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We serve nutritious meals and snacks daily. Our facility can accommodate 118 children.

"Train up a child in the way he should go: And when he is old, he will not depart from it." Proverbs 22:6

	Mission Statement
	We believe that children are an inheritance and a gift from God and should be recognized and be respected as unique individuals. We believe their particular gifts should be nurtured; we believe their weaknesses should be treated with gentleness and encouragement in hopes of turning them, with time and effort, into strengths. We believe that all children can learn, not all the same way and not all the same day, but nevertheless. Our mission is to provide each child with learning opportunities that will be enjoyable yet challenging. We will teach in love and demonstrate love and learning through example.
	Our Philosophy
	The Agapeland Child Development Center provides a warm, happy and secure environment in which children can grow and learn. The Agapeland Child Development Center involves the child, teacher and parent. Parental involvement should help to increase the parent's knowledge and understanding of the total growth of their child. Parents must be involved totally for the child to thrive. The Agapeland CDC will provide self directed, adult-guided activities and experiences so that the child can learn and grow. The Agapeland Child Development Center will proved an atmosphere that is warm, happy and will also provide a secure environment for the child and their families, by demonstrating to parents that their child is indeed safe and happy at this CDC. The Agapeland CDC has an open door policy for our parents.
	Our Purpose
	The purpose of the Agapeland CDC is to provide a program of supplementary care primarily, to children of working parents, or in some cases, parents in training for employment and other parents who may be in school. We will provide care and experience, which will contribute to the maximum physical, social, intellectual, mental and most importantly, spiritual growth and development for each child. We provide conditions for parental involvement to help parents acquire skills and increase their knowledge and understanding of the total developmental states of their child. We seek activities, events and experiences to promote awareness of the joy of success each and every day.
	Our Goals
	As a center, we provide a warm, happy and secure environment in which children can grow and learn. The primary and basic needs of all children enrolled will be discovered, nurtured and developed to their highest potential. Each child will receive help in finding joy and satisfaction in their accomplishments and accepting any failures as a learning process. Materials will be provided that will prove to be beneficial in the preparation for their upcoming schooling: To foster independence and help each child acquire a positive self-image To help each child feel he/she is different from everyone else, yet he/she is also similar to others in many ways To help each child discover that he/she is a person of worth and a person of dignity.
	Our Curriculum *HighReach Learning®*
http://www.highreach.com	HighReach Learning® Curriculum Builds School Readiness Skills! Over the past fourteen years our customers have been saying this. Now it has been confirmed by a comprehensive research study conducted by Sinclair Consulting Corporation. Data was compiled and analyzed by Dr. James Ray Ross of the Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia and Dr. Thomas L. Shortt of the University of Virginia. Sinclair Consulting Corporation completed a comprehensive research study involving 354 students, at 16 different sites that were located in 7 states. Of the 16 sites, 14 used the HighReach curriculum. Two of these 14 sites used the HighReach curriculum in some of their classes and not in others. Two sites did not use HighReach, although they did use other planned curriculum. Student performance was measured on two different, highly reliable assessments, the Developmental Indicators for the Assessment of Learning (DIAL-III), and the Early Development Scale of the Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Achievement. Program Philosophy All HighReach Learning curriculum programs are based on the philosophy that children learn best through hands-on activities that address the needs of the whole child. In addition, each HighReach Learning program reflects the belief that children need a balance of child-initiated and teacher-facilitated activities each day. This approach reflects the beliefs of Jean Piaget, Erik Erikson, Lev Vygotsky, David Ausubel, and Jerome Bruner. This approach is grounded in sound child development theory and appropriate practices. Themes are used to introduce information and learning takes place as a child explores and manipulates real objects and events.

Daycare Coordinator		Assistant Director
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Genia Taylor		Jacqueline Hightower