FAQ
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Choosing a PreSchool
What is the school’s safety measures?
At Tiniciti, our uncompromised security team and staff are constantly monitoring the environment to ensure that all children can play, learn, and interact in a safe and nurturing indoor and outdoor spaces. Safety starts with perimeter outdoor and indoor cameras and a security gate, where families must key in to reach the front door. Sign in and sign out methods enable staff to monitor who drops off and picks up each child.
What is the curriculum used?
Tiniciti Preschool’s extensive curriculum is inspired by the Multiple Intelligence theory, which was founded by Howard Gardner, Ph.D., Professor of Education at Harvard University. The Multiple Intelligence theory stems from the belief that each child has a unique set of capabilities, strengths, and inherent ways in which they are able to demonstrate intellectual abilities.
How convenient is the school’s schedule?
Tiniciti is open 8am-8pm 5 days a week and 10am – 11pm on weekends, 358 Days a Year!
Does the school offer any enrichment activities?
In addition to the daily age-appropriate activities, all Tiniciti students participate in Music, Yoga, Dance, P.E, Science and Art with professionals in their respective industries.
How diverse is the school?
Multicultural, bilingual and multidisciplinary environment with 30+ represented countries and languages in our student and staff body.
How qualified are the teachers?
All Tiniciti Preschool teachers are passionate and fully equipped with early childhood experience, certificates, and accolades. These include the Florida Department of Children and Families state agency certificate, Continuing Education hours and training twice a month and great family reviews!
What is their take on nutrition?
Tiniciti provides a healthy and well-balanced, homemade lunch, and healthy snacks are provided twice a day. A new menu is updated and emailed to parents monthly. Our food is prepared daily by an in-house chef who analyzes recipes and reviews the menus for balance, completeness, and accuracy.
What about parent participation?
Tiniciti Preschool operates an Open Door Policy for all parents. The purpose of our Open Door Policy is to encourage open communication, feedback, and participation. Our Open Door Policy means that parents are welcome to come and sit in a teacher’s classroom with their child. This way, they can experience first-hand what class feels and looks like from the perspective of the students. Parents are always invited to attend our celebrations, field trips, community events, lectures, and assemblies.
How inclusive is the program?
Tiniciti’s all-inclusive philosophy allows children to learn, grow, enhance their skill levels, develop healthy self-esteem and form close relationships with their teachers and classmates daily. Thirty+ countries and a plethora of languages are represented in our student and staff body! This enhances children’s vocabulary, comprehension skills; in turn, this expands the child’s knowledge base and confidence.
How do Tiniciti teachers communicate with families?
We strive to keep parents connected with what matters most to them: their child’s well being and progress.
Through our school app, we stay in communication with families throughout the entire day. We issue reminders and alert parents about events, updates, and emergency notices by sending texts, email newsletters and push notifications directly to their phones.
Practical Information
What are Tiniciti Preschool’s hours of operation?
How do we get to Tiniciti Preschool’s Brickell location at 1221 Brickell Suite R 18, and where can we park?
The school is closed in observance of which holidays?
When can I pick up my child?
Are you licensed?
Do you run on a 12-month or 10-month calendar, and do I need to pay tuition for the entire year?
How often do you clean the classrooms?
How often do the children go on field trips?
Do you pick up from area schools?
Children’s Safety
My child has allergies. How can I make sure you will take care of it?
How do you check the person picking up my child?
Tinicti follows strict guidelines for your child/children’s safety. When you first fill out the “Enrollment Form”, you as the custodial parent(s) or legal guardian will be listing the people that are authorized to pick your child/children up. If there are any changes, you will need to update your Enrollment Form at the office asap. At the time that one of the designated people comes to pick your child/children up, we will ask them for their picture ID to sign the child out.
Can outsiders walk into the facility?
Tuition and Fees
What are your rates?
How can we pay the monthly tuition? Can we set up an automatic payment?
Children’s Education
Will my child be ready for Kindergarten?
What curriculum do you follow?
Do you have VPK?
Will my child move to an older class during the year?
Food and Nutrition
Do you provide meals and snacks?
Can I send the food my child likes?
Classroom
Do the children nap? What about the older children?
Kindergarten students no longer require a nap and are at an age in which they can endure the full school day of activities.
My child is not potty trained. Is that a problem?
We understand that children train at their own pace. Our highly trained teachers are skilled in the area of potty training, therefore it is not a problem. Just let us know when you first enroll and we will advise your child’s teachers.
My child has special needs. Can I enroll?
Tiniciti is an inclusive child care center whose highly trained teachers and staff would love to work with children from all walks of life. The reality is that special education instructors are needed to help students with disabilities as well as other needs that require a variety of accommodations. General education teachers such as ours are not trained to work with students with special needs. In addition, we are unable to maintain the staff-to-child ratio required by special needs facilities so that they may receive their hands-on care and one-on-one attention.
What do the children do during extended care hours?
The majority of the learning and daily lessons take place from 9am-3pm. After 3pm, our after-care program begins. The children engage in group activities such as arts and crafts, sing-alongs, or individual activities such as reading, computers, games, puzzles or music.
Admissions and Starting School
When can my child start? How old do they need to be?
What is the application process for new students?
1. Contact the school to schedule an initial visit and request an information packet.
2. Complete and submit an application.
3. After we receive your child’s application, we will work with you to schedule a classroom visit for him or her.
We’ve been offered a spot for our child for the upcoming school year. What do we need to do to secure that?
Staff
What are the staff qualifications?
What is the hiring process for new teachers? Do you do background checks?
My child has special needs. Can I enroll?
Tiniciti is an inclusive child care center whose highly trained teachers and staff would love to work with children from all walks of life. The reality is that special education instructors are needed to help students with disabilities as well as other needs that require a variety of accommodations. General education teachers such as ours are not trained to work with students with special needs. In addition, we are unable to maintain the staff-to-child ratio required by special needs facilities so that they may receive their hands-on care and one-on-one attention.