Lucy and Chauncey Harmon Learning Center

Named for two Pulaski natives and Calfee Training School educators, the early education center revives the school’s legacy by offering high-quality early childhood education and out-of-school care to families from any background or income level. 

Increasing the access and quality of childcare helps Pulaski County’s working families and the greater community. More parents are able to find childcare during working hours and more children are prepared for Kindergarten, which is directly linked to their later academic success.

Hours

MONDAY- FRIDAY

7:00AM - 6:00PM

Weekly Rates

At The Harmon Learning Center we firmly believe that access to quality Early Childhood Education should be affordable to all families regardless of ability to pay. 

Please contact kayla@calfeeccc.org to discuss tuition.

Curriculum

We support children's need to learn through:

  • Play and Discovery

  • Language and Literacy Development

  • Arts, Crafts, and Creativity Physical Activity and Motor Skills Social and Emotional Growth

We will use the StreamIn3 curriculum which is aligned to Virginia Public Schools pre-kindergarten readiness initiatives.

Serving

  • Infants (6 weeks - 15 months)

  • Toddlers (16 -36 months)

  • Pre-K (3, 4, and 5 year olds)

  • School Aged (After School and Summer Programs will be available in the future.)

Program Features

  • Nutritious meals prepared in the Huckstep Kitchen

  • Play based learning

  • Natural Outdoor Playspaces

  • Social and emotional learning

  • New furniture and equipment

  • Top-rated communications software will deliver real-time photos of curriculum implementation

Grow with us!

Once fully renovated, the Calfee CCC will house a range of programming to support busy families, including:

  • Take Home Meals (so you can have quality time with your children!)

  • Digital Lab to help you and your family achieve your educational and professional goals

  • Cultural Programming, including the African American Heritage Center and other STEM, arts and cultural classes and events

Support us!

We appreciate the community's support in stocking our classrooms with impactful materials. If you'd like to donate items from our wishlist, please click here!

Fill out this form to receive more information about the learning center and how to register your child!

The Namesakes

Lucy Martin Harmon (1914-2013) was born into a large Pulaski family in 1914. She attended Tuskegee Institute, where one of her teachers was George Washington Carver. She graduated with a degree in elementary education from Bluefield State College in Bluefield, West Virginia, where she was a classmate of Willis Gravely, and then earned a Master of Arts in curriculum and teaching from Columbia University. She joined the faculty of the Calfee School for the 1937-1938 academic year, teaching second and third grades. After the school burned late in 1938, she and many faculty colleagues, including Harmon and Gravely, lobbied the county school board to build a new facility quickly. 


Chauncey Harmon (1913-1993) grew up in Pulaski and graduated from Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1935. Harmon was appointed to the faculty of the Calfee Training School in 1937. As principal of the Calfee Training School when it burned in 1938, his forceful advocacy before the Pulaski County School Board helped expedite the construction of a new school, with support from the Public Works Administration. The board ended Calfee’s high school program, which terminated Harmon’s job as principal. He eventually returned to teaching in Wytheville and Salem, working alongside his wife, Lucy Martin Harmon, another Calfee teacher whom he married in 1941. 


The Lucy and Chauncey Harmon Learning Center

is proudly sponsored by Shelor Motor Mile, a business with a longstanding commitment to supporting education in the New River Valley.