Stork's Smart Kid Program

Stork's Smart Kid Program is a team of professional educators, leaders, devoted parents and grandparents from the community who recognized that we needed to expand the programs and research-to-practice approaches for children with learning disabilities, visual and performing arts with academics to meet the individual learning styles of its students. The Smart Kid Live it! Learn it and Masters it s Craft through educational and researched learning.

The Curriculum: Teaching Strategies for Early Childhood ~ Teaching Children to be Creative and Confident Thinkers and
We Can~Integrates many resources to provide a rich, comprehensive curriculum for young children and is modeled after the highly successful academic program created by Vicki Gibson, Ph.D. The curriculum is flexible enough to meet the needs of individual students while incorporating research-to-practice techniques and technologies.

Resources: Healthy Beginnings~Supporting Development and Learning From Birth through Three Years of Age; Johns Hopkins University School of Education, Center For Technology In Education.

The guidelines: are developed for individuals who care for children of all ages. The resources support, encourage children during growth and learning in Personal, Social, Language, Cognitive and Physical Development and beyond and

Supporting Every Young Learner Maryland s Guide to Early Childhood Pedagogy Maryland State Department of Education:
A new resource for teachers, principals, and community-based early childhood education programs~ Supporting Every Young Learner~ Maryland's Guide to Early Childhood Pedagogy Birth to Age 8. This is latest tool implemented in our program and produced by the Maryland State Department of Education's (MSDE) Division of Early Childhood Development to inform and engage early educators on evidence-based practices of teaching and learning.

The guide is designed to provide, chapters on critical areas of early childhood education such as understanding brain functions in child development, family engagement, or intentional instruction and beyond.

Thinkport's child care and early childhood education resources~ lesson and activity designed to help young learners develop important school readiness skills.

The environment: our students have a thirst for exploration, discovery and building new skills everyday. Our team nurture that curiosity, guiding students towards experiences that will enable them to develop new knowledge.