By Dennis R. Maple
American financial prosperity and competitiveness are inextricably linked to the success of early childhood schooling suppliers.
Excessive-quality childcare drives the U.S. economic system by permitting extra adults to enter and keep within the workforce, offering a important enhance to companies. Entry to high-quality childcare is significant to making sure the continuity of a vibrant workforce. Practically 27 million folks—16% of the U.S. workforce—depend on childcare to do their jobs, in response to the First 5 Years Fund.
And the necessity for childcare within the U.S. has by no means been better. The U.S. economic system loses as a lot as $35 billion in earnings annually as a result of dad and mom want to go away the labor pressure or scale back their working hours to care for his or her kids.
Past Babysitting
By opening extra faculties and crafting curriculums explicitly designed to assist kids develop holistically, the premium early childhood schooling sector is uniquely positioned to handle each a major societal and a enterprise situation—an acute want for high-quality care and schooling—and the will of oldsters to assist their younger kids be taught and develop.
Mother and father don’t merely need somebody to take care of their kids. They aren’t searching for a babysitter. They need their kids to obtain a nurturing schooling that helps them develop socially, emotionally, and academically and that lays the inspiration for his or her success in class and in life.
An important consider deciding on a day care or preschool program, dad and mom say, is this system’s deal with kids’s social-emotional improvement, adopted intently by security and safety and a deal with tutorial progress, in response to a latest survey by The Goddard College. Mother and father stated they fear extra about their baby’s social-emotional progress than about another issue of their schooling.
Rewarding Enterprise Alternatives
The Goddard College, the nation’s main premium early childhood schooling supplier, cares for and educates almost 100,000 kids between six weeks and 6 years previous in additional than 615 faculties, and it’s shortly opening new faculties to fulfill the ever-increasing wants of communities nationwide.
To ship the expertise dad and mom search for his or her younger kids, The Goddard College supplies each baby a heat, caring, secure setting that helps their particular person social, emotional, and tutorial improvement and appreciates their distinctive skills and personalities. Our proprietary academic program—backed by skilled information, data-driven insights, and unwavering compassion for rising minds—encourages kids to discover their curiosity and pursuits as they uncover the marvel of studying.
The speedy progress of The Goddard College system is pushed by attracting people searching for rewarding alternatives to nurture younger kids whereas supporting their working dad and mom and the organizations that make use of them.
Importantly, an schooling background isn’t a prerequisite to change into a Goddard College franchisee. Our system is comprised of people with a variety of backgrounds.
Many franchisees do have expertise in schooling—some started their careers as academics and administrators earlier than transitioning into possession. However different franchise house owners are dad and mom who’ve skilled the impression of a Goddard schooling firsthand and imagine strongly sufficient within the system’s method to open a faculty. Some come from different fields, equivalent to company executives searching for an entrepreneurial alternative of their communities.
There’s no blueprint for a Goddard franchisee, past a ardour for serving to look after and educate younger kids, a dedication to neighborhood, and an curiosity in going into enterprise for your self—however not by your self.
Constructing on a Sturdy Basis
Whereas the significance of childcare is bigger than ever, the necessity isn’t new.
Within the Nineteen Eighties, as households more and more had two working dad and mom, Anthony A. Martino acknowledged a rising want for childcare. As one of many world’s main franchising specialists—he cofounded the AAMCO transmission restore franchise and the MAACO auto portray and restore franchise—Martino got down to create not simply day care however a faculty the place kids would construct an academic basis for a profitable life. He based The Goddard College for Early Childhood Schooling in 1988.
The Goddard College shortly proved to be a uncommon endeavor that advantages all its stakeholders and constituents:
- College students obtain an schooling targeted on a versatile, play-based studying philosophy to construct a lifelong love of studying.
- Households, particularly these with two working dad and mom, have reliable childcare to allow them to pursue their careers.
- Communities achieve much-needed childcare choices for his or her households and enriching careers for academics and college.
- Franchisees get a novel alternative to mix a rewarding entrepreneurial expertise with the flexibility to make a real distinction of their native communities.
My staff and I deal with supporting our franchisees to allow them to offer the perfect care and schooling for the households they serve and to handle the accelerating societal want for high-quality childcare and schooling. Via these efforts, we’re upholding The Goddard College’s custom of excellence and fulfilling our easy but highly effective mission: to make the world a greater place by means of early childhood schooling.
Dennis R. Maple is chairman and CEO of Goddard Programs, LLC, the supervisor of The Goddard College franchise system.
For extra details about The Goddard College, please go to GoddardSchool.com, and to study franchise alternatives, go to GoddardSchoolFranchise.com.