NAEYC Accreditation

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St. Paul's Child Development Center is proud to be accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). By choosing an NAEYC Accredited program, you're joining a program that has demonstrated its commitment to excellence in early childhood education. NAEYC Accredited programs must:

• Promote positive relationships for all children and adults to encourage each child's sense of individual worth
• Implement a curriculum that fosters all areas of child development: cognitive, emotional, language, physical, and social Use developmentally, culturally, and linguistically appropriate and effective teaching approaches
• Provide ongoing assessments of each child's learning and development and communicate the child's progress to his or her family
• Promote the nutrition and health of children and protect children and staff from illness and injury
• Employ and support a teaching staff that has the educational qualifications, knowledge, and professional commitment necessary to promote children's learning and development and to support families' diverse interests and needs
• Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with each child's family
• Establish relationships with, and use the resources of the community to support achievement of program goal
• Provide a safe and healthy physical environment
• Implement strong personnel, fiscal, and program management policies so that all children, families, and staff have high-quality experiences.

The Criteria can be found on NAEYC's wesite at www.naeyc.org/accreditation