About Us
Mission Statement
Cambridge Park Preschool's mission is to offer inclusive classroom communities which provide purposeful opportunities for students with and without disabilities to interact with peers. We aim to utilize meaningful data to drive instruction and meet individual students’ varying needs. Our goal is to provide our students with a strong social emotional foundation to begin their academic careers.
Curriculum Overview
Tools of the Mind is a research-based early childhood model combining teacher professional development with a comprehensive innovative curriculum that helps young children to develop the cognitive, social-emotional, self-regulatory, and foundational academic skills they need to succeed in school and beyond. Our classrooms are mult-aged settings for three and four year old children.
The Approach
Tools of the Mind gives teachers the tools to ensure every child becomes a successful learner, developing the underlying cognitive, social and emotional skills needed to reach his or her highest potential. Melding Vygotskian theory with cutting edge neuroscience research, Tools is a unique approach to teaching and learning with research demonstrated outcomes for children and teachers.
Tools of the Mind is based upon a specific set of beliefs about how children develop and learn. Tools instructional interactions are designed to help teachers be more effective in identifying teachable moments, assessing children’s development and differentiating instruction. It takes the learning process beyond traditional academic subjects by applying methods that promote independence, curiosity, decision making, cooperation, persistence, creativity, and problem solving in young children. Tools teachers focus on helping children become intentional and reflective learners, creating a classroom in which instruction in literacy, mathematics and science reflect children’s learning capacity, rather than age-level expectations.
Tools combines a comprehensive early childhood curriculum with an innovative approach to teacher professional development to effectively transform early childhood teaching and learning, and improve child outcomes.
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Student Health & Wellness
Student Support Services
All tuition students are administered the Early Screening Inventory-Revised (ESI-R) to provide educators with an overview of each child's development. The results from this screening help identify students who may need extra support with school based activities. The preschool's intervention and referral team (PIRT) provides support and suggested interventions to teachers who have students who have been identified as struggling learners so that all children can succeed within the general education classroom.