Our Mission and Core Values

Mission: 
First Baptist Junior Academy and Developmental Learning Center exists in order to partner with Christian families by providing a Christ-centered Early Childhood Education for preschoolers; intentionally building strong foundations of faith by promoting spiritual, physical, social, and cognitive development with excellence in a safe and nurturing environment. 

Core Values:

• Providing Christ-centered, developmentally appropriate teaching methods in all areas of growth
• Providing a safe and secure environment inside and outside the classroom
• Providing loving, consistent, experienced, and trained Early Childhood Educators committed to a growing relationship with Jesus Christ

Philosophy for Care and Education of Preschool Children

The JADLC demonstrates a philosophy of Early Childhood Christian Education that above all is built upon the strong foundation of Jesus Christ and His Word. As a preschool, we are committed to nurture and support the growth of preschoolers physically, intellectually, emotionally, socially and spiritually.

Physically 
Our preschool environment provides a controlled-access security system, as well as safety within and out of the classroom. Large classrooms and playgrounds provide activity space appropriate for gross motor skill development and active learning.

Cognitively 
Because 90% of a child's learning is established during the first five (5) years of life, our Christian curriculum provides hands-on learning experiences and activities for preschoolers beginning at birth through Pre-Kindergarten. Our focus is process-oriented rather than product-oriented. Our focus is process-oriented, not product-oriented. Children learn foundational skills to support a lifetime of learning.

Emotionally
Our classrooms provide emotional stability by providing consistent, loving teachers in all classes, consistent routines within the context of the classroom, and the encouragement of strong parental involvement resulting in the partnership of home, school, and church.

Socially
We believe preschoolers learn through play. Learning activities are provided to develop and nurture the interaction of each preschooler with his teacher and friends.  

Spiritually
We believe spiritual foundations are being formed during the preschool years that will provide a basis from which children will draw in later childhood and throughout life. Bible stories and biblical truths are a primary part of the curriculum we teach. It is upon this foundation of truth we pray our preschoolers will later pattern their lives.

"And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man." Luke 2:52

"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates."

Deuteronomy 6:5-9