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Infant Child Care in Coon Rapids, Minnesota

6/30/2022

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Infant Child Care Coon Rapids
We have had a wonderful experience with Compass Childcare! They have made our son's transition to daycare so smooth. Ms. Jamie is wonderful! We love getting pictures and updates through the app. Everyone is always happy and so great with the babies! We are constantly telling people about our great experience.
-Catherine
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Parent Aware Rating System for Minnesota Child Care

2/17/2022

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Parent Aware Child Care

Parent Aware is a rating system that helps Minnesota parents find high-quality child care and early education providers. We are proud to be in alignment with the Mission of Parent Aware. ​

Parent Aware Child Care
Parent Aware, Minnesota’s Quality Rating and Improvement System, offers tools and resources to help:
  • Families find quality child care and early education
  • Programs improve their practices
  • Children benefit from care and education that will prepare them for school and life.
Compass and Parent Aware believe that:
  • Every child has unique gifts and abilities to celebrate and nurture
  • All families deserve equitable access to quality care and education for their children
  • Quality early learning from trained and culturally competent professionals makes a difference for children
  • Children learn through relationships and playful interactions with their families, peers, providers, teachers, and environment
Compass and Parent Aware commit to:
  • Advancing inclusive practices that build on family, child, and community strengths
  • Helping care and education programs adopt best practices and serve children of all cultures, races, ethnicities, languages, beliefs, and abilities
  • Offering services and supports from people who reflect our diverse community
  • Supporting practices that will lead to closing the achievement gap for young children
Parent Aware will:
  • Promote the importance of high-quality inclusive care and education programs and practices to all Minnesotans
  • Offer professional growth for child care and early education professionals through cutting-edge, culturally-responsive training, education, and coaching
  • Always improve Parent Aware services through evaluation, listening to parents and providers, and using the latest methods, models, and research.

What do the star ratings indicate?

Compass Child Care centers are constantly working to improve. Ask your director for the current rating!

​One-Star Rating 

These programs have demonstrated these best practices:
  • Uses consistent routines to support children
  • Talks with children and families to better understand interests and culture
  • Shares important community resources with families
  • Learns about each individual child by observing and taking notes
  • Commits to and maintains professional ethics in the early learning field

​Two-Star Rating 

These programs have demonstrated all One-Star practices, AND:
  • Evaluates learning activities, materials, classroom layout, and health-related practices to set goals for growth
  • Plans school-readiness activities for children
  • Guides families through their children’s transition to kindergarten
  • Shares information with families in ways that meet their unique needs
  • Plans for continued learning and professional growth

​Three-Star Rating 

These programs have demonstrated all One- and Two-Star practices, AND:
  • Uses a curriculum aligned with Minnesota’s early learning standards
  • Teaches in a way that is organized, challenging and warm
  • Helps children transition between activities and stay engaged
  • Uses approved tools to track children’s development
  • Commits to ongoing quality improvement by using some of these best practices:
    • Responds to unique cultural customs and needs of children and families
    • Offers activities that encourage family participation and help children transition to kindergarten
    • Gives families opportunities to provide feedback about the program
    • Shares child development updates with families to set goals together
    • Makes accommodations for children with special needs and their families
    • Has highly-qualified and trained leadership staff, teachers, and providers
    • Creates a program-wide professional development plan
    • Encourages healthy living through nutrition and physical activity, always evaluating to set goals for growth

​Four-Star Rating 

These programs have demonstrated all One-, Two-, and Three-Star practices, AND commits to ongoing quality improvement by using most of these best practices:
  • Responds to unique cultural customs and needs of children and families
  • Offers activities that encourage family participation and help children transition to kindergarten
  • Gives families opportunities to provide feedback about the program
  • Shares child development updates with families to set goals together
  • Makes accommodations for children with special needs and their families
  • Has highly-qualified and trained leadership staff, teachers, and providers
  • Creates a program-wide professional development plan
  • Encourages healthy living through nutrition and physical activity, always evaluating to set goals for growth

Compass Child Care centers are constantly working to improve. Ask your director for your center's current rating!

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About Compass Child Care: How Two Minnesota Sisters turned an industry of problems into child care centers full of solutions!

2/10/2021

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Early Childhood Education
The story of Compass Child Care begins with two sisters: Ginger and Amy. 
  • Ginger is a creative, natural leader who thrives at building and directing teams--and has always preferred sitting at the Kid's Table. 
  • Amy is an observant nurturer, gifted at meeting the needs of children, staff, and families. 

These two Minnesota sisters have worked in child care and early childhood education and development since they were practically children themselves! As they married and had their own children, they noticed the child care industry had some problems. 

Ginger and Amy started building the solution: Compass Child Care. 


Problem: Child Care Centers and Daycares were either too focused on academics, or too focused on snuggles and cuddles. 

Solution: Create an environment that is equally enriching and comforting.

Problem: Child care facilities were so different from a child's home, that the transition was stressful and difficult for both kids and parents.

Solution: Offer a facility and daily program that is the best home away from home for children while offering a stimulating kindergarten-readiness curriculum. 

Problem: Early Childhood Education was dismissed, while communities emphasized a need for better school-age and high school education. Preschool-level teachers were not respected in their field. 

Solution: Create a program that raises the child care standard for infants to Pre-K children. Hire and train staff to carry themselves with professionalism as educators working with children in the most crucial stages of their lives. 

