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ECE University · Enrollment Growth Academy

Turn More Inquiries Into Tours, Enrollments , and Long‑Term Families

The ECE Enrollment Growth Academy gives childcare owners, directors, and administrators a repeatable system for filling classrooms — from the first phone call to the family who stays for years. Not scattered marketing tips. One coordinated plan, built only for childcare.

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A complete enrollment system covering marketing, tours, follow‑up, retention, and financial planning

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Practical, scenario‑based lessons you can start applying in your center this week

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Processes your whole team can run — the same way, every time, at every location

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8 modules · 20+ hours on‑demand · one full year of access

On-demand program

ECE Enrollment Growth Academy

$395

per participant · one-time payment · no subscription


  • 8 modules mapped to the full enrollment lifecycle

  • 20+ hours of on-demand, childcare-specific instruction

  • One full year of access — learn at your own pace

  • 100% web-based, on your schedule

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Enrolling a leadership team or multiple locations?
Ask about multi-seat enrollment.

Questions? Call 1-888-804-1349

Where enrollment slips away

Your center may not have a lead problem. It may have an enrollment‑process problem.

Inquiry response

The call that goes to voicemail

A parent calls during the busiest hour of the day. Nobody calls back until tomorrow — and by then, she has already toured the center down the road.

Tours

Tours that wing it

Every director and lead teacher gives a different tour, highlights different strengths, and hopes for the best. The experience depends on who happens to be available.

Follow-up

Follow-up that fizzles

A family tours, says “we’ll think about it,” and never hears from you again. No cadence, no owner, no defined next step.

Differentiation

A center that sounds like every other center

If your website and your tour say the same things your competitors say, families end up choosing on price and convenience alone.

Team

A team that doesn’t know it’s part of enrollment

Staff answer phones, greet visitors, and talk with parents every day — without ever being shown how those moments win or lose families.

Measurement

Growth nobody is measuring

Inquiries, tours, conversions, withdrawals — decisions get made on gut feel instead of numbers connected to occupancy and revenue goals.

None of these gaps means your team isn’t working hard. It means the work isn’t connected. That’s a process problem — and a process can be fixed.

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The solution

One coordinated system, from first inquiry to lasting enrollment

The Academy is organized around the way families actually move through your center — and gives you a defined process to manage every stage on purpose, instead of leaving any of them to chance.

  1. AttractReach the right local families
  2. RespondHandle every inquiry fast and well
  3. TourShowcase your center with purpose
  4. Follow UpStay present until the decision
  5. EnrollWelcome and onboard families
  6. RetainKeep families for the long term
  7. GrowPlan capacity and revenue

How the eight modules power the system

Attract1 · Understanding Your Market
Attract2 · Competitive Analysis
Respond3 · Family & Revenue Growth Process
Every stage4 · Your Team
Tour5 · Tour Process
Enroll & Retain6 · Enrollment Process
Grow7 · Advanced Enrollment Strategies
Grow8 · Financial Planning for Growth

Work through the system in order, or start with the stage where your center is losing the most families.

What changes

What changes when your enrollment runs on a system

The Academy is implementation training. Each module ends in something your center actually does differently.

Inquiries get answered — fast and well

Set response standards and lead-handling practices so every family gets a prompt, warm, competent first impression, whichever way they reach you.

Tours follow a process, not a personality

Build a structured tour that creates an inviting experience, showcases your educational strengths, and addresses objections — no matter who leads it.

Follow-up happens every time

Replace “hope they call back” with a defined funnel for qualifying and guiding families from inquiry to decision.

Your value is clear — without discounting

Develop a Unique Value Proposition built on real differentiators, so families choose your center for reasons other than price.

Your whole team pulls in one direction

Help staff understand their role in winning and keeping families — from the front desk to the classroom — with a consistent training approach.

Enrollment connects to revenue goals

Calculate the cost of growth, set financial goals, and build a process for evaluating and adjusting your enrollment strategy over time.

Running more than one location? The same system standardizes enrollment across every center you operate.

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The math of one more enrollment

What is one more enrollment worth to your center?

Tuition varies by market, age group, and schedule — so run your own numbers. This simple illustration compares the tuition value of a few additional enrollments against the one-time cost of the Academy.

 

Your center’s numbers

Use your center’s own average across age groups.
Even one or two can change the picture.
Many families stay far longer than one year.

