Happy New Year and Welcome Back!
We just got word that our accreditation visit
will be sometime between January 13th and February
3rd. We will get notification 1 day before they
come. There will be 2 assessors here for 3 days.
They will be spending time in many of our
classrooms and looking at the program
portfolio and classroom portfolios that we have
been working on for the last year.
If you notice that your child's teacher looks
stressed or frazzled, it is because we are all
working very hard to prepare for this assessment!
I have never seen a group of people do so much
work in one week in my life!
I wanted to thank you for your support as we
work on this daunting task and let you know what
it means having your child enrolled in an
accredited program.
The NAEYC website reads: When you see the
NAEYC Accreditation torch, you know that your
child will be safe, healthy, and learning each
day. You know what makes a good child care program
- infants are laid down on their backs to nap,
toddlers are taken outside for well-supervised
play, and preschoolers are learning about shapes
and solving puzzles. NAEYC Accreditation means
you're getting this and more. In fact, more than
one million families have chosen NAEYC
Accreditation for their children.
NAEYC has created 10 standards that measure
the quality of early childhood programs. The
standards were created by a blue-ribbon panel of
early childhood experts and are based on the
latest early childhood research.
Click
here to learn more
about NAEYC Accreditation.
- Promote positive
relationships for all children and
adults to encourage each child's sense of
individual worth.
- Implement a curriculum that
fosters all areas of child development:
cognitive, emotional, language, physical, and
social.
- Use developmentally, culturally, and
linguistically appropriate effective
teaching approaches.
- Provide ongoing assessments
of a child's learning and development and
communicate the child's progress to the family.
- Promote the nutrition and
health of children and protect children
and staff from injury and illness.
- Employ a teaching staff
that has the educational qualifications,
knowledge, and professional commitment necessary
to promote children's learning and development,
and to support families' diverse needs and
interests.
- Establish and maintain collaborative
relationships with each child's family.
- Establish relationships with and use the
resources of the community to
support the achievement of program goals.
- Provide a safe and healthy physical
environment.
- Implement strong personnel, fiscal, and
program management policies so that all
children, families, and staff have high-quality
experiences.
Thank you again for your encrouagement
and support as we go through this process. It
is important to us and it is important to your
child.
Donna
