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NTMC #5 Ruston | Tacoma WA Child Care Center

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About the Provider

Description: NTMC #5 Ruston is a Child Care Center in Tacoma WA, with a maximum capacity of 102 children. This child care center helps with children in the age range of 12 months – 13 years 0 months. The provider does not participate in a subsidized child care program.

Additional Information: First Initial License Date: 9/4/1990. Early Achievers Status: Participating in Quality Improvement. Doing Business As Our Inn-spiration II Preschool.

Program and Licensing Details

• License Number:
  PL-21587
• Capacity:
  102
• Age Range:
  12 months – 13 years 0 months
• Early Achievers Rating:
  Participating, not yet rated
• Enrolled in Subsidized Child Care Program:
  No
• Initial License Issue Date:
  Sep 04, 1990
• Current License Issue Date:
  Sep 04, 1990
• Current License Expiration Date:
  Dec 31, 2999
• District Office:
  Tacoma/Silverdale
• District Office Phone:
  253-344-3109 (Note: This is not the facility phone number. )
• Licensor:
  Megan Parsons ([email protected])

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Inspection/Report History

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Report Date	Report Type
2022-03-08	ChildCareMonitoringChecklist.pdf
2022-03-08	Licensing CCC Inspection Report
2021-01-27	ChildCareMonitoringChecklist.pdf
2021-01-27	Licensing CCC Inspection Report
2019-10-01	ChildCareMonitoringChecklist. pdf
2019-10-01	Licensing CCC Inspection Report
2019-02-14	Child Care Center Abbreviated Checklist.pdf
2018-01-23	Child Care Center Abbreviated Checklist.pdf

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About Inspire! Irondequoit

At Inspire! Irondequoit, we provide Learning and Childcare services year-round, Monday through Friday, offering care to children between the ages of 6 weeks to 12 years of age. Our Irondequoit location operates from 6:30am to 6pm Monday through Friday.

We pride ourselves on going above and beyond our families expectations to do what it takes to be a premier New York State licensed childcare center. You will not find a cold, impersonal environment that many of the large franchise or national centers offer. What you will find at Inspire! is a warm, caring, creative, learning, and loving environment. When you walk through our doors, you will feel that the center is a home away from home with an individual focus on each child and their specific needs.

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Meet Your Executive Director, Jennifer Price

My name is Jennifer (Jen) Price and I am the Executive Director of the Inspire! Brockport, Irondequoit, and Pittsford locations. I have been with the Inspire! Family since July 2014 starting as an assistant teacher in the infant classroom at Brockport and worked my way up to being a Executive Director.

Outside of the center, I enjoy spending time with my family, gardening, being creative and baking. Here at Inspire! Learning and Childcare, we want to become part of your family and we want you to become part of our family!

Meet our Center Director, Kimberly Bulman

My name is Kimberly (Kim) Bulman, and I am the Director of Inspire! Irondequoit. I have my Bachelor’s in elementary education, and my Masters in elementary reading and literacy.

I have been a teacher in the district and moved to childcare about 15 years ago. I started as a preschool teacher and worked my way up to Director! I am a mom of 4 boys that keep my spare time busy with sports. I love reading, baking, and scrapbooking. Here at Inspire! Irondequoit, we want to become part of your family and we want you to become part of ours!

Our parent surveys indicate the number one reason parents choose Inspire! is the trust they have in the highly qualified and caring staff of professionals.   It is our teachers and administrators who care for each child and their family, as well as striving everyday for the children’s growth and development, that make Inspire! different. Their kindness and smiles make every day a special day for your children. We recruit individuals who share our vision, values, love of children and dedication to the highest quality of early childhood educations.

Our Vision

To be the leader in early childhood development throughout our region and act as a model of what child learning and care centers should be throughout the country.

Our Values are:

• Family – We are an extension of the families who utilize our services and we are very proud and thankful for that.  Furthermore, we are like a family in our centers and in our locations, working closely and always supporting one another to achieve our goals.
• Authenticity and Integrity – We are genuine and candid, but with diplomacy in the way we work with our families, our regulators and with each other. We are a “stand-up” business in our community and we are leader in our industry for this reason.
• Fun – We truly want to have fun in everything we do. Work can be challenging at times, but we all own our own experiences and we should always bring fun and laughter to our centers. Fun translates to our staff, the children, and families and to our leadership.