Illustrative comparison

Illustrative gross tuition $21,660
ECE Enrollment Growth Academy − $395
Difference $21,265

This is an illustration, not a promise. It estimates gross tuition only — not expenses, staffing costs, or profit — and it is not a guarantee of results. Actual tuition rates, capacity, staffing, market demand, retention, and execution vary by center, and no specific outcome is guaranteed by enrolling in this program.

The Academy costs $395 — once. An unfilled seat costs your center every week it stays empty.

Inside the program

Eight modules. One enrollment-growth methodology.

Every module combines direct instruction with scenario-based learning, so the strategies turn into things your team can actually do. Open any module to see its objective and lessons.

Understanding Your Market Know exactly which families you serve best — and how to reach them
System Stage: Attract

Marketing gets easier — and cheaper — when you stop trying to reach everyone. This module grounds your entire enrollment strategy in a clear picture of your local families.

Objective: Identify target demographics and tailor services to family needs in the local childcare market.

LESSONS

  • Identifying Your Ideal Family
  • Understanding Technically Savvy Parents’ Needs
  • Scenario Learning: Targeting Your Market
Competitive Analysis See your local market clearly — and stand out in it
System stage: Attract

When families can’t tell centers apart, they decide on price. This module gives you the analysis tools and the language to make your center the obvious choice.

Objective: Conduct marketplace analysis to understand the local childcare landscape, develop a clear Unique Value Proposition (UVP) highlighting unique strengths, and apply strategies to differentiate the center effectively.

LESSONS

  • Understanding Your Local Childcare Marketplace and SWOT Analysis
  • Developing Your Unique Value Proposition (UVP) Content
  • Competitive Positioning in Childcare
  • Scenario Learning: Positioning Against Competitors’ Content
Family and Revenue Growth Process for Childcare Centers Build your family growth funnel — and stop losing leads inside it
System stage: Respond & Follow Up

Inquiries only become enrollments when someone guides them there. This module turns lead handling from memory and sticky notes into a managed process.

Objective: Understand and apply strategies for family and revenue growth in childcare centers, including the use of the Family Enrollment Growth Funnel, CRM systems, and effective methods for qualifying and guiding prospective families.

LESSONS

  • The Family Growth Funnel for Childcare Centers
  • Leveraging CRM Systems for Childcare Centers
  • Qualifying Prospective Families
  • Scenario Learning: Guiding Families Through Family Growth Funnel
Your Team is Your Secret Sauce to Success Turn every staff member into part of your enrollment engine
System stage: Every stage

Families enroll with people, not brochures. This module aligns your whole team around the enrollment mission — roles, trust, and a consistent approach to training.

Objective: Develop skills to build an effective childcare team by defining roles, fostering trust with staff and families, and implementing consistent training approaches to create a cohesive and supportive environment.

LESSONS

  • Defining and Building an Effective Team in Childcare
  • Building Trust from the Start with Team and Families
  • Training Staff — Consistency in Approach
  • Scenario Learning: Building Your Team
Tour Process Deliver a tour that wins families — every time, with every guide
System stage: Tour

The tour is the moment of highest intent your center will ever get. This module builds a repeatable tour experience that doesn’t depend on who happens to be free.

Objective: Create an inviting atmosphere, effectively showcase educational excellence, address objections, and apply these skills to deliver a WOW experience during childcare center tours.

LESSONS

  • Creating an Inviting Atmosphere
  • Showcasing Educational Excellence and Discussing Objections
  • Scenario: Tour Time — Creating a WOW Experience
Enrollment Process Convert “we’ll think about it” into enrolled — then into referrals
System stage: Enroll & Retain

Enrollment isn’t finished when the paperwork is signed. This module covers welcoming and onboarding families so they stay — and building referral programs so they bring others.

Objective: Implement effective strategies for welcoming and onboarding new families while designing and promoting referral programs to foster community growth and engagement.

LESSONS

  • Welcoming and Onboarding New Families
  • Retention and Referral Programs
  • Scenario Learning: Onboarding
Advanced Enrollment Strategies Grow beyond the basics with partnerships and digital marketing
System stage: Grow

Once the fundamentals run consistently, this module expands your reach — community partnerships and digital engagement, organized into an advanced enrollment plan.