Problem: Child care centers experience high staff turnover. 

Solution: We allow staff to feel fulfilled and empowered to flourish in their gifts and to work as a team to meet the needs of the children and families. We offer training and support to our staff. 

Problem: The child care industry seemed to dismiss the needs of parents, in terms of convenience, affordability, and transitions from home to care and back.

Solution: Compass is dedicated to offer child care centers in convenient locations, honor the needs of parents and families, and provide a stable place for children to grow and learn.

Child care is family care and Compass considers it an honor to be a part of each family in their care.

Compass Values

  • Safety: We put the safety of children, families, and staff first all day, every day.
  • Every day is licensing day: We conduct our centers in a way that would be consistent with Rule 3 regulations no matter who is or is not present.
  • Consistency: Show up and do your job the right way, every time, without exception.
  • Ownership: Every position is important and respected.  Every employee should have ownership in their job, classroom, relationships, and center/ company.
  • Excellence in communication: Communication is of utmost importance with children, staff, management, and families.  We need to keep communication professional, kind, constructive and concise.
  • Relevance: We will always strive to look past trends, gimmicks, and fads to provide the best curriculum that is both on the cutting edge while honoring the tried and true success of past strategies.
  • FUN: If you aren’t having fun… YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG
  • Trust & respect: Trust and respect is the ground we stand upon.  If you are not trustworthy or respectful, you may not be here.
  • Family of families: We want to be a safe place to be supported, uplifted, cared for, and loved.  This is the expectations for our families and staff alike.
  • Building up your community: Your performance is based upon how you improve and uplift those around you: All staff will be held accountable for how they treat those around them.  They need to confront with love and respect, abstain and stop gossip in its tracks, and kindly hold each other to these core values. ​​

Early childhood education is the very foundation upon which all other education is built, and that is truly exciting.

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Co-Founder of Compass Child Care Designs Play with a Purpose

2/9/2021

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Meet Ginger, Compass Co-Founder

Child Care Bethel MinnesotaGinger has created a fun and educational child care program.
Ginger Olson is truly a kid at heart.

Her love of children can be traced to an earlier time in her life, influenced by Mrs. Dempsey, one of her high school teachers.

"Love of children is just one part of running a successful childcare facility," Olson notes. "I need to balance that with the ability to plan, maintain order, and design play with a purpose."

As Olson's interest in childcare grew, she focused on learning these aspects and applied her knowledge as an employee and volunteer at church, corporate schools, and other child care programs.

"When I became a mom, that really provided practical experience about the needs of children as well as parents, which has helped my perspective with the everyday needs at Compass."

Olson brainstormed alongside her sister, Amy Steiner, about how to build their dream child care center and how it would be set apart from others. Their combined passion was based on building a safe, educational environment that would be a home away from home.

"We didn't spend much time thinking about how this venture could be profitable for ourselves. We were excited about what we could do to serve these kids and our communities."

Olson feels they are laying the groundwork for the educators that will one day work with the children who  start at Compass. She hopes children will start school with a foundation where kids develop a love of learning.

"Every time I see a child with that 'I get it!' look in their eye, I feel I have the best job in the world," Olson says. When a child is successful at zipping their own coat or tying their shoes or taking their first step, Olson is proud in the child's accomplishments and thinks of the incredible trust parents grant them to work with their children.

Being flexible during times of growth or dealing with a pandemic has been challenging, but Olson states that she is determined to maintain her ideals of providing a safe, positive and educational environment through this time at Compass Child Care .

"Every time I see a child with that 'I get it!' look in their eye, I feel I have the best job in the world."
​Ginger, Compass Child Care Co-Founder

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Compass Child Care: Giving children the tools to learn and lead

2/8/2021

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Meet Amy, Compass Co-Founder

Amy, Compass Co-Founder
​Amy Steiner's love for puppets, art, messy fun, training and teaching, and all things silly and festive, fell into place with teaching preschool. 

"There aren't many professions where puppeteering is cool," Steiner says with a twinkle in her eye and big smile. "The only reason why I was able to leave my beloved classroom is that I wanted to broaden my reach."

As an experienced classroom teacher, Steiner had to make a decision about joining her sister, Ginger Olson, on building a dream day care center. "I saw that I could be deeply involved with 20 children and families a year, or I could be involved in the lives of 300 children and the staff that reach them all."

By being a part of Compass Child Care, Steiner truly impacts even more lives than before. "I wake up everyday with gratitude that I get to do that."


At Compass Child Care, Steiner sees herself equally there for the children and for their educators. Steiner has a deep passion for children. "I hope that is obvious, but I share an equal passion for adults who put children first," she says. 

As an overseer of the child care center, Steiner is an advocate for her staff. "My heart is for caretakers and teachers; they sacrifice so much; their patience seems unending; their creativity knows no bounds."


Over time, students move on, families depart as they head off to grade school and beyond. It's understandable that children going to a learning center won't remember their earliest experiences there or even remember the staff, but Steiner's deepest hope is that the children will move on from there having developed the courage to learn, the boldness to lead, and that they will know and recognize unconditional love because it was given to them at Compass.
 

"I hope our students find fulfillment in every stage of life," Steiner says.

Steiner recognizes she is part of a larger team that lays an important foundation for the future lives of those who attend their learning center.

"We really believe that everything you really need to know, you learn before kindergarten." ​​-Amy, Compass Child Care Co-Founder

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