Our preschool has operated as a parent cooperative since 1940. While a professional teaching staff runs the program, member families own the school and are responsible for the administration and maintenance. This helps keep tuition low and allows parents to become fully active in their child's education. It also serves to build a strong sense of community among the families in the school.
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Our goal at ECPC is to provide a happy, safe, and supportive environment that contributes to the development of the whole child. Each child is a unique individual, with different physical, social, emotional, and intellectual skills. We believe children learn best through self-directed play, and we provide a variety of experiences to suit the varied needs of growing children.
Both Directors in the Morning and Afternoon Programs have some administrative responsibilities, but spend most of their time working with the children. All staff members have the early childhood course work required by our licensing agency. In addition, they all have current first aid and CPR credentials.
The El Cerrito Pre-School Cooperative, one of the first in California, opens in space provided by the Community Methodist Church. Enrollment is 24. Registration is $1.50 plus $1.50 per month for juice. El Cerrito is designated a Defense Area and the Center is set up as a Certified Defense Project. Children are given air-raid drills and an emergency food supply is on hand.
If you are interested in learning more about our play-based cooperative, come take a tour! Tours will be given from. Virtual Tours will be given. This was originally written by ECPC member Chris Sterba for ECPC's 70th anniversary in 2010. Did the classic rock group. Our beloved teacher Parvaneh Farrokhmid has dedicated herself to caring for and teaching our children for 32 years at El.
ECPC is now enrolling for Fall 2022! These will be held via zoom on the. It all starts with milk jugs. 700 of them, in fact. For six weeks, starting in mid-November, ECPC members collected empty milk jugs daily from our partners in crime at Peets Coffee and Starbucks. They washed them out, piled them up, and brought them over to ECPC where they awaited their New Year's Eve transformation.
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Dana Lancaster
Jun 21, 2017
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I feel so lucky that our family found this preschool. It is such an amazing community of kids, teachers and parents, and has been everything we expected and more for our 4 year old twins.
We had two main goals when we started our first year at ECPC this past fall. Our twins are very close to each other, but were not very social with other kids their age and we wanted them to be able to grow socially before starting kindergarten in 2018. In addition, my wife and I were looking to find our own community here in the Bay Area, since moving 3 years ago from Brooklyn, where we lived for over 13 years
We had two main goals when we started our first year at ECPC this past fall. Our twins are very close to each other, but were not very social with other kids their age and we wanted them to be able to grow socially before starting kindergarten in 2018. In addition, my wife and I were looking to find our own community here in the Bay Area, since moving 3 years ago from Brooklyn, where we lived for over 13 years
