Environment
Adventist early childhood education and care facilities teach Christian family values and provide age appropriate academics in a developmentally appropriate environment. Adventist programs are uniquely concerned with the development of each individual child’s character and mind. We believe educating the whole child requires instruction that includes mental, physical, and spiritual development.

Our teachers provide a safe, nurturing, playful and responsive environment that encourage a child's engagement and motivation. It is our goal to provide a balance in the “child-centered” environment with appropriate intellectual challenges that curious young learners deserve.

It is our responsibility to provide a balanced environment for your child and we take this responsibility very seriously.

Within the Adventist educational system, early childhood and elementary classrooms are developmentally based in order to enhance each child's ability to learn more effectively.

The benefits of a developmentally-based environment are:

• Positive classroom climate which is conducive to each child's healthy emotional development
• Less exhibited stress
• Higher levels of motivation to learn
• Increased verbal skills and receptive language skills
• Higher levels of cognitive functioning
• Higher achievement scores throughout their primary grade years
• Smoother transitions from primary to later elementary grades with academic gains holding constant

Adventist early childhood teachers focus on teaching real and meaningful concepts; information and training that will be useful to the child for their entire life. Each lesson plan and activity is developmentally appropriate with the full intention of bringing the child and teacher closer to Christ.

Adventist early childhood teachers:

• Help children select appropriate and challenging materials and activities
• Adjust activities to am appropriate level of challenge not frustrating to the child
• Vary the degree of assistance they provide according to the child's needs
• Revise expectations according to the child's growing abilities

Discipline begins with an appropriately structured environment and a set of routines. When it comes to learning academic and life skills, one of the most important tools to teach a child is respect. One of the most important skills to enhance within a child is creative imagination.

Adventist teachers purposefully design the educational program to help the child develop self-government in the areas of:

Organization–Broad structures of thinking, such as classification, time and space

Coordination–More specific aspects of behavior that can be easily observed because they are based on imitation

Concentration–Habits of mind or characteristic ways of approaching learning, other people, or situations.

Independence–Affective domain including one’s sense of belonging, security and self-worth