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The licence block, the ratio and group-size tables, the allergy and medication summary, the authorised-pickup notice and the demo disclaimer paint from a separate set of properties that this panel refuses, at runtime, to write. Safety and licensing information is not a styling choice.
Infants6 weeks – 12 months1 educator to 3 infants
Toddlers12 – 24 months1 educator to 3 toddlers
Twos24 – 36 months1 educator to 4 children
Preschool3 – 4 years1 educator to 7 children
Pre-K4 – 5 years1 educator to 8 childrenStaff turnover is the biggest single driver of quality in early years, and it is the number centres least like discussing. So we publish how long everybody has been here.
Pedagogical director
M.Ed. Early Childhood Education · Oregon Registry Step 12
Rosa founded Meadow after eleven years in public pre-K and a study visit to the municipal infant-toddler centres in Reggio Emilia. She writes the pedagogical documentation training every educator here goes through, and still takes a room one morning a week so she does not forget what it is like.
Atelierista
MFA Sculpture · Oregon Registry Step 9
Kwame is a working sculptor who spends four days a week in the studio here. He is responsible for the material vocabulary of the older rooms — the wire, the clay at scale, the light table — and for the wall of children’s work that is the only saturated colour in the building.
Infant room lead
B.S. Human Development · Infant/Toddler credential · Oregon Registry Step 10
Marisol has led the infant room for eight years and has never once been talked out of following a baby’s own schedule. She runs Meadow’s safe-sleep practice and its primary-caregiving model, and she is the person families quote back to us most often.
Toddler room lead
B.A. Child & Family Studies · Oregon Registry Step 8
Ellie came from a forest kindergarten in the Cascades and brought the all-weather habit with her. She designed the toddler yard, and is the reason there is a mud kitchen made of reclaimed cedar rather than a plastic one.
Twos room lead
B.A. Psychology · CDA · Oregon Registry Step 8
Sam is exceptionally good at the thing that is hardest in a room of two-year-olds: staying put during a conflict instead of solving it. He also runs the clay, and has strong opinions about slip.
Preschool & Pre-K lead
Ph.D. Education · Oregon Registry Step 12
Anita researches how young children build explanations, which turns out to be very good training for letting a nine-week argument about shadows run its course. She writes the transition summaries that go to kindergartens.
The average tenure in this building is a little over five years, in a sector where annual turnover of thirty per cent is ordinary. That is not luck and it is not culture. It is three specific decisions, all of which cost money.
We also close for five professional-development days a year, published every August so you can plan childcare around them. Those days are inconvenient for families and they are the ones where the actual work of improving happens.
Every adult ever alone with a child is enrolled in Oregon's Central Background Registry — criminal history, a fingerprint-based check and a child-abuse registry check — cleared before their first unsupervised contact, not within a grace period afterwards.
Trained at induction and refreshed annually, and able to make a report without going through a manager first. That includes reporting about this centre.
Held by 100% of educators on a two-year refresh cycle, with certification dates tracked centrally. At least two currently certified adults are on site whenever a child is.
The director takes every tour, and you will meet the lead of whichever room your child would join. Ask them how long they have been here — it is a better question than it sounds.