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Child Development Center | San Diego Miramar College
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Mission Statement
The Miramar College Child Development Center is committed to meeting the individual needs of children, their families and college students, preparing them to become contributing members in a diverse society.
Program Philosophy
The CDC’s program is planned and implemented to nurture the whole child–social, emotional, linguistic, and creative skills as well as cognitive and physical development. This is accomplished through observation and responsiveness to each child’s interests and developmental levels. Our integrative curriculum is designed to utilize children’s play and interests to support learning across developmental domains.
We support children in taking control of their own learning whenever possible, and we encourage them to determine how and where they learn–in one of our indoor activity centers or in our outdoor classroom.
Toddlers
Our toddler program serves children ages 18- 35 months.
Preschool
Our preschool program serves children ages 3-5 years.
Family Engagement
A bridge between school and home is critical for a child’s learning, growth and development. Families are encouraged to engage actively in the life of the center. Opportunities to participate in special events, parent conferences, the child’s classroom and the Parent Advisory Board are offered throughout the school year.
College Laboratory Program
The Child Development Center is a laboratory preschool that provides environments for college students to observe, interact and implement the ideas and theories that are presented as part of the college program.
The Child Development Center is accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), licensed by the California Department of Social Services, Community Care Licensing, Title 22 (Facility #372005156) and meets the guidance of the California Department of Education, Title 5.
The Center staff meets the education qualifications for Child Development Permits, issued by the California Commission on Teacher Credentials.
Priority
First priority is for families who children are receiving child protective services or families who children are at risk of being neglected, abused, or exploited. Second priority is for all children and families who are not within the first propriety for admission shall be admitted according to gross family income and family size. Verification of family size will be by birth certificate of all children under 18 or current income tax return. Verification of current income will be monies received on a reoccurring basis such as gross wages or salary, disability, unemployment or workers compensation, pensions/annuities, child/spousal support or public assistance.
Children must be between the ages of 18 months and five years old, have a physical exam within 30 days of enrollment and a current immunization record.
Fees
Fees are assessed based upon family’s adjusted gross monthly income, family size, and contract for service provided. Length of day for infant/toddler and preschool programs in defined as part time, less than 6 .5 hours and full time, 6.5 hours or more. (Family Fee Schedule, California Department of Education, Child Development Division). Fees are based on the child’s enrollment in the program, not their actual attendance. There are NO refunds for absences, drops, or changes in class and work schedules. Fees are payable in advance on a monthly basis, and are due the first of each month
Further details regarding admission regulations, enrollment procedures and program policies can be found in the Family Handbook for Child Development Centers in the Important Documents tab or on our SDCCD website https://www.sdccd.edu/about/departments-and-offices/instructional-services-division/workforce-and-economic-development/child-development.aspx
Finding daycare in San Diego is a problem.
How this local startup can help
A well-known tech executive in San Diego has launched an online startup that aims to solve the problem of finding child care for working parents.
The startup, called Tootris, is building a searchable database of day-care centers and in-home care providers throughout the state. The company also has ideas for how to help families pay for care, but that side of the business is still in its infancy.
Tootris has grown rapidly since its start in 2019, now listing over 32,000 day-care providers in California and 3,200 in San Diego alone.
Founder and CEO Alessandra Lezama has long served in the C-suite of local technology companies, but she’s also been a single mother juggling parenthood with ambitious career goals.
“I had a lot of difficulties when Angelo was a youngster; it was horrible,” Lezama said. “A lot of the times, my son ended up in the office with me taking a nap under the desk because I didn’t have after-school care.”
Owner Celine Theano (right) comforts a student during playtime at La Petite Etoile 360 Preschool in San Diego, CA.
(Eduardo Contreras/The San Diego Union-Tribune)
The difficulty of finding day care in San Diego
As the former CEO of tech company AbacusNext, Lezama grew the once-tiny organization to 500 people with $100 million in revenue. When she exited the company in 2019, she wanted to tackle a major need for the American workforce: finding reliable, affordable day care.
“Many talented individuals who once worked for me got pregnant, were excited about coming back — and then realized they couldn’t make it work and couldn’t find child care,” Lezama said. “I’ve lost talented moms and dads for this reason. The highest cost of churning employees is replacing someone who has tenure and does a good job for you.”
A huge chunk of the local population needs child care. Of those San Diego families with children, 70 percent have two working parents in need of child care. Sadly, only 30 percent of those children in San Diego County who need spots in a licensed day-care provider actually land in one, according to the California Child Care Resource and Referral Network.
