Curriculum
The Educare New Orleans model is designed to support children and their families, providing the best care possible. By focusing on classroom education and positive interactions, Educare delivers instruction that is child-initiated rather than merely teacher directed.
Our Core Principles
Embedded Professional Development
Educare New Orleans aims to foster continuous professional improvement through intensive staff development. Our highly qualified staff institutes the latest research-based teaching strategies to provide the best standard of early childhood education.
High-Quality Teaching Practices
Each classroom maintains low teacher/ student ratios to ensure each child gets the individual attention they need. The Educare curriculum is focused on skills that involve language and literacy, social-emotional development, early math concepts, problem-solving, and motor development.
Intensive Family Engagement
Due to a parents’ critical role in the emotional and cognitive development of their child, family engagement is crucial to the success of the child in the program. Educare offers On-Site Family Support services as well as Early Head Start Services to pregnant women and newborns. In doing so, Educare helps foster a strong relationship between parent and child as early as possible, so they can be an effective advocate on behalf of their child’s education.
Data Utilization
We partner with Tulane University’s Mary Amelia Women’s Center to collect data on individual and overall classroom performance. The assessments and the data collected reflect that Educare New Orleans has made great strides in early childhood and family-level outcomes since its opening. This data is routinely used to inform feedback to parents and teachers for classroom improvements.