About Rock Spring Children's Center
Rock Spring Children's Center is a non profit, 501(c)(3), child care organization with a mission of providing affordable, quality child care and preschool services to families of the local community. The School serves over 120 local families and employs over 35 dedicated and loving child care professionals and teachers. In addition, the School uses its nonprofit status to fund raise each year so that it can offer education benefits for the School's hard working and dedicated teachers, improve the School so that it better serves the community and offer a limited number of scholarships to local families with economic need.
The School formerly was located in downtown Bethesda and was called Christ Church Children's Center. It has been serving families in the local area for over 20 years.
Philosophy
Rock Spring Children’s Center, Inc. is non-discriminatory with regard to race, color, religion, or creed. We offer children an environment where they can develop healthy attitudes, an eagerness to learn, a trust in those who care for them, and an awareness that they are special and loved. Individual needs are met in a stimulating, nurturing program, and talents are developed through shared experiences.
The mission of our program is to provide quality licensed childcare for infants through five year olds as a nonprofit service to the community. We provide a carefully planned, stimulating program for the cognitive, physical, social and emotional development of young children in a safe, clean, and nurturing environment.
Our guiding principal during our long history has been to provide the best quality care for our children. We have accomplished this goal by hiring the most loving and caring teachers we could find and treating them as well as we can so that their happiness cascades over our children. As a nonprofit, our tuition is simply a reflection of what it costs to care for each child at the school. However, in order to truly provide the best environment possible, our community of families and caregivers needs the active participation of our parents. Parental participation is encouraged and expected in such activities as chaperoning field trips, participating in class parties, helping with our Spring fundraiser, coordinating our other social events, and/or contributing in any other ways to meet the many needs of the school.
We believe that, as a community, we can provide the best environment possible for our children when we all work together to pool our talents and resources. Such a cooperative spirit is the best solution to the challenge we face in balancing the many complex demands of today’s world. When our families join our community and experience this cooperative spirit, it quickly becomes apparent why so many have come to see our school as such a very special place.
