Tallahassee / Florida / United States
Located in Tallahassee, Fla., Creative Center for Childhood Research and Training offers educational resources, professional services, scholarly publications and state-of-the-art training to adults working within the field of early childhood education and care. The creative preschool program is used as a lab school for training and research conducted by consultants from Creative Center for Childhood Research and Training in coordination with its staff. The center provides training and conducts research that focuses on the development of young children with and without disabilities, creating effective early childhood programs, and teaching others how to organize early childhood programs. Through more than 20 years of research and over 30 years of direct experience with young children, it has developed a curriculum, known as Beyond Centers & Circle Time: Scaffolding and Assessing the Play of Young Children.