help prepare young people for the real world by showing them how to generate wealth and effectively manage it, how to create jobs which make their communities more robust, and how to apply entrepreneurial thinking to the workplace. Students put these lessons into action and learn the value of contributing to their communities.

Staff and Providers
Community Day Care staff and providers love working with children and are passionate about helping them succeed. Teacher-caregivers provide a nurturing experience responsive to the cognitive, physical, and emotional worlds of children. Helping children on their unique paths of learning and development with individualized attention, providing needed encouragement on a challenging day, and celebrating successes are all integral to the approach.

Certified, highly credentialed Teacher-caregivers staff each classroom and receive ongoing professional development in curriculum and learning, special needs, safety, health, and other topics, reflecting the organization’s commitment to excellence in education. Community Day Care hosts agency-wide in-service learning days and assists staff in attaining other education, training, and credentials.

Staff and providers represent a range of backgrounds and many are bilingual in English and Spanish.

Accreditation

Community Day Care Learning Center and Campus Learning Center are proud to hold accreditation from the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)  NAEYC accreditation is a voluntary process by which early childhood educators demonstrate the high standards that guide the practice in their program; it is granted after review by a panel of national experts and is a distinction above and beyond licensing required by the state. Parents can use NAEYC accreditation as a mark of high quality to guide their selection of a program.