About Us

Tanaina is a play-based center with an environment that is designed to provide a caring, safe, and intentional environment to support social emotional growth, exploration, and learning in each child. Tanaina recognizes every child as an individual who is growing and learning at their own rate with special interests, strengths, and needs. Our teachers engage and support children to identify topics of interest and use interests to guide classroom curriculum. Our curriculum is emergent and integrated, drawing on several approaches to early childhood care and education. Activities and projects are structured around all the developmental domains (physical, cognitive, language, literacy, social and emotional) to create meaningful and age-appropriate learning experiences for our littlest dreamers, explorers, and scientists.

At Tanaina, we work to create an atmosphere where each child, staff and parent is celebrated for who they are and the differences they bring. We encourage respectfulness for one another and embrace each other’s differences. We believe in building partnerships with families and the community to support children’s learning and development.