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Grow step by step in child care

Certified training and consulting for those who care for and teach children from birth to five. In Spanish, and fully in English.

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Next start: Curso de Prueba, 2 h, in person, Wednesday, November 11. 10 seats left.

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  • Everything in Spanish and English
  • In person, online or hybrid
  • A certificate with your hours
  • Red de Proveedores de Cuidado Infantil de Queens
  • Asociación Hispana de Educación Temprana de Nueva York

Three ways to grow

  • Training

    Courses with certified hours: CDA, professional development, health and safety, CPR.

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  • Online workshops

    Short, practical workshops from home: behavior, play, reading, families.

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  • Consulting

    We help you open, license or improve your daycare or center.

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Your ladder of hours

Choose your goal and we show you the courses that make it up, each step as tall as its hours.

My goal

120 hours in 2 courses

120 training hours in two parts, plus the portfolio and the visit.

  1. CDA Credential · Part 1

    Next date: November 12

    60 h

  2. CDA Credential · Part 2

    Next date: January 11

    60 h

Start with CDA Credential · Part 1

A suggested path. Requirements vary by state; we confirm them with you on a call.

Featured trainings

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How we work with you

Consulting is a staircase too: four steps, one at a time.

About consulting

  1. Assessment

    A call and a visit to understand your program, your goals and what regulations require.

  2. Plan

    You get a written plan: steps, dates, owners and cost.

  3. Support

    We work with you and your team on each step, in person or online.

  4. Results

    We review what was achieved and leave your team ready to carry on.

A trade with history

Caring for and teaching young children is one of the oldest jobs in this city. Crecer exists so the people doing it today get the training, the hours and the support they deserve, in their own language.

About Crecer
1890 engraving: at the Grace Parish day nursery in New York, a caregiver hugs a baby while other children play with blocks
Grace Parish day nursery, New York, 1890. People have cared for and taught young children in this city since the 1800s. Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, Library of Congress, Dominio público.
Wooden box with the blocks and knitted balls of Friedrich Fröbel’s building kit
Fröbel’s gifts, the material kindergarten was born with: blocks that stack into stairs. Kippelboy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Painting of a 19th-century kindergarten: two teachers among dozens of children having breakfast on the wooden floor
Kindergarten in Weimar, Otto Piltz, 1877. Otto Piltz, Dominio público.

Crecer in numbers

  • 1,250+

    educators trained

  • 18,400

    hours taught

  • 85

    programs advised

  • 12

    years of experience

Figures as of the end of 2025.

What our students say

“I earned my 120 CDA hours in Spanish without leaving my job. The evening classes saved me.”
María Elena RodríguezTeacher assistant, Corona, Queens

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