About Our Director

Hello, I would like to welcome you to the Ashland Child Development Center. As the new Director, (start date January 1, 2009) I am filled with anticipation of the changes and ideas that I have, in mind, for our center. I have taught in the elementary field for the past twenty-three years and I have always enjoyed working with children. I have found it to be very rewarding in helping children reach their potentials.

At the Center, we recognize the importance of the preschool years, as a time, when children take great steps on their own developmental journey. They have emerged from the toddler years with a sure sense of an autonomous self, an emerging interest in peers, and motor skills that will take them to new places and new heights. They are ready to develop the language, and social-emotional skills that will lead to success in school and life.

At the Center, we pledge to work with you and your child toward quality educational experiences. We also recognize that you, as a parent, are your child's first and most important teacher and that your home is the most significant learning environment, where lifelong dispositions about learning begin to develop. I invite you to join with your child's teachers in a partnership that will support your child to grow and learn every day at the center and at home. In the spirit of partnership, I invite you to join us, in a commitment to share in and contribute to your child's learning experience.

As your partner, we agree to work together with you to help your child become a successful learner. We welcome your presence in the center at all times and invite you to participate in home base activities on a regular basis. We encourage your child's unique capabilities and interests. We integrate language, arts, math and science throughout our curriculum, to nurture your child's love of language, arts, science, mathematics and learning. We are creating classroom environments where your child can learn the importance of books and print. My goal is to ensure a quality daycare/preschool that meets the needs of our children.

I am looking forward to working closely with you and your children. Because, here at Ashland Child Development, your children are at the center of everything we do!

Kevin McCaffery-Director