North Lawrence Learning Center’s Playful Pathways Community Preschool is dedicated to providing an environment rich with choices, opportunities, and experiences that inspire curiosity and a love of learning. Below are the guiding beliefs of our program.

Our CENTER will:

• create caring and safe environments.

• embrace the joy of discovery.

• facilitate a love of learning.

• take time each day to create, move, sing, discuss, observe, read, and play.

Our CHILDREN will:

• learn through open-ended play.

• explore nature.

• develop problem-solving skills, creative thinking, and self-expression.

• grow cognitively and intellectually as they face tasks, fail, succeed, master, and repeat.

Our TEACHERS will:

• serve as facilitators for children learning.

• realize the importance of controlling the environment, not the little children in it.

• give children the freedom to laugh and play while being engaged in child-centered activities.

• ensure uninterrupted free time for exploration with open-ended, child-selected materials.

• provide outdoor playtime with both energetic activity and quiet contemplation.