GS 110-91 · Violation

Name of Operation: EXCEL LEARNING CENTERS #6 Facility ID: 25000604 Consultant: ANDREA JOHNSON Operation Type: Center Case Number: Visit Date: 1/21/2025 Number Present: 44 Completed Date: 1/21/2025 Age: From 0 To 12 Total Minutes: 120 Time In: 12:30 PM Time Out: 02:30 PM Time In: Time Out: List to Use: Center Type Of Visit: Routine Unannounced Announced/Unannounced: Unannounced The purpose of today’s visit was to monitor your program for compliance with applicable childcare requirements for a routine unannounced visit. Your program currently operates with a 5-Star license effective February 20, 2022. The center's compliance history was reviewed with the operator. The program’s compliance history was ninety-seven (97) percent as of January 22, 2025. The NC Secretary of State website was reviewed on January 21, 2025, and ELA KidsNet, Holdings, LLC was listed as current-active. The license was posted, and the restrictions were in compliance. Director, Wendy Simpson, was available for consultation during the visit. There are six (6) approved indoor spaces and three (3) approved outdoor spaces. Seventy-six (76) children, between the ages of zero (0) and twelve (12) years old are enrolled and forty-four (44) were present today. At least five (5) activity areas including language, blocks, manipulatives, dramatic play, and art were available in the classroom. Age-appropriate materials and activities were provided for all children. A walk-through of the facility was completed today. All indoor and outdoor areas were monitored. Infants assigned to indoor space #1 were receiving care based on their individual needs. One (1) infant was being held by a staff member and the other infant was seated in a bouncy seat. Safe sleep checks were monitored, and requirements were met. Younger preschool children assigned to indoor spaces #2, #3, and #4 were observed during nap time. The children were on individual cots with individual linens. Mat spacing, music, and room lighting, were monitored and found to be in compliance. Indoor space #5 was closed due to the scheduled NC Pre-K teacher workday. School aged children assigned to indoor space #6 were engaged in a variety of free play activities which included tracing images, magnetic shapes, bristle blocks, dot markers, brickyard construction engineering, handwriting, and legos. Indoor spaces #1 and #6 did not have current activity plans posted. The outdoor spaces had a variety of gross motor equipment including tricycles, basketball goals, push toys, riding toys, small, covered sand boxes, large abacus, large chalkboard, bike trails, and dramatic play toys. Health and Safety trainings, the Shaken Baby and Abusive Head Trauma Policy, and new staff files were monitored today and found to be in compliance. Violation Number Comment Rule 428 A current activity plan was not posted for each group of children for reference. A current activity plan was not posted in indoor space #6. The activity plan posted was dated January 13, 2025, through January 17, 2025. GS 110-91(12); .0508(a) 601 Refrigerator(s) did not maintain a temperature of 45 degrees F. or below. A thermometer was not in the refrigerator in the kitchen; therefore, a temperature of 45 degrees F. or below could not be verified. 15A NCAC 18A .2806(j)(2) Child Care programs are expected to achieve and maintain compliance at all times and are required by NC GS 110-90(4) (d) to achieve and maintain an eighteen-month compliance history score of at least seventy-five percent. Any violation documented may impact the compliance history score. The violations documented must be corrected immediately. Violations #0601 and #0428 were corrected during the visit; therefore, a compliance letter is not required at this time. NC Pre-K Monitoring: The NC Pre-Kindergarten Program (NC Pre-K) Site Monitoring Tool for the 2024-2025 school year, dated December 19, 2024, has been completed and was reviewed today. The program follows the Craven County school calendar. The length of the day, 8:00am until 2:45pm, meets the instructional day requirement of 6.5-10 hours. Child Assessment and Required Screenings: The assessment tool, GOLD, Teaching Strategies 2010-2011, is in place. Portfolios for each child are maintained in both indoor spaces and electronically on Teacher Strategies Gold online application. The facility uses the developmental screening tool, DIAL-4 for pre-screening and ongoing assessments. Documentation of health assessments, vision, hearing, dental screenings, and DIAL-4 pre-screenings were on file for each child. Curriculum: The Creative Curriculum for