YPW Spanish Immersion School Awarded Highest Quality Certification Nationwide
Our accreditation tells you that YPW Spanish Immersion School’s exceptional team of teachers and administrative professionals meet the rigorous, nationally-recognized standards of the NAEYC (National Association for the Education of Young Children) for the education and care of your young children. Accreditation demands an elevated level of commitment and effort. It challenges us to always find better ways to serve you and your family, and it is one more way for us to say, “We care about your children and family.”
At YPW Spanish Immersion School, this powerful combination of having a strong academic curriculum, Spanish Immersion, and exceptional, caring teachers and staff prepares your children for a lifelong passion of learning and love for others.
What It Means If a Childcare Center is NAEYC Accredited
When families make the decision to begin looking into a childcare center to enroll their child in, it can be very overwhelming trying to find a center that meets the needs they have. Families may be looking for a center to offer different benefits such as a strong curriculum, a clean and safe environment, or some place for their child to be active and social with other children. So how can families distinguish a quality childcare center from others? Many families look for centers that are accredited. One of the most recognized accreditations for childcare centers is through The National Association for the Education of Young Children.
NAEYC Accreditation
The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is the world’s largest organization of early childhood professionals. For more than 20 years, families have relied on NAEYC Accreditation to ensure the quality of education and care provided by programs for young children. NAEYC has defined 10 standards for early childhood programs that help families make the right choice when they are looking for a child care center. These standards, and more than 400 related criteria, are based on research on the development and education of young children and were created with input from thousands of experts and educators from around the country.
NAEYC-Accredited programs must:
- Promote positive relationships for all children and adults to encourage each
child’s sense of individual worth - Implement a curriculum that fosters all area of child development: cognitive,
emotional, language, physical and social - Use developmentally, culturally and linguistically appropriate and effective teaching approaches
- Provide ongoing assessments of each child’s learning and development and
communicate the child’s progress to the family - Promote the nutrition and health of children and protect children and staff from illness and injury
- Employ and support a teaching staff that has the educational qualifications, knowledge and professional commitment necessary to promote children’s learning and development and to support families’ diverse interests and needs
- Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with each child’s family
- Establish relationships with and use the resources of the community to support
achievement of program goals - Provide a safe and healthy learning environment
- Implement strong personnel, fiscal and program management policies so that all
children, families and staff have high quality experiences
NAEYC-Accreditation is the hallmark of a quality institution. Following accreditation, all programs are subject to random, unannounced visits by assessors to ensure that the programs continue to meet these standards.
NAEYC accredited childcare programs enrich the childcare experience for children and their families. An accredited center is one that is recognized as providing exceptional care and a variety of educational, developmental, and personal services that ease the burden of working parents.
Early childhood education programs, including YPW Spanish Immersion School, are proud to be accredited by NAEYC because they know they have worked hard for that achievement. Using NAEYC tools and materials, they are continuously improving their programs to provide the best possible educational opportunities for children.
We highly value NAEYC accreditation.