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Our vision here at Peas in a Pod Learning Center is to serve our community by providing a high quality of care for young children where parents can trust that their child is safe. Parents can even view their child in class and outdoors on live webcams from their mobile device! Our mission is to develop our students academically, socially, and emotionally, and to raise servant leaders in a loving and nurturing environment. We have an amazing team of teachers and staff here! We LOVE it here, and we think that you will, too!
Our low teacher-to-child ratios allow dedicated teachers to focus on the individual learning styles and needs of each child. We beat the minimum state standards for classroom teacher-to-child ratios in every classroom. While state ratios go all the way up to placing only one teacher with 18 kids, our lower teacher-to-child ratios range from 1:4 to 1:9 in all classrooms. We are one of the only schools which employ 2 teachers simultaneously to work closely with students during the school day during awake hours which increases the quality of supervision, academic instruction, and social-emotional practice.
Frog Street Press Pre K (Dual Language)
Frog Street Pre-K is a comprehensive, research-based program that integrates instruction across developmental domains and early learning disciplines. The program is engaging for both teachers and children and is easy to implement!
The cornerstones of the program are:
Extensive integration of theme, disciplines, and domains
Social and Emotional development includes Dr. Becky Bailey’s Conscious Discipline ®
Differentiated instruction
Equity of English and Spanish materials and instruction (dual-language)
Joyful approach to learning
To foster learning, our school intentionally beats the state-mandated teacher-to-child ratios. We have THE BEST teacher-to-child ratios in town!
Infant Class 1:4 (state ratios 2:10)
Toddler Class 1:8 (state ratios 1:11)
Pre K Class 1:8 (state ratios 1:15)
Kinder Ready Class 1:9 (state ratios 1:18)
School Aged Class 1:10 (state ratio 1:26)
Most schools have only standard security cameras that are only accessible by the director. Here at Peas in a Pod Learning Center, we give YOU all-day access into your child’s classroom with a LIVE video feed! We are 1 of only 2 schools in College Station offering parent real-time viewings of their own child on LIVE web cameras! Know that your child is safe when you access the LIVE WEB CAMERAS in your child’s classroom online anytime.
THE IMPORTANCE OF PAINTING WITH YOUNG CHILDREN
Painting with young children not only helps their creative development but it also stimulates their brain. Stimulating children’s brains can also help other areas of their development. When setting up a painting activity for young children, stop and think about what areas of children’s development the activity may be helping.
Peas in a Pod Learning Center provides a unique outdoor learning experience for children. This outdoor learning experience is destined to become a best practice for teaching young children in our community. We are so excited to be offering this special opportunity! Outdoor learning combines problem-solving, flexible thinking, strategizing, and creativity to provide a high-quality teaching and learning experience.
Peas in a Pod Learning Center partners with Accell of College Station. We invite residents to read to our kids, enjoying a multigenerational approach to teaching our children a love for reading.
We also invite in students from TAMU and Blinn to collaborate with our teachers and join us in loving and caring for our students. We desire to immerse student teachers into high quality educational school environments.
Through our collaborations with colleges within the Texas A&M Univesrity System and other local agencies, Peas in a Pod desires to provide learning experiences and opportunities for children and families, TAMU/Blinn faculty and students, and senior citizens to build social-emotional relationships, encourage dual-language development, and provide mentoring opportunities.
The heart of our mission is to help our students know that they are fully loved, they serve a purpose, and together we can change the world! We teach our students the value of loving one another. Students learn to help and serve others starting right here in our own school family and then reaching out into our local community. Kids can make a big difference. Teaching children the value of love, joy, peace, gentleness, kindness, faithfulness, patience, generosity, and self control is at the core of our mission!
Our teachers deliver developmentally appropriate, research-based instruction that fosters confidence, self-esteem, and a love for learning. Full-time teachers have a college degree, early childhood or childcare certification or CDA, or are enrolled in an educational program. Each of our staff members is pre-screened with a criminal background check, FBI fingerprints, and is pediatric first aid and CPR certified. All childcare staff receives 30 hours of early childhood training each year, including frequent training in Conscious Discipline and other early childhood subjects. Additionally, new teachers complete an additional 24 hours of pre-service training. We team up with the TEACH Scholarship Program, CLI Circle CDA Training Program, and Blinn College to support our teachers in increasing their education through a CDA program and/or an associate’s degree in Early Childhood Education or a bachelor’s degree program. Our goal is to support our teachers and staff in increasing their education, raising the quality of care and instruction for your little one.
Our mission is to develop our students academically, socially, and emotionally, and to raise servant leaders in a loving and nurturing environment