An Overview of the Boston Promise Initiative's Early Learning Network, which is a strategic collaborative of leaders from the early childhood care and education field. Their primary charge is to align the early childhood care services of the Dudley Village Campus into a network of providers and schools.

1. Early Learning Network (ELN)
What is the Early Learning Network?
The Early Learning Network (ELN) is a strategic network of leaders from the early childhood care and
education field. This network forms one of three wings of BPI's larger Dudley Children Thrive work and
is designed to create a local infrastructure of interested parties charged with ensuring that children
within the Dudley Village Campus (DVC) succeed in targeted aspects of school readiness.
What is “School Readiness”?
BPI believes that the term “school ready” should be defined as children who:
● Have strong social skills.
● Are within an appropriate range of physical development.
● Can cope emotionally with being separated from their caregivers.
● Are relatively independent in their own personal care.
● Have a curiosity about the world and a desire to learn.
● Arrive in pre-kindergarten or kindergarten within a developmentally appropriate range of intellectual
skills, when measured with reliable and ethical assessments.

2. Early Learning Network (ELN)
What is Dudley Children Thrive?
School Readiness
Roundtable
DVC Children &
Families
Early Learning Network
DVC Providers
(Formal & Informal)
Dudley Children Thrive
Birth-to-5 Workgroup
Nonprofit & Provider
Partners
Parents as Leaders
Access to Quality
Early Learning
Experiences
Alignment of Resources
for BPI Families
Healthy Births & Development of Young Children in the DVC
WHAT
WHO
RESULT
GOAL
Learning Our
Value in Education
Youth Opportunities
& Development
Strong Families
& Communities

3. Early Learning Network (ELN)
What are the Goals of the ELN?
1. To ensure that every child within the Dudley Village Campus (DVC) enters a
kindergarten or pre-kindergarten classroom “ready-to-learn” based on mental, physical,
and academic developmental assessments that are culturally relevant and completed
by qualified professionals.
2. To ensure quality learning opportunities are available to children and families across
the DVC.
3. To identify and respond to the professional development needs of early learning care
providers and talent within the DVC.
4. To create a “culture of care” among and between providers, families and children.

4. Early Learning Network (ELN)
What are the Functions of the ELN?
1. Raise awareness of providers and families in the
DVC that a network of care exists!
2. Engages parents and caretakers as leaders in
the healthy development of their children,
primarily through collaboration with the Dudley
Children Thrive's School Readiness
Roundtable.
3. Utilizing the definition of “school readiness”
established by our Birth-to-Kindgergarten
Workgroup to monitor and report on the overall
school readiness of children living in and
starting school in the DVC.
4. Create institutional alignment among early care
and education providers.
5. Creating a comprehensive inventory of any
and all care providers, families and children
being served by those providers, and the
database indicating how those providers are
serving children from birth to their fifth
birthday.
6. Strengthen what is currently being provided
for early education and care in the DVC.
7. Identify services, providers or collaborative
partnerships that are needed to strengthen
child development across the DVC.