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Founded by Atlanta volunteers in 1888, the mission of Sheltering Arms Early Education & Family Centers is to empower families and strengthen communities by providing 1) high quality, affordable child care and  early education, 2) comprehensive support services for families, 3) professional development, and 4) community building partnerships.   Each day, 2500 children and their families are served in 16 neighborhood centers serving 6 metro Atlanta counties.  Sheltering Arms serves working families of all income levels by providing government child care subsidies and income-based scholarships generated by fundraising. Sheltering Arms, a United Way funded agency, has been nationally recognized for its success in preparing children for school success. 

Our VisionAn Oregon where every child can read and is empowered to succeed. Our MissionWe engage community volunteers to read one-on-one with PreK-3rd grade children who need literacy support. Participating children also receive new books each month - up to 14 each year - to keep and read with their families.

To promote kindergarten readiness and strengthen family bonds in Shelby County, TN by providing age-appropriate books for all children from birth to age five

It is the mission of Red Barn Nursery School to provide a safe haven in which children grow and learn about themselves and the world around them. Dedicated families and committed staff work together to create a learning environment based on respect and a shared vision for children. Here at Red Barn Nursery School children learn they are part of a caring community, a community that both challenges and supports their growth as active learners and as socially conscious and intellectually curious individuals.

Our mission is to enhance parent and child development with free high-quality early education. Learn. Connect. Play. Foundation (LCP) offers free preschool, Parent Education, home visits and parent support to families on the Central Coast. We engineer the school environment to meet the diverse needs of students, employ highly trained staff, pay fair wages, and partner with parents to create our unique program that builds strong children, families and community. Founded in 2015, Learn. Connect. Play. Preschool believes all children have the right to high quality early education.

Founded in 1950, Children's Fairyland is a renowned storybook park dedicated to stimulating a child's imagination, creativity, and desire to learn. More than 210,000 visitors annually have access to live theatre, puppetry, storytelling, and an engaging environment that encourages language acquisition, interest in books and reading, social skills development through group play, and motor skills development through climbing, sliding and running.

Cottonwood Preschool is a non-profit corporation, founded in 1981 by a group of dedicated parents who identified a need for a pre-school program that was different than others in the Littleton area. These parents imagined a preschool where their cooperative efforts could create a stimulating and exciting learning environment for their children. They created a school where parents could play a direct role in their child's education. Today, Cottonwood Preschool is one of a handful of parent cooperative preschools in the Denver area. We continue to have a very dedicated group of parents who are committed to carrying on the tradition of excellence at Cottonwood. Cottonwood embraces a developmental, play based philosophy of learning, which supports and respects the child as he/she is. Cottonwood supports the knowledge that children learn best through play and hands-on experiences. Through the guidance of carefully selected teachers, the child will have the opportunity to explore and enrich his/her world socially, emotionally, physically and intellectually toward optimal growth.

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.

Lincoln Park Cooperative Preschool is a school that includes teachers, children, and their caregivers in a way that provides an education for the children, a resource and support system for families, and a community where all can thrive. At Lincoln Park Cooperative preschool, skilled preschool teachers provide a nurturing, comfortable, creative environment in which to play, observe, and experience new things. They provide space for kids to explore and get messy with art, to run and climb. There is a daily schedule for the children with smooth transitions and a routine that the children learn to follow and expect. There are classes for the just walker, up to the 4 and 5 year olds preparing for kindergarten. At Lincoln Park, parents are teacher’s assistants, too. As the year goes by, fall into spring, the children develop rapidly. Together, we sing songs, tell stories, read books, build structures, imagine and create. We model behavior and focus on whole family involvement. Their language skills improve. They become more self-confident. It is remarkable to experience this growth with the kids. Because of parent involvement, the adult to child ratio is high -- and this keeps costs reasonable. Lincoln Park Cooperative preschool is affiliated with South Seattle Community College. The college provides us with parent educators that help us to understand our children and give us the information we need, whether it is how to talk to our children, to show them how to interact with other children, or how to deal with the daily struggles that being a parent. There are also free educational seminars provided by these teachers to deal with specific issues. Lincoln Park is fortunate to also offer a Spanish program for the 3 to 5 year olds. Once a week the children create art, sing, and dance with our Spanish teacher, and are given the gift of enjoying learning another language. Lincoln Park Cooperative preschool provides a community where children feel safe and parents feel supported. As parents work in the classroom and at jobs for which they have volunteered, they interact with other parents and children, both ages finding life-long friends as they move up and on into elementary school.

The High Meadows Community celebrates and perpetuates each individual’s quest for knowledge and skill, sense of wonder, and connection to the natural environment. We empower each to be a compassionate, responsible, and active global citizen.

The basic aim of Metro East Montessori School is, in the words of Maria Montessori, "to help the child to help himself." In preparing an environment that provides for the child's inner needs, it is hoped he will be enabled to fulfill his highest potential as an integrated personality.

Mission Statement: The mission of North Oaks Preschool is to supplement early home experiences in a warm, loving, healthy and safe environment as well as todevelop a strong, positive self-concept through interaction with peers and supportive adults. We teach and model positive self-image, individuality, independence and respect of others. Children are offered the opportunity to grow and develop socially, emotionally, cognitively and physically. We value the parent cooperative approach of the school.