Case Studies
View case studies below to share a “day in the life” of a Pennsylvania infant and toddler in high-quality child care. The interactions captured on these pages—grounded in real life experiences—provide you with a better understanding of why investing in high-quality child care matters.
New Faces
A teacher is absent on this day. Two full-time teachers and a substitute “floater” are managing morning drop off. Child care centers are required to maintain a strict balance of teachers to children, so on this day children will be meeting a new face…
Love of a Baby, Life of a Teacher
Behind the doors of this quiet stand-alone building are 11 babies. You’re welcomed by clean white walls adorned with pictures and a large block formation with playful messages to parents and children as they arrive each day. The classroom sits behind a glass wall; rocking chairs are near cribs lined neatly in a row across from an eating area with low to the ground booster chairs…
Country Classrooms
Tucked back on a long, winding country road in rural Pennsylvania, this child care center is the central focus of a 100-acre farm. Driving up to the pebbled parking lot and greeted by the horses in their corral, while kids are playing outside, it is abundantly evident that this is a special place…
A Home Away from Home
Greeted through the doors of this row house by neatly aligned cubbies and a large fish tank, you know when you arrive at this urban care center that you are welcome, and that this space is carefully arranged for the four small children who call it home during their time away from their parents...
A Good Morning, Growing & Guiding
As children arrive on this morning, year-old Gabriella is carried into the classroom clinging tightly to her mom. You can almost feel the trepidation as the anticipation of separation sets in. Teachers in this center are always prepared for any morning; excitement, anxiety, sleepiness or just a little under the weather…