Harvard University’s Center on the Developing Child[1] states: “The path to a nation’s prosperity and security begins with the well-being of its children.” After four decades of research this Centre has identify the critical factors that enhance positive development in the first five years of a child’s life:

·         Brains are built over time and a substantial proportion is constructed during the early years
      of life. These years offer the ideal time to provide experiences that shape healthy brain
      circuits

·         Early experiences determine whether a child’s developing brain architecture provides a
      strong or weak foundation for all future learning, behavior, and health

·         Neuroscience tells us that providing the right conditions for healthy development in early
      childhood is more effective than treating problems at a later age

·         Children develop best when caring adults respond in warm, individualized, and stimulating
      ways;

·         Quality early childhood education shows positive return on investment(Appendix A),
      demonstrating the long term societal benefits relative to initial program costs.

There now exists an unprecedented opportunity to launch a new science driven era in early childhood practice that will produce better outcomes in academic achievement, economic productivity, responsible citizenship, and successful parenting of the next generation.

To quote the internationally known Danish philosopher Peter Kemp[2] “We as humans, are undeniably responsible for a common world at the local, national and international levels. Schools and even pre-schools are inevitably bound to an obligation to present the moral voice of society and if this voice is not the voice of the world citizen then the educational system has become bankrupt.”

About 'Excel Kids'

'Excel Kids' has the tools to personalise an early education just for your child and begins from birth. It is a systems approach to educating the physical, mental and spiritual/relational beings of the developing child. We start with the development of the heart.

What is new in 'Excel Kids'?

·         A systematic start from birth and begins in the home

·         Helps children and adults to learn to play together with purpose

·         Begins with the education of the heart (emotional intelligence).

What is meant by to play together with purpose?

We all have inherited, innate and acquired characteristics. Once we can read the hidden instruction manual of the child we can customise their learning environment and know how to encourage their natural strengths and interests and address their challenges which creates an integration of the physical, mental and spiritual beings over time. This is easier to do when a child is young. We have created an easy colour coded system to track each child’s development. So it is not about just free play (as important as that is) it is play with purpose.

'Excel Kids' incorporates the latest scientific research and best practices in early childhood education, to implement a new paradigm suited to the demands of becoming a future global citizen.

'Excel Kids' Objectives:

·         To implement an innovative system of early education personalized just for your child, supporting children and parents/carers to learn and play together with purpose there by laying the foundations for a better moral world with an increasingly just, equitable and peaceful society caring for the self-sufficiency of the environment and the wellbeing of all.

·         To implement 'Excel Kids', with the central paradigm of developing moral sentiments, with higher empathy and ethics demonstrated by the quality of their moral choices and actions.

·         To support the children of today, to remove prejudices, to be effective communicators, and to develop their capacities to be members of a global society of tomorrow.

·         These future world citizens will build a solid foundation in their earliest years; learning how to draw from a different rational choice base, to make decisions individually and collectively in service to the common good, regarding the protection of the planet’s environment and a better distribution of resources in financial and economic spheres.

'Excel Kids' Program - Birth to age five

'Excel Kids' builds a strong educational foundation in the early years for a child to become both ‘learned and good.’ It has three components:

1)      The Super Six Heroes Kit (foundational ethical problem solving)

2)      High Capacity Communications (communicating to connect/learning style)

3)      Early Start Circles (Six C’s of Capability learning program)

Our approach begins with family education by using everyday life experiences and arranged learning environments teaching both parent/carer and child at the same time.

1.      The Super Six Heroes Kit Uses six steps to develop moral capacity by building the neural architecture in young children assisting them to make wise choices and act virtuously to develop the character of the child.  In the past the vast majority of children were taught to be moral through discipline, guilt and shame.

To the contrary, brain research now demonstrates when we are emotionally distressed we have no access to the neural pathways of the frontal brain, simply stated: we react rather than respond. We learn to be moral in the same way we learn to read, by creating pictures of appropriate actions on the frontal brain: Through role modelling, the language of encouragement, reflection on their behavior supported by consistent, systematic repetition.

2.      High Capacity Communications - HCC (researched with over 40,000 people) is a communications system to help parents and educators to easily access their child’s mind. A diagnostic tool to understand how to motivate, individualize the learning process and discover how each child perceives, feels, views and interacts with the world. Parents and educators can discover the communications code to their child through their verbal and nonverbal characteristics. All of us have innate, inherited and acquired characteristics, ‘the gems within’. The acquired characteristics need to be learned and then integrated with the inherited and innate characteristics to become a fully functioning being. Lack of integration leads to dysfunction, behavioural problems, mental disorders and loss of potential. HCC provides the tools to integrate these three aspects of our being at an early age.

 

3.      'Excel Kids' - Early Start Circle aq learning program for developing the foundations for global citizenship through utilizing  the 6 C’s :

1)      Caring                                           To Know and care for self and others

     2)      Connection                                  To become a citizen of the world
3)      Creativity                                     To create beauty in the world
4)      Critical Thinking                          To know and care for the world
5)      Creative Problem Solving         To know how to live in the world
6)      Contribution                                To serve the world