Objective: Develop and implement an advanced enrollment plan — incorporating community partnerships and digital marketing strategies — to effectively guide families from their initial inquiry to long-term engagement with the childcare center.

LESSONS

  • Strategic Partnerships & Community Collaborations
  • Digital Marketing for Childcare Centers & Boosting Digital Engagement
  • Digital Marketing for Childcare Centers & Boosting Digital Engagement
Financial Planning for Growth Connect enrollment activity to your revenue and occupancy goals
System stage: Grow

Full classrooms should show up on your P&L. This module ties the whole system to the numbers — the cost of growth, financial goals, and a rhythm of ongoing evaluation.

Objective: Establish a process for ongoing evaluation and adjustment of enrollment and operational strategies.

LESSONS

  • Calculating the Cost of Enrollment Growth
  • Setting Financial Goals
  • Scenario Learning: Financial Planning
Start Module 1 — Enroll for $395

Implementation, not theory

What you’ll walk away ready to do

By the end of the Academy, you and your team will be prepared to:

  • Evaluate your local childcare market and define the families you serve best
  • Identify meaningful differentiators and state your center’s unique value clearly
  • Improve how your center responds to prospective families across every channel
  • Run a consistent, purposeful tour process — regardless of who gives the tour
  • Establish a repeatable follow-up approach so no family falls through the cracks
  • Strengthen your team’s participation in enrollment and family retention
  • Welcome and onboard new families in a way that builds long-term loyalty
  • Connect enrollment activity to occupancy targets and financial goals
  • Identify weaknesses in your family journey — and know which module fixes each one
  • Build a center-specific enrollment plan your team can execute together

Who it’s for

Built for the people responsible for full classrooms

The Academy speaks the language of childcare operations — and pays off differently depending on your seat.

Owners

Connect enrollment to revenue, occupancy, and financial planning—and give your director a complete plan instead of a list of marketing ideas.

Directors & Administrators

Run inquiries, tours, and follow-up on a defined process instead of memory—even in the middle of everything else you manage in a day.

Enrollment Leaders

Get a complete playbook: the family growth funnel, qualifying, tour delivery, follow-up, onboarding, and referral programs in one place.

Multi-site Operators & Franchises

Standardize one enrollment process across every location—and train new directors on a common system from day one.

Especially timely if your center is…

Opening new classroom capacity

Replacing a graduating preschool or pre-K class

Facing seasonal vacancies

Getting tours that don’t convert

Expanding to a new location

Standardizing enrollment across centers

Training a new director

Trying to make marketing spend work harder

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The learning experience

On-demand, on your schedule, inside your center

Childcare leadership doesn’t pause for professional development. The Academy is built to fit around ratios, nap schedules, and everything else your day throws at you.

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8 on-demand modules organized around the enrollment lifecycle

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20+ hours of instruction built specifically for childcare — not adapted from generic sales training

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One full year of access — revisit lessons as seasons, staff, and enrollment needs change

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Scenario-based learning in every module, built around real childcare situations

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Start, stop, and resume whenever your day allows — progress is saved as you go

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100% web-based — access from a browser on desktop, tablet, or mobile

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Single seats or team enrollment — multi-seat options for leadership teams and multi-site groups

Enroll Now — $395
ECE Enrollment Growth Academy
Year-long access
Your progress 4 of 8 modules
1 Understanding Your Market
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2 Competitive Analysis
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3 Family & Revenue Growth
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4 Your Team
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5 Tour Process
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6 Enrollment Process
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Illustration of the on-demand learning experience.

Who’s behind it

Built by a team that works exclusively in early childhood education

The ECE Enrollment Growth Academy comes from ECE University, the learning and development division of Inspire Care 360 — a business-solutions company built only for childcare centers, preschools, and early education operators. The scenarios, the language, and the priorities in this program come from the operational realities of running a center: enrollment pressure, staffing, and directors with too much on their plates.

Childcare-specific by design

Every module was created for early childhood settings — tours, family communication, licensing-era realities — not adapted from corporate sales training.

Made for busy childcare leaders

On-demand lessons you can start and stop around the rhythm of a real center day, with a full year to complete and revisit them.

Childcare-specific by design

Every module was created for early childhood settings — tours, family communication, licensing-era realities — not adapted from corporate sales training.

Made for busy childcare leaders

On-demand lessons you can start and stop around the rhythm of a real center day, with a full year to complete and revisit them.

