Self Development Schools in Mesa provide enriched, captivating, wide-ranging curricula to preschoolers and K-8 students. We believe that whatever children are doing, they are discovering the world and learning how it works.
Our dream is that SDA students one day may develop theorems, invent gadgets, and find cures that appear inside the textbooks we read 30 years from now.
MEMORIES, METAPHORS, AND MATURING
Entrance to preschool as a toddler or enrollment into kindergarten is bittersweet, a smile. We leave the love of our life — our children — and we hand over our hearts into the unchartered territories that only time knows. We let go. But where? It cannot be just anywhere. Nowhere is good enough for our children. So where?
OUR CHOICE TODAY IS OUR FUTURE TOMORROW
Countless are stories and pictures of the enduring smile of Ms. Vernetta Madsen, director of Self Development Preschool (SDP). The fondest memories for all children centers around Ms. Vernetta’s smile, the smile that brightens, enlightens, and ensures us that our children’s experience is full of curiosity as they learn to discover, create, and reinvent.
This smile lasts generations of students. It signals to both the parent and child that their first and last day at the preschool and academy will be filled with the promise: our nurtured child will be captivated by the magic of knowledge brought by the dreams of inventors, discoverers, and the artists.
SDA gives our children a lifetime of happiness and a lifetime of scholarly pursuit as they begin a voyage of their own greatness. Indeed, our choice today is who they become tomorrow.
SELF DEVELOPMENT’S FORTE: EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING CHILDHOOD
Nothing is good enough for our children. In fact, Dr. Anjum Majeed, founder of SDA and the owner of the preschool had the same worries: “Nothing is good enough for my child.” Knowing the future was more important than her present, she left a promising career in the sciences and opened a preschool that brought out the latent brilliance in us all.
WHY SELF DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY AND PRESCHOOL KEEPS GETTING IT RIGHT
Our kids are natural scientists and thinkers. They want to discover and play. And when we do it right, the discovery of the knowledge becomes indistinguishable from play. We offer rigorous and advanced education to students, but done in a way that invigorates a smile: young children learn how to build a computer, and students appreciate world music and participate in music composition classes.
Early mathematics taught at SDP ensures our children will enter kindergarten ready for 2nd grade. Multitudinous and deft of language skills discombobulate not only their parents and teachers but will impress their admissions reviewers for higher education at the university level.
We nurture children, provide them with the information they want to learn, and in doing so, they discover knowledge. And so, the fire of wisdom burns inside eternally.
Many SDA 8th grade students entering high schools have tested out of the 9th grade and 10th grade math and science courses. Taking higher-level courses in high school will get them the competitive edge for entry into elite colleges and scholarships. Our choice today is their future tomorrow.
For more information and to schedule a tour, please contact the Front Office at (480) 641-2640. We have been proudly serving Mesa for over three decades.