Community Child Care Center
Preschool in Saint Paul, MN 55108
Community Child Care Center (CCCC) is a licensed and accredited child care center located in the Commonwealth Terrance Cooperative (CTC) on the St. Paul campus of the University of Minnesota. (See below where you can also get driving directions.) Community Child Care Centers mission is to provide affordable, high-quality early childhood education, in a warm, nurturing environment that encourages the development of the whole child.
CCCC provides services for families of the CTC community, University of Minnesota students, faculty, and staff, and the surrounding communities. Our center seeks to provide a physically safe, emotionally secure, and inclusive setting for all children and families, in a cooperative environment. Our mission is implemented through our educare, learning through play, anti-bias, and anti-violence philosophies. CCCC also strives to provide support for parents/caregivers and university students in the areas of child development, parenting, and early childhood education.
Most of the children we serve live in CTC, but we also include children from the surrounding community. You do not have to be affiliated with the University of Minnesota to bring your child to CCCC, but only U of M students and CTC residents qualify for our sliding fee scale tuition rates and are given priority on our waiting list.
Community Child Care Center has a toddler room, with children aged 16 months to 33 months; a younger preschool room, with children 33 months to 4 years old; and an older preschool room, with children 4-5 years old. You can find detailed descriptions of the classroom programs on the classrooms page.
- Child Ages:
- 1.5 years - 6 years
- Licenses & Accreditations:
- MinnesotaDepartmentofHumanServices
- Preschool:
- Yes
- Hours of Operation:
- Monday to Friday 7:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
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The child “educaring” philosophy at CCCC supports a “whole-child” concept of development by meeting his/her emotional, social, intellectual, physical and emerging cultural needs. Our child development program is based on the assumption that a child’s growth is a sequential process and that children pass through predictable stages of development in all areas and within age ranges.
- A fundamental belief at CCCC is that the children have the right to be cared for in a safe, healthy, nurturing, fun, and respectful environment by adults who are well trained in child development principles and that the children learn best through play and playful interactions within this kind of environment. Since a positive parent-teacher partnership is ideal for a successful and harmonious child-rearing/child-caring experience, we strive to promote and demonstrate respectful interactions in the teacher-parent, teacher-child, child-child, and teacher-teacher relationships. This helps to establish an atmosphere of acceptance and well-being for all who participate in the CCCC program.
- A team teaching approach is practiced in each age group’s educare room. Together the professional staff plans overall program goals and objectives and curriculum units intended to meet the children’s individual
development needs, as well as the needs of the group. Some characteristics we believe to be important for teachers to help children acquire within a group setting are:
- Self-esteem; a sense of identity, self-respect, and confidence.
- Competence in body and mind; a sense of mastery.
- Problem solving and conflict resolution ability; a sense of reasoning and responsibility.
- Personal and interpersonal strengths; ability to communicate with and be sensitive to others, to get along with others.
- Appreciation of diversity; a sense of understanding and respect for difference.
- Creativity and innovation; a sense of confidence and growth, a desire to learn.
- Openness; a sense of trust and honesty.
- Awareness of change; a sense of inner strength, self-control, and coping skills.
- Recognition of emotions; ability to understand and express feelings in appropriate ways.
