Mission & Purpose
Mission
The mission of District 2 Early Childhood Program is to build a collaborative partnership with the families we service to instill lifelong learning for themselves and their children.
Purpose
The purpose of District 2’s Early Childhood Program is to:
- Assist families in understanding how to provide basic needs to their children;
- Provide safe, nurturing, and stimulating environments for children and their families so that they will develop and thrive;
- Develop a child’s sense of self, interaction with others, and social cooperation;
- Encourage experimentation, exploration, risk-taking, and pursuing individual interests;
- Establish the importance of the home-school family connection by demonstrating and modeling how the parent is the child’s first teacher;
- Challenge children’s complex intellectual capabilities.