After much research, SPEC has chosen Creative Curriculum® for your child’s educational enhancement. 

Teaching Strategies, Inc. was founded in 1988 by educator and author Diane Trister Dodge. Its stated mission is "to enhance the quality of early childhood programs by offering the highest quality curriculum materials, training programs, parenting resources, and staff development services that are practical, developmentally appropriate, responsive to the needs of the field, and reflect the most innovative thinking". The Creative Curriculum materials are directed to programs for infants and toddlers, preschool age children (3 to 5 years) and children in the primary grades. A brief summary of the curriculum content relative to the these three age groups follows, but a more comprehensive review of the available materials and the approach is available via the Teaching Strategies Inc. web site (see link at the end of the page)

The Creative Curriculum® for Infants & Toddlers
Provides a comprehensive framework that emphasizes that relationships between caregivers/teachers and children and their families form the basis of curriculum for very young children.

The Creative Curriculum® for Early Childhood
Describes and demonstrates how to plan a developmentally appropriate program focusing on ten well-organized interest areas. Its underlying philosophy draws from Jean Piaget's work on cognitive development, Erik Erikson's stages of socio-emotional development, and accepted theories of how children learn best. The approach is practical, easy-to-understand, and immediately applicable to a variety of settings.

Web site: Teaching Strategies, Inc.