PCCP in Duxbury is a high-quality, center-based program. Research evidences that high-quality, center-based programs like PCCP include two major components:

A rich curriculum. The best early childhood programs emphasize language, emergent literacy, and early mathematics skills; motor, social, and emotional development; health and nutrition services; structured and unstructured play; and typically, parent involvement and education. While no single curriculum or pedagogical approach works for everyone, all young children tend to learn more and be better prepared for formal schooling when they attend well-planned, high-quality preschools in which curricular aims are specified and delivered.

A responsive and well-educated staff. One of the strongest predictors of high-quality early learning programs is the preparation and compensation of teachers and their responsiveness and sensitivity to the children in their care, which can be affected by teacher-child staffing ratios. The National Research Council recommends assigning at least one teacher with a bachelor’s degree and specialized education in early childhood to each group of children.