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- Loris Malaguzzi -
River Cubs Dual Immersion Preschool strives to strengthen each child’s identity through individuality and uniqueness. Our preschool serves and supports families who value anti-bias education, social studies, and bilingual education. Our environment nurtures respect, celebrates diversity, and seeks to provide an outlet for children to learn and retain English and Spanish. We strongly believe that fostering partnerships with families is key to seeing our students develop and grow to their maximum potential.
Acceptance: Children should feel that school is a joyful and exciting place filled with engaging experiences where they feel a sense of belonging.
Advocacy: Children rely upon their community to advocate for their well being, opportunities and issues.
Anti-Bias: Children may think critically, respecting and embracing differences and acting against bias and unfairness.
Citizenship: One of the school’s most important tasks is to teach the children to think objectively, in order that they may fulfill their responsibilities of good citizenship in the changing world of tomorrow.
Critical Thinking: Children are to be provided with the opportunity to independently explore and discover in a multi-sensory interactive learning environment.
Diversity: Children are unique individuals with varying learning styles and needs that should be stimulated and challenged with consideration to physical, mental, social, emotional, intellectual, and cultural aspects of development.
Family Connection: Children value the continuity between home and school while benefiting from family involvement in daily activities and family educational opportunities.
Hands on Learning: Children learn best when actively involved in multi-sensory interactive learning experiences providing challenging activities.
Health, Safety & Manners: School will foster positive practices of health, safety and manners
Language/ Literacy Enrichment: Children enrich their language/literacy skills through an environment that stimulates their use of language in all forms.
Learning Environment: Children deserve a safe, clean, and loving environment that is enriched with age and developmental appropriateness.
Play: Through play children can develop social and cognitive skills, mature emotionally, and gain the self-confidence required to engage in new experiences and environments.
Respect: Children need to develop respect for and sensitivity to others. Children should be guided in developing empathy, a sense of community, and an absence of sexism, racism and other biases that may lead to bullying.
Self Help Skills: Children are capable to gradually reach more independence, we foster a learning environment where we believe children may learn by trial and error to reach their self help development goals, such as zipping up their own jacket.