As a busy working professional in the technology industry, Denise knows the importance of having a daycare that you can feel comfortable taking your children to each day, and know that they are learning valuable skills and developing the abilities they need to succeed as they prepare to enter school. Miles and Bryce will be entering second grade this upcoming year, and Denise recalls that they were more than prepared when kindergarten came around. “It was an easy transition for them. They had all the right life skills and coping skills that a kindergartener would need. We didn’t struggle with any issues, and I think that’s because of how the Simon Center had them set up to succeed in school.”

She feels strongly that one of the reasons her boys entered school so prepared coming from the Simon Center is the flexibility and maneuverability given to the teachers to tailor their classroom curriculum to fit the individual children in their class. She recalled that in one of her son’s classes last school year a particular theme really interested the children, so the teacher incorporated it into several lessons. “It was transportation, and it was such a hit that they stayed on the topic for three weeks because the kids were so excited to talk about trucks, and heavy machinery, and trains, and ships, and airplanes. Whereas some other places it may have been more of, ‘Nope. We’re moving on to the next topic.’ But here at the Simon Center they were able to keep going and were still able to keep the topic fresh and keep the kids moving forward.”