Initiative School

The mission of the Garden of Learning and Discovery Pre-K Center (GoLD) is to create a safe, nurturing, and collaborative community where children are inspired and encouraged to become problem solvers, creative thinkers, and global citizens through the utilization of developmentally appropriate play-based learning and literacy-rich responsive instruction. The foundation for life-long learning starts at GoLD!

The vision

At Garden of Learning and Discovery Pre-K Center, we are committed to the core principles of fairness, equity, and justice by fostering a Culturally Responsive environment that recognizes and appreciates the diversity and uniqueness of all staff, students, and families. The vision of GoLD is to recognize and celebrate the whole child by enhancing the cognitive, creative, social, emotional, physical, and academic skills of all children by providing an exceptional early childhood education leading to independence.

Mission

The mission of Garden of Learning and Discovery Pre-K Center (GoLD) is to create a safe, nurturing and collaborative community where children are inspired and encouraged to become problem solvers, creative thinkers, global citizens through the utilization of developmentally appropriate play-based learning and literacy rich responsive instruction. The foundation for life-long learning starts at GoLD!

Instructional focus

We aim to cultivate a literacy-rich school culture and environment that creates opportunities for early learners to actively engage in the 21st century. We prioritize developing a strong sense of self-awareness while building knowledge, skills, and language acquisition by incorporating literacy opportunities and increasing language modeling which leads to student independence.

Priority focus

Build teacher capacity around language modeling and developmentally appropriate literacy skills without compromising learning through play.