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Mission Statement:

Curlew Learning Center and Write Start Learning Center are recognized for providing the highest standards of care and education. We aim to provide a secure, warm and happy environment in which children may learn and grow, discovering a world of excitement and enrichment. Our goal is to develop each child to his/her fullest potential in the social, academic, physical, and emotional areas.

Curriculum:

Learning is the central theme in our curriculum.  Our program is based upon the insights of the Swiss psychologist, Jean Piaget.

  • Being is more important than knowing.  Knowledge is a means to education, not its end.  The final test of an education is what a person is, not what he or she knows.

  • Play is not distinguished from work as the predominant mode of learning in early childhood.

  • Self confidence is directly related to the ability to learn and to make choices affecting learning.

  • Mistakes are essential to learning because they contain information essential to further learning.

  • Children learn and develop at their own rate and in their own style.

  • Children have both the competence and the right to make decisions concerning their own learning.

  • A good self image is intrinsic to intellectual development and the acquiring of skills.