Mission Statement

The mission of EduCare Learning Centers, Inc. is to provide the highest possible quality of supplemental educational programs. We are committed to employees who embody that tradition and we are dedicated to customers who embrace that standard. Our primary focus, without exception, is to ensure that student performance matches potential. And to that end we pledge our resources, fix our resolve, and stake our reputation.




 

We Believe...
That all students are capable of reaching their potential,
      but often in their own unique manner and always at their
      own individual pace...

That enhanced student self-concept and heightened
      self-esteem always precede higher achievement...

That high expectations are reasonable expectations for each
      and every student...

That everything we do can and must be measurable, and
      finally...

That with any and all EduCare programs, learning should
      always be fun.



History

Humble beginnings…1993

June 30, 1993, marked the final day of a ten-year term that Kevin McCarville served as principal at Cedar Rapids Regis High School. The afternoon of that same day EduCare Learning Centers, Inc. was founded. Armed with three #2 pencils and a pad of legal size paper, Kevin and his wife Rebecca began to sketch out the design of the company at their kitchen table. Over the next month, the company’s core values were formulated and the initial


Grand opening of Iowa City center
instructional programs developed. On Monday, September 6, the company opened its first center in Iowa City, Iowa, in the old Colonial Park Office Building. Kevin served as president and director of the Iowa City center for two years while Rebecca assumed the role of company vice president. By the spring of 1995 the enrollment of the Iowa City center had grown so rapidly that extensive remodeling and expansion of the original center was necessitated. In the summer of 1995 Cassandra Hintz was hired to serve as the center’s director and the company’s first full-time employee.

Second center opens…1995

On Monday, June 12, 1995, EduCare Learning Centers, Inc. opened its second center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The Cedar Rapids center, modeled after the original design in Iowa City, was located in the North Park Place business complex. The enrollment of the second center also grew rapidly necessitating relocation to a facility twice the size of the original. The current location at the Collins Center in northeast Cedar Rapids 

  
Grand opening of Cedar Rapids center
is a state-of-the-art learning center facility with an open general instruction area, several individual instruction rooms, group conference room, large reception area, administrative offices and a five-station internet-wired computer center. In the summer of 1998 the Iowa City center was sold to a Wisconsin company under a proprietary licensing agreement. The Iowa City center was then moved to Green Bay, Wisconsin, and operates to date as an EduCare Learning Systems center in Green Bay offering the same proprietary services as the Cedar Rapids center.

Contracted services introduced…1996
In the spring of 1996 EduCare Learning Centers, Inc. pioneered the concept of delivering contracted instructional programs to Iowa schools when it secured its first contract with Trinity Lutheran Elementary School of Cedar Rapids. That first contract provided for on-site Title One remedial reading and math services at Trinity Lutheran. What made the arrangement unique was that for the first time in Iowa, a state-accredited school contracted to 
have selected school-based instructional services provided by a for-profit company. A second contract, this one with Isaac Newton Christian Academy was also secured for similar on-site services, and again, to be delivered at that school by EduCare for the 1996-97 school year. With the securing of those two original contract agreements, the core program offerings of the EduCare company grew significantly. From that point the traditional center-delivered services were expanded to include a range of instructional services delivered at local schools on a contract basis for an entire academic school year. Today, EduCare has grown to be Iowa’s leading provider of contracted instructional services to public/nonpublic schools and institutions. Current contracted services with area schools and institutions include study skills seminars, Title One reading and math programs, Resource Room support services, and comprehensive school management and instructional programs in special education for behavior disordered students.   

Today and Beyond…

The EduCare Learning Centers, Inc. of today bears only a passing resemblance to the early designs sketched out at the McCarville family’s kitchen table. Beginning in the fall of 1993 with three part-time employees, and only three students, the company has grown today to become one of the largest and most respected regional providers of both learning center and school-based supplemental educational programs. As Iowa’s first NCA accredited for-profit education company, EduCare



Cedar Rapids headquarters
has consistently maintained its commitment to only the highest standards of excellence in educational programs. In addition, the company’s trademark commitment to exceptional customer service has positioned it for continued growth in both traditional learning center services and in the niche of contracted school and institution based instructional programs.  



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