• Trust – We are entrusted with the security and safety of our children as well as the teachers and staff who serve them. Confidence in our ability to do what we say we are able to do is very important to our success.
• Learning and Creativity – First and foremost, we are Learning Centers that educate and develop the whole child.  We expand young minds  through cognitive learning, including literacy and common  core elements, social/emotional learning, as well as both large and small motor skills.  We will always develop our staff and leadership through many modalities that relate to the individual.
• Community – We are part of our local communities, an extension of those communities and constantly work to make them a better place for everyone. We work with local charities and businesses to better our communities and support the people within them.

Join Us

We are always looking for high quality, energetic, positive staff members, and we promise to consider all resumes we receive. We do seek staff with experience and those who will meet all of the requirements of New York State Office of Child and Family Services. So if you’re a qualified candidate, sending us your resume is time well spent!

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Contact Information

330 Pattonwood Drive
Rochester, New York 14617
Call our Center Director Kimberly Bulman for more information
(585) 460-3317
[email protected]

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OUR PETS ARE OUR INSPIRATION

Camp guest Alexander Tolmachev,
children’s popularizer of science

Shift 2: Tailed Heroes: Cats and Dogs in Books and Life

From March 27 to April 10, take part in exciting lecture camps about our tailed friends.
– Complete the quiz after each lecture and get a Connoisseur’s Certificate.
– Come up with an illustration for a book on the topic of the lecture, upload your work to the site and get likes.

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  Watch a lecture, take a quiz and get a Certificate in your personal account

• 2

  Draw an illustration for a book on the topic of the lecture and upload it to the site

People’s Choice Award

• Submit your work to one of the four camp lectures from March 27 to April 10.

• Get the maximum number of likes for the work in a particular lecture.

Based on the voting results, 3 participants with the most likes are declared winners. Based on the results of the camp, 12 winners of the audience awards in this nomination will be determined.

camp star

• Post your work in all four camp lectures.

• Get the highest rating for your work from the organizers of the competition.

The camp experts will determine the most original illustrations. Based on the results of the entire camp, 4 winners will be determined.

Be active and creative and you can get prizes in both nominations at once!

Download competition regulations

• How did cats become pets?

• “Can you make a cat laugh?”

• What are dogs thinking about?

• Why is a dog man’s best friend?

Take the quiz and download the illustration,
for a Connoisseur Certificate and a chance to win prizes

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Complete the quiz and download the illustration,
for a Connoisseur Certificate and a chance to win prizes

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Take the quiz and download the illustration,
for a Connoisseur Certificate and a chance to win prizes

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Experience The Difference
Of Locally-Owned Care

Feel welcomed by smiling faces as you drop your kiddo daily at a center that knows what families like yours need. Owned and operated by College Station locals, this is care crafted for your community and your children.

Intentionally Small Classes For
Warmth, Love, & Connection

Your child will be so happy in a nurturing, encouraging environment. Teacher-to-student ratios stay low to ensure they get the individualized attention they need to learn, discover, and grow with an enormous smile every day.

Farm-To-Table Eating Teaches
Your Child About Nature & Health

Your child grows, waters, tends, and harvests vegetables like cucumbers, lettuce, and tomatoes in the garden each day. They learn about nature’s ecosystems and feel excited to eat the tasty, healthy produce they grow.

In The Loop With Frequent
Updates On Your Handy App

Your child’s day is at your fingertips with the free Procare® parent app, where you’ll see real-time updates from their teachers. Stay informed about every feed and diaper change, and enjoy a break from that perfectly natural parent guilt.

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Security Cameras For
Your Peace Of Mind

Internal-use cameras keep a watchful eye as your child plays and grows in the care of CPR-certified staff. Access controls ensure that no unauthorized people can get in, and sturdy fences surround the yard so you can rest easy. 

Teachers With Experience
Nurture Your Little Learner

Your little one’s teachers dedicate themselves to early education. Not only do they hold credentials, including Child Development Associates or bachelor’s degrees, but they bring years of experience to the loving care they offer your child every day.

Our Curriculum Ignites Your Child’s Curiosity

The carefully crafted blend of techniques and approaches that your child experiences every day helps to unlock their potential, imagination, and a lifelong love of learning. They explore interactive, hands-on, exciting activities, scaffolded by world-renowned programs.

• Reggio-Inspired learning centers the child by setting all resources at eye level, so learners can explore and discover independently.

