The Reading Ladder

TRL Curriculum Framework

TRL is proud to have a dedicated team of teachers and helpers who are passionate about providing a personal experiential learning environment for your child while ensuring the curriculum is followed at the highest standard. Through nurturing guidance, they inspire and encourage individuality in every T.R.L child. Their nurturing and attentive approach offers each child a home-away-from-home experience.

Whether you have a budding engineer, athlete, or artist, our variety of fitness, movement and sports programs teamed with a vast selection of academic programming provide your child with all we can to ensure that their future education gets off to a great start!

All of our instructors and support staff are professionally trained in early childhood education, have a background and vulnerability check and are first aid certified.

Our staff is absolutely second to none! Our dedicated teachers work as a team to provide the highest level of care and developmentally appropriate programs for children possible. Besides academics and experience, each staff member is chosen for their energy, creativity, enthusiasm, and, of course, for their genuine love of teaching young children. We have numerous staff who are trained in medication administration and the use of Epi-Pens, and they are all certified in First Aid and CPR. We go beyond state licensing requirements by doing our own criminal conviction and background checks before a staff member starts working with children and we follow it up every year after that as well.

Our teachers are required to have formal education in the field of early childhood education and they stay current in the field by participating in at least 20 hours of continuing education each year. For this level of professionalism, they are compensated at the highest end of the pay scale for childcare providers in the region, and they are provided with a comprehensive benefits package, including life insurance, tuition reimbursement, and much more. Our low turn-over rate is just one of the benefits of having such a positive work environment.

Holistic Curriculum

The TRL Curriculum Framework integrates multi-disciplinary elements to create a holistic approach to learning providing children with a plethora of enriching experiences.

  • Daily feature activities include Math Discovery, Creative Discovery, Physical Literacy, Language and Literacy, and Building Connections, through which children learn social-emotional skills and their sense of value and belonging in a learning community.
  • Integrated Activities spread throughout each month include Essential Skills (self-care, self-regulation, problem solving), Sign Language, and Artists of the Month.
  • Enrichment programs are also featured throughout every week.  These include:
    • Global Citizenship: Activities that honor diversity, celebrate cultural differences, and build a sense of belonging and worthiness
    • Environmental Stewardship: Activities that guide children to understand the need to care for, respect, preserve and protect all parts of the natural environment
    • STEM: Activities focus on the embedded domains of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, building creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills

Inspiring Learning Environments

Our environments are intentionally designed with traditional learning areas such as blocks and building, dramatic play, sensorial, and creativity with new added focus on ethnic & cultural, science & nature, math & manipulative, and language & literacy. Additionally, our environments are created using natural materials, including wood, stone, and recycled plastic to provide children with more sensory-rich experiences while continuing to be an environmentally friendly and sustainable company. Warm learning areas are created to encourage small group interaction, and more focused, engaged exploration. Learning areas are supported with authentic, real-life items to ignite curiosity and motivation for children to explore.

Intentional Teaching Practice

The educator’s delivery of this curriculum is fundamental to its success. It includes supporting children to discover themselves and their surroundings, guiding possibilities and nurturing personalized learning discoveries, while broadening social skills and emotional intelligence. Educators will support education that does not separate play from learning but draws upon the common ground in order to promote creativity and learning.