Why Create An Early Childhood Excellence Network?

• To create a national network of top quality early childhood practitioners seeking to achieve excellence in their work with young children and their families.

• To develop a frame of reference for those pursuing excellence, allowing them to
compare themselves to those seeking to be the very best in the field.

• To share thoughts, knowledge, solutions, resources and challenges. To pool the
expertise of agencies involved to contribute to the improvement of each member.

• To create a practitioner model of achieving excellence from which others can also learn.

• To reshape the discussion nationally and within the states from not just "How do
we provide safe and clean child care and education to any parent who wants service?" to instead "What's the best quality of child development services that we can provide for our young children and their parents?"

• To provide another powerful advocacy voice to the efforts to get the best possible services for children and families at a local, state and national effort.