Santa Barbara, United States
560 N La Cumbre Rd
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+1 8056822300
Wheelchair-accessible entranceWheelchair-accessible seatingWheelchair-accessible toilet
Our family feels incredibly grateful to have discovered Hope 4 Kids! We have been fortunate to watch our two children grow and thrive in this learning environment. Hope 4 Kids is dedicated to enriching and educating the “whole child” in a play-based, nature-centered setting. The teachers use current instructional best practices to meet the needs of all types of children. We’ve been so impressed by the professional growth opportunities provided to the staff and the value the school places on attracting quality teachers. It is very evident the teachers are dedicated to making the learning experience meaningful and joyful for all children! In the spirit of life-long learning and continued growth, Hope 4 Kids staff takes time to check-in with parents and make changes based on the needs of current families. We especially appreciate the emphasis Hope 4 Kids places on emotional intelligence and development. For example, each month students focus on a “Fruit of the Spirit” (such as Kindness or Self Control) to help develop student character and promote positive interactions between peers. The Outdoor Classroom is another magical aspect of Hope 4 Kids! Students have the opportunity to engage in hands-on learning about their surrounding world and develop a sense of environmental stewardship. Of course, we also see such value in the kids getting to enjoy the food they worked hard to grow– such a wonderful way to encourage healthy eating too! Thank you to all the wonderful teachers at Hope 4 Kids who work tirelessly to make it a wonderful place!
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We have been sending our 2.5 year old daughter here since she was three months old. They have taken such great care of her. She loves her teachers and the environment, especially being outside all day. We have two more on the way and will be sending them here as well!
Hope 4 Kids Preschool's Outdoor Classroom Project is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time. Dedicated to reintroducing the great outdoors to our children, there is hope that the screen time will diminish and our kids will not only get back to sunshine and playtime but also return to kids who know how to be social! LOVE THIS PRESCHOOL!
Hope4Kids is a wonderful, creative, innovative, highly motivated preschool. The curriculum and Outdoor Classroom are developmentally appropriate and lots of fun for children. The staff is warm, knowledgeable, attentive, and playful. The play yards are gorgeous and very creatively set up for children each and every day. The fact that they love children shows through in everything they do. I would highly recommend this program if you want your child to be engaged and happy.
It was an unpleasant preschool experience for our family. We felt they lacked expertise in early childhood development. We would not recommend Hope for Kids preschool. Look other places such as St. Mark's Preschool for quality care and education for your child. (Most of the positive reviews are from staff).
H4K sells itself as an innovative outdoor program that uses children's free play outdoors or in nature, to guide children through rich learning experience. In my observation the free play is for the child but I did not observe discriminate, careful, selective guidance by the teachers but random, chaotic play with the teachers just standing around. There was a student who was an English Language Learner and a student with delayed speech and I did not observe at any point effort from the teachers to elicite language or any higher level thinking interaction with these or any of the other children. I was deeply disappointed. Also an 'outdoor' program is not new, Anne Sullivan innovated it more than 200 years ago as her first 6 years of work with Helen Keller were all outdoors and with a free curriculum but with a careful, thoughtful and caring intent from her teacher (totally absent at H4K). I removed my child since for chaotic non-discriminate play I can do a better job of guiding him in my house and do not need a "preschool" (that is not a preschool) for that.
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