Childswork Learning Center

Program Type: 
Garden Classrooms, Kitchen Classrooms, Academic Classrooms
Grade Level/Age Group: 
Pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten
Number of Individuals Program Serves: 
250
Year Founded: 
1983
About the Program: 

We respect children's natural capabilities and share our passion, empathy, and enthusiasm in a reflective and collaborative way. We provide a supportive, nuturing, and encouraging environment for children and families to develop relationships, to discover ideas, to construct knowledge through play, and to cultivate a joy for learning. Play is a child's work and their response to life. We believe that by providing a creative and positive environment children develop a positive self-image, increase their learning and decision-making processes, learn to respect the rights and beliefs of others, and become competent people cabable of constructing knowledge.

Our core values are:

Collaboration, Integrity, Respect, Community, Inquiry, 

Our curriculum is a natural extension of our community's view of children, unique and competent learners, capable of investigation and problem-solving. As such, we provide a play-based, developmentally appropriate environment in which we build an emergant and constructivist curriculum with our students.

Our teachers use their strong knowledge of child development to support children's learning and play. Teachers observe and structure the environment to encourage joy, wonder and discovery.