City of Pembroke Pines Early Development Center - Central
Preschool in Pembroke Pines, FL 33026
The City of Pembroke Pines Early Development Centers are dedicated to providing a stimulating and enriching age-appropriate and developmentally appropriate education for young children. Our mission is to offer quality cost-effective professional services improving the welfare of our children empowering their families and strengthening our community.
Welcome to the City of Pembroke Pines Early Development Center Central Campus. Here you will find a safe nurturing and stimulating environment with experienced educated and caring teachers. Our school has earned the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) accreditation. This accreditation is only given to schools that offer the highest quality of care and education to young children. The Site Supervisor Susan L. Cohen has a Masters Degree in Early Childhood Education Administration from Nova Southeastern University in addition to many years of experience in early childhood education.
All teachers hold a bachelors degree associates degree or a Florida Child Care Professional Credential. Everyone on staff has completed 40-hours of early childhood in-service training. Our staff is CPR and First Aid Certified. The staff has undergone a background screening and fingerprinting process. As part of their continuing education everyone on staff is required to attend professional development classes related to early childhood education; developmentally appropriate practices social/emotional development emergent literacy computer technology throughout the school year.
The school has just completed the fourth year of Floridas Voluntary Prekindergarten (VPK) program. This state funded program prepares children for kindergarten by helping children develop the skills they will need to become successful readers and students. The Central Campus scored a VPK Provider Readiness Rate of 186 out of a possible 200. The VPK Provider Kindergarten Readiness Rate measures how well a VPK provider prepares four-year-olds to be ready for kindergarten based upon Florida’s VPK Education Standards. The VPK Standards describe what four-year-old children should know and be able to do by the end of the VPK experience.
Our school library boasts over 3500 books CDs Big Books and teacher resource materials. Our three and four-year old classes participate in the Water Safety Education Program taught by Swim Central. All classes participate in the Stop Drop and Roll program taught by our citys Fire Department and the Stranger Danger program taught by our citys Police Department.
Our kindergarten fifth grade teacher work day mini-camps offer field trips and in-house special events. Our summer camp features weekly field trips and swimming twice each week for pre-k through fifth graders. In-house activities and specialists provide age appropriate activities in the areas of gym sports music and movement art and crafts drama science water play and cool cooking for our two year-old through fifth grade programs.
Additional Services: Full Day Half Day Before School Food Served Summer
- Child Ages:
- 3 weeks - 4 years
- Rates:
- $$
- Licenses & Accreditations:
- Florida Department of Children and Families
- Preschool:
- Yes
- Hours of Operation:
- Monday_Friday 6:45 AM - 6:00 PM
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The predominant purpose of education is to give each child the opportunity to reach his or her full capacity to succeed. The goal of our Early Development Centers is to nurture every childs potential. By educating the entire child we open doors open minds and open possibilities enabling the child to reach their full potential intellectually physically socially and emotionally. Our curriculum is directed to nurturing the whole child in a caring community conducive to teaching and learning.
Objectives:
To provide a warm and nurturing climate built on trust and communication.
To provide an environment that will foster the development of confidence and high self-esteem.
To provide the opportunities for development of social skills.
To provide the opportunities for development of respect towards others.
To encourage independence and creativity.
To stimulate motor skills.
To encourage children to deal with their emotions and feelings.
To stimulate the development of cognitive skills.
To provide the opportunity for acquiring and refining language skills.
To teach responsibility for individual actions and consequences that may follow.
