New Direction Learning Center Inc

We believe preschool graduation is important because it celebrates a child's first educational milestone and fosters a sense of accomplishment and readiness for kindergarten.
2025 Congratulations, Graduates!

We’re Live! You Can Now Donate to Inspire the Next Generation!
💥 THIS IS A CALL TO ACTION!
Click the link below to give and be the reason a child dreams bigger, learns more, and becomes everything God created them to be.
👉 https://www.zeffy.com/donation.../donate-to-change-lives-885
Hello Friends & Community,
Today marks a powerful step forward! Our online donation portal is now OPEN, and we are inviting you to be part of something that truly changes lives.
At New Dimension Learning Center, we believe every child, no matter their zip code or income level, deserves the chance to learn, grow, and thrive. That’s why we created the *Young Entrepreneur Inspire and Engage Summer Camp*. It's a transformational program designed for K-8 students in Dayton’s most underserved neighborhoods.
Why Your Support Matters?
Research shows that children who attend enrichment-based summer camps build stronger academic confidence, develop essential social and emotional skills, and avoid the 1-2 years of learning loss that disproportionately affects low-income students during summer breaks. Camps like ours nurture the whole child academically, socially, spiritually, and creatively.
👧🏽👦🏾 Many of our children face daily challenges like poverty, trauma, inconsistent schooling, and lack of safe play spaces. But when they walk into our camp, they’re met with love, structure, mentorship, and opportunity. With your help, they can rise above every obstacle.
✨ What Makes Us Different?
Our camp isn’t just a place to have fun, it’s a **launchpad for life**. Through our **Inspire and Engage model**, children:
🔹 Inspire – Explore hands-on learning in STEM, reading, and leadership, building confidence and academic skills.
🔹 Engage – Dive into real-world experiences in entrepreneurship, creative arts, cultural awareness, and personal growth.
🔹 Take part in educational enrichment field trips, financial literacy, and team-building activities.
🔹 Are guided by compassionate, certified teachers who believe in their God-given potential.
🔹 Learn to serve others and become leaders in their own story.
❤️ Our mission is simple:
To ignite a lifelong love for learning by providing high-quality, inclusive, and engaging educational experiences that empower underserved youth and their families.
📣 This is where YOU come in.
Your one-time, monthly, or yearly donation can help us:
✅ Feed our children nutritious meals
✅ Fund life-changing field trips
✅ Hire and retain passionate educators
✅ Provide school supplies, uniforms, and activity materials
✅ Keep our doors open to families in need of support completely FREE of charge
Can’t give today? Share this message. Tell a friend. Become a volunteer. Every act of support helps us continue the work.
Together, we can build a future full of hope, purpose, and opportunity — ONE CHILD AT A TIME!
With all my heart,
Terri M. Sims
Founder/CEO, New Dimension Learning Center

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🌾 Celebrating the Harvest: A Tradition Rooted in Positivity and Hard Work 🌾

Many of you have asked about our Harvest Party, and we’re excited to share what makes it such a meaningful celebration for our community and children. Instead of celebrating Halloween, which can often invoke fear, encourage begging, and promote unsafe practices, our Harvest Party offers a positive way to welcome the season. We focus on gratitude, hard work, and appreciation for the natural world around us.

Our Harvest Party teaches children about the vital role of farming and the changes each season brings. Traditionally, as winter approached, local farms would gather to exchange produce, share in the fruits of their labor, and build community. Through this celebration, we honor this heritage:

Scarecrows - represent protection for crops,
Pumpkins - remind us of delicious seasonal foods and traditions, and provide light and secure the candles
Hay bales - support our animals and keep them warm,
Candied treats - recognize the children’s hard work and are enjoyed as a special reward.

This is an opportunity to instill positive values in our children. By choosing not to celebrate Halloween, we focus on God’s teachings, specifically avoiding themes that bring fear or encourage unhealthy behaviors. Our Harvest Party is a time to learn, grow, and celebrate the blessings around us.

Let’s embrace the beauty of this season together and teach our children values rooted in community, gratitude, and faith.

Special thanks to our new donors: Harris Marqus Charlette Young Alice Harrel, Wallace Shepard, and Juliana Alaniz

Heavenly Father,
I thank You for the gift of a new day.
As I rise this morning, I seek Your guidance and wisdom for the day ahead. “Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness” (Lamentations 3:22-23, NIV).
Lead me, Lord, in all that I do today, and protect me from harm.
May Your grace surround me and Your peace fill my heart as I walk in Your will. Bless the work of my hands and help me to reflect Your love in all that I do. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Motivating yourself is as essential as the air you breathe. Speak life into your dreams, and believe you become what you declare over yourself!

Thought for today 🤔 Working hard only pays your living costs for today. Thinking and working hard will pave the way for your future fortunes.

Calling all residents of the city of Dayton, come out to meet our Mayor, bring your questions and concerns, and learn what's happening around the city and in your neighborhood.

Summer camp is all about STEAM! Our campers learned about STEM by using the bicycle as an example in principle and reality, math skills- speed and distance, writing; reading and writing skills learn different types of bikes and writing a business plan on how they can use their bikes for income.

On Monday, May 13, 2024, we’re taking action to demand a continued financial investment in a new child care system that truly works for all. CARE CAN’T WAIT! We need to build a caring economy where childcare educators are valued and compensated for their essential work. We must build a child care infrastructure that helps families with their child care costs.
Our country can’t run, even one “Day Without Child Care.” The reality is that our child care infrastructure is collapsing. If we don’t act now, we’ll see more programs close, families won’t get the care they need, and the economy, along with all of us will suffer. The government needs to invest in an equitable system that supports child care in schools, centers, and residential-based child care. When our child care system thrives sustainably, our families, our businesses, our workers, and our economy thrive.

https://actionnetwork.org/events/ceo-project-day-without-childcare-statehouse-rally?source=direct_link&

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Happy Mental Health Awareness Month 💚

I see you out here constantly pouring into others. Just stop by to remind yourself that you deserve a moment to be poured into.

You know what we always say—you cannot pour from an empty cup.

Join us this Saturday, May 11, 2024, for free stretching and chair massage at Gem City Market. All are welcome.

Pray Attention: When the enemy cannot destroy your life by getting you to mismanage your ethics, the enemy will attempt to destroy your life by influencing you to mismanage your options. In other words, when the enemies cannot destroy us with dysfunction, they will try to destroy us with distractions. It is possible that a big enough distraction can walk into our lives, looking like an amazing opportunity. So, never make moves without first seeking GOD and His plans He has for you.

Beyond LOVE: Never change yourself so other people will like you. Never expect someone to change themselves so you can like them. Just be yourself and accept them for who they are. Then you will receive the right people who will love you just for being you... I truly hope that you find happiness in your life and experience true peace and divine love.