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Resources

AACNS Forms

Wait List Application Form
Health Form

For Families in Austin

Connections Resource Center: Part of Austin Community College, Connections Resource Center is a wonderful clearing-house of information for Austin parents and preschool teachers. Equipped with an excellent library of parenting books, videos, and toys.
Address: 825 E 53rd-1/2 St., Austin, Texas 78751. Phone: (512)478-5725.

Austin Family: Austin Family magazine has articles as well as a good monthly calendar, listing events for families with young children. Call (512) 442-7979 for hard-copy subscription information.

Parent: Wise Austin: Parent: Wise Austin magazine contains local parenting news, scientific research, book and music reviews, humor and a very good online family events calendar.

What’s happening in Austin for kids: Mr. Johnny's Playtime Review lists lots of fun things to do with kids in Austin. It is updated each month.

Educational Resources

The National Association for the Education of Young Children: NAEYC is the national organization which sets standards for high-quality preschools.

Curriculum and Environments: The University of Maine

Reggio Emila Resources

Project Approach Web site: The Project Approach Web site is a site for teachers that shows how Reggio Emilia-inspired project ideas can be developed for the classroom. The teachers at All Austin Cooperative Nursery school base their classroom curriculum planning on this approach.

Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education: This section of the ERIC/EECE Web site contains information and resources related to the approach to early childhood education developed in the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy.

Selected Resources: about the Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood education prepared by Lella Gandini, July 1998:

For Members

2006/2007 Workday Calendar

Click here to find the date of your Co-op work day.

Silient Auction Forms
Instructions for Co-op members
Silent Auction Letter to businesses

Donation Receipt Form

Email List

Join the AACNS Yahoo! Group to get co-op news and discussion in your in-box. To subscribe, send an email to:

AACNS-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Order Online from BookPeople

Order books online from BookPeople, and a percentage of the sale will go to the school. Visit the co-op's $upport Your Community page on the BookPeople website. Here's the important part: We only get money if you order by clicking on the suggested books or by ordering books you found through the search box on our page.

Target Visa

Earn money for the co-op by charging your purchases at Target (and elsewhere) to the Target Visa card. For every dollar spent at Target, the co-op gets 1%; for every dollar spent somewhere else, the co-op gets 1/2% of the total. Apply now.

Randalls Remarkable Card

If you shop at Randalls with a Remarkable Card, designate the co-op as the recipient of a small portion of your purchase total through Randalls' Good Neighbor Program. Ask at customer service for details.