As of this week, West Seattle has a brand-new school. A ribbon-cutting launched the new Village Cooperative School, explained by Rachel Faunce, who also shared the photo:
A year in the making, the Village Cooperative School is a Kindergarten through 2nd grade multi-age school based on a cooperative-school model where students, parents and teachers, learn, explore, work, and grow together.
Affiliated with the South Seattle Community College Cooperative Preschool Program, the school is housed on the SSCC campus. Class is held Monday-Thursday from 11:30 am-3:30 pm. Tuesday classes are led by the Vashon Wilderness Program and will rotate throughout parks in Seattle.
In addition to a small, intimate classroom setting and a parent education component, the Village Cooperative School offers:
· Project and play based learning that is emergent, experiential, student led and teacher supported.
· The integration of art, music, language arts, science, math and social studies through applies learning.
· Individual and group learning with an emphasis on community building, cooperation, mutual respect, problem-solving and conflict resolution.
A few spaces remain in this year’s class; questions are welcome at info@vcoop.org.
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