Family participation is at the foundation of GRCDC’s collaborative education program. If you have a child enrolled at GRCDC, then you are a member of the Family Team.
Inspired by the idea that families have the right to actively participate through voluntary adherence to the basic principles, in the growth, care, and development of the children who are entrusted to the public institution. This means no delegating and no alienation. Instead, it confirms the importance of the presence and the role of the parents, who have been highly valued that created the Child Discovery Center in 2000 through petitions to GRPS and Aquinas College with the desire in seeing the values and educational principals they experienced with their children in the AQCDC to continue through the primary grade level.
Parent participation enables a communication network that leads to fuller and more reciprocal knowledge, as well as to a more effective shared search for the best educational; approaches, content and values. When the school and families are able to converge towards a cooperative experience, an interactive experience that is the rational and advantageous choice of everyone concerned, then we choose to forgo self-sufficiency and prescription and choose instead the strategy of participation and shared research. Participation and research are in fact, the two terms that summarize much of the overall conception of our educational theory that inspires the Child Discovery Center.
Participation at the Child Discovery Center
There are 100’s of ways to participate and contribute to the wellbeing of the school and the community in which you live. Here are a few ways. Please consult the Family Team Board in the North Hallway or your child’s teacher for even more ways to make connections, join others and enjoy learning with your child.
