Management 13 - Little Starz Preschool Program Proposal - University

This assignment is a comprehensive program proposal for Little Starz Preschool and Daycare Center. The proposal outlines the center's philosophy, which emphasizes child-centric, self-paced learning and a biblical foundation. The mission and vision of the center are described, focusing on developing future leaders through a STEAM-based curriculum. The proposal details facility plans, including health and safety measures, and discusses licensure requirements. It also covers the recruitment and training of teachers, a preliminary budget, and the organizational structure. The curriculum includes enquiry-based learning and various activities. The proposal aims to create a nurturing and safe environment for children, incorporating modern facilities like an indoor playground and a healthy snack bar. The document references relevant research to support its strategies and plans.

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Little Starz Preschool and day care center
With the kingship of early child care and education, Little Starz is a pioneer in child care center.
The school is committed towards spearheading of the development of early child across the
nation. The child care center aims to provide a steam based program including the opportunities
for children in the area of art, math, languages and outdoor activities. The child care unit include
educators and teachers with years of dedicated research with unparalleled standards in child
development and education. Little Starz aims towards interactive and child centric program that
will be beneficial for the society and the upcoming generation. The aim of the proposal is to
highlight the characteristics of the preschool or the day care unit which are essential for fostering
the development of the children in the community. For developing as an effective center of
childcare, it is essential for understanding the diverse families, different children and their habits,
the several socio economic status from where the child belong, their composition in terms of
race, sexual orientation and their religious beliefs.
Philosophy
According to the norms of Little Starz , it is important to acknowledge the uniqueness of each
and every child together with their infinite potential. Little Starz has their proprietary pedagogy
with the inclusive child centric, self paced earning mechanisms. This helps the synergizing the
role of the teachers and the role to enable the children for discovering their innate abilities and
their talents through the pureness and the love of the learning (Pathway Guide to NYC Early
Childhood Teacher Certification, 2010). At Little Starz, the pedagogy program explains that
children are the unique gifts from god and it is the responsibility of teachers and the parents to
teach them. The school focus over the long legacy of nurturing the unique potential of each and

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every children. In the revolutionary approach and the journey, it is evidenced and impacted
regarding the much required co-operation from the teachers for enabling and shaping the
children towards dynamic, smart thinking and being ready for life individuals.
The biblical foundation for Little Starz is inspired from the verses of bible dealing with the child
development and the importance of early childhood education training.
Little Starz believes in the following.
“ Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it”.
The biblical founding statement that is followed by the organization projects the aim of the
school towards shaping the child and their future for a better and brighter past.
Little Starz have valued their commitment for the quality education of child with the
complementing aspects regarding peer interaction, self-reliance and individual growth. As per
the National Association for the Education of Young Children and the National Association of
Early Childhood Specialists in State Departments of Education (2003), within these procedure,
the school aims towards the development of a solid foundation within the curriculum and
polishes the models of business for making it the most successful and furthermore profitable for
the stakeholders involved within the school. The program that is aimed to be implemented by
Little Starz includes the notion of safety that is the tool which assures that all the enrolled
children within the school will be given quality education within a nurturing and safe
environment. It is the blessing that the school is getting the opportunity for shaping the hearts
and the minds of the diverse range of the communities.

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For Little Starz, the human rights of the children are non negotiable. The school gets driven by
the ethos regarding the rights for the child placing the human rights and the educational rights of
the child as the most essential and the premium level. The right towards gaining respect, trust
and the right to live in the abuse free and challenge free world is the factors that shapes the
fundamental ethos and cult for Little Starz.
Mission and Vision
The goal of Little Starz is towards the response to the call of the development of the emerging
leaders of the upcoming era. The school’s mission is to impact the synergy of skills, Values and
knowledge in children for lending them the inner voice for the 21st century. The school envision
the children of today as the icons of leadership of upcoming day. Little Starz aims to impact the
milestone departure from the teacher led to the child centric (New York State Department of
Health, 2017). The learning environment will enable each of the child who gets admitted in the
school to realize their unique style of learning and help them discover their creative and aesthetic
potential.
Facility, Health and the Safety Plans
Little Starz is the day care school and aims to operate out of United States, City College as the
platform for essential early childhood education. There are lot many pre schools and day schools
in the country among which more than 85 percentage are half day school or institutions running
for a couple of hours. Little Starz will be one of the special full day program school included
under the registration of the National Coalition for Campus Children’s Centers. The school will
include the facility that the students of upper classes and college can engage in some of the in-
class activities with the pre school with the guidance of the teacher and the supervision of their

