Learning Brooke

My daughter attended Learning Brooke from age two through kindergarten, and it was an amazing experience for us. We loved every teacher she had — even maintaining relationships with several of them since. The families of other children we met there became close friends who we continue to spend time with today (three years later).
My daughter blossomed both intellectually and socially in the Learning Brooke environment, which catered to a child’s independence, emotional and creative needs. One of the main pieces we loved was how teachers addressed conflict resolution, helping children work towards solutions themselves — something you rarely see in other preschools.
We were very sad when our daughter left Learning Brooke. Our experience there was so wonderful, and it was the impetus for us reevaluating our daughter’s continued education, which is now in a private school we love just as much.

My child used to attend however i oulled her out once they had changed her teacher. I wss in love and comfortable with her original teacher. Then they changed her to teacher which i dont mind, but everytime i came to pick her up, the new teacher is very catty with the other woman. First time i let it slip but it became a regular event. Not a good example for young children so as a parent would not recommend,
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Update: New Classroom! My LO LOVES her new teachers, classmates and classroom. The transition was seamless. She’s learned so much in the Toddler Transition room. Great work, LB Team!

My son went to Learning Brooke from his young toddler years through to Kindergarten. I will often say that sending him to Learning Brooke was the best decision I ever made. It was our family home away from home. I always knew he was cared for and safe. He is now in second grade in a public school and still holds the values in his pocket including confidence, ability to deal with conflict and a sense of wonder and joy in learning. Learning Brooke provided the essential foundations that I see evidence of every day at home and in stories from school. We went to a birthday party this weekend with friends he met at Learning Brooke with whom he maintains very special bonds. I can’t recommend Learning Brooke enough. IT IS A WONDERFUL PLACE OF LEARNING and JOY.

Let me start off by saying that some of the staff and teachers there are super. Melinda in preschool, Erica the Director, Justin in T3, Julie in babies, Jean the nurse, and Brooke the owner were all amazing.
However, those are the only folks I can recall since the others came an left so quickly! The teacher turnover rate was incredibly high. My son at age 1 had all three of his teachers leave in a matter of one month! My daughter’s classroom also had a lot of teacher change. In the two years that my kids were there, I honestly could not count how many teachers came and went. –I’m not exaggerating!!! I don’t know what was going on, but so many teachers quitting speaks volumes.
Plus, for a place that claims to put the emphasis so much on the child, they were super strict on some things. My one year old couldn’t touch his beloved blanket except at naptime. There were so many policies, and you felt like you got a slap on the wrist if you missed any of them.
They were so big and had so many families that you kind of felt like it was a warehouse sometimes, which made it seem impersonal. For example, at my kids’ new daycare, one day I left my two year old son’s blanket behind, and one of the staff came out to the parking lot as I was leaving to hand it to me saying, «Here, I know how much this means to him.» That would *never* have happened at Learning Brooke.
Lastly, they have an emergent curriculum, which caters to the majority of kids in a class. For example, my daughter was one of a handful of girls in a class with 16 boys. So the emergent curriculum was always about pirates or monsters, which my daughter did not like. They need to find a way to adapt their emergent curriculum to not allow it to steamroll any minorities in a class (whether minority by gender or otherwise).
I hope they get better and fix whatever was going on to lose so many teachers so quickly and modify their emergent curriculum to cater to all kids rather than just the dominant group.