The Phoenix School was recently awarded Georgia's SEEDS for Success grant. SEEDS stands for Social Emotional Early Development Strategies. This grant is funded through the Child Care Development Block Grant and all applicants had to go through a competitive process to receive this year-long grant. Throughout the year our preschool and Pre-K teachers will participate in intensive professional development training focused on fostering a positive social emotional classroom clima

Bright from the Start: Early Care and Learning (DECAL) announces The Phoenix School as Early Language and Literacy Mini-Grant Award Winners (one of two in DeKalb County)! Governor Nathan Deal today announced grant awards to 15 projects as part of the Early Language and Literacy Mini-Grant Program, a collaborative effort between the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement and the Sandra Dunagan Deal Center for Early Language and Literacy at Georgia College. “The Early Languag

Quality Rated is a systemic approach to assess, improve, and communicate the level of quality in early and school‐age care and education programs. What is Quality Rated? In 2012, the Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning (DECAL) launched Quality Rated, a star rating system to improve the quality of early care and education programs as well as provide families with clear information on these programs. Many states have implemented tiered quality rating and improvement s

Within our Infant and Toddler classrooms, one way we measure our progress is by utilizing LENA Grow. LENA technology is the industry standard for measuring talk with children birth to three, a critical factor in early brain development. Used all over the world, LENA will support your initiative to improve early language, to close gaps in cognitive, emotional, and social development, and to improve school readiness. We measure growth with three simple steps: 1) Recording: A fu

Based on the philosophy of our school, we utilize the Creative Curriculum - a play-based curriculum. There has been an abundance of research around play and its positive effects on early childhood learning and development. In general, research shows strong links between creative play and language, physical, cognitive, and social development. Play is a healthy, essential part of childhood. Infants explore their world through their senses while adults in their world foster thei