Overlook Collaborative Preschool is a child daycare & preschools daycare located at 1707 N Jarrett St, Portland, Oregon OR. Find contact info, location details, and similar daycares nearby.
What Parents Say
Overlook Collaborative Preschool receives consistently high praise from parents for its warm, welcoming environment and thoughtful, child-centered approach to education. Parents highlight the dedicated leadership of owner Erin and her teaching staff, along with the school's excellent daily communication and play-based learning model. Children are reported to show enthusiasm for attending, confidence growth, and strong social-emotional development.
OCP is an incredibly warm and welcoming learning environment. Everything Erin and Diane do—whether it’s the daily journal log or baking a snack or gently teaching my son how to write his name—is done with so much thought and care. My son is both able to access curriculum at his own pace and prompted with a safe and appropriate level of challenge, the perfect balance for him to learn and grow safely.
My older daughter had a wonderful two years at OCP and my younger daughter is having a great experience there now. Erin has a real passion for teaching and a wealth of knowledge about child development. She has thoughtfully designed the school's indoor and outdoor spaces to be inviting and stimulating for small explorers. She and her co-teacher do a terrific job facilitating opportunities for the kids to learn through play, and guiding them to gain greater independence, emotional regulation, and friendship skills. I wholeheartedly recommend OCP!
Our daughter started at Overlook Collaborative Preschool this fall and she wakes up in the morning so excited about going to school. I toured a number of schools before deciding on OCP. The facility is so warm and welcoming. We love the daily journals with pictures and stories emailed to us each day. We are able to ask our daughter about specific things from her day, and carry the things she is learning at school into the home. She has gotten very excited about writing and drawing and in just a few months shows really amazing improvement in both. But most importantly it feels like her learning community is a second home for her, she is always talking about her friends and teachers, even asks me to send photos of things she loves to Erin and Sarah. It is such a wonderful community to be a part of, we can’t wait for her little sister to be able to go to school as well!
We considered bigger, fancier preschools for our daughter, but the owner Erin's love for the kids is so evident in everything she does that we knew this was the right place for our little girl. She started school here just before she turned three, and it has been amazing to see how much she has learned and grown in the two years since then. Erin and her teachers (Danielle at first, and now Diane) are so warm and supportive of all of the kids and families. Every day they send an email to the community with pictures, stories, and conversations from the day, which I always look forward to reading. I highly recommend this school and its wonderful little community. We'll definitely miss it when it's time to move on to kindergarten in the fall.
We are so happy we found OCP. Our son has only been attending for a couple of weeks and I already feel like he is so loved and supported there. I cannot sing Teacher Erin and Diane’s praises enough. The school fosters each child’s individuality and is ready to meet the kids where they are with open arms, great conversation and beautiful exploration.