For more than 50 years, our teachers and parents have worked together to maintain an exceptional preschool and kindergarten.
Meridian Hills Cooperative Nursery School & Kindergarten is dedicated to creating an environment where children can grow according to their individual timetables. Each child is encouraged to learn through thoughtful interaction with materials and with each other, and build and construct knowledge as a result of this interaction.
We encourage children to explore, question and test hypotheses. We are a child-centered, success-oriented program. We are a parent cooperative dedicated to helping children, parents and teachers grow together.
We are a success-oriented school, striving to help children and their parents form positive self-concepts and good feelings of self-worth. We value the individual uniqueness of each child and adult involved.
The children at co-ops are free to be -- free to own their feelings and to express these feelings. Our job is to help them understand what these feelings are.
As teachers, we strive to be reactors to children, not judges of children. We look for causes of action, not focus on the action itself in cases of conflict. We do not label behavior. We set realistic goals for ourselves and for our children. We work to help children learn how to solve problems, not solve problems for them. We work to foster feelings of empathy, helping children to be responsible for results of their actions.
We grow together in this loving, accepting setting.
Established 1960, MHCNS&K is a non-profit organization where teachers and parents work together to create appropriate programs so that our children grow and thrive emotionally, intellectually and physically.
"MHCNS&K is a place where children, parents and teachers grow together. This has always been and continues to be the primary goal of cooperative schools. Our school has a rich history of providing the best possible program for young children and their parents. We have earned this reputation because of our dedicated and consistent leadership, devoted and talented teachers, and parents who have committed their time, expertise and love to continuing the excellence for which Meridian Hills Co-op stands."Reviews, get directions and information Meridian Hills Cooperative Nursery School & Kindergarten.
