Wait Time
When a teacher poses questions during story time or during play, she or he is not quizzing the children. An answer or response is not always expected. Teachers are helping make connections and extensions. Children benefit from wait time and the look twice, so that they can reflect and enrich their understanding.
Director's Summer 2011 Letter, Emergent Curriculum
Lesley Romanoff, director of the Cooperative School, explores the idea of how emergent curriculum changes from year to year, group to group, for both child and parent.
Four Spaces for Learning
"Rather than getting children ready for school, we need to get school ready for them." a quote from Docia Zavitkovsky, President, NAEYC 1984-1986, Founder of Play Matters, and lifelong supporter of parent cooperative schools.
A Parent Cooperative. Everything I Need.
Signatures tucked away and hidden under freshly painted and repaired baseboards. A carefully engineered rain drainage system buried under 10 tons of specially-selected and shipped sand in the sandpit. Gentle and informed support during difficult times. We leave our marks, we shape and care deeply for the environment, we take care of each other.