Covid-19 Updates
Health & Safety Procedures
These days have brought with them many moments of growth and learning for us all, and now even more than ever, we see the importance of supporting the family and community we’ve built together. With that in mind, and after careful consideration, research, and preparation, we re-opened our schools on May 26th.
We started a Gradual Reopening of our schools, going far beyond Florida requirements to ensure that your child and our staff stay safe and healthy.
Your child’s well-being is always our top priority.
What we are doing:
- Daily professional disinfecting, cleaning, and sanitizing of our facilities.
- Professionally fumigating throughout school premises.
- Performing beyond regulation AC equipment maintenance, to guarantee optimal air quality conditions.
- Consulting with a team of doctors who are part of our reopening committee and strictly following their suggestions to adjust our Policies and Procedures and go beyond the recommendations of our regulating entities (DCF, CDC, Dept. of Health).
- Purchasing safety equipment for our team recommended by that team of doctors.
- Coming together with pediatricians and other healthcare professionals to administer training for our whole team on Covid-19 spread prevention.
- Preparing and training our cleaning and maintenance team in Covid-19 virus disinfection, including on the specific guidelines provided by our regulating entities
Since the reopening of our schools, we have put in place the most strict and evidence-based policies and procedures towards the prevention of Covid-19 spread at Edu1st.Preschools:
- Screen checkup at drop off
- Maintaining small groups within classrooms
- Constant cleaning and disinfecting throughout the school
- Covid-19 testing of all school personnel
- Use of masks, hairnets and other preventative measures by all school personnel
- Prevention of cross-contamination by avoiding any opportunity of group mixing or contact from teachers and students from different classrooms.
Preschool Protocol
These are the services we are providing:
Preschool: (Morning and Afternoon session and full-time option)
Our Spanish – English Bilingual preschool program starts at 3 months of age until 5 years old and is full of amazing activities! We use our VESS Model and visible thinking to expose children to new experiences that enhance their motor and sensory skills, communication & language. Even if they do not speak, they quickly learn the language of thinking!
Virtual Preschool:
Our Bilingual PreK.2Go online program is designed to support parents in providing a rich and wholesome early learning experience at home for children ages 0-5 years. We partner with parents to design a thorough learning program for children through carefully-crafted virtual sessions, home activity ideas, and parental support, including educational videos, live webinars, and one-on-one sessions. Our program is led by early childhood education professionals and tailored to fit any family’s schedule and needs. We plan a complete and personalized learning program, and follow up on your child’s specific progress and milestones through target setting and progress report sessions. You can start, pause, or cancel at any time.
Families will have the power to choose between keeping your children at home, bringing them to school, or using both services part-time.
FREE VPK:
We offer the VPK Program – a FREE educational program created to prepare four-year-olds in Florida for kindergarten. VPK stands for the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program.
- The VPK program, in general, provides developmentally appropriate curricula with a focus on early literacy skills, developmental standards, accountability, substantial instruction periods, manageable class size, and qualified instructors.
- Our school’s VPK Program goes beyond Florida standards with our VESS curriculum, a holistic educational model approved by the Florida School Readiness Program, and certified by the Department of Neuroeducation at the University of Barcelona.
Registration must be done through the Early Learning Coalition. Please go online and apply to get the voucher. However, you can start the registration process in our school without the voucher and as soon as you get it you can bring it to our school or send it by email.
Virtual FREE VPK & Pre-Kindergarten
A carefully-crafted online-based program for 4-5-year olds designed by our team of experienced educators to fulfill and surpass the developmental needs of pre-kindergarteners in an engaging, meaningful way that promotes learning autonomy and their innate love for discovery and innovation…from home! We are offering 3 programs:
- Pioneers Program: Provides up to 1.5 hours per day of live learning, monthly one-on-one parent-teacher conference & more.
- Pioneers Pre-K Program: Is an extension of our pioneers program which engages in 3 daily hours of live, play-based learning in all development areas, so that your pioneer reaches Kindergarten fully ready to take on the world!
- Pre-Kinder Program: The same VPK Plus program but for kids outside of Florida or those who don’t have or have used the voucher.
Our Elementary-Support Program
- Personalized support with schoolwork: Our bilingual professional educators are highly trained in our Florida Approved VESS educational Model.
- Weekly Enrichment Activities: Yoga, Physical Education, and Music Exploration provided every week - Classroom placement and socialization with other elementary-aged children
- Safety Standards that surpass CDC guidelines for Covid-19 prevention: Our team of health professionals trains and guides us towards the highest Covid-19 prevention protocols:
- All of our staff has tested negative for Covid-19
- Mask and face-shield are used by staff throughout the day
- Multiple staff training by Medical Doctors and Disinfecting Professionals
- Symptom screening at drop off and throughout the day
- Cleaning and disinfection protocols throughout the day
