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Central Campus
12200 Sheridan Street
Pembroke Pines, Florida 33026

Contact: Susan L. Cohen, MS
Early Childhood Education Administration

954-322-3350

Welcome to the City of Pembroke Pines Early Development Center Central Campus. Here you will find a safe, nurturing and stimulating environment with experienced, educated and caring teachers. Our school has earned the AdvancED Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and the Council on Accreditation and School Improvement (SACS CASI) accreditation.  This accreditation is only given to schools that offer the highest quality of care and education to young children. The Site Supervisor, Susan L. Cohen, has a Master’s Degree in Early Childhood Education Administration from Nova Southeastern University, in addition to many years of experience in early childhood education.

All teachers hold a bachelor’s degree, associate’s degree or a Florida Child Care Professional Credential. Everyone on staff has completed 40-hours of early childhood in-service training. Our staff is CPR and First Aid Certified. The staff has undergone a background screening and fingerprinting process. As part of their continuing education, everyone on staff is required to attend professional development classes related to early childhood education; developmentally appropriate practices, social/emotional development, emergent literacy, computer technology, throughout the school year.

The school has just completed the fourth year of Florida’s Voluntary Prekindergarten (VPK) program. This state funded program prepares children for kindergarten by helping children develop the skills they will need to become successful readers and students. The Central Campus scored a VPK Provider Readiness Rate of 186 out of a possible 200. The VPK Provider Kindergarten Readiness Rate measures how well a VPK provider prepares four-year-olds to be ready for kindergarten based upon Florida's VPK Education Standards. The VPK Standards describe what four-year-old children should know and be able to do by the end of the VPK experience.

Our school library boasts over 3,500 books, CDs, Big Books and teacher resource materials. Our three and four-year old classes participate in the Water Safety Education Program taught by Swim Central. All classes participate in the Stop, Drop and Roll program taught by our city’s Fire Department and the Stranger Danger program taught by our city’s Police Department.

Our kindergarten – fifth grade teacher work day mini-camps offer field trips and in-house special events. Our summer camp features weekly field trips and swimming twice each week for pre-k through fifth graders. In-house activities and specialists provide age appropriate activities in the areas of gym, sports, music and movement, art and crafts, drama, science, water play and cool cooking for our two year-old through fifth grade programs.

Please drop by any time to see what we do in our preschool!

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