Why adopt ACCESS?

 The ACCESS Curriculum (ACCESS) was developed in part to fill the need to be intentional about how we, as early childhood educators, provide access to quality, developmentally appropriate learning experiences for all young children.  ACCESS is a curriculum that includes a framework for intentional decision-making about what to teach and how to teach it.  It was developed and implemented at the University of Dayton (UD)'s Bombeck Family Learning Center (Bombeck Center) and with our field partners in other preschool, kindergarten and primary grade settings.  The curriculum reflects 20 years of work by UD early childhood faculty and Bombeck  Center teachers and administrators who developed, field tested, implemented  and refined the curriculum. 

DEVELOPED BY EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS

The ACCESS Curriculum 

• Fosters nurturing and supportive relationships between children and teachers. 
• Responds to the critical need to support social and emotional learning through practice that is child-centered and play-based.

• Inspires teaching teams to create connected and meaningful curriculum that equitable and accessible for all children.
• Guides teams to design  predictable daily routines that engage children and provide opportunities for learning throughout the day.
• Grounds experiences in inquiry and science as the foundation for all learning.
• Provides context to literacy and emphasizes that learning to read is based on science as children use prediction and trial and error to connect symbols to meaningful print.
• Provides an assessment and documentation system that informs instructional decisions and tracks the progress of individual children.
• Incorporates the family and societal context as essential to cohesive and high quality curriculum.
• Allows curriculum to align with any set of early learning and development standards.​
• Embraces school culture and traditions.
• ​Can be a STREAM Curriculum for Catholic schools
  

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ACCESS REFLECTS THE CURRENT STANDARDS OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

• ​ACCESS Curriculum aligns with the  Developmentally Appropriate Practice Position Statement released by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) released in 2020.  
• ACCESS supports NAEYC's Advancing Equity in Early Childhood Education Position Statement published in 2019.
• ACCESS incorporates the Professional Standards for Early Childhood Educators released by NAEYC in 2019.

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