Preschool / Day Care in Palo Alto CA

Hope Technology Preschool Program, Palo Alto:
Hope Technology School's licensed, inclusive preschool program is open to children from ages 3 years and up. We are located in Palo Alto in Santa Clara County in the San Francisco Bay Area of CA. Our balanced program helps children learn and grow socially and academically. We emphasize inclusion, acceptance, play, and creativity, in addition to an innovative academic curriculum. Children thrive in our exciting and safe environment complete with peer friendships, creative projects, outdoor play, and fun in learning. Academics include math, science, art, music, reading, writing and more. With a classroom theme, we incorporate many lessons and activities making children's learning comprehensive and consistent.

The mission of the Hope Technology Preschool Program is to provide a safe, healthy, culturally and developmentally appropriate, inclusive program for each child. Working in partnership with parents, guardians, and the community, our Preschool will celebrate each child's uniqueness while assisting them with their linguistic, social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development. Our program will also encourage parents and families to take an active role as the child's primary teacher, advocate and informer in the lifelong journey of developing a love of learning.

Our Goals:
We believe that the Hope Technology Preschool Program in collaboration with the parent / guardian, school and community members, can and will provide and maintain a safe, healthy, high quality environment, which is crucial to the development and later success of children. Some of our goals are:

* To ensure that all children are viewed as active learners and adults are viewed as facilitators of learning.
* To provide opportunities for parents/guardians to be actively involved in the education of their child.
* To maintain facilities, equipment and materials that will maximize positive learning experiences.
* To provide a smooth transition into the formal school setting as our children enter Kindergarten.

- Licensed, inclusive preschool program that is open to children from ages 3 years and up.
- We emphasize inclusion, acceptance, play, and creativity, in addition to an innovative academic curriculum.
- Academics include math, science, art, music, reading and writing.
- With a classroom theme, we incorporate many lessons and activities making children's learning comprehensive and consistent.
- Children with special needs are welcome and are fully included in the regular program.

Teaching Methods:
Hope Technology Preschool Program will enhance children's lives by providing them with diverse preschool experiences and developmentally appropriate educational opportunities that attend to the development of each child by focusing on each child's unique strengths and working to help them overcome their weaknesses.

Specialized services such as speech therapy, physical therapy, and occupational therapy are available upon request for children with special needs. If needed, these services are established in a parent-friendly meeting to establish the goals and needs of each child. Teachers and therapists are in constant collaboration to ensure that the child's needs are met on a consistent basis.

We believe that the best way for any child to learn is through play. It is through play activities and opportunities that the children will develop the ability to establish friendships, resolve conflicts, and use verbal as well as nonverbal language to communicate. Children will learn "academic" subjects such as language arts, science, and math in addition to art, music, physical education, health, and safety in this play-based environment.

Teachers will plan activities with regard to each child's development, based on formal and informal assessments, observations, health information, and parent involvement. We believe that the children will leave our Preschool Program enriched with confidence in their abilities, an excitement about learning, and readiness skills for Kindergarten.

Parental Involvement:
Parent Involvement is also a key component of our program. Weekly newsletters, notes home, and personal conversations are examples of our constant focus on working together, communicating and including parents in their children's daily routine. We also welcome parent volunteers and helpers in our class.