If you work at CNRA headquarters, you qualify for the deepest tuition discount we offer.

The deepest discount we offer, written into our State agreement.

Growing Mindfully publishes three tuition tiers. The VIP Rate is the lowest of the three and is exclusive to families employed at one of the five neighbor buildings. The CNRA headquarters at 715 P Street is one of the priority addresses named in our agreement. The rate applies to every age band and every schedule we offer, regardless of which department you sit under.

Built for the rhythm of natural-resources work.

If you work at the CNRA headquarters, your day might involve a 7:30 stand-up, a stakeholder call at 11, lunch reading a draft EIR, and a 3:00 site briefing that runs late. We've built a school that fits inside that day, not around it.

Pick-up runs through 6:00 PM. When a hearing or stakeholder meeting runs to 5:30, you're not stressing about a 5:45 daycare cutoff. You're walking calmly two blocks up to N Street.

Field days are accommodated. Many of our natural-resources families have unpredictable site visits. Brightwheel keeps you connected to your child's day in real time, and our teachers know how to handle a parent who texts mid-afternoon to say a meeting ran long.

Mindfulness, woven through the day. Mindfulness practice begins at six weeks. For families whose work involves long-horizon thinking and difficult tradeoffs, the early scaffolding to notice, breathe, name, and pause matters at home, too.

A school that fits inside a stakeholder day,
not around it.

Three steps. Done at enrollment, not on the application.

VIP eligibility is simple to verify. We don't ask you to prove anything when you apply to the waitlist, just mention CNRA or your department in your application. Verification happens at enrollment, when you're signing tuition paperwork.

If your hire date is after the waitlist application but before enrollment, that's fine, we verify on the day you sign tuition paperwork, not the day you apply.

What drop-off looks like for a CNRA parent.

You park in the 715 P garage or a nearby state lot at 6:50. You walk two blocks north on 7th to N Street. Drop-off opens at 7:00 sharp. The handoff is unhurried by design, RIE-paced, no rushed goodbye, and you walk two blocks back south to your building. By 7:15 you're at your desk, draft EIR open, with the day fully ahead of you.

If a 4:30 site briefing runs to 5:45, pick-up is still inside our 6:00 window. We've held an infant past the cutoff more times than we can count, without anyone losing their cool.