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- Remembering that we are incredibly lucky to be able to spend our days with the little kids that are going to someday take over the world.
- Supporting all families as best we can. Listening more.
- Balancing the myriad needs of the New Dream families, our coworkers and the Center.
- Continuous, innovative quality, efficiency and care improvements.
- Cultivating potential through learning, a high involvement culture, and the pursuit of opportunities.
- Kindling social, environmental and cultural change as a business role model.
- Environmental stewardship, honoring nature at every turn, especially in the classroom.
- Having Fun.
The New Dream Child Care Center is a 501c3 non-profit organization and does not discriminate against any individual on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, and where applicable, sex, marital status, familial status, parental status, religion, sexual orientation, genetic information, political beliefs, reprisal, or because all or a part of an individual's income is derived from any public assistance program. |
 Our curriculum plans lead children to be active participants in their own learning process. Classroom projects and activities tend to be open ended and flexible. The classroom environment itself and the daily living processes (such as lunch, going outside, cleaning up) are fully embedded with opportunities to learn, to play and to grow.
Our teachers are spontaneous fun-makers who understand the capacities, budding creativity and challenges of their age group. They are skilled facilitators who bring the children to a learning possibility and then help them explore it in their own way.
Our teachers help children flourish as members of a social group where kindness and cooperation can be learned and practiced.
Our hope for our children is that they will develop in these ways:
- To know themselves as an important part of the group
- To have appropriate self esteem
- To develop good thinking and problem-solving skills
- To love and share their own creativity, curiosity and imagination
- To be able to build respectful relationships with friends and adults
- To enjoy a positive attitude toward school and learning
- To build a working knowledge of the physical world that supports beginning academics
- To care for and respect the Earth and all living things
Some of the classroom social strategies we use are:
- Helping children identify and calibrate (dial down) their feelings
- Helping children speak about their feelings, wants and don’t wants
- Creating opportunities for exploration, inquiry, and hands-on activity
- Helping children practice waiting, moving through transitions, mastering routines and responding well to the unpredictable
- Utilizing trial and error
- Supporting innovative and resourceful behavior
- Clarifying differences as sources of strength and richness
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USDA and this institution are equal opportunity providers and employers.