Our Story…
In the Summer of 2015, two moms came together with one purpose: to create a new outlook on in-home childcare services. A vision for a new daycare began, not just to provide affordable quality care, but to involve children in experiences that enhance language, literacy, music, movement, art and socialization. To build school-readiness skills and lifelong learners. Kindie Prep Childcare opened its doors in the Winter of 2016.
Over the years, their passion for Early Childhood Education grew. Through research and the combined need for on-going professional child studies and development, the philosophy and the beliefs behind the Reggio Emilia approach resonated with them. Reggio Emilia has been influencing education internationally for more than 50 years.
In the approach, children are seen as capable thinkers and theorists who, working together, research and come to understand themselves and their world. As their experience with the Reggio-inspired practice grew an advocacy to see the philosophy as the basis for education.
As a result, The Village Schoolhouse was formed and opened their doors in the fall of 2019. Kierra and Brittney have since welcomed many children and their families to share in their ongoing journey!
Our Mission
To foster intrinsically motivated learning and sustains children’s quest for meaning by providing them with the time and opportunity to exercise their imagination and creativity in an accepting environment that responds to and promotes individual differences, appreciation of individual capabilities, and respect regardless of a person's health, developmental, economic, social status, or cultural background.
Our Educators
Educators at The Village Schoolhouse are both guides and fellow travellers in the collaborative learning process. They are responsible for preparing the learning environment, posing questions, conducting careful observations, listening deeply, documenting work, using documentation to help students revisit and extend their thinking, scaffolding student work by contributing information and skills, linking students to resources that might support their investigations and making students’ learning visible to themselves and others.
Our educators are researchers as well. Learning constantly from one another, contributing expertise and insights through mentoring, observation, and co-construction. We believe, that the best form of faculty development takes place in the classroom in an ongoing fashion through shared perspectives, risk taking, offering constructive criticism, and encouraging one another in a climate of mutual interest.