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Parent/Child Incorporated’s Circle North Head Start/Early Head Start Center recently became one of the first programs in the country to be awarded the mark of quality represented by the reinvented National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) Accreditation system.

The Circle North Center joins PCI’s Fort Sam and New Westwood Centers as three (3) of  three hundred fifty-six (356) quality programs in the State of Texas successfully meeting requirements for NAEYC accreditation since 2003. The accreditation is valid for a period of five years, during which time the program must maintain compliance with the NAEYC Early Childhood Program Standards and Accreditation Criteria

In the Accreditation Decision Report, NAEYC Director of Accreditation Decisions, Stephanie Olmore, complimented Joann Ross, Education Center Coordinator and the staff of the Circle North center, highlighting the following qualities that earned Circle North the distinguished award:

• Promoting positive relationships among all children and adults to encouraging each child and family member’s sense of individual worth and belonging as part of a community.
• Implementing a curriculum consistent with its goals for children and promoting learning and development in the areas: social, emotional, physical, language and cognitive.
• The use of developmentally, culturally and linguistically appropriate and effective teaching approaches that enhance each child’s learning and development in the context of the program’s curriculum goals.
• Using ongoing, systematic, formal and informal assessment approaches to provide information on children’s learning and development.
• Promoting the nutrition and health of children and protecting children and staff from illness and injury.
• Employing and supporting 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 needs and interests.
• Recognizing the importance of a reciprocal relationship between families and programs is essential to ensure that programs are meeting the needs of the children and families that the program serves.
• Effectively establishing and maintaining reciprocal relationships with agencies and institutions that can support it in achieving its goals for the curriculum, health promotion, children’s transitions, inclusion, and diversity.
• Creating an environment, both indoors and outdoors that fosters the growth and development of the children.
• Administering a program efficiently and effectively, ensuring that all staff, children, and families are included. The way in which a program is administered affects all of the interactions within the program.

Parent/Child Incorporated’s education professionals look forward to working together with NAEYC in order to build public recognition and support for NAEYC Accreditation, the mark of quality in early childhood education. Through this process of continuous improvement, PCI will continue to enhance the lives of children and families throughout San Antonio and Bexar County.

Above: Marvyion Page makes an
artistic creation of his own.

Above: Young daredevil on the slide.

Fort Sam Center Honors Military Parents For Armed Forces Day

To the patriotic refrains of “Born In The USA”, the children, parents and staff at the Parent/Child Incorporated Fort Sam Child Development Center honored America’s men and women in the armed forces with pageantry and song on Friday, May 16 at their center site located on the grounds of historic Fort Sam Houston.

Mistress Of Ceremonies, Mrs. Mary Pritchard-Doxie, PCI Early Head Start Director, presided as the children of Fort Sam paraded to the music and each class chanted their support for the troops from each branch of the military. The children and staff of the Fort Sam center worked very hard to make the 23 military parents in attendance feel very appreciated and honored. PCI is equally honored to have the opportunity to provide quality comprehensive early childhood development services to the children and families of the armed forces stationed in San Antonio. Right: The children of Fort Sam paraded to the music in show of their support for each branch of the military.

PCI adds to its Transportation Fleet

Numerous studies of the safety of school transportation have been conducted over the past several decades by the most respected safety organizations in the United States.  All of the studies come to the same indisputable conclusion – school buses provide the safest transportation on the Nation’s highways. 

In keeping with the results of those studies, PCI continues to promote its committment to quality and safe transportaton for its Head Start children with the purchase of a new School Bus (as seen below) to add to its current fleet of transportaton modes.

PCI Lauds First Ever Head Start/Early Head Start Teachers Of The Year

Teachers are a critical component in ensuring the highest quality education for our youngest learners and are the most important and influential part of Head Start. They have the most interaction with the children, and they see the child progress through
each lesson taught and have the ability to bring our children to the level that they need to be before heading to elementary school.

Since teachers have such a significant role in the development of each child enrolled in Head Start, Parent/Child Incorporated wanted them to know how important they are and hosted its first-ever Head Start/Early Head Start Teacher of the Year Recognition Awards on Wednesday, April 2, 2008 in the Head Start Operations Building. Mr. James Keith, Anchor/Reporter for KABB News at Nine served as the Master of Ceremonies.

Above: Rosio Romero (left) and Dina Castillo were
awarded the first ever Parent/Child
Incorporated Teacher of the Year Awards for Head
Start and Early Head Start