Health & Safety Procedures
What we are doing:
- Daily professional disinfecting, cleaning, and sanitizing of our facilities.
- Daily Health Self-Assessment Questionnaire.
- All Edu1st Staff who are vaccinated must present a copy of their vaccination card as proof of their vaccination status.
- The staff who is not vaccinated must present a negative PCR test every 5 days.
- In Place Isolation, Testing, and coming back to School Policy.
- 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
- Sick Policy in place.
These are the services we are providing:
Preschool:
Our Spanish – English Bilingual preschool program starts at 12 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!
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 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!
- Our Pioneers program provides 4 and 5-year-olds with exciting and challenging home-based learning opportunities that are play-based, hands-on, minds-on, socially focused, and carefully crafted to nurture creativity and critical thinking.
- Through our small-group virtual Thinking Adventure sessions and Enrichment classes, we focus on fostering independence and learning autonomy in all development areas.
- Pre-reading and pre-writing skills, mathematical concepts, scientific reasoning, musical awareness, and Art appreciation are nurtured through our innovative VESS curriculum that focuses on the development of their critical thinking skills.
Take a tour! We’d love you to visit with the entire family-both parents, grandparents, and your little one! Here you will be able to see our unique VESS educational approach, observe the classrooms that are key to the encouragement and facilitation of our students’ learning, and meet our dedicated professional educators, who are genuinely passionate. We believe that the best way to experience BMIA is to come and see us first hand!