We strive to create culturally enriching experiences for children in a safe, supportive, respectful, and challenging environment. We believe children learn best when they collaborate through peer interactions, the environment, and through teacher-child communications. Teachers create rich experiences to support the discovery and extension of children's knowledge that are relevant, meaningful, commits to extending the "teachable moment" and comes from a balance between teacher directed and child initiated activities. To appreciate the uniqueness of individual children we foster competence in young children by understanding the capabilities of interest common to each age of childhood as we support their physical, cognitive, social, emotional, and language development. We confirm their learning through collaboration, the project approach, actual experiences, and participation.

Opportunities are provided to challenge and created a dynamic learning environment. The room design and materials are purposefully arranged and selected to encourage children to experiment and learn from those explorations. By preparing the environment and asking thought provoking questions we attempt to support and extend each child's intrinsic motivation to learn and discover. We facilitate these discoveries through the incorporation of the creative arts, blocks, dramatic play, computer, language, books, literacy experiences, music, manipulatives, sand, and water play. Through the use of diverse materials and media, children are provided multiple ways to represent and construct their knowledge.

Children are invited to interact, collaborate, and negotiate different perspectives, in order to enhance their emotional responses and support the development of pro-social relationships. Children's respectful behavior for each other and the environment is fostered by supporting children's development of self-worth, pride in work, acceptance of other's work, and respect for differences as they continue to become autonomous.

Our objective is to guide children as they continually practice expressing emotions, developing empathetic behaviors, learning appropriate pro-social strategies for entering and maintaining play situations, practicing conflict resolution, and strengthening self-discipline and self-confidence. In providing a respectful and empathetic environment we intend to develop a community of learners, who care for one another.

Finally, we are committed to ensuring that the children, families and teachers act as collaborators. Communication and feedback is encouraged daily through opportunities to share information in the morning, the afternoon, on the phone, at parent-teacher conferences, home visits, and monthly events. Monthly newsletters and annual written developmentals are recorded documents that further facilitate the exchange of information.