The CSCC Difference
Unique Program Features
CSCC offers half-day and full-day quality child care and interesting learning experiences for children ages 2.0-6.0 years. Our preschool includes adult-led and child-directed activities. Teachers work with children in small groups each morning and afternoon. Children choose learning centers where they manipulate materials and engage in play experiences with friends.
Nurturing Environments
CSCC is a training facility known for our classroom management routines and procedures. Our classrooms include opportunities for children to assume responsibilities as helpers and leadership roles. We work with children in whole and small group activities to ensure children’s voices and ideas are heard.
Nationally Recognized Curriculum
Nationally recognized proven-effective comprehensive curriculum that includes 10 domains of learning; aligned to all state and national standards/guidelines. Approved by Texas Education Agency for State Adoption List and use in PreK classrooms.
Inquiry-based Learning
Children are encouraged to listen, analyze and think, and engage in conversations and activities where they express ideas about shared readings and social-emotional experiences. They actively engage in activities that develop vocabulary word meanings to expand oral language.
Collaborative Learning
Children interact constantly with adults and friends as they participate in whole and small group activities all day. Multiple activities help children develop skills for language and emergent reading and writing, and discovering early mathematics and science concepts.
Collaborative Partnerships
Collaborative expertise with TAMU faculty from the College of Health Sciences and Nursing, College of Engineering, College of Education and Human Development, Department of Educational Psychology.
Intergenerational Learning
Part of Intergenerational Learning Center, TAMU collaboration with multiple colleges to provide senior living facilities, services, and activities that promote well-being and healthy lifestyles socially, emotionally, cognitively and physically.
Intergenerational Learning Center
The Intergenerational Learning Center is the first of its kind in the United States. The model will combine research, education, healthy lifestyle activities, and cooperative learning strategies purposed to enhance the quality of life for children, families and senior citizens and inform others about best practices for preventing and maintaining healthy living.
The Collaborative Learning Center (CLC) opened in August 2020. The preschool provides childcare and high-quality educational experiences for all families and children ages 2-6 years in the Brazos Valley.
In April 2021, the building and preschool were renamed the Charlotte Sharp Children’s Center (CSCC) in honor of Charlotte Sharp, the late wife of Chancellor John Sharp, the current chancellor of Texas A&M University.
The preschool is the first stage of a larger community and university collaborative project. Four high-rise senior living facilities will be constructed on the same acreage to create an Intergenerational Learning Center. Senior citizens, young children and families, and TAMU students will work together to create opportunities for learning experiences that allow research and onsite professional development that enhances lives through participation in best practices for preventing and maintaining healthy living and foundational learning.
The Charlotte Sharp Children’s center is located on property owned by The Texas A&M University System and has a training and educational affiliation with the College of Nursing and the College of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M University. However the Charlotte Sharp Children’s Center is a privately owned and operated facility and the services provided by Charlotte Sharp Children’s Center are not directed, managed, or controlled in any way by the Texas A&M University System or Texas A&M University. The use of the Texas A&M University System seal is by permission of the A&M System to reflect the location of the Charlotte Sharp Children’s Center on Texas A&M System property and its affiliation with the colleges named above.