Program overview

See how the Academy works before you enroll

In a few minutes, this overview shows you how the eight modules fit together, what the lessons look like, and how childcare teams put the system to work.

 

The offer

Everything your center needs to build its enrollment system

One price. One year. The complete methodology.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

ECE Enrollment Growth Academy

  • ✓ All 8 modules — market analysis through financial planning
  • ✓ 20+ hours of on-demand, childcare-specific instruction
  • ✓ Scenario-based learning in every module
  • ✓ One full year of access to review and re-apply lessons
  • ✓ 100% web-based — learn from any device with a browser
  • ✓ Built for owners, directors, administrators, and enrollment leaders
$395
per participant • one-time payment
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Enrolling a team or multiple locations?
Call 1-888-804-1349 or email
customerservice@inspirecare360.com

For many centers, the tuition from a single additional enrollment over a few months exceeds the cost of this program many times over. The Academy is $395 — once. Empty seats keep costing you until the process that fills them changes.

Illustrative comparison only. Tuition rates and results vary by center, market, capacity, staffing, and execution; no specific financial outcome is guaranteed.

Common questions

Honest answers before you decide

We already advertise. How is this different from more marketing?

Advertising creates inquiries — it doesn’t convert them. If calls are answered slowly, tours are inconsistent, or follow-up fizzles, more ad spend just sends more families into the same leaks. The Academy works on the whole path: attracting the right families, responding well, touring purposefully, following up, enrolling, and retaining. Better marketing is one module of eight.

Our director already gives good tours. What would this add?

Then you have a strong foundation — in one person. The question is what happens when that director is out, promoted, or replaced, or when a lead teacher covers a walk-in. The Academy turns individual talent into a repeatable process your whole team can run, and adds the stages before and after the tour where most enrollments are actually won or lost.

We don't have much time. How is the program structured?

The program is fully on-demand: 8 modules and 20+ hours of instruction that you can start, stop, and resume around your center’s day. You have a full year of access, so there’s no schedule to keep up with — many leaders work through one module at a time and apply it before moving on.

How quickly can we start applying what we learn?

Immediately. Each module ends in something concrete to implement — a clearer picture of your market, a written value proposition, a tour structure, a follow-up approach, a financial goal. You don’t need to finish all eight modules before your center starts operating differently.

Our enrollment challenge feels unique. Will this still apply?

Your market, tuition, and competition are unique — which is exactly why the Academy doesn’t hand you a one-size-fits-all script. It teaches you to analyze your own market and competitors, define your own value proposition, and build an enrollment plan specific to your center. The system is consistent; the outputs are yours.

We have multiple locations. Does this work across centers?

Multi-site operators are one of the audiences the program was built for. A shared system means every location handles inquiries, tours, and follow-up the same way — and new directors can be trained on a common process instead of inheriting whatever came before. Contact us about multi-seat enrollment for your team: 1-888-804-1349 or customerservice@inspirecare360.com.

Can more than one team member participate?

Yes. Enrollment is $395 per participant, and many centers enroll an owner–director pair or a full leadership team so everyone works from the same playbook. Call 1-888-804-1349 or email customerservice@inspirecare360.com and we’ll help set up multiple enrollments.

Is this for new centers or established centers?

Both — the entry point just differs. New centers use the Academy to build their enrollment process right the first time. Established centers use it to find where families are slipping away, standardize what already works, and connect enrollment to occupancy and revenue goals.

What happens after the year of access?

Your access to the course content runs for one year from enrollment. The processes you build with it — your market analysis, value proposition, tour structure, follow-up cadence, and financial plan — are yours to keep using. Most of the program’s value ends up living in how your center operates, not in the videos themselves.

Does completing the Academy guarantee enrollment growth?

No — and you should be skeptical of any program that promises that. Results depend on your market, capacity, tuition, staffing, and most of all execution. What the Academy provides is a complete, structured system that addresses the reasons centers commonly lose enrollments, along with practical steps to implement it. The work is still yours; the plan is what changes.

Empty seats rarely fill by accident

One ad, one good tour, one lucky month won’t build reliable enrollment. A coordinated process will. The ECE Enrollment Growth Academy gives you the structure — market analysis, tours, follow-up, retention, and financial planning — to start building yours today.

Enroll Now — $395
Call 1-888-804-1349

Prefer email? customerservice@inspirecare360.com

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