PCPI BLOG
Know your history! Abigail Adams Eliot
Abigail Adams Eliot (1892-1992) was a founding member of the National Association of Nursery Education that later became the National Association for the Education of Young Children.
Know your history! Frances Lillie
Frances Lillie and her cohort provided the teaching, the passion, and the foresight to shape a movement by establishing the first parent cooperative school in the United States.
Know your history! Rebecca "Becky" Allen
Rebecca Allen was a speaker, author, teacher, and a true cooperative pioneer.
Know your history! Ruth Crawford Seeger
Ruth Crawford Seeger wrote her own folk-song books for children, which are still popular and used her daughter's Silver Spring Nursery School as a laboratory for teaching folk music
Know your history! Janet Gonzales-Mena
Author Janet Gonzalez-Mena started her early childhood career in a cooperative preschool as a parent volunteer back in 1966.