Children of America Launches New Principal Certification Program.DELRAY BEACH Delray Beach, resort city (1990 pop. 47,181), Palm Beach co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled 1895, inc. 1911. Mostly residential, Delray Beach is also the trade center for a citrus-fruit and vegetable-growing region. , Fla. -- World Wide Child Care Corp. (Pink Sheets:WWCC WWCC Walla Walla Community College (Washington state) WWCC Western Wyoming Community College WWCC World Wheelchair Curling Championship WWCC Wor-Wic Community College (Maryland) ) announces that its subsidiary Children of America (www.childrenofamerica.com) is launching a new Principal Certification Program, as part of a larger effort to enhance the educational value of its national chain of child care centers. Children of America's new initiative will require all of its child care center directors to undergo a four month educational management program in order to become certified principals. "We feel this is the right time to elevate the role of our administrators to encompass our goal of obtaining NAEYC NAEYC National Association for the Education of Young Children (Washington, DC) accreditation in all of our early education programs," said Thad Pryor, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Children of America. NAEYC is the National Association for the Education of Young Children The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is the largest nonprofit association in the United States representing early childhood education teachers, experts, and advocates in center-based and family day care. located in Washington, D.C. This national association sets the standards for early childhood programs. The NAEYC academy oversees the program for obtaining national accreditation. This process requires teamwork at the school level to conduct an in-depth self study of all aspects of their programs including input from staff and parents. "Obtaining an accreditation status at our schools will give us a national acknowledgement that we are providing high quality care and education for young children," said Dr. Vicki Folds, VP of Education and Professional Development for Children of America. In February, Children of America will also roll out a new company-wide enhancement program to earn full NAEYC accreditation for all of its child care centers. The program, developed by Dr. Folds, includes new customer service standards, adoption of NAEYC's Code of Ethics Code of Ethics can refer to:
Dr. Folds is currently on the Consulting Editors Panel for NAEYC and reviews articles for its Young Children Journal as well as future books for publication. She is one of the originally trained validators for the NAEYC accreditation program during its initial inception. Children of America currently operates 16 centers in Virginia and Pennsylvania and will open 32 additional facilities by 2009 in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Virginia. The company also plans to open 300 new childcare centers throughout the Midwest. About Children of America Founded in 1999, Children of America is a subsidiary of World Wide Child Care Corp. (WWCC), formerly known as International Child Care Corp. (ICCR ICCR Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility ICCR Indian Council for Cultural Relations (New Delhi, India) ICCR Interdisciplinary Centre for Comparative Research ICCR Industrial Combustion Coordinated Rulemaking (EPA) ). |
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