TESTIMONIALS

Here’s what people are saying about the Early Learning Alliance.

  • As I reflect on my summer with the Early Learning Alliance, I’m grateful for the opportunity to contribute to such a meaningful cause. The experience has deepened my understanding of early childhood education and strengthened my resolve to pursue a career in this field. I’m excited to apply the insights and skills I’ve gained to future endeavors and to continue advocating for the importance of quality early learning experiences. Thank you to everyone at Early Learning Alliance for a summer filled with learning, growth, and inspiration.

    Klarrisa Orozco, Membership Engagement Intern Summer of 2024

  • ELA’s ability to cultivate early literacy-focused relationships within a group of committed and passionate organizations is second-to-none. The Alliance understands and advocates for all the essential elements needed to build a strong foundation for future success. ELA’s advocacy for equitable access to success paths and making data-driven decisions allows the group to share their individual strategies, open pathways for collaboration, and identify service gaps across organizations.

    Trevor Naughton, Youth Services Manager for the Fort Worth Public Library

  • ELA is a leader in local and statewide policy reform, which contributes to population-level change for our community and our state.

    Jessica Trudeau, Chief Transformation Officer of Center for Transforming Lives

  • ELA advances our mission by ensuring that accessibility is maintained as a priority. Low-income parents struggle with employment due to the high cost of care, and finding quality care they can afford is a huge challenge. Our partnership with ELA promotes that message more powerfully than CTL can do on its own. ELA also advances our mission by helping our community understand the importance of early childhood education for ALL children

    Carol Klocek, CEO for Center for Transforming Lives

  • While there is great work being done in various regards to impact education, we must do more. It’s no secret that there remains a great need in our area and in our nation to have great public education. But, we must do more to ensure that no child’s zip code determines their future success in life. For these reasons we are working closely with the Early Learning Alliance to improve quality early learning in Fort Worth.

    Betsy Price, Former Mayor of Fort Worth

  • In order to have a college and career-ready high school graduate, you must have a kindergarten-ready preschooler. The Early Learning Alliance is focusing our community so that every child is ready for school by kindergarten and is reading and solving math problems on grade level by third grade. Our partnership with ELA will build a foundation for our children’s success in the early years and throughout their lives.

    Dr. Kent P. Scribner, Former Fort Worth ISD Superintendent

  • Our community understands that it takes a village to raise a child. Tarrant County children and their parents benefit from ELA's broad-based collaborative efforts

    Pablo Calderon, Community member

  • While working with ELA, I got to learn so much about the power of community. To see how many powerful connections that ELA has formed is amazing. The encouragement of parent leaders to advocate for our own communities is just a small part of what ELA can do and is capable of.

    Onia Wallace, Community member

  • Early Learning Alliance is instrumental in the development and ongoing support of the Early Education Apprenticeship Program (EEAP) at Camp Fire First Texas. The apprenticeship program is in its third year and growing. The Alliance’s expertise in early learning helps guide decision-making and strategies instrumental in growing Camp Fire First’s EEAP to a state-wide program.

    Dr. Dana Brocks, Director of Early Education Apprenticeship Program, Camp Fire First Texas

  • My Health My Resources of Tarrant County values the amazing relationships and collaborative spirit of the many partners that make up the Early Learning Alliance. As a founding member, we appreciate that from the beginning, the Alliance recognized the need to focus on the unique needs of children with developmental delays and the importance of identifying these delays/risk factors early. The Alliance has placed value in supporting the family and building the capacity of providers across all service sectors to help all children succeed. Throughout Texas, the Early Learning Alliance is known for truly being a movement for innovation in the early childhood space.

    Laura Kender, Chief of Child and Family Services, My Health My Resources of Tarrant County

  • The Early Learning Alliance in our community means a place to connect. If your organization is focused on children 0-5, then ELA has a big table with plenty of room for strategically joining our efforts. Over the last decade, Child Care Associates, alongside ELA and other partner agencies, has helped our community understand why early education is so critical, but we have also initiated positive systems change, such as implementing CLASS assessments with support coaching across hundreds of early learning sites and helping to build data on our early education workforce in the Registry.

    Kara Waddell, President-CEO, Child Care Associates