Sea Bright Education Center
Empowered Learning Transformation Centers
Empowered Learning Transformation Centers is a non-profit pre-school and childcare center located in Sea Bright, New Jersey. Since 1995, our early childhood education center has served a diverse population of children and families, focusing on the development of the whole child with respect and compassion.
Empowered Learning Transformation Centers is a safe place for children to explore, take chances, make messes and learn through play. At Empowered Learning Transformation Centers, we nurture wonder, we embrace joy, and we foster discovery.
Empowered Learning Transformation Centers has consistently been recognized as a high quality early childhood education center and is one of a small number of centers in the state to receive a 5 star rating from New Jersey Quality Rating and Improvement System. We are also certified as an Eco-Healthy Childcare Center.
Mission Statement:
At Empowered Learning Transformation Centers we respect children's natural capabilities and share our passion, empathy and enthusiasm in a reflective and collaborative way. We provide a supportive, nurturing and encouraging environment for children and their families to develop relationships, to discover new ideas, to construct knowledge through play and to cultivate a joy for learning.
Our Philosophy:
Play is a child’s work. Play is a child’s response to life. It is the way children discover themselves and the world around them.
Our Core Values:
Collaboration
At Empowered Learning Transformation Centers, we partner with children, families, colleagues, and community members to support life- long learning in children and adults. We support this continued learning through inclusive ongoing dialogue, planning and investigating knowing that extraordinary experiences full of joy, wonder and discovery await us all.
Integrity
At Empowered Learning Transformation Centers we are a credible organization, dedicated to providing a developmentally appropriate program with intentionality, self-reflection, and professionalism. We are transparent with ourselves and our community, honest and genuine with our children, and passionate about our craft.
Respect
At Empowered Learning Transformation Centers respect is expressed in an environment that honors the time and space that some individual needs to grow and learn, through interactions in a safe sacred place. Communicating, listening, and reflecting guide our actions toward others, materials, common shared spaces and ourselves.
Community
At Empowered Learning Transformation Centers, we foster community within our school and surrounding neighborhoods. Purposefully building relationships and engaging families we reach individual needs in a safe, trusting, and inclusive environment.
Inquiry
At Empowered Learning Transformation Centers we believe children are capable of using their natural sense of inquiry and wonder to construct knowledge about the world around them. We support children’s right to explore their natural interests by encouraging independent and collaborative experimentation and theory-building.
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