Preschool, 6th Edition, Teaching Strategies, 2016 has been implemented and the classroom has the required resources available for use. Materials to support the current activity plan were displayed throughout the classroom. Family Engagement: Parent involvement included open house, monthly newsletters, Thanksgiving friends giving, parent teacher conferences, and classroom volunteer readers. Staff Requirements: All staff met NC Pre-K requirements. Technical Assistance: Criminal Background Check Information - DCDEE launched the Provider Portal for ABCMS on February 1, 2024. This access will allow providers to see applicants that associate themselves with their facility and allow them to “hire” the applicant to their roster, see the real-time background check status of staff/household members, and run a printable report of the staff roster to assist with compliance visits. To gain access to the Provider Portal complete the ABCMS Child Care Provider Portal Training on DCDEE's Moodle. The training consists of watching a short video then taking a test about the video. A certificate will be issued upon successful completion of the test. Email the certificate along with your full name, position, and Facility ID to DCDEE_ABCMS_Provider@dhhs.nc.gov to get access to the portal. Access will then be granted within 2 business days. If you have general questions, please continue to use DHHS.CBC.Unit@dhhs.nc.gov. As stated in G.S. 110-90.2 & .2703(r) childcare operators are to notify the Division of any new childcare providers working who were hired or moved into the childcare facility within five business days. The process of notifying the Division has changed and is now captured in ABCMS. This change has been in effect since February 2024. Effective immediately, you will need to obtain a Business NCID and complete Provider Portal training in Moodle at https://www.dcdee.moodle.nc.gov/course/view.php?id=119 No action is needed on your part if you have completed the reference training and are currently using the ABCMS Provider Portal to update information regarding new hires or residents. Once the training has been completed and access has been given, you must verify your facility roster to ensure current staff are noted on the roster. This information should be updated in ABCMS in an ongoing basis as staff members are hired and when their employment is terminated. This satisfies the requirement to notify the Division of new childcare providers working who were hired or moved into the childcare facility within five business days. The compliance of this rule will be monitored during your next visit. Please note, the hard copy of the Change of Information form will no longer be needed or accepted. Should you need assistance please contact the Criminal Background Check Unit at (919) 814-8401 and someone will assist you. QRIS Update: Starting on February 1, 2025, the ECERS-3, ITERS-3, and FCCERS-3—also known as the "3s"—will be used for DCDEE environment rating scale assessments. The DCDEE and the North Carolina Rated License Assessment Project (NCRLAP) are collaboratively working on preparations for the transition to the third editions. These third editions come with a spiral binding at the top, replacing the current revised editions. Visit the NCRLAP’s website for more information about updated resources, credit hour trainings, and outreach assessment opportunities to help you become familiar with these tools. For official environment rating scale assessments for a NC Star Rated License, the NCRLAP will use the Revised editions until February 1, 2025. Reminders: For the latest information on childcare rules and regulations, please visit the Division of Child Development and Early Education's website at: https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/ At the completion of the visit, this visit summary was reviewed with you, emailed to you, copies printed and signed. As we discussed, this computer-generated visit summary serves as completion of the routine unannounced visit. If you have any questions and/or concerns, you have my contact information. You may also contact my supervisor, Lynette Robbins Lynette.Robbins@dhhs.nc.gov Office: 910-824-0235 If the operator fails to correct any documented violations within the established time period, the Division of Child Development and Early Education may deny, suspend, terminate, or revoke any permit to operate (10A NCAC 09 .2000). All information in this report has been reviewed with me today.I understand that it is my responsibility to maintaincompliance with applicable NC Child Care Requirements at all times

