Our School

North Lawrence’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 social-emotional, citizenship, and self-regulation skills that encourage
empathy, kindness, and compassion.
• 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.
• Create appropriate environments to meet the needs of the children at their
developmental level.
• 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.
• Have open and consistent communication with parents in a variety of methods.