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mentor. This will help the children to ease out their approach towards relationship with older
siblings and other older people and they will learn to develop their behavioral skills towards
them in an comfortable attire (Yoshikawa, Weiland and Brooks-Gunn, 2016). This facility in
Little Starz is an exclusive initiative that has been proposed since this will also be beneficial for
the little toddlers and children of pre school to comfortably interact with the college students and
come out of their shyness and introvert attitude. The development of the friendly and
comfortable bond will help them to develop and nourish their behavioral skills together with
other competencies.
The next factor is the maintenance of the healthy, safe environment that includes the ability for
dealing with the situations of emergencies and the ways or the procedures to handle them. Like
all other child care center, Little Starz includes standard procedures for the management of the
accidents that happens at the school when the children are in the location of transit. The main
target of the health and safety plan is towards the maintenance and the promotion of the safety
measures at the Little Starz (Smith et al., 2016). The school will include an effective health care
plan for the promotion and the maintenance of the safety measures for the little children enrolled
in the school. The plan of the school furthermore will include the norms and the instructions
regarding how to treat staff and children. This will also include the instructions for the faculty,
administrators and the staff regarding how they should behave and respond for any such of the
situations like emergencies together with the usage of some of the best practices. The ideal for
the proposed play school is the innovative programs and schedules that will help the children to
discover that learning is enjoyment, fun while making new friends and developing new and
innovative relationships. Little Starz furthermore ensure safe and hygienic environment for the
children with its philosophy as “ Child First” together with a wide range of mindful curriculum

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that targets and emphasize over the learning, playing and growing of children for imbibe
essential life skills. As per the department of health regarding the health and safety plan which is
418-1.5 Safety, it is important for the school to submit and develop emergency plan and
evacuation diagram with the use of the furnished forms by the school regrading an approved
equivalent form (Broman, Nichols and Kennedy, 2017). One of the primary emphasis needs to
be placed regrading safe and timely evacuation together with the relocation of children. Little
Starz targets towards its primary emphasis over the time and safe evacuation together with the
other measures in case of emergency situation. It is furthermore essential for the school for the
development of the special measures together with the establishment of the best facilitation for
the practices targeting the disabled and the special children who gets admitted in the school. Fire
safety and the recruitment of health care personnel will be made for the child specific unit in case
of first aid measures and child needs. This school is not only a preschool distance is basically day
care providing care. Some of the features and specialty that the school to provide apart from the
health and safety plans include enquiry based learning for invoking the good genius, internet
ability for driving completely through the intellectual courage. For the facility of the school that
is targeted to be offered to the students includes unique, indoor playground design by some of
the popular kids museum designers (Domoff et al., 2015). These will include save furnishing
with bright lights and all the other modern facilities. Apart from all these facilities the pre school
or the day care school will also have a toy and a book store, children's hair salon and as healthy
snack bar for the children. Aiming to be one of the largest pre school in the society, classrooms
of the school will be made as a beautiful hands on material for keeping the kids occupied and
active. The school has adopted some of the strip norms regarding the caregivers and the Teachers
who will be appointed for concentrating over the children. The caregivers will concentrate over

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the experiences of the children and encourage them for interaction with the world around them
so that they can explore new materials and ideas . The school will also offer micro-sport classes,
physical activity classes and fun activities by professional coach.
License requirements
For getting the preschool, Little Starz licensed it is important for the authority of the school to fill
out the application and the schedule of the inspection of the site. The authority aims to fulfil all
the procedures to get the free school of the day care unit that has been planned and proposed to
come in action and to serve the citizens and the kids as soon as possible. The entire process of
licensing will start with application form (Barnett and Frede, 2017). This will include documents
and forms for the administrative Organisation, the emergency disaster plans, the operating
statements, the facility plans, parents handbook, description of the jobs, organizational policies,
bacteriological analysis regarding the hygiene of the washrooms and regarding the analysis of
the private water supply and finally the control over the property.
Little Starz will recruit students from the mainstream schools and the college that is associated
with the preschool only after the proof teaching preparation program and student handling
training. This traditional approach towards obtaining the teaching certification applies to all the
individual who does not hold any of the training for diploma or associated degree for teaching.
The authority of the preschool have decided to recruit undergraduate students at the final
semester also. Teachers having bachelor degree must complete and approve preparation program
and receive the recommendation after on the completion of the course and they must show the
certificate of teacher certification exam for the approval of their employment with the school
(Guralnick and Bruder, 2016). The NYS teaching certification exam is one of the recommended

