Leaps N Bounds

About Leaps N Bounds

Leaps N Bounds offers early childhood care and education in a center-based facility in Austin. Students and families at Leaps N Bounds will get the best of a school-like environment that both provides the structure and stability for learning to flourish and the soft introduction for students to formal school in the years to come. As a center, Leaps N Bounds also has the space, resources and opportunities for enrichment and educational activities alongside the empathetic and caring relationships that will benefit students for years ahead. A part-time schedule at Leaps N Bounds moreover gives parents in Austin the freedom and flexibility to be with their child for part of the day yet also get their child professional educational development for the rest. Students with part-time schedules at Leaps N Bounds have the benefits of socializing, bonding, playing and interacting with each other and also getting to know staff. This will help students make the transition to a full-time day whenever that comes for them! In addition, Leaps N Bounds teaches a mixed-age curriculum that facilities peer learning and communal growth. In a mixed-age classroom like at Leaps N Bounds, students receive open-ended, stimulating activities and are encouraged to move at their own pace. Younger students receive help and encouragement from older students, boosting their confidence and self-esteem, and older students get to lend a helping hand, teaching empathy and the joy of giving. Mixed-age learning replicates the best of a family or neighborhood group structure as children socialize with peers a little ahead or a little behind their own development path.