Welcome To the LIGHTHOUSE ELEMENTARY COOPERATIVE
Looking to contribute more to your child's education? Looking for a place where volunteer parent involvement is encouraged and considered the norm? Are you willing and able to enrich your child's classroom experience? LIGHTHOUSE Elementary Cooperative may be your answer in the Everett school district.
In Lighthouse Elementary Cooperative we believe the best learning takes place in a warm supportive atmosphere, where each child is respected as an individual and where peer competition and fear of failure are not encouraged as a motivator. We take into account the uniqueness of each child’s needs, interests, abilities, learning rates and styles.
It is important for children to be active and experimenting while learning and to be encouraged to think independently and make their own choices. Lighthouse Elementary Cooperative provides children an opportunity to learn from their peers as well as from a variety of adults, including teachers, parents and community members. We believe that through these experiences that it will lead to the enrichment of the human imagination, spirit and mind.
COOPERATIVE HOSTORY
In the spring of 1997, the Everett School District approved a proposal for an elementary cooperative put forth by a small group of parents previously involved with a college run co-op preschool. The pioneer Lighthouse Elementary Cooperative kindergarten class, initially known as COMPASS Parent Cooperative, was housed in a portable at Cascade High School with the Madison Elementary School principal overseeing the program.
The following year Lighthouse Elementary Cooperative moved to Lowell Elementary with one 1st grade class and an incoming a.m. and p.m. kindergarten class. Lighthouse Elementary Cooperative has continued to change and has grown into a Kindergarten through 5th Grade cooperative.
In 2001 the Everett School District did a reboundary of all the elementary schools and Lighthouse Elementary Cooperative was split between Lowell and Jefferson. We were excited when the decision was made to reunite the program at one site in the Fall of 2005 and we were successfully housed at Jefferson Elementary School where we remain today.
