Early Learning Neighborhood Collaborative (ELNC)

Description

Our Core Values

• Outcomes
  Driven, results oriented - We must ensure our children develop and are educated, not by our good works, but by evidence of their increasing knowledge, skills and abilities.
  
  
• Cultural Competence
  Children develop and grow best in ways that are consistent with the cultural rhythms and patterns of their families.
  
  
• Creativity and Innovation
  Current efforts leave for too many children in under resourced neighborhoods lagging behind in development and education. We must find and use new and different objectives, strategies, and activities to help our children thrive.
  
  
• Place-based
  We are committed to the belief that the best environment for the early education of children is rooted in what is local-the unique history, environment, culture, economy, literature, and art of a particular place--that is, in a child's own "place" or immediate schoolyard, neighborhood, town or community.