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“Mountain Valley Community School” is a progressive alternative to standard preschool and childcare. We truly and deeply care about our future generation's happiness and their responsibility to themselves and the future of our community. To us, a community is environmentally and socially aware/ just, close-nit, caring, sustainable, and festive. Therefore, we have an environmentally conscious, culturally diverse, anti-bias/ anti-racism foundation. Our curriculum is based on placemaking and community. We learn a lot about what it means to be from the Pacific Northwest and what it means to be "me". And how that all comes together in COMMUNITY. We embrace enriching philosophies such Montessori, Waldorf, unschooling, attachment parenting, Non- Violent Communication, and Original Play. Combined with our own special magic/charm/sparkle a comfortable, compassionate, fun, and enriching community thrives. Our small class size enables us to be flexible with the various needs and interests of each child. Preschool aged children experience age appropriate enrichment in a home-schooling environment.
At Mountain Valley our biggest focus is to foster and co-create a close-knit community. We mentor respectful communication amongst each other and give each other the space to play together or alone. We are here to play and create together as well as to cry, heal, and then laugh again together.
We like our place to be an extension of your family and encourage families to meet. To achieve this goal we hold quarterly potlucks to reconnect and bring in the new season. We also organize family and school field trips. We are a state certified facility:
The primary provider must have at least one year of qualifying teaching experience in the care of a group of children in an ongoing group setting such as kindergarten, preschool, Headstart program or licensed child care; OR has completed 20 semester credits or 30 quarter credit of college or university training in early childhood education or child development; OR has documentation of attaining at least step 8 on the Oregon Registry.
The provider, substitute providers, and any Assistant II level staff are required to have fifteen (15) clock hours of training related to child care every year. Of these 15 hours, at least eight (8) clock hours must be in child development or early childhood education. These staff must maintain:
current infant and child cardiopulmonary resuscitation certifications ( CPR ) and first aid food handler certification;and show evidence of two (2) hours of training in Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse. |
