Overlook Collaborative Preschool

Portland, United States

5

3 reviews

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Telephone:
+1 503-477-4455
Website:
www.overlookpreschool.com
Address:
N Interstate Ave & N Killingsworth St, Portland, OR, 97217
North Portland, Overlook
Nearby public transportation stops & stations:
120 ftNorth Killingsworth & Interstate
160 ftNorth Killingsworth Street
0.3 miNorth Killingsworth & Michigan
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Local time (Portland) 04:37 Saturday, 21 June 2025

Business hours

Monday 8:30 am – 12:30 pm
Tuesday 8:30 am – 12:30 pm
Wednesday 8:30 am – 12:30 pm
Thursday 8:30 am – 12:30 pm
Friday 8:30 am – 12:30 pm
Saturday –
Sunday –

Description

Specialties

Overlook Collaborative Preschool is a Reggio Emilia inspired, vegan/​vegetarian and eco-​friendly school located in the Overlook neighborhood of North Portland.

Preschool provides the fundamentals for a desire to learn throughout the rest of life. With the Reggio philosophy we invite the children, teachers and parents to become co-​learners and co-​researchers investigating questions together. Research is supported by time for free play and exploration of the classroom, group meetings and class projects.

Some of our favorite activities include music, telling and reading stories, clay, dramatic play, building, painting, planting and gardening. Through play we learn and explore emergent reading, math concepts and science.

History

Established in 2009.

Providing early childhood education to the community of North Portland.

Meet the Business Owner

Erin S.

Business Owner

Erin’s interest in teaching and helping children grow goes back further than she can remember. She has been teaching since she was a teenager, with the majority of her time focused on preschool. Erin has been teaching in the Reggio style since 2005, and her passion for this approach to teaching motivated her to create her own preschool. Erin feels that the flow of education in the form of «play» speaks to her own style of learning, and has seen this echoed in the educational growth of children in the classroom.

Continuing education has always been a focus for Erin through her entire teaching career, including studying Early Childhood Education at Western Oregon University. She currently takes continuing education courses in Child Development offered by Multnomah County Childcare Resource and Referral, Mount Hood Community College and Portland Community College.

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3 reviews of Overlook Collaborative Preschool

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Place rating: 5
Portland, OR
Overlook Collaborative Preschool is like family to us. We discovered OCP in 2009 when I knew we needed a place for our precocious 2-​year old to interact with peers on a regular basis. She spent a full three years at OCP being nurtured and encouraged by preschool owners Erin and Darin and other teachers, including visiting music teachers about once a week. Through those years our daughter learned critical life skills such as confidence, compassion, and a love of learning. Her curious nature was encouraged through the Reggio-​inspired approach to teaching, and she also exceeded the academic standards for Kindergarten when that time came.
Our younger daughter is now in her third and final year at OCP and thriving as well. OCP is truly a community preschool experience. We feel so fortunate and blessed to have found OCP and to have Erin, Darin, and all fo the OCP families in our lives!
Place rating: 5
Portland, OR
This school is amazing! My son loves going there so much, it is so welcoming and sweet. All the kids are so well behaved and nice to each other, the teachers are so loving and calm and the whole space is design so the kids feel confident to do things by themselves. We feel so lucky to be part of this community!
Place rating: 5
Portland, OR
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!