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About Cadence Academy’s Highland Heights Preschool
Cadence Academy’s Highland Heights Preschool and Daycare (formerly Abby’s Child Enrichment Centers) is a licensed, full-service, premium early childhood education facility focusing on the success and nurturing of each child.
We incorporate the Reggio Emilia Educational Approach which encourages children to think on their own. The Reggio Emilia Curriculum ensures the children’s work dominates the classroom rather than commercial art or designs. All children have potential, and it should be cultivated. Group project work is encouraged to build social-emotional skills and allows children to learn from each other/borrow each other’s knowledge. Teachers can pose a question to the group to encourage problem-solving, and children are given time to make connections and form ideas.
The environment is calm and simple, has natural items, and incorporates the use of light. The Reggio Emilia approach supports social, social-communication, cognitive, fine motor, and gross motor skills. Our school is so much more than a Highland Heights daycare.
Our Programs
Infants
Our goal is to provide a warm, secure, loving, and nurturing environment for all babies while in our care. Daily activities are designed specifically to meet your baby’s needs and abilities. Routine caregiving activities, such as feeding and diapering, are used as opportunities for language interactions and for nurturing a one-on-one relationship with the teacher.
Our curriculum is based primarily on play. As infants play with toys, observe the world around them, listen to sounds, and interact with caring adults, they are learning. The development of play skills can be significantly enhanced by the quality of the teachers’ interactions and the availability of play materials. Infants learn through spontaneous play in which they build an understanding of the world in their terms.
Infancy to Preschool
From infancy to preschool, children learn best when learning is engaging. Throughout our programs, teachers work with children on language and literacy skills, beginning letter/sound recognition and identification, pre-math and pre-science skills, as well as incorporating a whole language approach to learning. We foster a love for reading as well as providing opportunities to engage in counting, sorting and categorizing through activities that are stimulating and fun. Additionally, we encourage social skills like cooperation and respect at our Highland Heights preschool.
Pre-K
Our Pre-Kindergarten curriculum allows children to participate in small groups while interacting with other children in activities, projects, and experiments. Exposure to reading occurs daily by engaging children in letter identification which progresses to letter sounds, and finally how sounds and letters combine to form words. Additionally, children will be exposed to addition and subtraction and more acute observational and analytical skills.
Pre-K classrooms at Cadence Academy’s Highland Heights Preschool are arranged with several interest areas/learning centers. Each area provides children with new challenges and learning opportunities. Teachers periodically change the interest areas in order to provide new experiences, challenge the children’s abilities, and respond to their growing interests. We have created a program that encourages both education and enrichment for the individual child. With qualified teachers who speak with the children and ask questions to promote thinking and language development, children can learn and grow at their own pace.
Before and After School
We provide before-school care where children are able to enjoy their breakfast prior to going to school, and we also provide after-school care with bus services and/or private transportation to and from local schools.
The School-Age Program is designed to enhance problem-solving skills and social skills as well as strengthen the children’s independence and individuality. Our routine is structured and consistent but is not rigid. Homework club is offered to give children (and parents) a head start on completing homework for the evening. Additionally, children are provided time to enjoy their afternoon snack.
Summer Camp
Cadence Academy’s Highland Heights Preschool offers a summer program where we explore and engage our many individual talents! Activities are age-appropriate, offering children busy days, filled with fun adventures and opportunities to learn new things! Children will expand their imaginations and knowledge through a variety of stimulating and enriching hands-on experiences!
Enroll Today in Cadence Academy’s Highland Heights Preschool and Daycare
We are proud to serve children and families in Highland Heights, Kentucky. We are passionate about giving children the education and tools they need to thrive. Our safe and loving preschool and daycare environment is the best place for your child to grow.
Please contact us online or call us to discuss enrollment options. We look forward to hearing from you and getting to know your child.
Programs Offered
Our Team
Ta’Carra Biggers
Teacher of the Year
Better known as Miss Erica, we are proud to recognize her as the Teacher of the Year at our school in Highland Heights. Erica comes to us with a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education and taught for a year in that field. She joined the Cadence teaching team in June of 2023 and brought her knowledge of teaching along with her warm personality. She enjoys young children and loves watching them achieve developmental milestones as they further their abilities. It is evident in her interactions with our babies that she is committed to their growth and development in all areas. Erica has 10 siblings, so she has been around young children her whole life, which has likely contributed to her heart for teaching. In her spare time, Erica loves to attend concerts and Broadway plays. You can also find her curled up with a good book or in the kitchen baking. Her bucket list includes trips to Switzerland, Germany, and Greece. Congratulations to Erica on this acknowledgement and we are grateful to have her on our teaching team.
Accreditations
NAC Accreditation
The National Accreditation Commission for Early Care and Education Programs (NAC) is a national accreditation program that was developed for early care and educational programs. NAC offers early childhood leaders the opportunity to demonstrate and document quality performance using research-based criteria and evidence-based practices. The National Accreditation Commission provides a comprehensive, ongoing quality improvement system and accredited schools must meet standards in the following 6 component areas: Administration, Family Engagement, Health and Safety, Curriculum, Interactions between Teachers and Children, and Classroom Health and Safety.
Kentucky All-Stars
We are proud to boast that our programs maintain a high star rating by <i>Kentucky All Stars</i>, Kentucky’s voluntary quality rating system for licensed Type I and Type II child care centers and Certified family child care homes. All STARS levels surpass the minimum licensing requirements that all participating programs must meet. <i>Kentucky All Stars</i> provides parents with a tool to help identify levels of quality when seeking a childcare setting outside of their home. Childcare centers and family childcare homes participating in <i>Kentucky All Stars</i> demonstrate a commitment toward providing quality care and education. Parents can use the rating system to gain an understanding of the factors that contribute to quality care and education, and can choose a child care setting that best matches their family’s needs. <i>Kentucky All Stars</i> represents a collaborative effort to ensure that young children in Kentucky are in early care and education settings that are seeking ever-increasing quality.
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Childcare Schedule Options That Work With Your Life
Every family’s routine is unique — and your childcare should be too. With Cadence Education, our Family of Schools may offer various schedule options designed to fit your life. Each of our school’s is unique, and may not offer all of the options listed below. Talk with your School Director to learn what options are available for your family.
FlexiPass — New Flexible Care Option!
When schedules change, or the grandparents cancel, or life just gets busy, FlexiPass gives you five prepaid days of care that you can use whenever* you need them, one at a time or all at once. No registration fees. No ongoing tuition. Just dependable care when you need it most.
