-: What I really like about Kinderberry Hill is,
We have a strong drive for what we call excellence.
We as I said, we have seven schools.
We have learning objectives,
curriculum, we're always looking
at the latest research, what's coming out.
How can we make our programs better?
How can we serve our families better?
How can we serve our teachers better?
We are always striving to be the best.
Recently we've incorporated some outdoor
classrooms at each of our locations.
We're finding those very well received by parents
and especially teachers, we have
some of that going on that's one of our latest.
Some of the newer things we're doing.
We assess executive function on
all of our children, we've been
working with Stephanie Carlson
who also is affiliated with the University of Minnesota.
And assessing that we do regular
conferences each year,
lesson plans are sent out.
Very much a school setting, of course the
social emotional part is so important
in early childhood, so that nurturing and
you know relationship base comes first.
everyday, everywhere, but we are definitely
we view ourself as the top school for early childhood.
I would say one of the biggest
challenges in our job we are always
going to strive to get better.
So the willingness to
understand the research and be willing to implement new
practices when research calls for that
I think that can be a challenge.
If you've been teaching it a certain way for 10 years.
And we're saying you know what
research just came out we need to really look at this.
What if we tried this in our classrooms.
Thant willingness to change and
really stay abreast of the latest
in child development is probably a little
bit of a challenge sometimes.