• The research-backed Creative Curriculum® emphasizes experiential learning so your child can apply their discoveries to life.

• Ready 2 Advance transforms your child into a global citizen by blending social-emotional learning with Spanish.

• Weekly STEAM activities unlock their critical thinking through projects that combine science, tech, engineering, art, and math.

Spanish Early Learning
Gives Your Child Advantages

For every new, exciting topic your child explores, they learn Spanish vocabulary through songs, games, and activities. Introducing an additional language at an early age boosts cognitive development and opens your child’s eyes to the world.

Baby Signing, Gardening,
& More Included In Tuition

Engaging enrichments are part of your child’s happy, fun-filled day at no extra cost. They develop early communication skills with daily baby sign language sessions, connect with nature through gardening, and start to think outside the box with fun STEAM experiments. 

2 Fun, Safe Playgrounds
For Outdoor Adventures

Watch your little one let loose each day as they skip, jump, run, and play in the fresh air. With 2 age-appropriate playgrounds, your kiddo builds their gross motor skills at their own pace, and in the garden, they plant and tend the veggies they’ll snack on later.

A Director On Site Every Day
To Make You Feel Welcome

Seeing the same, happy, familiar faces every day makes your child feel confident and gives you peace of mind. Feel free to communicate with your teachers and an engaged, on-site director about what’s best for your child.

Yes! We Proudly Accept Subsidies!

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Interview: Natalia Pakhotina – Russian Cultural Center

– Tell your story in America. Where did you study and work before Texas? Was Texas your choice, or was it a coincidence?

I came to the USA from Siberia, from Novosibirsk Academgorodok, both my husband and I graduated from Novosibirsk State University, however, in different specialties: I am an economist, and he is a physicist. Together they decided to continue their studies in the USA for a doctoral degree. Getting into one university wasn’t easy, but fortunately we were both accepted at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. Texas was not a conscious choice, it so happened that my husband was offered a job at Texas A&M University (TAMU), and we moved to College Station (College Station), a year later I also got a job at the university, so we stayed in Texas.

– Please tell us about your work. Which of your projects stand out the most and why?

It will soon be 10 years since I have been a lecturer at the Faculty of Economics at TAMU. I love my job: it is creative, it always makes me develop and grow professionally, master new technologies, and this year I suddenly had to master video editing. I also like the fact that teachers have a freer schedule than in other professions, long vacations for the new year and summer. Not to say that there are projects in the teaching work, we rather have semesters and courses. I remember how scary it was for the first time to go to a class where 250 students were sitting in the audience at once. But then, on the contrary, it became more comfortable when there are a lot of students, and if the hall is half full, then something seems to be missing. It is remembered when the semester went well, there was good contact with students, when at the end of the semester they come to you to shake hands and say thank you. For one year, I tried to organize the Study Abroad program – to take American students to Russia in the summer, I planned to show them Moscow and St. Petersburg. For the program to be approved, 10 students had to be recruited. Just before the spring break, there were just 10 people, the program was approved, and then during the holidays one student changed his mind and everything was suddenly canceled. It was a shame, since then I haven’t tried it anymore, but maybe someday in the future it will be possible to implement this project.

What do you like most about Texas?

We haven’t lived anywhere but the south of the USA, so it’s hard for me to compare. I love the Texas fall, winter, and spring – the fact that most of the year you can leave the house without wearing warm clothes. Spring flowering in the fields. That you can at least every day cook food on the street on the grill. I like many economic factors: relatively low prices, a good labor market. We enjoy going to local events like Brazos Valley Fair and Rodeo, TAMU Physics Festival. It is very nice that people, organizations and the city always try to organize family events.

– What traditions and habits have you retained from your pre-Texan life?

We always cook soups at home (borscht is our favorite) and pancakes, and for the holidays we make Olivier and other Russian salads. We continue according to the Russian tradition to celebrate the New Year more than Christmas. We want our children to know and love the snowy winter, for this, from the age of 3 we take them regularly to the skating rink, and in winter we try to go “to the snow”. True, it didn’t work out this year, but snow itself came to us in Texas, a lot of snow fell, so the children even built a snow fort in front of the house.

– How are your relations with your homeland? Do you miss any aspects of life at home?

Yes, I miss you very much, I am always drawn to Russia, I try to keep in touch with my friends who stayed there. But I don’t follow the news, I usually learn about everything from friends and relatives. I travel to Russia with great joy, I miss the change of seasons, golden autumn and snowy winter, my hometown, friends and parents. There is not enough cultural life in a big city, we live here in a small city, there are not enough theaters, museums, a center where you can walk around.

