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Stepping Stones Children's Center is a non-profit organization that plays a crucial role in our local Crested Butte Community. We provide the highest quality childcare from infants to Pre-K age children. We would love for you to come along side us and support our mission. We appreciate your donations and helping us to continue our mission.
Stepping Stones Children's Center provides a play based curriculum promoting the process over the product. We encourage our children to dive in and get messy.
Testimonials
"The environment at Stepping Stones feels like an extended family. We became friends with all of our children's teachers and many of the teachers aides. They were warm and welcoming every day and created a friendly and happy place for our two for many years! A terrific foundation!"
-Missy Ochs
"Our family LOVES Stepping Stones! My daughter has an absolute blast in their summer programs! It makes us so happy as parents to see her come home with a big smile on her face and tons of stories about her adventures. The staff and teachers are so wonderful to work with!"
-Kendra Brooks
Our Mission is to provide a positive, explorative and child-centered environment that promotes creativity, inner-discipline, independence, problem-solving skills, and positive relationships with peers and caregivers. Stepping Stones Children’s Center admits students of any race, color, national or ethnic origin, to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarships, and programs.
While each group has its individual goals for the children, depending on their age appropriateness, we at Stepping Stones Children’s Center have certain school goals that we aim for consistently. Above all else, we strive to encourage the development of self-awareness and self-esteem. We believe this to be the most important ingredient for building a solid personal foundation from which to draw on when meeting the challenges of life. Our mission is to encourage curiosity, a joy for learning and discovery.
We wish not to fill children with facts but to cultivate their own natural desire to learn so that they may achieve their intellectual, social, emotional, and creative capabilities to the fullest potential. We also wish to help the children develop wisdom in the broadest sense, including ethical values and compassion. The child learns respect from being respected, listened to and accepted. We praise accomplishments, display children’s artwork, honor their individuality, and discipline without shame or dominance.
We ask parents to be aware of and support these philosophies. We also invite you to become involved in the school, visit when you can, notice and ask questions of your child about what they are doing in school; this supports transitions in your child’s life. We draw from many educational philosophies. We use ideas from Montessori, Piaget, Reggio, and other child development theorists and researchers. We believe that children acquire knowledge about their physical environment through experience and playful interaction with materials and people.
Organization name
Stepping Stones Childrens Center
1987
Tax id (EIN)
74-2431066
Category
Education
Organization Size
Medium Organization
Colorado State Tax Credits
Colorado Child Care Credit
Address
PO BOX 1310Gunnison County, CO, US