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Your Child Learner Is Happy, Safe, & Growing
Giving Students The Brightest Start For 40 Years & Counting

Tiny Tots | 24 - 36 months | Offered at North Potomac, MD

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Empower Your Child With Potty Training

Consistent and thorough potty training efforts that reflect your routine at home is the support you and your child receive daily as a part of care. Potty training is an essential milestone that helps your child gain independence. 

Strong Social-Emotional Skills Build Character

Classrooms are busy places where your child learns all sorts of things, including social and emotional skills such as expressing feelings and working together with friends on a project every day.

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A Teaching Team You Can Trust

The tight-knit teaching team works seamlessly together in partnership with you to support your child’s development. These professionals, most of whom have been with the center for over a decade, teach your child everything they need to know to excel. 

A Loving Environment For Living & Learning

Teachers create captivating environments that nurture children, families, and staff while supporting children’s learning! Each day, as children enter the building, they experience welcoming spaces where they learn, grow, and become better people.

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Advanced Sanitization & Security To Keep Your Child Safe

Access-controlled entrances, pick-up verification protocols, CPR certifications, and more safety measures protect your child. Our team thoroughly cleans classroom equipment, toys, and learning materials throughout the day, and professional cleaners sanitize and disinfect the center every evening to create a healthy environment where children can learn, play, and thrive. 

Two Teachers Per Classroom Boosts Your Child's Learning!

Dual Teaching Provides More Opportunities For:

The Creative Curriculum© For Infants, Toddlers & Twos

Teachers set developmentally appropriate goals and objectives for your child so that meaningful learning experiences happen through play. Continuity of learning at this age sets a solid foundation for school success.

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Early Learning Starts With Language & Literacy

Introduction to pre-reading and language strengthens the cognitive skills your child needs for school. Children learn phonological awareness, letter recognition and formation, and more, getting them ready for school. They feel confident and prepared to learn.

Your Involvement Will Help Your Child Excel

Stay connected to your child’s progress! Get daily communication through your parent app, join the parent-teacher exchange committee (PTeX), or volunteer in the classroom. Your participation has a lasting positive impact on your child’s academic performance later in life.
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Epic Playgrounds & Fun Gyms For Movement

Play is essential to your child’s growth and development process, and our play structures, basketball courts, and garden areas allow your child to play with variety and safety. Indoor gyms are perfect for rainy days!

Two Sought-After Accreditations Indicate High-Quality Care

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FAQs

Academy provides one morning snack and one afternoon snack depending on your child’s daily schedule. All families are required to provide a healthy lunch for your child(ren).
Please refer to the Academy Family Handbook for healthy food choices in the classroom. Click here

Academy’s operating hours vary based on location. Please visit your preferred center’s location page.

Each center is equipped with trained staff to facilitate the sanitation of toys and manipulatives throughout the day in addition to frequently touched surfaces. Professional cleaners clean school buildings top to bottom every evening after pick-up.

Each age group and program have their own capacity guidelines provided by the Maryland State Department of Education. Please click here for state guidelines: https://earlychildhood.marylandpublicschools.org/system/files/filedepot/3/staff-child_ratio_chart_-_child_care_centers.pdf

Space permitting, part-week and part-day schedules are available at most of our locations for select programs.

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