The DLM Early Childhood Express

Our academic program is based on “The DLM Early Childhood Express”, a comprehensive, research-based curriculum that develops children's minds and bodies through carefully selected and sequenced learning experiences. It delivers flexible lessons that reflect cutting-edge research, materials for teaching the lessons. Here are just a few of the ways children learn and develop under this program.

• A rich learning environment contributes to brain structure and capacity. Research suggests that the richer a child’s environment, the more neural connections the brain will create. The DLM Early Childhood Express offers a wide range of materials to keep the children engaged and stimulated. The lessons focus on using a multi-sensory approach to ensure that children absorb and remember what they are experiencing.
• Experience is the architect of the brain. The brain reinforces and strengthens neural connections when activities and experiences are repeated, expanded, and connected. Our curriculum provides continuous opportunities for children to revisit what they have learned, viewing it within new and expanded contexts.
• Neuroscience research suggests that children learn by identifying patterns and connecting those patterns to previously learned material. Getting learners focused, allowing them time to practice, and providing time for reflection are equally important as actually developing the lesson. In The DLM Early Childhood Express, the lesson cycle is driven by information from neuroscience research about how the brain processes and stores information. Each lesson begins with a focus strategy that prepares children for the instruction and helps them focus their attention. The develop strategies that follow present the instruction. Children follow the lesson by participating in several practice activities, which allow them to apply and make sense of what they have just learned. Finally, they are encouraged to reflect on what they have learned and on how they will use the new information.
• For children to grow intellectually, they must feel confident in their abilities and secure in their relationships with teachers, family members, and peers. Healthy social-emotional development is an important aspect of the DLM Early Childhood Express. It is addressed in every lesson, built into content connections, and inherent in the way families are actively involved in our classrooms.

Handwriting Without Tears

This program aims to make legible and fluent handwriting an easy and automatic skill that students can master.The curriculum uses multi-sensory techniques and consistent habits for letter formation to teach handwriting to all students in our Pre-K classrooms. In addition, HWT provides parents and teachers the instructional techniques and activities to help improve a child’s self-confidence, pencil grip, body awareness, posture and so much more! For more information, feel free to visit their website, www.hwtears.com