Leila Day Nurseries

Leila Day offers a stimulating and creative environment for young children to explore, wonder & grow. Leila Day Nurseries, Inc. is an accredited private nonprofit child care center serving children of working families from diverse economic and cultural backgrounds.  Our guiding principle is to foster the children's social, emotional, cognitive and physical development within a warm and nurturing environment that is based on sound principles of child development and early childhood education. Core Values: We believe in a culture of playA culture of play, problem solving, and discovery - indoors and in nature -  is essential to a child's social, intellectual, physical and emotional  education. We believe that teachers are the heart of Leila DayHealthy development occurs within the context of a supportive and knowledgeable community of adults.  Our teachers listen, ask questions, engage, invest in, and know each child as an individual; this informs how curriculum is shaped.  We are a child-centered program where the classrooms resonate with children's voices.   We believe in creating a safe environmentWe provide a warm, nurturing, thoughtfully designed environment from which teachers and children explore the world, take risks, and challenge themselves to grow socially, emotionally,  intellectually and physically. We commit to ethnic and socio-economic diversityChildren have the right to a high quality education.  A diverse classroom is rich and creative, teaching children to adapt and appreciate the diverse face of our world.