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Who We Are

God is the author of the story of Sophia Learning Center, and He writes the best stories! Our school has been in operation for 7 years, but our story begins way before that with our beautiful mommy and Founder Constance E. Brown, pictured to the right. Learn how Sophia Learning Center came to be and our goal to point children and families to Jesus.

Our Story

Sophia Learning Center is a vision given from God to our beautiful mother, Constance E. Brown, affectionately known as Mom Mrs. Brown. Our mother is an artist, author, teacher, storyteller and most important daughter of the most high KING!

In the late 1990s, while teaching in the charter schools in Cleveland, Ohio, and seeking the Lord for a way to help the students to learn and read, God gave her the idea for the Sophia Learning Center; instructing her to use wisdom principles from Proverbs to train up children. From there, the idea was born, but it would be years before the school would come to fruition.

Fast forward to 2018, Carmen Brown and Constance-Gabrielle Brown (Oldest and youngest daughters) also became teachers in the schools and each night all three daughters would be on the phone with our mother discussing what we were experiencing in the schools. One night, during one of these regular phone calls, God renewed the vision in Constance Brown and she said, "Mom, I think it's time to start Sophia Learning Center." From there everything began to line up. We began with a summer camp and one student ❤️ in 2018. In 2019, Mom Mrs. Brown and our youngest sister, Constance-Gabrielle Brown, stepped out on faith and left their teaching positions in the schools and started the Sophia Learning Center. God has been building this school each step of the way, and sending the students ever since.

Sophia Learning Center is built on the guiding verse of Proverbs 22:6, "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."The mission of the Sophia Learning Center is to train up children through biblical wisdom principles, traditional values, and engaging learning styles to become fluent readers, who are ready to learn, achieve lifelong goals and ultimately become world changers.

Jesus came to get Mom Mrs. Brown in October of 2021, and we three daughters (Constance-Gabrielle, Soteria and Carmen) have vowed to pick up the torch that our amazing mother blazed to use everything God puts in our hands to point children and families to Jesus. Until we meet again, we say as she says - "How great is our GOD!" We'll carry the work on from here, mommy.

- Love, The Mother's Beautiful Daughters

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A Family of Teachers

Our Vision

Train up world changers and take back the education system — by teaching and utilizing old
school values, partnering with parents who want a high-quality education for their students and partnering with local schools (K-12) to send our well prepared students to their schools.

Sophia Values & Philosophy

Discipline
Valor
Wisdom
Respect
Integrity
Self-control

Our Team

Sophia's team is comprised of our family of educators who together have more than 40 years of experience in the field of education (elementary school education, child care centers and home school) and beautiful friends (who have become family) that God has sent along our journey and are dedicated to helping you raise up your child in the way he or she should go. (Proverbs 22:6)

CEO and Lead Teacher

Ms. Constance-Gabrielle Brown

Constance is an educator with over 13 years of classroom experience teaching preschool, second and third grades. Ms. Constance-Gabrielle. Brown began her career in education teaching in the childcare industry in Cleveland, Ohio at several of St. Vincent de Paul child care facilities, between 2007 and 2011. Ms. Constance has her B.A. from Kentucky State University and her M.A. in Education from Mt. St. Joseph University.

Operations and Public Relations Manager

Ms. Soteria Brown

Soteria has 17 years of experience in nonprofit public relations managing digital communications, media relations and videos. Ms. Soteria Brown also has experience in the field of education, with four years of experience teaching in childcare centers and summer counseling programs in Cleveland, Ohio. Ms. Soteria has her B.A. from Grambling State University and her M.A. from the University of Dayton.

Instructional Coach

Ms. Carmen Brown

Carmen is an educator with 23 years of experience ranging from teaching grades kindergarten through 5th to most recently serving as an instructional coach. Ms. Carmen Brown also began her career in education teaching in the childcare industry in Cleveland, Ohio, between the years of 1999 to 2005. Ms. Carmen has her B.A. from Wilberforce University and her M.A. from the University of Dayton.

Preschool I Teacher

Mrs. Angie Beckner

Mrs. Angie Beckner graduated from Ambassador Baptist College in Shelby, North Carolina in 2002 with a B.A. in Biblical Studies and Missions. Her background includes 13 years of experience homeschooling. Additionally, she has been a pastor's wife since 2011 and has served in children's ministries teaching preschool and kindergarten age Sunday School classes and the music ministry in each church her husband has pastored.

Mrs. Beckner and her husband have been married for almost 20 years and have been blessed with three boys who are on the cusp of graduating high school.

Volunteer Classroom Assistant

Mrs. Sonya Pope

Mrs. Pope joins us Monday through Friday, virtually, to lead our students through phonics activities; helping our student to build up their skills for reading. Mrs. Pope is a graduate of North Carolina A&T University (Summa Cum Laude), and she serves as the Lower Elementary Director and Kindergarten Teacher at Solid Rock Kids Church. Born and raised in Virginia, Mrs. Pope currently resides in Fairfield, OH with her husband Michael and three sons, William, Charles and Matthew.

Our Advisory Board

Our Advisory Board consist of Believers from different professional industries all coning together to advise from their respective areas and ensure that Sophia Learning Center stays aligned with its mission.

Romans 12 - "For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, 5 so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. 6 We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your[a] faith; 7 if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach; 8 if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; if it is giving, then give generously; if it is to lead,[b] do it diligently; if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully."