Notable Quotes

"Developmentally appropriate practices are ways of teaching that vary for or adapt to the age and experience of the individual learner. So fundamentally the definition has not changed. Instead, it has been expanded to include the fact that not only do you have to consider children as individuals, but you also have to consider children as members of groups with their own cultural identities."
~ Dr.Susan Bredekamp

By learning what works for whom, we can move beyond simply identifying a particular program’s outcomes to determining what we can do to help that program—and the young children it serves—succeed
~Sam Miesels



The quotes above really relate how I feel about the work that I do.
It is looking at the child as an entire enity and then designing a program around that child's needs that makes our job the most challenging yet very rewarding.