Where natural curiosity turns into a lifelong love of learning.
Harwell Beaverton provides research-backed, play-based early education tailored to your child’s unique developmental tempo. With small classrooms, patient teachers, and joyful learning spaces, we help every child feel confident, capable, and excited to explore.
Beaverton Early Academy
14480 SW Jenkins Rd • Adjacent to Analog Devices
Play-Based Learning Science
Children discover math, science, and literacy through hands-on guided inquiry, aligning directly with Oregon kindergarten standards.
Tailored to Each Child
Teachers observe how your child learns best, adjusting daily activities to nurture their specific passions and social confidence.
Spacious Year-Round Play
A dedicated 1,000 sq ft indoor movement arena opening to secure outdoor turf gives children room to run, rain or shine.
Play is the child’s brain at its most powerful.
Decades of developmental research—from the Harvard Center on the Developing Child to the National Association for the Education of Young Children—confirm that young brains build the deepest cognitive pathways when actively engaged in guided play.
Intentional, Guided Play
Play-based education is not an unstructured free-for-all. Our educators intentionally scaffold learning environments where building blocks teach balance, water tables introduce fluid physics, and dramatic play expands complex vocabulary.
Aligned with Kindergarten
Modern Oregon kindergarten standards are built around cooperative, play-based inquiry rather than silent desk work. By learning through play at Harwell, children transition into kindergarten with high emotional confidence, active listening skills, and genuine enthusiasm.
Tailored to Your Child's Needs
Every child possesses a unique developmental rhythm. Because our teacher-to-child ratios are low, our educators observe and customize daily experiences—giving patient extra time where a child needs support, and offering new challenges where curiosity takes off.
How We Bring the Curriculum to Life
Four engaging pathways where teachers guide children through hands-on exploration each day.
Hands-On STEM
Counting games, balance scales, sorting trays, water experiments, and tactile puzzles that foster early mathematical reasoning.
Phonics & Story Circles
Expressive storytelling, rhyme games, letter sounds, and daily story discussions that foster rich vocabulary and a love for reading.
Sensory & Creative Arts
Easel painting, clay, kinetic sensory bins, music rhythms, and dramatic play that empower self-expression and motor coordination.
Social & Emotional Skills
Gentle conflict coaching, learning to share, expressing emotions with words, and working together on cooperative group projects.
Space to run, jump, and play in every season.
Pacific Northwest weather shouldn’t keep children sitting all day. Our Beaverton campus features a 1,000 sq ft all-weather indoor movement arena—reimagined from a historic fire station engine bay with high ceilings and cushioned flooring.
The large rear bay doors open directly to our secure, fenced outdoor play park, giving children continuous room for gross-motor balance, tricycle play, and fresh air on sunny and rainy days alike.
A Note from Director Veronica
“My goal for Harwell Beaverton is to be the place where every child runs through the door with excitement, and leaves at the end of the day feeling capable and proud.”
Early childhood is not something to be rushed. It is when children learn who they are, how to make friends, and how to navigate new challenges. That is why our teachers take the time to learn your child’s unique personality, what makes them laugh, and where they need extra gentle support.
Whether comforting an infant during morning drop-off, guiding a toddler through gross-motor games in our movement arena, or facilitating collaborative preschool projects, our teaching team treats every child with deep patience and warmth.
My door is always open to our families. I personally conduct each campus walkthrough so we can talk about your child’s routine, answer all of your questions, and show you our vibrant classrooms firsthand.
Nurturing classrooms for every developmental stage.
Serving children from 3 months through 5 years with dedicated teacher-to-child ratios.
Infant Program
One-on-one caregiver bonding, soothing nursery routines, sensory discovery, and responsive alignment with your baby’s home rhythms.
Older Infant Program
Crawling navigation, pulling up, tactile coordination, responsive sign language, and attentive verbal interaction.
Wobbler Program
First steps, balance stability, rhythm exploration, and friendly initial peer socialization in small cohorts.
Toddler Program
Vocabulary expansion, cooperative puzzle solving, dramatic play, sensory art, and supportive potty-training partnership.
Preschool Program
A comprehensive, play-based preschool curriculum combining phonemic awareness, hands-on STEM experiments, foundational mathematics, and social-emotional independence to prepare children joyfully for kindergarten.
Reserve a Campus Walkthrough
Submit your child's age and target start date to confirm classroom availability with Director Veronica and pick a private tour time.
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