Local Learning Center Receives Award

Spring, Texas – Children’s Lighthouse Spring-Harmony today announced that it has received accreditation from AdvancED®, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that conducts rigorous, on-site external reviews of Pre-K-12 schools and school systems to ensure that all learners realize their full potential.

Childrens Lighthouse Franchise Company, franchisor of Children’s Lighthouse Spring-Harmony, received its certification from AdvanceED® in January 2017. Children’s Lighthouse is widely recognized as the leading values-based early learning school system in the United States.

“Accreditation from AdvanceED® is a huge accomplishment and testament to our center’s continued commitment to providing our students’ with the leading educational development program on the market,” said Glenice Saldanha, co-owner of Children’s Lighthouse Spring-Harmony. “We’ve put so much thought and effort into making sure our center serves our students in the best possible way – this accreditation reflects that hard work.”

In order to grant accreditation, AdvancED® conducted several in-depth interviews with the center’s leadership, teachers, staff and parents to make sure Children’s Lighthouse Spring-Harmony met AdvancED®’s five main standards, which include: purpose and direction; governance and leadership; teaching and assessing for learning; resources and support systems; and, using results for continuous improvement.

The combination of nurturing care and a comprehensive curriculum for young children puts Children’s Lighthouse at the head of its class. First introduced in 2014, Children’s Lighthouse’s proprietary curriculum, Lighthouse C.A.R.E.S.℠, is based on five foundations:

• Comprehensive inclusion of cognitive, affective and psychomotor development
• Active engagement
• Research-centered practice
• Embedded (or integrated) content
• Standards-based objectives

This proprietary curriculum also includes the use of "brain-based" teaching and learning strategies and a targeted STREAM (Science, Technology, Reading, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics) component. The curriculum is provided to all children ages two through five.

Children’s Lighthouse recognizes that parents and guardians play an essential role in a child’s education. In order to help engage parents and connect them to their child’s learning, Children’s Lighthouse added Lighthouse Connections℠ in the curriculum, which includes sending detailed monthly calendars that describe daily activities, as well as monthly information on curriculum topics to parents.

Childrens Lighthouse Learning Centers℠ provide a safe and secure environment that gives parents peace of mind. Specialized services for families include online video links to classrooms, computerized building entry, security monitoring and transportation to and from area elementary schools.

Launched more than 20 years ago, Children’s Lighthouse Franchise Company provides entrepreneurs with the opportunity to open in approximately 11,000 square-feet of space in attractive metropolitan areas. Complete with initial and ongoing training and marketing support, ownership in a Children’s Lighthouse franchise includes a full suite of support services ranging from access to strategic leasing and financing partners to pinpoint site selection support. The company delivers its thorough market analysis with its powerful demographic software programs and real estate network, and its architectural partner assists in all aspects of the design work, leaving the entrepreneur to focus on what is most important – the business.

For more information on Children’s Lighthouse Spring-Harmony, visit https://childrenslighthouse.com/spring.

About Children’s Lighthouse

Established in Ft. Worth, Texas in 1995, Childrens Lighthouse Learning Centers℠ are among the leaders in providing value-based educational childcare. Currently, Children’s Lighthouse has 49 centers in operation and 25 additional franchise locations in the development pipeline. Children’s Lighthouse has been named a “Best Places to Work” by the Dallas and San Antonio Business Journals and has received the “Franchise 500” designation by Entrepreneur magazine due to its stability, financial strength and growth.

For more information about Childrens Lighthouse Learning Centers℠, visit www.childrenslighthouse.com.

About AdvancED®

AdvancED® is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that conducts rigorous, on-site school quality reviews of Pre-K through 12 schools and school systems to help educators and their communities ensure that all learners realize their full potential. While their expertise is grounded in more than a hundred years of work in accreditation, AdvancED® is also committed to help schools improve. Combining the knowledge and expertise of a research institute, the skills of a management consulting firm and the passion of a grassroots movement for educational change, we serve as a trusted partner to over 34,000 schools and school systems—employing more than four million educators and enrolling more than 20 million students—across the United States and 71 other nations.

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