Mission, Vision and Values

San Francisco Early Learning Alliance

​​Mission

Providing effective business services for early education centers to improve program quality.

Vision

• More time is invested in people than paperwork.
  
• Children experience innovative, diverse, engaging, quality learning experiences.
  
• Parents receive excellent customer service, and enriched center relationships and support.
  
• Teachers have more time, mentoring, reflective planning, and higher pay.
  
• Site leaders are liberated from administrative tasks and are empowered to lead.
  
• Collaborating agencies are more efficient and can invest more resources in programming.
  
• Boards of Directors have high quality information to guide decision making, and more resources to invest in program.
  
• Early childhood funders and systems are highly confident in the effectiveness of programs and increase investment.
  

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Values

• Make the impossible doable
  
• Put quality first
  
• Share strengths and resources
  
• Honor independence
  
• Advance equity
  
• Work collaboratively
  
• Show mutual respect
  
• Take risks