Washington State University Children’s Center practices a developmentally appropriate approach to early education as advocated by the National Association for the Education of Young Children. Our curriculum emphasizes learning as an interactive process. The teachers prepare the environment for children to learn through active exploration with other children and materials. Our goal for early education is to ensure that children acquire the foundations for healthy development and learning.

Our program is both age-appropriate and individually appropriate. Age-appropriate activities are based on knowledge of typical physical, emotional, social and cognitive development within a particular age span. We also recognize that each child is unique with an individual pattern, timing of growth, personality and family background.