About Kachina Private School
Kachina Country Day Private School is located in Paradise
Valley, Arizona. Serving the educational needs of the community since
1967, we accept applications for enrollment into our preschool or
elementary school starting at 20 months through 6th grade.
6602 E. Malcomb Dr. Lincoln Casa Blanca Paradise Valley, AZ
85253
Respect for Individuality
At Kachina, children don't have to fit "the system." We allow
your child the time and space to mature without being judged or
compared. By maintaining low student to teacher ratios, our staff takes
the time to get to know your child. They appreciate individual
strengths and reinforce them with frequent praise. They understand your
child's developmental needs and take time to nurture growth. Your child
is continually given opportunities to demonstrate competency and
express ideas in different ways. In short "the system" is flexible. We
want to encourage flexibility, not rigidity, in children. The ability
to adapt and the confidence to risk is a key to lifelong success.
Parents are key players in a child's growth and development. You are the primary motivators, teachers and role models. You also know what you want for your children. The school's role is to support and complement you, to reinforce values and facilitate outcomes. The teachers at Kachina have a wealth of knowledge about child development and the complex process involved in building the foundations of learning. Together we are your child's advocates. Through parent participation, conferences and day-to-day communications, we establish expectations, share knowledge and solve problems. Your child is involved in the process as well, because that's how children learn the life skills of goal setting and problem solving.
Emphasis on the Complex Process of Learning
Confidence, emotional balance, sensory integration and efficient strategies are crucial to successful learning. These are the internal structures that enable a child to access, analyze, synthesize and utilize information with ease and minimal stress. At Kachina, we place strong emphasis on helping your child, at the most natural stages, develop these internal structures. With the foundation in place, your child will be able to deal with an ever-increasing body of knowledge and attain the complex thinking skills necessary to prosper in the future. It's estimated that by 2015, mankind will double its body of knowledge every 35 days. We cannot equip children for the future simply by teaching them what we know today. While content is important, the learning process is more important.
Experience and Leading edge expertise
For more than 30 years, we have been nurturing and studying children in the formative ages of 2 – 24 years old. We pioneered developmental screening in the valley over 25 years ago. As a result of screening and observation of more than 6000 preschoolers, pre-primary and young primary age children, we have evolved a developmentally appropriate curriculum for your child at all these age levels.
We screen your child annually from 3-6 years old to assess individual progress and prescribe nurturing activities. Drawing upon research in neurolinguistics, we developed a screening and the techniques to teach your elementary student how to use the most successful strategies for learning.
When screening of 6 to 16 year-old’s revealed that
many lack the crtitical ability to visualize, we developed a visual
sensory integration program. In 1989, we organized the