Open Not marked corrected in the state record

Category: supervision. Open / not marked corrected.

NC GS 110-90 · Violation

Name of Operation: EXCEL LEARNING CENTERS #6 Facility ID: 25000604 Consultant: ANDREA JOHNSON Operation Type: Center Case Number: Visit Date: 1/21/2025 Number Present: 44 Completed Date: 1/21/2025 Age: From 0 To 12 Total Minutes: 120 Time In: 12:30 PM Time Out: 02:30 PM Time In: Time Out: List to Use: Center Type Of Visit: Routine Unannounced Announced/Unannounced: Unannounced The purpose of today’s visit was to monitor your program for compliance with applicable childcare requirements for a routine unannounced visit. Your program currently operates with a 5-Star license effective February 20, 2022. The center's compliance history was reviewed with the operator. The program’s compliance history was ninety-seven (97) percent as of January 22, 2025. The NC Secretary of State website was reviewed on January 21, 2025, and ELA KidsNet, Holdings, LLC was listed as current-active. The license was posted, and the restrictions were in compliance. Director, Wendy Simpson, was available for consultation during the visit. There are six (6) approved indoor spaces and three (3) approved outdoor spaces. Seventy-six (76) children, between the ages of zero (0) and twelve (12) years old are enrolled and forty-four (44) were present today. At least five (5) activity areas including language, blocks, manipulatives, dramatic play, and art were available in the classroom. Age-appropriate materials and activities were provided for all children. A walk-through of the facility was completed today. All indoor and outdoor areas were monitored. Infants assigned to indoor space #1 were receiving care based on their individual needs. One (1) infant was being held by a staff member and the other infant was seated in a bouncy seat. Safe sleep checks were monitored, and requirements were met. Younger preschool children assigned to indoor spaces #2, #3, and #4 were observed during nap time. The children were on individual cots with individual linens. Mat spacing, music, and room lighting, were monitored and found to be in compliance. Indoor space #5 was closed due to the scheduled NC Pre-K teacher workday. School aged children assigned to indoor space #6 were engaged in a variety of free play activities which included tracing images, magnetic shapes, bristle blocks, dot markers, brickyard construction engineering, handwriting, and legos. Indoor spaces #1 and #6 did not have current activity plans posted. The outdoor spaces had a variety of gross motor equipment including tricycles, basketball goals, push toys, riding toys, small, covered sand boxes, large abacus, large chalkboard, bike trails, and dramatic play toys. Health and Safety trainings, the Shaken Baby and Abusive Head Trauma Policy, and new staff files were monitored today and found to be in compliance. Violation Number Comment Rule 428 A current activity plan was not posted for each group of children for reference. A current activity plan was not posted in indoor space #6. The activity plan posted was dated January 13, 2025, through January 17, 2025. GS 110-91(12); .0508(a) 601 Refrigerator(s) did not maintain a temperature of 45 degrees F. or below. A thermometer was not in the refrigerator in the kitchen; therefore, a temperature of 45 degrees F. or below could not be verified. 15A NCAC 18A .2806(j)(2) Child Care programs are expected to achieve and maintain compliance at all times and are required by NC GS 110-90(4) (d) to achieve and maintain an eighteen-month compliance history score of at least seventy-five percent. Any violation documented may impact the compliance history score. The violations documented must be corrected immediately. Violations #0601 and #0428 were corrected during the visit; therefore, a compliance letter is not required at this time. NC Pre-K Monitoring: The NC Pre-Kindergarten Program (NC Pre-K) Site Monitoring Tool for the 2024-2025 school year, dated December 19, 2024, has been completed and was reviewed today. The program follows the Craven County school calendar. The length of the day, 8:00am until 2:45pm, meets the instructional day requirement of 6.5-10 hours. Child Assessment and Required Screenings: The assessment tool, GOLD, Teaching Strategies 2010-2011, is in place. Portfolios for each child are maintained in both indoor spaces and electronically on Teacher Strategies Gold online application. The facility uses the developmental screening tool, DIAL-4 for pre-screening and ongoing assessments. Documentation of health assessments, vision, hearing, dental screenings, and DIAL-4 pre-screenings were on file for each child. Curriculum: The Creative Curriculum for Preschool, 6th Edition, Teaching Strategies, 2016 has been implemented and the classroom has the required resources available for use. Materials to support the current activity plan were displayed throughout the classroom. Family Engagement: Parent involvement included open house, monthly newsletters, Thanksgiving friends giving, parent teacher conferences, and classroom volunteer readers. Staff Requirements: All staff met NC Pre-K requirements. Technical Assistance: Criminal Background Check Information - DCDEE launched the Provider Portal for ABCMS on February 1, 2024. This access will allow providers to see applicants that associate themselves with their facility and allow them to “hire” the applicant to their roster, see the real-time background check status of staff/household members, and run a printable report of the staff roster to assist with compliance visits. To gain access to the Provider Portal complete the ABCMS Child Care Provider Portal Training on DCDEE's Moodle. The training consists of watching a short video then taking a test about the video. A certificate will be issued upon successful completion of the test. Email the certificate along with your full name, position, and Facility ID to DCDEE_ABCMS_Provider@dhhs.nc.gov to get access to the portal. Access will then be granted within 2 business days. If you have general questions, please continue to use DHHS.CBC.Unit@dhhs.nc.gov. As stated in G.S. 110-90.2 & .2703(r) childcare operators are to notify the Division of any new childcare providers working who were hired or moved into the childcare facility within five business days. The process of notifying the Division has changed and is now captured in ABCMS. This change has been in effect since February 2024. Effective immediately, you will need to obtain a Business NCID and complete Provider Portal training in Moodle at https://www.dcdee.moodle.nc.gov/course/view.php?id=119 No action is needed on your part if you have completed the reference training and are currently using the ABCMS Provider Portal to update information regarding new hires or residents. Once the training has been completed and access has been given, you must verify your facility roster to ensure current staff are noted on the roster. This information should be updated in ABCMS in an ongoing basis as staff members are hired and when their employment is terminated. This satisfies the requirement to notify the Division of new childcare providers working who were hired or moved into the childcare facility within five business days. The compliance of this rule will be monitored during your next visit. Please note, the hard copy of the Change of Information form will no longer be needed or accepted. Should you need assistance please contact the Criminal Background Check Unit at (919) 814-8401 and someone will assist you. QRIS Update: Starting on February 1, 2025, the ECERS-3, ITERS-3, and FCCERS-3—also known as the "3s"—will be used for DCDEE environment rating scale assessments. The DCDEE and the North Carolina Rated License Assessment Project (NCRLAP) are collaboratively working on preparations for the transition to the third editions. These third editions come with a spiral binding at the top, replacing the current revised editions. Visit the NCRLAP’s website for more information about updated resources, credit hour trainings, and outreach assessment opportunities to help you become familiar with these tools. For official environment rating scale assessments for a NC Star Rated License, the NCRLAP will use the Revised editions until February 1, 2025. Reminders: For the latest information on childcare rules and regulations, please visit the Division of Child Development and Early Education's website at: https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/ At the completion of the visit, this visit summary was reviewed with you, emailed to you, copies printed and signed. As we discussed, this computer-generated visit summary serves as completion of the routine unannounced visit. If you have any questions and/or concerns, you have my contact information. You may also contact my supervisor, Lynette Robbins Lynette.Robbins@dhhs.nc.gov Office: 910-824-0235 If the operator fails to correct any documented violations within the established time period, the Division of Child Development and Early Education may deny, suspend, terminate, or revoke any permit to operate (10A NCAC 09 .2000). All information in this report has been reviewed with me today.I understand that it is my responsibility to maintaincompliance with applicable NC Child Care Requirements at all times

Open Not marked corrected in the state record

Category: supervision. Open / not marked corrected.