RSL Services
Program Goals
  • Supporting families in achieving their own goals
  • Providing opportunities and resources for children to develop cognitive, motor, communication, and social skills
  • Promoting developmental progress of a child’s self-care, self-esteem, and self-control
  • Promoting child engagement, mastery and independence

Program Standards

RSL maintains exceptional program standards. Our program standards provide opportunities and resources that allow for a healthy environment and constructive education for children through developmentally, culturally, and linguistically appropriate practices.

Developmentally Appropriate Programming

Our programs incorporate developmentally appropriate practices into our curriculum. Our programs are designed to reduce gender, racial, and cultural stereotypes and to foster positive intercultural relationships through a conscious effort to integrate an anti-bias model within the curriculum. Our programs are developed to provide an environment that builds self-esteem, teaches personal life skills, enhances health, and promotes social responsibility. Additionally, our programs provide a group experience where children learn social-interaction skills and make individual and/or group decisions.

Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Programming

Our programs are designed to support and encourage understanding and appreciation of various cultures, customs, and languages. We promote an understanding and appreciation of similarities and differences through culturally and linguistically appropriate methods.

Culturally Sensitive

The program supports each child's construction of a knowledgeable and confident self-identity including both personal and group identity emphasizing confidence, not superiority.

The program supports each child’s critical thinking about intolerance by helping children develop the cognitive skills to identify stereotypes, comments, and behaviors directed at one’s own or another’s identity.

The program supports each child’s ability to stand up for herself/himself and for others in the face of bias.

Linguistically Sensitive

The program supports each child’s understanding, acquisition, and appreciation of her/his language(s) as a valid way of communicating with others.

Families and Children

We believe that families are the child’s first teacher and are to be valued as such. Our program provides a safe and supportive environment that extends and enhances the family’s role and supports families in their child rearing efforts. We are committed to respecting and responding to the diverse needs and interests of families and children from many social and economic environments. Our program maintains a policy of openness without regard to ethnicity, religion, gender, handicapping conditions, economic status or national origin.

Children with Diverse Abilities

Our program supports and encourages the inclusion of children of diverse ability. The staff has the education and experience to provide high quality, developmentally appropriate programming to children with diverse abilities. We strive to support the right of each child to play and learn in inclusive programs, to the fullest extent, consistent with the best interests of all involved.