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We are a cooperative preschool where children can learn and develop through play at an individual pace while parents can learn and grow in their abilities to be child educators at home, school and in their communities. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national or ethnic origin.

Settlement Music School's mission is to provide children and adults in the Philadelphia region with high quality instruction and activity in music and the related arts. Settlement's programs help students achieve artistic, educational and social goals. Settlement serves the broadest possible constituency, regardless of age, gender, race, color, creed, national origin, physical ability or ability to pay.

Our Mission - The McGaw YMCA cultivates the whole person, strengthens community, and provides equitable access to transformational experiences that uplift the mind, body, and spirit.Our Vision - The McGaw Y will be a place of belonging for all people at every stage of life.Our Commitment - At the Y, we are committed to strengthening community. Every day, we work in partnership with our neighbors to make sure that everyone in our diverse and vibrant community has the opportunity to learn, grow and thrive.Our core values unite us as a YMCA Movement. They are the shared beliefs and essential principles that guide our behavior, interactions with each other and decision-making. As individuals and a collective organization, we promise to engage and operate in ways that exemplify these values

Donate here to support our scholarship fund! Help us make quality early childhood education available! Founded in 1981,The Lake School is a small, private, non-profit preschool located in the Lake Merritt neighborhood of Oakland. The school’s curriculum is based on the philosophy that children are naturally curious and eager to learn.

Mission: Raising a Reader supports families and inspires the development of literacy skills and a lifelong love for reading. We help children attain brighter futures in which they can thrive and contribute in school, the workforce and society. Vision: Every child has the family support and reading skills they need to thrive. Overview: Raising a Reader is a national nonprofit that partners with parents and local agencies to create brighter futures for children by strengthening family bonds. Family engagement is at the core of what we do. Our evidence-based programs help caring adults set their children up for success by creating shared reading routines, fostering social emotional learning, healthy family relationships and learning skills needed to thrive in school and beyond.

Nestled in the nation’s capital in the richest museum complex in the world is the Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center, a model early childhood program that places children at the center of every experience. The vast collections are the foundation for the culturally diverse curriculum, which offers a rare opportunity for learning. As an organization, SEEC is a leader in the field of museum-based education and influences practice within museums and schools. Our educators apply best practices recognized in the early childhood field and enrich the children’s learning through an object-based approach to teaching, sharing the rich stories associated with these objects in ways that make the curriculum deeper and richer. Museum educators within the program build on the practice established within the SEEC model, serving as content experts on the museums and blending theory and practice as a basis for outside consulting and professional development.

We recognize the incredible ability that exists within people on the autism spectrum. Empowering through education, the McCarton Foundation helps young people with autism realize their full potential and celebrates their extraordinary talents. Every day we work to transform lives through: The McCarton School, where we continue to achieve unprecedented success in educating young people with autism Research, as we further develop our methodology by testing new strategies and techniques to teach people on the autistic spectrum more effectively Training professionals and parents around the world how to use the knowledge we gain Inspiring Events, like McCarton Foundation’s Genius of Autism, where we celebrate the remarkable talent possessed by autistic youth With one in every sixty-eight children in the United States identified as being on the spectrum, chances are that you—and most of the people you know—are somehow connected to a young person with autism. Join us in our mission to empower these young people today.

Inspired by Rudolf Steiner’s Waldorf education system, the mission of Desert Marigold School is to provide an educational context that emphasizes not only intellectual achievement, but also the imaginative, artistic, and moral growth of its students. By addressing their heads, hands and hearts, the school will encourage students to be life-long learners and independent thinkers as well as self motivated, self-disciplined, creative, adaptable and responsible individuals. We seek to establish and maintain a school that provides an individualized, nurturing approach to educating its students, preparing them not only for higher education, but for the rest of their lives. We will require and use an active partnership of teachers, families and the community, as well as a continued affiliation with the world-wide Waldorf movement to achieve the following goals: 1. To ensure each child’s excellence in core academic skills by providing a curriculum enlivened with the arts of painting, music, drama, movement, singing, sculpture and hand work. 2. To educate according to age and development, so that learning and growth are united. 3. To present the curriculum in multiple and integrated ways, so students have many different opportunities to learn concepts, as well as see the relationship to the larger whole. 4. To nourish the spirit of curiosity so that students continue to learn long after the end of formal training. 5. To encourage fundamental values and life skills, including responsibility, perseverance, integrity, self-discipline, trustworthiness, craftsmanship, friendship and compassion. 6. To make available this quality of education for all ethnic and socioeconomic sectors in our community.

We integrate academics into a curriculum rich in arts, music, language, and play, empowering children to discover their unique, unlimited potential and grow as a creative, compassionate community.

Our mission is to provide a learning environment utitlizing the arts to build self-confidence and preserve cultural and community identity

FOSTER IN EACH STUDENT THE CAPACITY FOR SELF-KNOWLEDGE GROUNDED IN A LIFELONG LOVE OF LEARNING, ENGAGE THE WHOLE CHILD THROUGH DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE CURRICULUM THAT ADDRESSES THE CHILD'S PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL AND INTELLECTUAL ASPECTS.

OPERATE PRESCHOOLS AND PROVIDE PARENT SUPPORT AND TEACHER DEVELOPMENT IN IMPOVERISHED NEIGHBORHOODS TO STRENGTHEN THE SPIRITUAL, EDUCATIONAL AND ECONOMIC LIVES OF FAMILIES