Welcome to The Enrichment Cooperative at the Bryant
Campus; a student-centered place for building
partnerships, pathways for learning and failing.
We offer unique classes and a personalized
learning plan, helping families establish their
own paths towards educational success.
Tech recognizes the parent as the primary educator,
and operates as a resource for families to ensure
high-quality learning experience for each child.
Tech is a family network, whether you've just
started, or are looking to supplement your
established at-home instruction.
Tech provides resources for educational success,
one child at a time.
The kids love Tech.
For us, we take care of most of our core classes
at home, and so Tech is a great way for the kids to
get a lot of their, a lot of the extras.
Especially things that are really great to be done in
a group setting.
You get to learn all sorts of new stuff that you
wouldn't normally learn.
I specifically love P.E.
and drama.
Those things are awesome.
I really like the, how personal it is.
I mean, I have a good relationship with all the
teachers here, and, um, yeah, it makes it fun to
attend.
For us it's been a great success.
I decided to be more of a central figure, and that's
what Tech's done.
It's put me in their lives three days a week, all day
long, you know, and then they still get to have the
socialization that they would in traditional
education.
In 2001, a small group of parents approached Spokane
Public Schools with an idea for a school to
support parents wishing to be their child's primary
educator.
Within a year, and with parents involved in every
aspect of its creation, The Enrichment Cooperative
became a reality.
Tech is truly a parent partnership, and the
primary responsibility for the education falls on the
parent.
We're providing classes to support that, but we're
also providing some expertise in curriculum
choices and, um, a spoken sequence in making sure
that the child is making successful academic,
social, and emotional growth.
And so, instead of being on your own, um, you have
a teacher as your personal resource, and as a team,
you work together to create your plan and to
implement your plan.
And you always have someone to go to.
The staff is very supportive, the parents
that are there are very supportive, everyone is
there to offer the help that you need, when you
need it.
Tech actively partners with families who choose
to do the majority of their children's education
from home.
We collaborate with parents to customize a
child's education in order to prepare students for
life's responsibilities, challenges, and
opportunities.
The children are able to move at their own pace,
which I think is critical.
They're able to slow down and get some tutoring if
they need it.
They're able to go ahead and just, you know, at
their own pace if that's where they're at.
So it really is the best of child-centered
education.
When you enroll at Tech, you work with a certified
teacher to develop a personalized learning plan
for your child.
This written student-learning plan is
an organizational tool and a year-long guide for you
and your student.
It's a fluid document that you and your teacher
consult in, will be able to change alongside the
needs of your child.
And then from there, we might, several times
throughout year do some celebrations of what
they've learned about, some checkpoints of how
you're doing, how you're progressing.
So we get a really well-rounded idea of what
they're doing, um, at home with their learning, and
how we can adapt and help them do the piece that
they need here.
And I think we get more buy-in from the parents,
because they're more involved with their
students learning.
Classes at Tech are meant to enrich rather than
replace at-home instruction.
Our site-based classes are taught by certificated
teachers and community professionals as requested
by parents.
Each year there are hundreds of classes
offered at Tech; from robotics to Shakespeare,
marimbas to martial arts.
Each focused on fostering the love of learning in
your child.
All the classes are just so fun that I want to get
to the next class.
I've learned to play lots of sports, I didn't want
to take piano and now I'm really good at it, so.
So it's almost like Tech is like a college where I
sign the kids up for whichever class I think
they should be taking at this time, um, according
to our philosophy and what we're trying to accomplish
at home.
Tech students are also given lots of
opportunities to get involved in their
community, with field trips and other activities
taking place throughout the year.
Well, the kids really get a lot of time out in the
community with these field trips that are, not only
some of them are parent led, but the school also
hosts those, too, so.
Parents are as much a part of Tech as the students.
They're active in many aspects of the day-to-day
operations; helping out in classes, supporting staff,
and getting involved in committees that support
the entire learning environment.
So I started with this program the very first day
they opened their doors, and my children grew up
here, it was their home away from home, and they
all graduated from here.
My son just graduated last year, my third, and in the
whole process I started volunteering in the
classrooms and eventually went back to school and
got my, finished my degree, and now I'm
teaching full-time here as a certificated teacher.
Staff at The Enrichment Cooperative choose to be
here because of the family atmosphere, and because
Tech gives them room to work with one child at a
time.
We're small enough where we communicate all the
time about students, and what we can do to help
students be successful here.
We have a strong support system between our
counselors, our secretaries, our
administrators, that you just come in and you're
comfortable.
So, you can tell everyone that's here loves it.
If you look at the staff, probably most of them have
been here ten years, or more.
I feel so lucky to be here, and it's a great
place for kids, it's a great place for parents,
and it's a great place for the staff, so.
Our teachers are dedicated to the idea of Tech and
are dedicated to doing whatever it takes to help
each student thrive.
I see many of these kids growing up, I form
relationships with them over years of working with
them, so you do become a little more dedicated.
You're more part of their lives, and you take it to
heart so much, because they are like your kids.
The family atmosphere here is really different than
what you get from most schools.
The kids love their teachers, they love Tech.
They actually cry, whine and complain when it's the
last day of school because it's summertime and they
wanna keep going.
So how do you become a part of The Enrichment
Cooperative?
When you contact us, you'll be invited to
attend an informational meeting followed by a
personal interview to determine what mode of
entry works best for your family.
If you're new to a parent partnership program, Tech
offers a pathway called Jump Start where parents
attend classes to help develop their home
learning plan.
Are you looking for connections with other
parent partnership families, opportunities
for your child to engage with their community, and
assistance in developing a personalized learning plan
for your student's success?
Learn more about The Enrichment Cooperative at
spokaneschools.org/tec or give us a call.