Empowerment Statement

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About The Joshua Tree

The Joshua Tree is a privately owned school helping children achieve the great “aha” moments of life. Committed to Teaching Children Through Music, Art, and Dramatic Play. Our enriching Arts curriculum encourages children to create, perform, and respond to the arts, and helps them to reason and understand the world around them. Art-based learning also develops self discipline, creativity, and confidence that will help children to succeed in school
and life.

Quality learning experiences reflect the unique development of the individual supported by qualified educators to help each person to reach their full potential.

The Joshua Tree Teachers nurture children, providing encouragement, protection, security, stimulation, and supervision.

The children have ample opportunities outdoors and indoors to explore science, art, music, and park play! Older children will take field trips to the library, wildlife and children’s museums, and other local locations and playgrounds, with parent permission. We invite special guests from the fire, health, and police department to guide our children through valuable safety lessons, and smart decision making. Throughout the year, our children enjoy birthday celebrations and festive gatherings to bring everyone together and build a community around different cultures and experiences. The Joshua Tree creates memorable experiences in a positive and nurturing environment.

Our Education Programs

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Students Empowerment

Student empowerment is where students gain the authority and agency to make decisions on their own and implement their changes in school. Student empowerment generally includes learning, teaching and leadership in the classroom. Empowerment happens through student authorization and action upon gaining a sense of power. Student empowerment refers to students prioritizing meaningfulness, competence, impact and choice in their learning journey. Strategies for instructors to use to promote student empowerment include inspiring possibilities, tapping into students’ interests and encouraging critical consumption and creation.

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Teachers Empowerment

Empowerment refers to the employee’s feeling of being effective, in control and influential. Empowerment is an amalgam of four related feelings. Autonomy carries a sense of freedom in making choices about how to work and results in the feeling that the person is responsible for her choices. Confidence is the personal feeling of having the ability to perform the job satisfactorily. Meaningfulness is the employee’s feeling that the duties of the job are valuable. Finally, impact is the feeling that tasks produce intended results.

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Motivation

Empowerment improves employee commitment, creativity, productivity, satisfaction and motivation. Effective motivation comes from within the individual. Traditional rewards such as monetary compensation are not the best motivators. Appreciation, meaningful work, a happy and flexible work environment and a feeling of personal achievement are powerful motivators. Empowerment is a factor that enables better performance through these mechanisms.

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Parent Involvement

Parent involvement is defined as an ongoing, collaborative relationship between parents and staff with a shared goal: to help students succeed. As a parent, you have many responsibilities. High-quality child care programs work closely with you to care for your children and help you meet your family’s goals. Teachers who value parent engagement welcome their insights and strive to work together throughout the year. The more support students have available to them, the better equipped they’ll be to reach their potential.

Meet Our Staff

Ms. Deja Hammie

Director

Ms. Yolanda Bowman

Co-director

Senior office administration

Kayla Murphy

Instructor / Teacher

Florence Wagner

Instructor / Teacher

Dale Swanson

Instructor / Teacher

Vicky Jacobs

Instructor / Teacher

Our teachers

We nurture children, providing encouragement, protection, security, stimulation, and supervision. All Teachers are highly qualified to care for your children. 

Ms. Tracey

Senior teacher - Pre School

Mrs. Tracey

Senior teacher - Infants

Ms. Angela

Senior teacher - Toddler

Ms. Kayla

Teacher - Toddler

Ms. Gabby

Teacher - Toddler

Ms. Brandi

Senior teacher

All teachers are CDA certified or Associates/Bachelors Degree in Early Childhood Education, Ped, CPR, Fire safety certified with ongoing courses to ensure that our children achieve life long success.

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We are following CDC and local COVID-19 guidelines, including social distancing, daily health screenings, and additional measures to keep our children, staff and families safe.

Yes, all employees, parents and children will have to pass a daily health screening. The health screening includes a temperature check and a series of COVID-19 related questions that pertain to the individual and their households.

The health and well-being of our families and staff are our highest priorities. In the interest of limiting the opportunity for transmission to our vulnerable community, we are taking the following precautionary measures:

Your household must remain out of the center if any member of your household has (or has been in close contact with anyone who has):

a. A suspected or confirmed case of COVID-19 (for example – close contact at school, work, religious service, social gathering); or

b. Traveled: internationally; or domestically, from any area which is the subject of travel restrictions under applicable state and local guidance.         

14 days after the last potential exposure, your household may return provided these three things have happened:

a. At least 10 days have passed since any household member first experienced symptoms; and

b. Symptoms have improved for any household member that experienced symptoms (for example, cough or shortness of breath has improved); and

c. The household has been fever-free for at least 72 hours without the use of fever-reducing medicines.

Please note, depending on the circumstances we may require you to obtain medical clearance before return to the center will be allowed.

To implement enhanced safety protocols for all areas including daily health screening, distancing, cleaning, and disinfecting. Our goal is to ensure that all of our health and safety practices in every center are in line with recommendations provided by the CDC and requirements of state and local municipalities, and have the well-being of children, families, and staff at their core.

All employees will be in face coverings while working. Those conducting health screenings will wear gloves while conducting the screenings. Those undertaking disinfection activities will be wearing gloves while disinfecting. Teachers will wear gloves for activities that they wore gloves for in the past; diaper changing and bathroom help, wiping noses, first aid and cleaning. They also wear gloves for preparing and serving food. They will not be required to wear gloves all day.

Unless mandated by local state authorities or medically necessary, The Joshua Tree does not require the use of masks for children. To provide a safe and healthy environment, we employ strict exclusion policies for households, regular health screens, increased disinfection, and social distancing practices. Please contact our center directly to learn more.

Prospective parents are being encouraged to visit our link for a virtual tour.

Keystone Stars

Keystone STARS is Pennsylvania’s Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS). A QRIS is a continuous quality improvement systemic approach to assess, improve, and communicate the level of quality in early and school-age care and education programs. Keystone STARS is a program of Pennsylvania’s Office of Child Development and Early Learning (OCDEL).

Our Guiding Principles

Keystone STARS is a responsive system to improve, support, and recognize the continuous quality improvement efforts of early learning programs in Pennsylvania. Our system is guided by three core principles:

We believe inclusion, diversity, equity and respect are foundational values embedded in these principles.

Keystone STARS has four primary goals:

OCDEL’s Keystone STARS Program supports all early care and education programs to improve program quality. We encourage programs to think about the Keystone STARS Performance Standards as a tool to support continuous quality improvement (CQI) that impacts services to the children and families in your care.

Keystone STARS – Improving the quality through: