STEPPING STONES ACADEMY

Violation

Licensing observed a teacher, counted in ratios, leave a classroom to let a parent in the door, which put the classroom out of ratio.

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Licensing did not receive one employees personnel information form within two weeks of employment.

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Licensing observed a climbing apparatus with a fall height over four feet tall that had less than 6 inches of impact material underneath.

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One trash container observed in the toddler room with soiled training pants/diapers did not have a lid on it.

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CCLS observed mouse droppings in the kitchen cabinets where food and dishes are stored.

Violation

Program Director has not been present for the past 6 monitoring visits that were complete by both OK Child Care Services and Cherokee Nation Licensing. The monitoring visits where Ms. Tracy has not been present include 8/1/23, 12/15/23, 4/16/24, 7/19/24, 11/5/24, and 11/19/24.

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The compliance file only contained monitoring summaries from 2023, 2022, 2021, and 2019. No monitoring summaries were found for 2024.

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One staff member employed since 2/13/2020 has completed the same trainings every year to obtain her 20 hours.

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CCLS observed a child crying in a chair in the toddler room without any interaction from teachers for at least 5 minutes.

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Toddler room is not well-equipped and needs to have more toys added to interest areas.

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Plastic sand bucket broken on the playground with sharp points.

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Two staff employed over 12 months have expired OK-PDLs.

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One staff employed over 90 days has not completed ELCCT.

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One staff has not completed the required amount of training hours.