Finding day care can be a laborious and frustrating task. That difficulty only increased during 2020, when a survey of the national workforce found that 63 percent of parents struggled to find child care that fit their needs, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center.
“In a heteronormal relationship, this task generally falls on the women,” said Hanna Gneiting, a mother of two and Spanish teacher at Francis Parker School in Mission Hills. “You’re charged with doing all the research about day care and it keeps you up at night.”
Especially as the weeks of maternity leave dwindle, she said.
Gneiting and several other mothers discussed this difficulty on a Facebook group for moms in San Diego. In addition to the high cost of day care in this region, finding a spot for your child is not guaranteed. The pandemic dealt a devastating blow to day-care centers, shuttering many throughout the state. Those day-care centers that survived were forced to limit their capacity, making coveted spots even rarer.
Several mothers in central San Diego described calling center after center, only to leave voicemails that were never returned.
“I have emailed and called and set up Zoom virtual visits, and the director never showed up or sent me the link,” said North Park mom Jessica Bullock.
Students finish up a snack before playtime at La Petite Etoile 360 Preschool on Thursday, May 13, 2021 in San Diego, CA.
(Eduardo Contreras/The San Diego Union-Tribune)
How Tootris is helping
Lezama’s new startup can’t solve all the problems of finding — and paying for — child care, but she’s chipping away at some of the most pressing issues.
First, finding day care. The current system of hunting down open spots at day care is fragmented and arduous. Many parents start with a Google search, calling every center that shows up. Others use the YMCA of San Diego County’s child-care resource center, which directs parents to local day-care providers that have availability.
“The systems we have in the state — and especially in San Diego — are highly antiquated,” Lezama said. “They’re still managing and processing their data by surveys, which get stale and require manual input. By the time a client is calling, they get a long list of 20 child-care programs that may not have availability anymore.”
Tootris’ platform is free to all day-care providers and all parents (we’ll get to the business model later). It scapes sources of public data such as state licensing records, automatically adding these centers to the site without any effort from the day-care providers. Providers can then edit and add more details if they choose.
From the parents’ side, they can verify a day care’s licensing, look for compliance red flags, read reviews, contact the director and more.
Children line up to go inside after playtime at La Petite Etoile 360 Preschool on Thursday, May 13, 2021 in San Diego, CA.
(Eduardo Contreras/The San Diego Union-Tribune)
Paying for day care and Tootris’ employer pitch
But Tootris is more than a directory.
The software is split into three products: one for parents, one for day cares, and one for employers. Wait, employers? Yes. That gets us to Tootris’ primary source of revenue.
“Our business model is to work with employers to set up child care as a benefits solution,” Lezama said. “In other words, we are a benefits administrator. We charge employers a recurring subscription fee to incorporate child care into their benefits package, manage their subsidies to their employees and enable those workers to get back to work and be productive.”
California already ranks as the third least affordable state in the nation for child care. In central San Diego, it costs $15,000 a year on average to send an infant to a licensed child-care center, according to the YMCA. That’s almost twice the cost of a college student’s in-state tuition to San Diego State University.
This difficulty of finding (and affording) reliable child care disproportionately affects women. San Diego has thesecond-lowest female participation in the labor force among major American cities, according to the San Diego Workforce Partnership.
Lezama said she wanted to find a solution for middle-income families in San Diego, which she defines as $70,000 to $120,000 in household income, as there are already public subsidies available to low-income earners.
“Mid-income families do not qualify for any subsidy,” Lezama said. “They have the need for child care, and yet can’t afford it. As a direct result of that, more and more women are dropping out of the workforce.”
Several San Diego employers have already taken up Tootris on this idea. Most notably, the massive, quirky soap company Dr. Bronners, along with CSL Staffing and PBO Advisory Group.
“COVID has changed the name of the game,” Lezama said. “More than ever, the workforce recognizes there is a true need for employers to engage and provide family support services like child care and elderly care.”
Tootris employs 16 people in San Diego and plans to raise startup capital in the near future.
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San Diego. Balboa Park and Point Loma Peninsula: nika2201 – LiveJournal
7 months after returning from America, I finally finish my cycle of posts about the USA. In the previous series entries, I have already shown and told about Los Angeles: coastal Venice and Santa Monica, locations of the Californication series, the Warner Brothers film studio and the Universal Studios amusement park, the city center itself with its main attractions; night and day Las Vegas; Valley of death; San Diego: Seal Beach and Historic Center and Coronado Island, Gaslamp Quarter, USS Midway. Probably, the format of long posts scares off readers, but it’s more convenient for me to express my thoughts this way. In any case, this is the last post in the My America 2017 series, so sit back, stock up on tea, and listen read.
