-APRIL/MAY/JUNE 2026-
Parent Education 𖨆♡𖨆 with Child is Swim with Annie’s fastest growing program, with 45 minute time slots that are intended as a commitment by a parent/caregiver to learning how your child learns, along with learning how to educate your child in swim. These are slow-moving, deliberate series of both land discussion and water activity. The pace is slow, deliberate and thoughtful.
Annie teaches these courses, mindfully, from the deck. Parent in pool with child. There are currently only 4 spaces available per time slot.
How does the Parent Education 𖨆♡𖨆 with Child differ from Swim with Annie’s regular programming?
Our regular programming has parents dry on deck with Swim Educators in water, leading the children, directly, through Swim with Annie methods.
Our Parent Education 𖨆♡𖨆 with Child: Annie teaches these courses, mindfully, from the deck. Parent in pool with child. The Parent is, in fact, the educator, in this instance.
Our regular programming is 30 minutes in length, in order to maintain a high sense of results and maintain each swimmer’s focus in water.
Due to the slower nature of the Parent Education 𖨆♡𖨆 with Child, the Parent Education 𖨆♡𖨆 with Child coursecosts the same as our regular programming but is, in fact, 45 minutes in length.
Newly Added! Wednesday afternoon courses for AGES 4-8 with Parent.
Photos of The Swim with Annie Swim Education Center in Shelburne, Vermont, can be viewed, here, by clicking the following link: swimwithannie.com
Mondays
Location: The Swim with Annie Swim Education Center in Shelburne, Vermont
April 27, May 4, May 11, May 18, June 1, June 8
9-9:45am → Parent Education 𖨆♡𖨆 with Child [AGES 1 & 2]
10-10:45am → Parent Education 𖨆♡𖨆 with Child [AGES 3, 4 & 5]
Tuesdays
Location: The Swim with Annie Swim Education Center in Shelburne, Vermont
April 28, May 5, May 12, May 19, June 2, June 9
9-9:45am → Parent Education 𖨆♡𖨆 with Child [AGES 1 & 2]
10-10:45am → Parent Education 𖨆♡𖨆 with Child [AGES 3, 4 & 5]
Wednesdays
Location: The Swim with Annie Swim Education Center in Shelburne, Vermont
April 29, May 6, May 13, May 20, June 3, June 10
9-9:45am → Parent Education 𖨆♡𖨆 with Child [AGES 1 & 2]
10-10:45am → Parent Education 𖨆♡𖨆 with Child [AGES 3, 4 & 5]
NEWLY ADDED for WEDNESDAY AFTERNOONS! ↓
3:30-4:15pm → Parent Education 𖨆♡𖨆 with Child [AGES 4 & 5]
4:30pm-5:15pm → Parent Education 𖨆♡𖨆 with Child [AGES 5, 6, 7 & 8]
Thursdays
Location: The Swim with Annie Swim Education Center in Shelburne, Vermont
April 30, May 7, May 14, May 21, June 4, June 11
9-9:45am → Parent Education 𖨆♡𖨆 with Child [AGES 1 & 2]
10-10:45am → Parent Education 𖨆♡𖨆 with Child [AGES 3, 4 & 5]
Fridays
Location: The Swim with Annie Swim Education Center in Shelburne, Vermont
May 1, May 8, May 15, May 22, June 5, June 12
9-9:45am → Parent Education 𖨆♡𖨆 with Child [AGES 1 & 2]
10-10:45am → Parent Education 𖨆♡𖨆 with Child [AGES 3, 4 & 5]
3:30-4:15pm → Parent Education 𖨆♡𖨆 with Child [AGES 3, 4 &5 ]
Saturdays
Location: The Swim with Annie Swim Education Center in Shelburne, Vermont
May 2, May 9, May 16, May 23, June 6, June 13
8-8:45am → Parent Education 𖨆♡𖨆 with Child [AGES 3, 4 & 5]
1-1:45pm → Parent Education 𖨆♡𖨆 with Child [ALL AGES]
Sundays
Location: The Swim with Annie Swim Education Center in Shelburne, Vermont
May 3, May 10, May 17, May 24, June 7, June 14
2-2:45pm → Parent Education 𖨆♡𖨆 with Child [ALL AGES]
Makeups possible by attending a different day/time that aligns with your swimmer’s enrollment age/Learning Mark within each six week session.
Makeups are never carried over past any six week session.
All makeups must be navigated by the enrolled family. Swim with Annie is not responsible for ensuring makeups. If the schedule doesn’t accommodate your schedule for a makeup, we revert to the no makeup rule. Please text or phone Annie on the day you plan to attend the. makeup to ensure programming is on as usual.
**All non-potty-trained children must wear a disposable swim diaper plus a reusable diaper over that, for each visit, in order to preserve the integrity of the pool for all.
