These video collections explore what high quality early learning practices look like through the lens of the Ideal Learning Principles practiced by the Trust for Learning – a partnership of early learning environments in publicly funded settings serving children and families from birth through age 8.
Spuyten Duyvil Preschool
This first collection focuses on Spuyten Duyvil Preschool, a Bronx, New York city-funded early childhood center that serves a diverse population of children and families. Through classrooms that are carefully designed into well-provisioned centers, outdoor learning environments of gardens and playgrounds, caring teachers that are culturally-congruent with the children in their care, and specialists that offer music and movement, chess, block play, Spanish language learning opportunities, and violin instruction, Spuyten Duyvil Preschool puts into practice developmental and neuroscience research confirming that children learn through play and active experiences.
The High Quality Early Learning Project 