Every Child, Every Day Has the Right to:

Be greeted daily with a sincerely welcoming and friendly smile with his name spoken in an attitude of warmth, respect, acceptance, and if need be, forgiveness

Be protected from actual or threatened harm and illness and from any emotional injury

Have his name and his family’s name pronounced and written accurately

Have his ethnicity, culture, faith, appearance, gender, and abilities honored and his personal belonging respected and protected

Be offered experiences that develop optimal natural brain growth through opportunities in movement, exploration with the senses, manipulation of appropriate materials, construction, role play, and self-expression

Be offered experiences that are real, relevant, purposeful, and presented within age appropriate time frames using Developmentally Appropriate Practice

Be offered experiences that challenge without frustration, in which learning from errors is accepted and encouraged and through which learning can be repeated and applied

Be offered opportunities for choice, decision-making, and problem-solving

Be read to and offered experiences that develop literacy, math, science, and social studies

Be allowed freedom of expression in a variety of ways without judgment

Be listened to with active listening techniques

Be allowed to learn at his own pace and offered learning options if that pace is either delayed or accelerated from the majority of his fellow learners

Be given opportunities to work alone and work with others

Be given developmentally appropriate responsibility and ownership of his learning, his behaviors, and his role in the community of learners

Be noticed for appropriate behaviors and corrected but forgiven for inappropriate ones

Be sent home daily with a sincerely warm, hopeful, and if need be, forgiving, farewell

 

 

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