The Co-op Experience

The Cabrini Co-op experience is meant to be one of quality over quantity. Our small, 10-14 person classroom sizes (and homeschool hybrid schedule) allows for relationship, dialogue and an exceptional environment to add to your homeschool experience. Our screen-free policy encourages children to read, wonder and fall in love with learning. It also requires that children work the 'muscle' of self-discipline and character-development in order to seek and find, not just to receive. Cabrini Co-op is a place for growth in both faith and reason.

Inspired by the teachings of the Church and its guiding documents, we seek to provide a Christo-centric, parent-led, joyful, Catholic education to our children. With Christ at the center of all of our choices in curriculum and structure, parents and support staff cooperatively lead and facilitate the children's education while engaging them in the Catholic faith through the Sacraments first and foremost (i.e. Wednesday & Friday daily mass), CGS and the liturgical calendar. We believe that educating our children through the lens of the Catholic Church is vital to the future of our Church and the souls of our families. As such, we fully acknowledge that we must remain mission-focused, united under the Roman Catholic Church, and joyfully proclaiming our faithful identity in order to maintain the integrity of our co-op.

We seek to provide a unique model of a homeschool hybrid (1-day or 2.5-day) structure which allows for homeschool families of all backgrounds to join the Cabrini community to the extent that they are able. Each day is drenched in prayer and Catholic teaching as we seek to teach our children the foundational principles of math, reading, writing, history, science, character/virtue literature and art; things that we would, yes, do on our own time as homeschoolers but would rather have supported in a classroom environment. Parents and children are encouraged to engage and respond to the material through discussion, reflection, and other activities following their day in class, at home.
 

 “…it is the task of the whole educative community to ensure that a distinctive Christian educational environment is maintained in practice. This responsibility applies chiefly to Christian parents who confide their children to the school. Having chosen it does not relieve them of a personal duty to give their children a Christian upbringing. They are bound to cooperate actively with the school - which means supporting the educational efforts of the school and utilizing the structures offered for parental involvement, in order to make certain that the school remains faithful to Christian principles of education. An equally important role belongs to the teachers in safeguarding and developing the distinctive mission of the Catholic school, particularly with regard to the Christian atmosphere which should characterize its life and teaching” (Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education, 1977, para.73).