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Our Mission
Seattle’s Progressive Preschool’s mission is to provide a quality preschool curriculum that emphasizes social and environmental awareness as a building block for change.

Our Vision
We envision alumni families who champion a fair and just world and who inspire the communities around them.

Our Philosophy
Children of a very young age have an inherent sense of what is fair and what is not.  SPP’s curriculum is intended to nurture that nascent ability and teach children how to apply it to the world around them.

It is not about teaching what is wrong with the world, but rather instilling in our kids the understanding that they are capable of making a difference.  In time, such awareness enables action, which enables justice.

Our Commitment

Economic Diversity

• SPP believes that economic diversity among its students benefits all of the students, as well as their participating family members.
• We specifically reserve a number of spots in our class for families with household incomes of less than $50,000 annually.
• SPP offers financial aid to those families demonstrating the most need.
• SPP has created a “work scholarship” for a family that cannot afford the hidden costs associated with working in the classroom (i.e. lost wages or child care for other children in the family).

Welcoming Environment

• Seek families of all races, ethnicities and religions
• Same-sex families welcome
• Alternative family structures celebrated – single parented homes, kindercare arrangements
• Strive to make coop work for all interested families

Values

• Environmental emphasis – from our choice of toys to our location on bus lines, we strive to make every decision consistent with good environmental stewardship
• Social awareness – through our choices of service projects to our support of our downstairs neighbors, Community Lunch on Capitol Hill, we try to live and breathe our mission.
• Community
  • Coop education – SPP is affiliated with the Seattle Central Community College network of coop preschools. Coop parents work in the classroom as assistant teachers, thus getting to know fellow parents and their child’s classmates. Through this sharing, many coop families develop bonds that last for decades, providing support and friendship beyond the preschool years.
  • Anti-bias training – all families are trained in the principles of anti-bias. This helps us see the world through each others eyes, helping our friends’ priorities make sense in the context of ours and their needs.

Our Location
Our classrooms are in an upstairs location, with many windows letting in the sunshine. The class will also benefit from gross motor activity at the Cal Anderson Park playground, located directly across the street.