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As a PITC inspired program we also utilize the PITC curriculum philosophy and approach.

Enhancing our relationship-based, responsive approach to early care promoted by the Program for Infant/Toddler Care (PITC), the curriculum planning tools and strategies support the efforts of our infant teachers to facilitate high-quality individualized learning and healthy development.

Unique to the PITC Curriculum is a planning process based on reflection, observation, and documentation of play and learning that respects each child's developing abilities, individual strengths and needs, family culture(s), and language(s). 

This planning process helps teachers deepen understanding, share meaning, support learning, and strengthen meaningful, caring relationships with infants and toddlers.

Our goal is to develop the crucial importance of giving tender, loving care and assisting in your infants' intellectual development through an attentive reading of cues. 

Our teachers will connect with each family to develop a responsive, relationship-based, interactive care that supports each infant and toddler's family and culture.

Our teachers study the infants in our care, reflect on and record information about their interests and skills, and search for ways to set the stage for the next learning encounters.

Our curriculum uses a carefully designed process of learning through discovery called active participatory learning. During active learning, infants and toddlers learn about the world around them by exploring and playing.

Our trained staff address skills and behaviors at each stage of development based upon six program policies that anchor our work: primary care, small groups, continuity, individualized care, cultural responsiveness and inclusion of children with special needs.  

This philosophy creates a climate for care that reinforces our responsive and relationship-based approach. It allows relationships to develop and deepen over time between care teachers and infants, as well as between care teachers and the families.