Specialties
We are an intentionally small, independent school focusing on each individual child from kindergarten through fifth grade. Our primary purpose is to nurture their love for learning by offering a learning environment which fosters a sense of curiosity and wonder about their world while also mastering their foundational skills preparing them for their future educational journey and life.
History
Established in 2018.
The Curious Child Learning Community began as the result of a small group of parents' desire to offer their children an educational experience that focused on learning by tapping into and developing their innate curiosity about the world around them. Karen Cronin, owner and lead teacher, has over 30 years of experience in education having been a classroom teacher and administrator within both private and public schools. As such, Ms. Cronin's approach and curriculum reflects the best from her experiences within Montessori, Expeditionary Learning, and traditional educational programs and pedagogies. From the inception of the Curious Child, Ms. Cronin's primary goal has been to offer a learning environment which respects each child as a unique individual and learner allowing them to progress in their foundational skills, while also providing them with experiences and opportunities that nurtures and ignites their natural curiosity of this world; thus fostering a love for learning.
Meet the Business Owner: Karen C.
Karen began The Curious Child Learning Community after meeting a small group of parents who shared her view on what education should look like, feel like, and really, what it should be: about the child. After working in the field of education for over 30 years, Karen was ready to bring her wealth of experience to South Florida to create a school which reflected not only the best practices she saw and experienced over the years, but also a place where a love for learning and a child's natural curiosity about the world would be fostered and encouraged. Standards of learning are great tools to help us know what a child may accomplish at a certain time in life. However, they should never be the end all measure of a child's success. Karen believes true knowledge comes from a desire to learn, to grow, and to explore... that confidence grows with each exploration, whether it be a success or failure, because it is the process which is the teacher, not only the end result.