Vashon Maury Cooperative Preschool

• At Co-op you learn along side your child.  Parents/caregivers join their child in the classroom once a week to provide help to the teachers and children as well as getting some play time. This is a great time to learn from our kids, get to know their friends and connect.

• The Co-op is powered by our families. Being a part of co-op means that parents/caregivers are involved in the classroom a well as helping the school run smoothly. There are a wide variety of opportunities for the families to contribute. These jobs could be anything from helping to clean the classroom, teacher’s assistants to becoming a board member. There are jobs that can fit anyones skills and commitment levels.

• Co-op families get the support they need. Every co-op family is supported by our parent educators through individual sessions, in the moment coaching at school, and monthly group meetings.  

• Community is at the heart of Co-op. Building a community is fundamental to the Co-op experience. Your child has the unique opportunity to know and be known by a whole community of loving adults.  

Young children work hard at play. Play has been shown to lay down the foundational architecture of the brain that is essential to learning language, literacy, math, as well as developing the love of learning, a quality considered most critical for longer term, sustained interest in learning. Our Co-op teachers carefully craft an environment and curriculum that is centered around play.