Anchorage Cooperative Preschool

About

ACP was formed over 40 years ago by a group of parents who wanted to become an integral part of their children’s preschool experience.

Story

Our Guiding Principles

We…believe…welcome…provide…create…support…honor…give…share

Anchorage Cooperative Preschool has in its past ideals that are its future. Following is a list of the Guiding Principles that many of our members worked on at a retreat in April 2009.

Take a look at these ideals and see if they resonate for you. If so, you are in the right place. We want you to help us emulate these guiding principles which are at our base, throughout our core and thus drive our decisions and actions.
We welcome diversity and honor the individual
We enrich family’s lives, both in and out of the classroom

Our program is:
Child-centered and developmentally appropriate
Multi-sensory
Play-based
Emergent
Nature-based
Multi-cultural
We support skills for lifelong learning
We create a love for learning by embracing curiosity, creativity and flexibility
We share responsibilities for educating children
We create a family-centered, hands-on community where choices are nurtured and mistakes are supported and learned from
We provide a safe and trusting place where naturally capable teachers, families and children are empowered to be curious and explore their potential
We create an environment where positive self-image is fostered through recognition of feelings, kind and gentle actions and intuitiveness
We provide a large community gathering space
We believe in environmentally conscious, sustainable practices
We support the opportunity to build close, supportive relationships
We share resources, skills, experiences, knowledge and responsibilities
We honor ethical, transparent and responsible business behaviors
We support growth and change
We believe children thrive through outdoor time in a natural environment
We support healthy and safe practices for mind, body and environment

Mission

To create a safe, positive and accepting environment where families and children learn together.