Thad’s Thoughts

Thad here. Our Children of America center in Sicklerville, New Jersey should be open by July this year. This will be our third new child care center to be up and running by the summer. Additionally, we have 16 other planned new centers to open by the end of next year:

East Brunswick, NJ
Edison, NJ
Hazlet, NJ
Hillsborough, NJ
Marlboro, NJ
Manalapan, NJ
Morgansville, NJ
North Brunswick, NJ
Parsippany, NJ
Sewell, NJ
Sewell, NJ II
Somerset, NJ
South Plainfield, NJ
Wayne, NJ
Old Bridge, NJ
Voorhees, NJ

Our NAEYC Principal Certification Program is underway. All of COA’s directors will soon be certified principals – part of a broad effort to expand the educational value of our centers. We’re also pursuing a comprehensive NAEYC educational certification initiative to transform our centers into “schools” – with highly advanced early learning programs. Read our recent press release: http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080129005112&newsLang=en

OK, for those who know me, you know I have two big projects these days. One of these is Children of America, our great educational child care centers with a learning curriculum designed by Dr. Vicki Folds, one of the nation’s leading child development experts. The other one is World Films, Inc, which recently premiered a new film called “The Butcher” (starring Eric Roberts) at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival and the Cinema City International Film Festival in LA. The film is the story of an ex-prize fighter turned mob enforcer, who in the end turns his life around. Read more about it at www.worldfilms.com.

I’ll be telling you more about these projects (and other things important to me) from time to time here.

So, thanks and welcome…

Thad Pryor