FAQ’s
Does your campus have any safety features?
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What makes a CPS education different from the rest?
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Our program was meticulously created to attend to each part of the “care unit”, engaging whole families instead of children alone. We believe that early childhood is as much a learning process for our students as it is for our lovely parents. We endeavor to be the support system that our families can turn to.
We help you create the foundations of your lifelong team members. In practice, this looks like parent events, fluency in engaging non-typical family dynamics, assisting families through difficult seasons, connecting families to the resources they need, and most importantly, making sure our students have a couple of extra “siblings” to call once they get older.
Yes, and it is included in our competitive tuition! We serve a fully organic menu with two meals and snacks each day, Monday through Thursday. On Fridays, we ask our parents to provide packed lunches so we can assist our students in feeling comfortable self-feeding once they make it to elementary.
The beauty of play-based learning is that it creates such a sustainable vehicle for lifelong learning. Our program identifies the natural drives of children, and we actively guide our students to connect and make sense of those instinctual cues. We would even go as far as to say that a child’s instinct to play is the brain’s attempt to develop!
Once a student has identified a “joy drive” or an act of play, we iterate on each drive towards joy and help our students get curious (ask clarifying questions), find the path (connect the learning out to life), then take the journey (dig into the spark).
For our infant classroom, our ratio is 1:4, well below the state-required 1:6 infant ratio. Our preschooler ratio is 1:10, and also below the state requirement of 1:12.
Do you offer meals?
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How does play-based learning work?
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What are your teacher to student ratios?
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Yes, many! This was a central focus in our facility planning and construction. Our entrance is neither street-facing nor accessible to the public. Our school is nicely tucked away behind two sets of gates, with our major walkway code-locked. Our playground is nestled in the far back of our campus with no public access whatsoever, and we are blessed to be surrounded by a community of other schools in a “Safe School Zone”. We conduct monthly, school-wide, emergency drills with great results. All of our classroom doors are break-in proof, automatically locking, fireproofed, and soundproofed. We have no public-facing windows, and all our windows are tastefully barred. Lastly, we have many internal policies in place to ensure our families’ peace of mind.