Our Vision: Enriching every child’s life to promote:
Courageous students
Life-long learners
Compassionate leaders
Our Mission: Clayton Early Childhood Center provides engaging, challenging, and developmentally appropriate play experiences in a safe, nurturing, and loving educational environment.
Our Story
Clayton Early Childhood Center began as a partnership between parents and teachers who imagined a school that would provide loving, creative, and thoughtful education to children from their very first weeks of life. Momentum built and the future of CECC came into focus: An intimate, educational community where families and teachers work together to support their children’s health, happiness, development, and learning. Parents utilized their skills, formed a board, and opened the preschool in 2012.
Today, CECC offers quality care and education in a tranquil, homelike setting, at competitive tuition rates, with flexible, full-day programs (7:30 am to 6:00 pm) that help meet the needs of working parents without additional before or afterschool care.
We work to build long-term relationships with the families we serve, and consider the opportunity to share in their children’s growth and development to be a great responsibility and privilege.
Our school is a nonprofit, cooperative effort. We are committed to maintaining responsible, transparent, and flexible practices to ensure that the organization will grow and evolve with its members.
Our Philosophy
Clayton Early Childhood is committed to creating safe, nurturing, healthy, and educational environments. We respect and strongly believe that parents are their children's first and most important teachers. We value and respect inclusion and diversity, and we believe it is highly important for staff, children, and families of all abilities and cultures to become integral members of Clayton Early Childhood Center. We believe in using research and evidence-based practices to help each child learn in the way that best suits them.
Our Strategic Plan
Our strategic plan is intended to be a living document, and a roadmap to guide our progress as we continue to look ahead. It contains a refined mission and vision, identification of four core pillars of focus, and broad ideas for how each focus area will be fulfilled.
Our four core pillars are:
Create Exceptional Child Experiences
Promote Community Engagement
Plan for the Future
Invest in Teachers & Staff