– Please tell us about your family.

Our family is friendly: me, my husband and three daughters. Home is always fun and there is something to do. It will soon be 20 years since my husband and I have been together. The older daughters are twins, they are 10 years old, and the younger one is 8.

– What do you do outside of work? What are your interests and hobbies?

I love to travel! Sometimes I draw, in the past I regularly practiced yoga, skated, now I suddenly took up tennis. I love watching movies and reading books, baking cakes, playing board games, going to the Escape Room with my friends.

– What else would you like to tell us about yourself?

Our family loves to travel, we try to go somewhere whenever possible. Last year we were in Montenegro and Russia, in the winter we often go to Vermont, this year we went to Colorado in the summer, and in the fall we went closer – to Lake Travis. We are strongly connected with Austin, as my husband has been working at General Motors in the north of Austin in recent years, and three years ago we seriously considered moving, then it did not work out, but who knows, maybe in the future we will still become residents of your wonderful city!

– How do you participate in the life of the Russian-speaking community in Texas?

Most of all, I am involved in organizing children’s events. College Station, unlike Austin, is a small city and does not have its own Russian school, so if we want to attend some Russian-language events for children, then the parents themselves need to organize everything. For five or six years now, my friends and I have been holding a New Year’s party for children with fairy-tale characters, Santa Claus, gifts, contests in Russian. We have a Russian-speaking children’s theater, also completely amateur, under the guidance of parents. We ourselves are directors, and producers, and make-up artists, and sound engineers, and stage workers. They staged musical performances “New Year’s Adventures of Masha and Vitya” and “Mama”, and last year they swung at Pinocchio, and, despite the coronavirus and a break in rehearsals for six months, they nevertheless recently staged a performance in a street amphitheater.

Photo: Inna Krieger

But we are also actively involved in other events: we organize barbecues in the park, celebrate Maslenitsa, play “What? Where? When?” in the art gallery Degallery.

– What events do you remember the most?

All our children’s performances left vivid memories. Individual meetings are remembered. For example, how they saw off friends who were leaving the city for good, or how last year a huge Russian-speaking company gathered in the park for barbecue just shortly before everything closed due to a pandemic and it became impossible to meet with a large company.

What are your favorite books and movies?

Different books at different ages. As a child, for example, I adored “The Headless Horseman” by Mine Reed, the book takes place in Texas and then it seemed so exotic, who would have thought that then I would live here! In her youth, she was very fond of Eco, Fowles, Maugham, Bulgakov, Strugatsky, Khmelevskaya. Then my husband got me into fantasy and sci-fi, I was one of George R.R.R. Martin’s early A Song of Ice and Fire fans long before the series, and even met him when he came to AggieCon at College Station in 2013. By the way, it was our library at TAMU that he chose as the official repository of his correspondence, manuscripts and books. Now I’m mostly reading children’s books again – the circle is complete. I often don’t have enough time and energy to read for myself, but sometimes it happens that I still read something new. In recent years, Kurt Vonnegut has made the biggest impression on me. Not to say that this is a pleasant read, but it makes you think, and he knows how to surprise with unexpected plot twists. From the fascinating reading recently, I liked Expanse (by Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck), at first I liked the series, so I wanted to read the book as well.

I also like a variety of films. Every New Year, for example, we always watch a musical comedy from childhood – “Magicians”. I really love the old Soviet adaptation of Maugham’s Theater with Viya Artmane, Sherlock Holmes with Livanov and Solomin, Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element, in my opinion, everything came together perfectly in these films: actors, script, directing, music. From romantic comedies, I like Bridget Jones’s Diary the most (and the book, by the way, too), from recent films – I won’t be original – I liked the mini-series Queen’s Gambit.

– What would you like to wish the Russian-speaking residents of Austin and Texas?

Health, prosperity, do not forget the Russian language and culture and continue to keep Austin weird!

Contact information:

TAMU personal page: https://econ.tamu.edu/nataliya-pakhotina

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nataliya-pakhotina

90 002 Facebook : https://www. facebook.com/nataliya.pakhotina

Email: [email protected]

Interviewed by: Dmitry Ovcharenko

Editor: Olga Falkovsky

Publisher: Russian Cultural Center 900 09