About Us
The Carnation Co-op Preschool provides an enriched learning environment for children, a great place for meaningful parent involvement and is part of the Bellevue College Parent Education program.
Why Choose a Co-Op?
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Gives you the opportunity to learn right along with your child
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Allows you to plan your own education and participate in your child's
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Provides low class ratio, low tuition, and a high quality program
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Has quality teachers who regularly update their knowledge and skills
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Has extensive support from early childhood professionals
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Is a healthy, safe environment for all families
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Uses developmentally appropriate practices within the guidelines of the National Association for the Education of Young Children
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Is a place that recognizes that parents are the most important teachers children will ever have and nurtures that skill
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Provides a wonderful choice for parents who want to participate
Our preschool employs a highly-skilled children's teacher and assistant with a great deal of experience with young children and were Co-op parents themselves. Through the Bellevue College Parent Education Program, the Co-op also has weekly access to and monthly classes from a certified and highly experienced parent education instructor.
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Our Preschool Teacher, Lori Ebbers
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Lori Ebbers began her teaching career in 1997, focusing primarily on preschool and elementary students. She has a B.A. in English from Utah State University. Lori began her time at the Carnation Preschool as a parent. This is her fourth year as the preschool's teacher.
Lori follows the National Association for the Education of Young Children guidelines for developmentally appropriate practice. Her love for teaching young children is evident in the activities and projects she brings to the classroom. In addition to teaching at the preschool three days a week, she is a regular volunteer and substitute in the Riverview School District. Lori is the mother of two elementary age children.
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Our Assistant Teacher, Deanna Moreno
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While in her second year in the role of assistant teacher at the preschool, she has spent much of the last decade here as a parent member of the Co-op. After enlistment in the Air Force, she pursued a career path in the Hospitality and Human Resources fields before becoming a mother. She has spent the last 15 years raising her own four children ages 15, 11, 8, and 5 years. She has provided tutoring and after-school care in her home, while also taking several opportunities along the way to teach a home-based preschool and several church nursery and vacation bible school programs, and continues to volunteer in her own children's classrooms on a regular basis. In her spare time, she loves to cook, write poetry, read and scrapbook.
"My days at the Co-op are filled with the fun and excitement of watching the children learn and many opportunities to see the world through a child's eyes." --Deanna Moreno
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Our Parent Education Instructor, Gayne Phillips
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This is Gayne’s 20th year teaching in the Bellevue College Parent Education Program. In addition, she was a children’s teacher in a variety of Bellevue College’s preschool programs for 14 years. That experience enables her to effectively assist the teacher, the children, and the working parents when she attends our preschool class on a weekly basis.
Gayne holds two degrees from Washington State University; a B.A. in Home Economics from the Child & Family Studies Department, and an M.A. in Child Development. She is the mother of two grown daughters and first became associated with the Bellevue College Parent Education as a parent herself, in 1981.
Gayne facilitates our monthly Parent Education classes, which include lecture, discussion, and problem-solving components. Topics are determined by the needs of the parents, but always include normal child development, and effective discipline techniques. Parent conferences are offered in the spring. She is also available for private, informal consultation.
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