On the second day in San Diego, on a sunny Sunday morning, after walking around the Gaslamp District and having breakfast, we checked out of the hotel and went to Balboa Park – the largest urban park in the United States, another place where, if there is free time , you can spend several days.
We did not have such a luxury as free time, but in a couple of hours we managed to see a lot of interesting things.
The whole park is a concentration of museums, exhibitions, botanical sites and various kinds of entertainment, [ namely: ] Even if you just list everything that is in this park without going into details, you get an impressive paragraph. It has a botanical garden, Japanese Friendship Garden, old cactus garden 1935, Alcazar Garden, Australian Garden, California National Plant Garden, Casa del Rey Moro Garden, George Washington Children’s Ethnobotanical Garden, Desert Garden, Florida Canyon National Plant Reserve , Ines Grant Parker Memorial Rose Garden, Marston House Garden, Palm Canyon, Health Plant Garden, Veterans Memorial Garden and Zoro Garden. nine0386
The list of museums in Balboa Park is hardly less impressive than the list of gardens. Home to the Aerospace Museum, Art Museum, Automobile Museum, Hall of Champions, Natural History Museum, Museum of Photography, Timken Art Museum, Veterans Museum, George Washington Marston House, Museum of Living Artists, San Diego Museum of Man, Railroad Museum Modeling in San Diego, Minguey International Museum, Cultural Center de la Raza, Reuben Fleet Science Center and San Diego Historical Center.
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Finally, in addition to all of the above, the park is home to the San Diego Zoo, the old Globe Theatre, Mary Hitchcock Puppet Theatre, Spreckels Organ Pavilion, Starlight Open Air Theatre, Balboa Stadium, WorldBeat Cultural Center , carousel and children’s railway. (с)
Philippine Culture Festival was held right in front of the entrance to the park: they played Philippine musical instruments, showed national martial arts.
An endless series of museums begins. Dear There is no time, so we only look outside. Aerospace Museum .
Hall of Champions dedicated to the sporting achievements of San Diego natives.
International village-museum , which is related to our Grodno festival of national cultures. About 30 lodges founded and maintained by San Diego residents of this nationality, from the UK to Iran. Here are the cottages of Israel, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, there is even a house of Ukraine (neither Russia, nor, moreover, Belarus, no).
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Each house is something between a typical house of a country dweller and a museum of history, and the owners treat guests with national delicacies.
For contrast, next to it is a tropical forest of tall perennial jungle thickets.
We emerge from the jungle and find ourselves on a concert stage.
The gift shop clerk told us that in an hour and a half there would be an organ concert that should not be missed. We went back to the concert and listened. At 23 meters, the organ is the largest outdoor organ in the world. There are not very many spectators, everyone is hiding from the intense heat. We also hide in the shade, under a tree. nine0376
Japanese Friendship Garden .
Finally, we got to the very center of the park. Monument to the Spanish conquistador Vasco Nunez de Balboa.
Information Center – House of Hospitality .
Art Museum .
Photography Museum .
And other beauties without a name.
San Diego’s most recognizable landmark is The Museum of Man.
Wedding at the cannibalism museum – why not? (Sign on the sign: “Ask inside about weddings and receptions”)
Open air – sculpture garden . Modern Art.
Botanical Garden .
Lily Pond .
Artists Village – Spanish Village Art Center .
Here you can buy paintings by contemporary artists or unusual sculptures.
Watch the glass blowers at work.
The last point of the park where we are heading is rose and cactus garden .
Huge rose plantations of all kinds and varieties.
No less a huge variety of cacti.
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From the city’s main park, we went to Point Loma National Wildlife Refuge , which we missed last night.
Either because of the dangerous slopes, or because of the proximity to the naval base, entry here is closed already at 16:30. On the peninsula, on both sides of the road, the military cemetery of Fort Rosecrans stretches, and it seems that there is no end to it…
After sunny Balboa, Point Loma was much colder and more foggy. But the local flora and magical views definitely compensated for the bad weather. A bit of natural beauty without comment. nine0376
The location of the lighthouse turned out to be erroneous, frequent fogs and low clouds obscured the light of the lighthouse, so it was decided to build a new one, at the water’s edge.
Point Loma is the historic site where the first European, the Spanish navigator Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, landed in 1542, and where the history of San Diego originates. At the landing site of the navigator monument in his honor.