How to get started

After you’ve carefully read over all the information available on this website and have determined that you’d like to start a Joy School, here’s what you need to do to complete your application:

  1. Carefully read the “Joy School Quality Guidelines” so that you can check off that you’ve read them and agree to them when completing your application at the end of this page.
  2. Complete the Registration Form for Joy Schools at the bottom of this page.
  3. Upon receiving your application, we let you know within a few days if you’ve been accepted as a Joy School Operator and send you a PayPal invoice for your start-up fees and lesson plan access fee.
  4. You make your start-up payment via PayPal. You pay $200 for your application fee and start-up kit (or $100 if you already have an established preschool and are just adding the Joy School curriculum to your program). You can also pay your $150 lesson plan access fee when paying your start-up fee if you like (you will not have access your lesson plans until you’ve paid this one-time fee).
  5. As soon as we receive your payment, we email you a link that will allow you to set up ongoing access to your Start-Up Kit (to see what’s in the Start-Up Kit, click here). If you’ve chosen to pay your lesson plan fee along with your start-up fee, we’ll also get you all set up for on-line access to the full lesson plans, music and materials.
  6. When you know how many children you’ll be enrolling, you report that number to us and we send you an invoice for the Joy School Family Memberships for each family ($50 each). Then we send you a special link that you will email to all the families in your Joy School so that they can get set up for access to the Introductions to each Joy and all the children’s music (via downloadable mp3s). You must send us this number and pay your dues TWO WEEKS before classes begin.
  7. Contact us at any time during this process if you have any questions or concerns at saren@joyschoolco.com.