Tuesdays
6-week session
April 28, May 5, May 12, May 19, June 2, June 9
Location:Swim with Annie Swim Education Center, Shelburne, Vermont
*Schedule subject to change upon demand. Email info@swimwithannie.com if you have preferences for opportunities offered. Thank you.
3:30-4p → AGES 5+ PADDLER 💧💧
3:30-4p → AGES 5+ UNDERWATER EASE 💧💧💧
4-4:30p → AGE 4 PADDLER 💧💧
4:30-5p → AGES 5+ UNDERWATER EASE 💧💧💧
4:30-5p → SWIMMER 💧💧💧💧
5-5:30p → ROOKIE SWIM TEAM 💧💧💧💧/💧
Thursdays.
6-week session
April 30, May 7, May 14, May 21, June 4, June 11
Location:Swim with Annie Swim Education Center, Shelburne, Vermont
*Schedule subject to change upon demand. Email info@swimwithannie.com if you have preferences for opportunities offered. Thank you.
3-3:30p → AGE 4 PADDLER 💧💧
3:30-4p → AGES 5+ PADDLER 💧💧
3:30-4p → AGES 5+ UNDERWATER EASE 💧💧💧
4-4:30p → AGES 5+ UNDERWATER EASE 💧💧💧
4-4:30p → AGES 5+ PADDLER 💧💧
4:30-5p → SWIMMER 💧💧💧💧
5-5:30p → ROOKIE SWIM TEAM 💧💧💧💧/💧
5:30-6p → BUILD A GROUP OF 6 𐀪𐀪𐀪𐀪𐀪𐀪
Saturdays
6-week session
May 2, May 9, May 16, May 23, June 6, June 13
Location:Swim with Annie Swim Education Center, Shelburne, Vermont
*Schedule subject to change upon demand. Email info@swimwithannie.com if you have preferences for opportunities offered. Thank you.
8:30-9a→ AGES 5+ PADDLER 💧💧
9-9:30a → AGES 5+ UNDERWATER EASE 💧💧💧
9-9:30a → SWIMMER 💧💧💧💧
9:30-10a → SWIMMER 💧💧💧💧
10-10:30a → (ready for) STROKES 💧💧💧💧💧
10:30-11a → AGES 5+ PADDLER 💧💧
10:30-11a → AGES 5+ UNDERWATER EASE 💧💧💧
11-11:30a → AGE 4 PADDLER 💧💧
11:30a-12p → AGES 5+ UNDERWATER EASE 💧💧💧
11:30a-12p → SWIMMER 💧💧💧💧
12-12:30 → AGE 4 PADDLER 💧💧
12:30-1pm → BUILD A GROUP OF 4 𐀪𐀪𐀪𐀪
12:30-1pm → AGES 5+ BEGINNER 💧
12:30-1pm → AGES 5+ PADDLER 💧💧
1-1:45pm → PARENT COURSE (see Parent Education cube in “Store”)
Sundays
6-week session
May 3, May 10, May 17, May 24, June 7, June 14
Location:Swim with Annie Swim Education Center, Shelburne, Vermont
*Schedule subject to change upon demand. Email info@swimwithannie.com if you have preferences for opportunities offered. Thank you.
8-8:30a → AGES 5+ UNDERWATER EASE 💧💧💧
8-8:30a → SWIMMER 💧💧💧💧
8:30-9a→ AGE 4 PADDLER 💧💧
8:30-9a→ AGES 5+ PADDLER 💧💧
9-9:30a → AGES 5+ UNDERWATER EASE 💧💧💧
9-9:30a → SWIMMER 💧💧💧💧
9:30-10a → AGES 5+ PADDLER 💧💧
9:30-10a → AGE 4 PADDLER 💧💧
10-10:30a → SWIMMER 💧💧💧💧
10-10:30a → (ready for) STROKES 💧💧💧💧💧
10:30-11a → SWIMMER 💧💧💧💧
10:30-11a → (ready for) STROKES 💧💧💧💧💧
11-11:30a → AGES 5+ PADDLER 💧💧
11:30a-12p → AGE 4 PADDLER 💧💧
11:30a-12p → AGES 5+ UNDERWATER EASE 💧💧💧
11:30a-12p → BUILD A GROUP OF 4 𐀪𐀪𐀪𐀪
12-12:30 → AGES 5+ PADDLER 💧💧
12-12:30 → AGES 5+ UNDERWATER EASE 💧💧💧
12:30-1pm → AGE 4 PADDLER 💧💧
12:30-1pm → SWIMMER 💧💧💧💧
1-1:30p → BUILD A GROUP OF 4 𐀪𐀪𐀪𐀪
1:30-2p → ROOKIE SWIM TEAM 💧💧💧💧/💧
2-2:45pm → PARENT COURSE (see Parent Education cube in “Store”)
The Swim with Annie Swim Education Center
Annie’s own inner curiosity combined with Annie’s self-learned physics, supported by Swim with Annie’s in-water-collaborators, our Swim with Annie Swim Educators—the Swim with Annie Swim Education Center studies relationships between humans, coupled with relationships between humans and water, resulting in a swimmer’s authentic self-recognition of floatation and swim.
