A joyful, nurturing start for every child.

Providing a quality educational experience, inspired by the Montessori approach, for children farthest from resources.

A row of smiling preschool children lined up in a Mile High Early Learning classroom.

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  • Mile High Early Learning provides quality early childhood education for children ages 6 weeks to 5 years.

  • Six early learning centers located throughout Denver.

Our children and families come from 18 different countries and speak 30 different languages.

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Our Mission and Vision for Equity

Mile High Early Learning ensures all children thrive by cultivating every child’s potential, engaging families, and championing our early learning workforce.

Our vision through all of our programming is that children, families, and staff of all racial, cultural, economic, and social backgrounds are joyfully welcomed into a learning community that prioritizes equity and finds strength in diversity.

Two young girls, one in a pink hijab, threading beads onto laces from a Montessori tray.

The History and Mission of Mile High Early Learning

Anna Jo Haynes with guests outside the Anna Jo Garcia Haynes Early Learning Center

Mile High Early Learning News

Our 12th Stone Soup breakfast at Denver Botanic Gardens was a wonderful experience filled with children and music!

A violinist plays while young children drum and shake percussion instruments as families watch under a tent at Stone Soup.
A family of five, two parents and three girls, smiling together in the Stone Soup tent under string lights.

Thank you to our friends and partners who helped us raise over $145,000 in support of our work to provide early care and education to children who are farthest from opportunity and help them learn through music. Because of your generosity, we can continue to inspire children’s confidence and curiosity while sparking joy and creativity!

Daisy Rocha Vasquez served as our parent speaker and shared how Mile High Early Learning’s immersive music program has supported the growth and development of her twin daughters enrolled at Blossom House. Watch Daisy’s remarks (opens in a new tab)

Watch this video to see music in action at our centers (opens in a new tab) and learn more about how we incorporate music in our classrooms.

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It’s not too late to donate! Please consider a gift to Mile High Early Learning and invest in programming that gives every child a joyful, nurturing start.

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Dr. Pamela K. Harris
Dr. Pamela K. HarrisPresident and CEOMile High Early Learning

Message from the President

Our Commitment to Equity

Mile High Early Learning strives to fulfill our vision–to joyfully welcome everyone into our learning community, prioritize equity, and find strength in diversity. As we have seen and experienced, the world we live in does not reflect these same values.

Our mission at MHEL is to cultivate every child’s potential. Our children are observing us and acting upon what they see. We know that they recognize unequal treatment based on skin color by age 2; demonstrate social bias by age 3; and recognize and act against racial injustice by ages 4 and 5. Our children and families come from 18 different countries and speak 30 different languages. We have committed in our work to deepen our understanding of race and diversity and to call out and act when we see racism and injustice so that all of our children will thrive.

Part of our work extends beyond the classroom. It’s speaking up when we see racism. It’s advocating for changes in laws and policies that ignore these institutional barriers. It’s making others listen when they want to walk away.

We do not yet live in a world where everyone is treated equally. We do not yet live in a world where the color of your skin doesn’t limit your destiny.

Together we need to create the world where we want to live.

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