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.