Swim with Annie
A unique swim experience.
I teach interactions with water as a creative study in science: a physics-based experience that is ever-evolving—born of years of my personal study of the interaction between the human body & water that creates the harmony known as swimming.
Swim with Annie Swim Educators operate as in-pool creative collaborators, providing a balance of physical and emotional engagement that is necessary for young people to learn.
Please note: Swim with Annie is not a traditional swim lesson program.
Scroll down this page for more “About Swim with Annie”.
https://www.swimwithannie.com/home#swimwithannieabout
I teach swimming from a place of recognition of floatation and propulsion.
The physics of swimming is very important to me.
Given the correct understanding of use of one's body, people can swim more effectively, efficiently & with greater ease.
Below are the marks I’ve created for simplicity of learning & teaching the above.
Swim with Annie Learning Marks
BEGINNER 💧
Absolute beginner. May not have ever stood in water before/stepped into a pool/body of water. May need assistance to control one’s body in the water, at all. Even standing in it. Will need guidance to sit, control their bodies, walk through water, want to get wet, want to participate.
PADDLER 💧💧
Is confidently capable of being solo on a noodle where their feet cannot touch & happy about it, under supervision. Ranges from probably does not yet go underwater or even like their face wet, yet, to maybe not mind/love being underwater.
UNDERWATER EASE 💧💧💧
Happily & confidently hangs out underwater, with intention. Can briefly float/travel in water, while face is comfortably in, where they can stand. Should be comfortable in back float solo or assisted. Usually cannot yet confidently come up for air in water over one’s head.
SWIMMER 💧💧💧💧
Can easily fit description of UNDERWATER EASE PLUS can swim with face comfortably in, in water over one’s head, come comfortably and confidently up for air and resume swim with face comfortably back in. Can do so, confidently, for 10-15+ yards, without assistance, standing up and/or grabbing a wall. Should also be able to swim on back using only legs.
(Ready for) STROKES 💧💧💧💧💧
Can easily fit description of UNDERWATER EASE PLUS SWIMMER PLUS can move forward, with face in, obtain air, get back in, without ingesting water, to get, easily, from one end to the other end of a 25 yard pool. Does not need any experience with strokes. We will be teaching the STROKES.
Can also swim 25 yards on back using only legs, without sinking their face.
EFFICIENCY 💧💧💧💧💧💧
Can easily fit description for UNDERWATER EASE PLUS SWIMMER PLUS STROKES PLUS can swim100 yards comfortably, confidently and repeatedly, without standing up, stopping and/or grabbing a wall or getting assistance. Can comfortably swim freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly.
ROOKIE SWIM TEAM 💧💧💧💧/💧
This is currently offered only at our SHELBURNE location, which is a 10 yard pool. If your swimmer would enjoy being part of a team, this may be for you. Similar, in nature, to the “SWIMMER” and “STROKES” categories, this program is intended to be about learning mixed with camaraderie and feel like a swim team. [No races/competition/meets.]
SWIM TEAM 💧💧💧💧💧/💧
This is currently offered only at our ESSEX SPA location, which is a 25 yard pool. If your swimmer would enjoy being part of a team, this may be for you. Similar, in nature, to the “STROKES” and “EFFICIENCY” categories, this program is intended to be about learning mixed with camaraderie and feel like a swim team. [No races/competition/meets.]
BUILD A GROUP OF 4 𐀪𐀪𐀪𐀪
A pre-formed group of swimmers of similar age & Learning Mark come to learn, together. Group have 4 swimmers. Each swimmer’s individual cost is same as our regular group cost. One person makes the purchase for the entire group.
PARENT EDUCATION 𖨆♡𖨆 with CHILD
Parent Education 𖨆♡𖨆 with Child time slots are intended as a commitment by a parent/caregiver to learning how your child learns, along with learning how to educate your child in swim. These are slow-moving, deliberate series of both land discussion and water activity. The pace is slow, deliberate and thoughtful. Annie teaches these courses, mindfully, from the deck.
https://www.swimwithannie.com/#swimwithannielearningmarks
A swimmer’s personal relationship to the water is integral to their success at swim.
Annie Cooper of Swim with Annie, Inc. sits as a member of the Vermont Water Safety Action Committee, as well as in regular attendance at the New York State Temporary Commission to Prevent Childhood Drowning.
