CCDC's mission is to provide a loving and safe environment for all ages, a place where the children feel at home and are able to explore and develop at their individual pace. We want to promote educational excellence, personal responsibility, and balance growth to help children discover and develop their talents and gifts. Self-confidence and a sense of true self worth are the goals of our school, both academically and socially.
The Gardner School of Nashville is a NAEYC-accredited preschool and child care center located in the Century City Business Park off Elm Hill Pike, directly across from South College. We provide full-time and part-time early childhood education for children ages 6 weeks through 5 years, including infant care, toddler programs, preschool, and Pre-K. Our academically focused curriculum supports early literacy, math, and social development in thoughtfully designed classrooms with indoor play spaces and enrichment areas that encourage exploration, routine, and confident learning for young children.
At The Goddard School located in Nashville Yards, we're more than just a daycare. The Goddard School is a private preschool, offering childcare to infants and toddlers to pre-k. Our programs are designed to nurture each child's curiosity in a safe and caring environment.
How many preschools operate with a mission? Ours does, to: 1 - Provide a robust preschool education to prepare your children to set higher expectations for their futures 2 - Give parents tools and resources to continue that education and improve their family's prospects 3 - Create a great workplace that helps teachers to pursue their passion for children and reach professional goals 4 - Improve our surrounding neighborhood, reaching out to residents and businesses to create a better environment (We also don't blow with the wind. The value of a strong mission is that it withstands time. Our mission is unchanged since we opened in 2009.)
Infant Programs (6 Weeks - 1 Year), Toddler Programs (1 - 2 Years), Discovery Preschool Programs (2 - 3 Years), Preschool Programs (3 - 4 Years), Prekindergarten Programs (4 - 5 Years), Before and After School Programs (5-12 Years), Summer Programs (preschool, prekindergarten, and school-age)
We love how philosophies, each with their own unique differences can all become a wonderful foundation of a child’s classroom, even if that classroom is outside. We believe that anything that matters and is worth teaching can be taught outside so we have taken the learning out into the great wide world. It is just waiting for your little ones to discover its wonder. So here at The Wilderness Preschool, we offer an eclectic style of a few major philosophies that have been used for decades around the world. Such philosophies are; Reggio Emilia, Montessori, Waldorf, and lastly RIE. These philosophies created by great philosophers who have dedicated their life work to understanding the child's mind have inspired our core values.
