Edwards Childcare and Preschool

From the Director:

Our philosophy is based on the belief of equality, respect for our children and teachers, building strong, healthy relationships and the importance of trusting and respecting children as capable, able beings with amazing imagination. We strongly believe that when parents, employers and schools work together, we are paving a strategic educational road map of success for our children and assuring stronger, healthier and thriving communities for our children’s future. The role of parents is an important component for our children’s success. We embrace and respect parents as their children’s first teachers. We believe that children learn better when there is collaboration between parents/guardians and teachers. This collaboration between parents and teachers will provide children with the continued care they need to develop healthy social, emotional, physical and cognitive skills. We aim to create a calming, home-like environment for our children where furniture is age appropriate, has soft edges, pictures and art are at their eye level and there’s plenty of natural light which helps children feel safe, relaxed and eager to learn.

From the Director:

The Project Approach is an internationally known research based curriculum model focusing on the interest of children. The Project Approach is an in-depth investigation of the topic where learning is encouraged through exploratory projects and play. Projects are initiated and lead by the children and teachers play the role of facilitators; they document, observe and encourage further curiosity by asking open-ended questions. To further encourage a love of their environment, projects are locally-based and small groups are encouraged to build on prior experience and knowledge though exploration and problem solving. Similar to Reggio, this curriculum model supports, encourages, and respects children’s learning styles and imagination. There is also a strong belief that having a sense of community is one of the building blocks for children to succeed. The Creative Curriculum is nationally recognized research based curriculum that focuses on the needs of each child and his/her developmental needs. Similar Project Approach, the creative curriculum focuses on building strong, healthy and nurturing relationships with children, teachers and their families. There is a great level of understanding the importance of social emotional development in the early years. Children are encouraged to learn through exploration, play and discovery. The progressive style of the curriculum encourages the inclusion of children with disabilities, and has a non-bias view of the world. Moreover, it respects children as capable learners able to explore and learn in the areas of language, literacy, math and science. We chose this curriculum over others because it meets the needs of our philosophy which will assist in building successful roadmaps of success for future learning

Because early intervention is key to the developmental needs of children, we screen every child who enters into our program. Once the screening results come in, we place the child in his/her individualized program. Teacher and parents work together to help child reach his/her goal or milestones.

Our mission is to help young children reach their highest learning potential through our Integrated Math and Science program, to help our employees build satisfying careers through in-house advancement and to bridge the social economic gap through employer sponsored childcare.

We love having our parents participate in the educational goals of thier children. We love having our parents share their expertise, especially when it's related to a topic being investigated, during field trips or just to come in and read to our children. We provide our parents with child related information during

We highly encourage our parents, grandparents and guardians to come into our center a few days before they go back to work and spend time in thier child's new classroom. This allows them the real life experience and day to day flow of the classroom as well as giving our teachers an opportunity to get to know their new student and his or her family, thier personal schedules, including likes and dislikes; making their transition smoother.