South Whidbey Children's Center

South Whidbey Children’s Center’s educational philosophy supports the social, emotional and cognitive development of each child through the HighScope curriculum. This curriculum was specifically chosen as it is child centered, emergent, and research validated. HighScope’s approach to education is a unique process that has been tested and researched for over 40 years. Young children’s cognitive, social, emotional, and physical capacities develop quickly when they can use materials and their imaginations freely in an environment that promotes investigation, decision making, cooperation, persistence, and problem solving. The capacities that children develop in this open framework are broad abilities that children can, and do, use daily in the classroom as well as at home. The South Whidbey Children’s Center was originally founded in 1978 by a small group of families in need of preschool and childcare.

SWCC’s philosophy is to nurture, support, and empower the whole child and to help them grow deep roots that will serve them throughout their education and life. They believe this approach helps to foster self-confidence, curiosity and compassion in your child during this vital stage of life.

They also believe that, in order to provide families with the best possible early childhood learning experience, they must work intentionally to create a diverse and equitable environment. As such, it is crucial to their child-centered learning philosophy that they remain committed to improving the wages, benefits, and professional status of theur teachers, as well as making their Center accessible to a wide variety of family income levels.

SWCC teaches preschool and has childcare for children ages 12 months through 5 years. They also have a before and after school program for children ages 5 through 12 years old. The South Whidbey Children’s Center is the only NAEYC accredited and Early Achievers participating preschool on South Whidbey.