Read more here – a message Donna shared in March of 2024 about our decision for “three more years” of Children First as we know it now- now “two more years.”
We are fully enrolled for the Fall of 2025, and we are accepting applications for our final incoming class in the Fall of 2026.
We will host our next Friday Open House for Educators on October 24 2025. Check back later for registration information.
Moment to moment, week to week, and year to year—teachers make choices. Small choices, big choices, important choices. Choice is our challenge and our privilege—maybe even our superpower. Among the most consequential choices we make: how will we spend the finite hours we have with the children? How will we focus our limited energy and attention?
Children First is featured in the January 2023 issue of Exchange, a journal supporting early childhood professionals worldwide in their efforts to craft thriving environments for children and adults. See the article “A Story Festival” by Donna King.
How do you handle “bad guys?” Join a yearlong, child-led investigation of goodness and badness, real and pretend, safety and courage. Expand your practice as you learn alongside a passionate and creative teacher, who takes risks and shares the outcomes as this energizing story unfolds.
Children First is featured in the March/April 2014 issue of Exchange, a journal supporting early childhood professionals worldwide in their efforts to craft thriving environments for children and adults. See the article “A Graduation Story” by Donna King.
Well! This is Children First! It's a real school, and it's mine."
Children First is a non-profit preschool where parents and teachers cooperate to provide care and education of uncompromising quality for young children.
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