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Bee Balm Learning Center, LLC (BBLC) is a full-time educational early learning center. We provide care and learning opportunities for children 6 weeks through 6 years old. We believe in positive child guidance. Teachers and staff will praise students for positive behaviors and act with confidence, fairness, and patience.
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As an accredited center the purpose of Bee Balm is to provide high quality care and education in a safe, nurturing, and caring environment, where children can learn, develop and grow as individuals. Indoor and outdoor environments will be interesting, engaging, and full of hidden secrets that spark imagination and wonder every day. Children will learn about their world through active exploration which means taking risks, making mistakes, falling down, getting messy, and using materials in new and interesting ways.
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We believe that children are individuals who learn through play at individual rates and in individual ways. We will support and celebrate that on a daily basis through our interactions and curriculum implementation. We use a project based curriculum and assess children using the DRDP framework that is tightly aligned with the Wisconsin Model Early Learning Standards. The team at Bee Balm is also wonderfully diverse. Each team member is blessed with special talents, gifts, and passions. At Bee Balm we support this by finding ways to include these into our programming. This not only makes our program unique but it encourages our team members to contribute and grow by becoming invested in the program.
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We will always strive to make everyone at Bee Balm feel a part of our family and community by giving them a sense of belonging and purpose. Families become active partners with us in their child’s learning experiences through this sense of community. We believe that everyone is unique and special and has something wonderful to contribute to our community.
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Our main objective at Bee Balm is to encourage children to develop a healthy self-image and a positive self-esteem through the intentional development of all the developmental domains, including; social, emotional, motor, cognitive, language.
Our vision at Bee Balm is to make the world a better place through nurturing a community of individuals with the mission to create life longer learners who intentionally create an environment which enhances the development of every child through the celebration of play, discovery, and individuality.
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At Bee Balm we value lifelong learning, celebration of individuality, and community. Our goal is to set children up for success in the future. To us this means developing a love of learning at the very youngest age that will continue throughout their life time. The team at Bee Balm is also constantly growing, learning, and evolving. We will never settle for the standard but continually strive for excellence through the pursuit of professional development and innovation. We understand the importance of the work that we do and appreciate the trust placed in us.
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We are humming bird teachers. We hover nearby, but not over our students. We remain distant enough to let them explore and learn to solve problems. We teach them skills, mainly by example. We zoom in only when their safety is threatened. Our goal for them isn’t a risk-free childhood, but a resilient life.