Emporia State University Center for Early Childhood

The Center for Early Childhood Education, located in the Butcher Education Center on the Emporia State University campus, strives to provide a high quality early childhood environment for children of ESU students, faculty, and the surrounding community. In addition, CECE serves as a practicum and observation site for ESU students training to be  teachers, psychologists, social workers, art therapists and related professions. CECE`s campus location also makes it an ideal location for research and development activities for both ESU faculty and students studying young children. The entire CECE program provides education and child care for children 12 months (and walking) through school age.

We believe early childhood education should excite curiosity, stimulate creativity, encourage the development of problem-solving skills, as well as create and expand cognitive, language, and motor skills. Our goal is to help children to better understand themselves and the world in which they live.