MEAD CO-OP

Mead Co-Op is a preschool for children ages 18 months through 5 years located in North Spokane (just minutes from the "Y"). Our curriculum is play based. We focus on allowing children to experience learning through play and inquiry based activities... Like all cooperative preschool models, at Mead Co-op the parents run the school so they are the ones who help establish curriculum, hire, pay and evaluate the teachers. At the same time, the parents are also the students since a major part of the cooperative model is parent education. We are affiliated with Spokane Community College, a relationship through which we receive our insurance, administrative and marketing support, executive training, a portion of our teacher salary, and most importantly, parent education. As is true with most co-ops, our tuition is quite low which is made possible because parent involvement is so high... The monthly parent meetings are part of our mission to make Co-op a place where both students and parents..

Also known as: Mead Cooperative Preschool

Primary location: Spokane United States