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Noe Valley Nursery School, a cooperative preschool, was started in 1969 by a group of San Francisco parents in the Noe valley neighborhood. We continue to be a community of parents interested in taking part in our children's preschool experience. All families share in the planning and operation of the school. Our parents staff the school under the direct guidance of a qualified master's-level preschool teacher. Our school is a proud and active member of the California council of parent participation nursery schools, which has also been serving San Francisco families since 1969. At NVNS, we welcome all ethnicities, religions, orientations, abilities, and backgrounds. We are one inclusive community, and we celebrate our differences.

Potomac Crescent Waldorf school is devoted to educating children according Rudolf Steiner's insights and pedagogy. We educate the whole child: head, heart, and hands. The individual child is at the center of all we do. In the pre-school we prepare the child for schoolwork by encouraging healthy play. In the grade school, our teachers aim to allow each child to grow gradually and naturally into the subjects they study, because then they will love what they learn. Committed to serve and reflect our locality of Northern Virginia near the District of Columbia, the faculty work together as colleagues to allow the Waldorf approach to provide each child with a future-oriented education, in which lasting capacities and skills will serve the student for life.

We recognize the incredible ability that exists within people on the autism spectrum. Empowering through education, the McCarton Foundation helps young people with autism realize their full potential and celebrates their extraordinary talents. Every day we work to transform lives through: The McCarton School, where we continue to achieve unprecedented success in educating young people with autism Research, as we further develop our methodology by testing new strategies and techniques to teach people on the autistic spectrum more effectively Training professionals and parents around the world how to use the knowledge we gain Inspiring Events, like McCarton Foundation’s Genius of Autism, where we celebrate the remarkable talent possessed by autistic youth With one in every sixty-eight children in the United States identified as being on the spectrum, chances are that you—and most of the people you know—are somehow connected to a young person with autism. Join us in our mission to empower these young people today.

The Belair Cooperative Nursery School, established in 1962, is one of the oldest preschools in the City of Bowie. The school is a non-profit, non-sectarian, and non-partisan organization. It has been accredited by the Maryland State Department of Education since 1970. The Belair Cooperative Nursery School rents classroom space from the Christian Community Presbyterian Church on Belair Drive in Bowie. Our purpose is to provide children with a group experience that extends the values of family life by fostering a sense of community involvement. It is the philosophy of the school to encourage student awareness of and participation in one’s natural, social, and cultural environment. The school attempts to provide a program which is appropriate to the child’s stage of development and which is satisfying to him or her. The school introduces the students to music appreciation as well as Spanish. We strive to recognize the unique characteristics and abilities of each child and to cultivate in each a love of learning and a consideration of others. Parental involvement is an essential part of a cooperative school. The parents form the Board of Directors and govern the entire program. They hire the teachers, assist in planning the educational program, and participate in the classroom on a rotating basis as teacher’s aides.

Our vision is an environment where parents and staff work together to ensure every child has the opportunity to fulfill his or her potential to the highest degree, following the inspired work of Maria Montessori. Mission To offer every child the possibility of a Montessori education, regardless of the parents' financial position, because Dr. Montessori believed in the potential within every child To provide diversity to such a degree that every child will assume the world is full of people in every color, with many languages, with many beliefs because Dr. Montessori believed that peace and tolerance can only begin with the children To find staff members who truly believe in the special creative power within every child and are determined to find the one work that will open the door to unleash that power because Dr. Montessori saw that work, when correctly motivated, heals the soul To provide multiple and regular opportunities for parents to learn how best to contribute to their child's inner growth because Dr. Montessori believed that adults, if unaware, could impede the child's natural development To create the most beautiful, fully-integrated Montessori environment, inside and out, in the Phoenix area because Dr. Montessori was very clear on how the meticulous care of the environment spoke to the child

MWPCCC is a community-based, non-profit organization whose mission is to create, manage, and sustain developmentally appropriate, high quality, available, culturally-sensitive pre-school, childcare, and family support services. We support families with young children and infants. We prepare children for kindergarten and a lifetime of learning by offering them an emergent curriculum, nurturing staff, and a commitment to children's social well-being in an environment that respects and celebrates diversity. Our target population is an economically and ethnically diverse group of children. We are committed to serving as many low-income/subsidized children as possible, and in fact, often we have absorbed those costs in order to make sure that that we do not turn families for lack of funds.

Familias En La Escuela (FELE) believes that parent participation - in both the classroom and organizational structures of the school - improves the educational experience of all children and the quality of the Chicago Public Schools. FELE supports the mission of IAMS by: Providing and promoting opportunities for parent involvement Enhancing communication between the school and the home Raising funds sufficient to support and, ideally, enlarge extra-curricular programs Functioning as parent and student advocates. All our activities are undertaken in close collaboration with the school faculty, administration and staff.

SAN MATEO PARENTS NURSERY SCHOOL IS A DIVERSE COMMUNITY DEDICATED TO FOSTERING THE LEARNING AND GROWTH OF CHILDREN AND ADULTS. ITS GOAL IS TO CREATE A LOVING, SUPPPORTIVE, EMPOWERING ENVIRONMENT FOR CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES.

Their Mission In the spring of 2019, a group of Twin Cities educators, community members, and parents met to imagine a school grounded in Montessori pedagogy, accessible to families of all incomes, that places the needs of the children first. Monarch Montessori School opened its first Children's House environment in St. Paul, Minnesota for children ages 33 months through 6 years of age on September 8th, 2020. They are committed to providing a safe and healthy in-person educational option for families and offer tuition assistance to children of essential workers.

Discovery Preschool will provide high-quality early education, inclusive of all young children and their families, by fostering a sense of community and encouraging the children to discover new things about themselves, their friends, and the world around them.

We empower our staff and create a curriculum that encourages children to develop into independent, self=motivated learners, while supporting families to develop solid parenting skills. We provide developmentally appropriate active-learning education for children.

All Five is dedicated to empowering all families to choose a high quality early childhood education for their children.