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The Ella Baker/Charles Romain Child Development CenterEACH CHILD IS A UNIQUE INDIVIDUALQuality child-care is essential to the educational goals of many CUNY students. University child-care programs serve students and their children.
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Ella Baker Charles Romain Child Development CenterEACH CHILD IS A UNIQUE INDIVIDUALQuality child-care is essential to the educational goals of many CUNY students. University child-care programs serve students and their children.
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Ella Baker Charles Romain Child Development CenterEACH CHILD IS A UNIQUE INDIVIDUALQuality child-care is essential to the educational goals of many CUNY students. University child-care programs serve students and their children.
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Ella Baker Charles Romain Child Development CenterEACH CHILD IS A UNIQUE INDIVIDUALQuality child-care is essential to the educational goals of many CUNY students. University child-care programs serve students and their children.
THE ELLA BAKER/CHARLES ROMAIN CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER
The Ella Baker /Charles Romain Child Development Center (EB/CR CDC) of Medgar Evers College provides both a Pre-School and an Afterschool Program, which meets the needs of student parents and their children. EB/CR CDC is a National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) accredited program and QUALITYstarsNY rated program with Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) licensure. We operate a universal pre-kindergarten and 3K program through the Department of Education as well as our traditional Busy Bees 2 year- old program, and Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) program for children ages 2 to 12.
EB/CR CDC is open to provide quality child-care and education through an academically rigorous and socially/emotionally supportive play-based learning environment. The center is open from 7:45 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Mondays thru Thursdays and until 3:00 p.m. on Fridays. Weekend services are available on Saturdays from 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
The Ella Baker/Charles Romain Child Development Center, founded by students more than 30 years ago, has provided developmentally appropriate care and education for the youngest members of the Medgar Evers College (MEC) student- parent community.
The Child Developmental Center at Medgar Evers College was named after Ella Baker and Charles Romain. Ella Baker was a major force in shaping the development of the Civil Rights Movement. In the late fifties, she was the premiere behind-the-scenes organizer and co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) created to fight racism. Charles Romain was a beloved professor at Medgar Evers College. He fully supported and was instrumental in the formation of the Child Development Center at Medgar Evers College.
In 2017, when the Education Department became the School of Education, Ella Baker Charles Romain Child Development Center (EB/ CR CDC) came under the School of Education and adheres to its standards.
MEC School of Global Education Standards
1) Knowledge
2) : Personal and Global Consciousness
3) : Analytical Ability
4) : Creativity
5) : Professionalism
6) : Effective Communication
7) : Collaboration
8) Commitment and Caring
We support student parent success one family at a time. We create a caring and nurturing atmosphere that fosters each child’s creativity, positive self-image, and respect for one's own culture and the culture of others.
Our teaching staff knows that the most important thing to remember about children's development is that all of the parts – the emotional, the social, the physical and the intellectual -- work together in a reciprocal relationship with each developmental domain potentially influencing the other.
We focus on the Individual child and differentiate activities according to ability, interest and developmental need(s) nurturing children to become critical thinkers who can articulate their needs and are sensitive to the needs of others.
Play/playfulness facilitates a focus on and integration of content areas and development domains (i.e. cognitive, social, emotional, language, physical). Children learn through play and playfulness, the main work of childhood. We seek to create a partnership with parents while at the same time providing a place for children where they can explore, reach, and exceed their potential in literacy, mathematical thinkers, STEM, multicultural arts, critically thinking and communication. Our goal is to graduate young children who are confident, have extensive background knowledge, able to communicate their own needs, able to ask questions to better understand the needs of others and clarify the information they learn. Above all, our children graduate demonstrating an understanding of concepts in language development and literacy (We set the foundation for the development of reading and facilitate building on existing reading skills), numeracy, STEM, multicultural arts and are able to excel at their next level of education.
Juanita Crafton
Director
jcrafton@mec.cuny.edu
(718) 270-6183
Donna Wright
Facility Advisor Medgar Evers School of Education
dwright@mec.cuny.edu
Director
jcrafton@mec.cuny.edu
(718) 270-6183
Donna Wright
Facility Advisor Medgar Evers School of Education
dwright@mec.cuny.edu
Rochelle Daire
Administrative Compliance Coordinator
rdaire@mec.cuny.edu
(718) 270-6017
Edith Blake
Parent Coordinator
eblake@mec.cuny.edu
(718)270-6018
Administrative Compliance Coordinator
rdaire@mec.cuny.edu
(718) 270-6017
Edith Blake
Parent Coordinator
eblake@mec.cuny.edu
(718)270-6018
Honey Bees (PreK)
Aprilis Nelson (Lead Teacher)
Sanya Roberts (Assistant Teacher)
Amazing Bees (3K)
Keshia James (Lead Teacher)
Jade Warrington (Assistant Teacher)
Aprilis Nelson (Lead Teacher)
Sanya Roberts (Assistant Teacher)
Amazing Bees (3K)
Keshia James (Lead Teacher)
Jade Warrington (Assistant Teacher)
Busy Bees
Daciann Mardenborough (Lead Teacher)
Allison Connell (Assistant Teacher)
Rising Bees (School Age)
Rashida Hamilton (Lead Teacher)
Daciann Mardenborough (Lead Teacher)
Allison Connell (Assistant Teacher)
Rising Bees (School Age)
Rashida Hamilton (Lead Teacher)
Daciann Mardenborough (Lead Teacher)
Allison Connell (Assistant Teacher)
Rising Bees (School Age)
Rashida Hamilton (Lead Teacher)
The Ella Baker Experience
What Our Students Do
Playfulness means we make connections between the community and concepts learned at the Center
The Ella Baker Classes
Learning Through Play-Based Activities
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Literacy
Children’s play is made more complex as they explore the sand table. In this learning center, the letters of the alphabet were placed in the sand. Children were asked to find the first uppercase letter of their name and identify the lines and count them. Children discovered that some letters don’t have lines.
Children are provided props to reenact stories that are class favorites. Story reenactments help children to understand and portray emotions and dialogue
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Math
Classroom displays are modified to fit the learning styles of young children. This shape display is modified by adding velcro pictures of actual shapes in the environment that the children can stick on the larger 2-D shapes. This modification turns the display into an interactive, matching activity catering to both visual and tactile learners.
During a geometry lesson, the teacher provided an actual tire to make a connection between the tire and a circle. In continuing the lesson, children were asked to describe the size of the tire. Finally using a tape measure, the children measured the actual size of the tire.
During the virtual sessions, "Show Me" activities provided experiences for children to show and count different amounts, using items in the home.
After weeks of practicing cardinality in play-based ways, children created number cards 1-10 which help them to learn about number concepts
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Science
The walking water science activity allows children to observe the movement of water. The colors mix to make the rainbow.
Children use magnetic wands to move toy vehicles along the road.
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The Arts
During the Visual Arts lesson, children are given opportunities to explore their creativity while using paint brushes and non-toxic paint to create art pieces. Also, at this time, they learn to expand their vocabulary to describe their art pieces using terms, such as circle and space.
Different Art companies, such as Yo Re Mi are invited into the program to expose children to diverse dance and art forms.
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Social Studies
The Dramatic play area was rearranged and transformed into a bus stop and street scene to align to our Transportation Unit. Children were able to role play being a bus driver and followed traffic rules (e.g. red, yellow. and green traffic lights; traffic signs)
Learning about our transportation system helps children to understand details about the community in which they live. Children share the different ways they come to the Center, which is illustrated through a picture graph created by the children with guidance from their teacher.


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Contact Information
718-270-6017/6018
Medgar Evers College
1150 Carroll Street C103
Brooklyn NY 11225