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force that the school approaches and desire's each of the employee to pursue before joining that
program and the teaching employment.
Budget
Authority of the school decided to develop budget on an annual basis which will display
supplies, requirement of the resources within the school, inclusion of teachers and their needs,
inclusion of non teaching staff, health and safety kit for the children, special spots for the
families who are the economically disadvantaged and receiving subsidy. The budget of different
school will also include 5% of the start-up cost, fix cost and expenditures towards contingency.
Revenue
Revenue
Tuition $6,85,000
Subsidy $88,000
Annual tuition total: $7,73,000
Expenditures (Salaries)
Lead Teacher x4 $2,43,500.00
Student Teacher x3 $2,05,000.00
Child Care Aide x3 $94,700.00
Office Staff $1,95,900.00
Expenditures total: $7,39,100.00
Office supplies $1,200.00
Vehicle Opera. & Repair $100.00
Small equipment $1,400.00
Equipment Repair $5000.00
Legal $1,000.00
Office small equipment $400.00
Instructional supplies $12,000.00
Food $20,000.00
Food purchases $500.00
Telephone/Internet $400.00
Advertising $500.00
Maintenance $500.00
Contracted Services $500.00
Cell Phone $500.00

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Total: $44,000.00
Total Revenue= $7,73,000
Contingency Fund 5% $38,650
Total Expenditure (approx.) $7,34,350
Draft start-up budget
Resources Amount
Furnitures $28,000
Equipment for technology $16,500
Books $4,750
Resource Library for teachers $2,550
Food purchases - cups, bowls $1,750
Stationary equipment’s for kids $2,000
Toys $8,560
Outdoor playthings $12,000
Office supplies - computer, projector $3,780
Miscellaneous costs $5,600
Total $ 85,490
Structure of the Organisation
The structure of the Organisation will include office managers, administrative assistants, leading
teachers, non teaching staff, childcare aids and students. The physical structure of the
Organisation will include a playground, classroom, an activity area, healthy and hygienic
washrooms, snack eating zone and audio visual room was students can visualize different objects
and colorful items via a projector. Little Starz trained classroom teachers will also be responsible
for the mentoring of the students and the other junior teachers who got recruited from the
affiliated and associate colleges.
Personnel hiring and management

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The guidelines of licensing usually needs each of the school towards the maintenance of the
records of the employee in an updated manner. It is important for the authority of the school to
complete each of the file as soon as possible after hiring and employing any of the individual and
update each as necessary. Little Starz and its authority aims to carefully pick their employees and
hire them. The authority of the school will prioritize those having knowledge and experience
regarding teaching and obviously the teaching certificate for the employment position in the
school.
Curriculum
According to the national schooling and department of child care and development it is important
for each of the preschool to implement search curriculum that is challenging, engaging, planned,
appropriate developmentally and which are linguistically and culturally responsive in nature. The
authority of the school aims to develop a curriculum that will help to us the promotion of
positive outcomes for the young children. The school that is located at the heart of the city aims
to gift the children of curriculum that helps them to be happy and creative and experience
pleasant environment. According to the ‘National association for the education of young children
and the National association of early childhood specialist’, the progression of learning is natural
in nature. In the pre school the students are being introduced to new and innovative ideas
together with the skills at different stages in their process of development. It furthermore
celebrates each of the students unique capabilities, their interests and their styles of learning.
Being a part of the community inspired curriculum, the school plans several of the field trips
during the entire of the school. This will include the participation of the parents with their
children does helping both of them to enjoy couple of days in the lap of the nature and strengthen
their bond. The school understand the hectic schedule that each of the parents undergoes in the

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current era and will take the children for trips to the natural history museum, on the nature's lap
and on zoo. Little Starz is a platform that has been proposed where all the staff, teachers and
children's from all over the society will come together to share their believes and philosophies
for gaining and international awareness towards and effective development. Each and every
programs and the curriculum of the school have been specifically designed for keeping the
children engaged and also offering a wide range of plethora of extracurricular activities for
fitting the interest of each and every unique child personality. The curriculum of the school
emphasizes over the understanding and mutual respect. It targets not only the development of
academic skills of the students but also the attitude, the cultural attires and the social skills of the
children. In the society where factors like technology, science, math and engineering are the part
of jobs employment and overall routine of everyday life, it is important for the children to learn
the basic concepts.
The school encourages each and every students towards the exploration of every subject and
physical activities through experiments, projects, fun and game time.
Implementation
Year Month Activities
2019 January Presenting of the plan in front of the board
2019 February Attending the meeting of the approval of the plan
2019 March Job posting for the senior teaching stuffs
2019 April Development of a new webpage for the school
2019 May Interview for the selected candidates including background verification
2019 June Development of Little Starz committee
2019 July Employment of the lead teachers
2019 August Orientation of the new recruited teachers
2019 September The process of licensing and inspection of site

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2019 October Advertisement of the school and marketing
2019 November Collection of the resources
2019 December Recruitment of non-teaching staff and their training
2020 January Enrolment of students

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The National Association for the Education of Young Children and the National Association of
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