Ocean View Montessori Day Care

Ocean View Montessori Day Care is a daycare in El Cerrito, California. It operates as a year-round, full-day preschool program serving young children and their families. The school was founded in 1994 by Ronna Brodsley in Berkeley, California, and moved to its current El Cerrito location in the summer of 1999. Ronna studied under Dr. and Mrs. Claremont, students and contemporaries of Maria Montessori, and taught for more than 40 years before retiring in 2007. Her son, Aaron Brodsley, took over ownership of the school and head teacher duties that year and remains the director and head teacher. Ronna still visits and spends time with the children. The school holds a rating of 5.00 from the customers who have reviewed it.

Oceanview Montessori keeps its classes small, and its teachers attend to the individual needs of each child, balancing gentle nurturing with firm guidance. Children are taught to interact with respect, to say please and thank you, and to wait their turn. Aaron works with each child's unique development, interests and sensitivities, identifying and communicating boundaries and explaining why certain behaviors are preferred or unacceptable, and when a child needs direction he works to understand what triggered the behavior. Families describe children learning the seven continents within their first week and moving on to their next schools prepared and confident.

The school sits on Clayton Ave, about 0.3 miles from El Cerrito High School and 0.4 miles from Ohlone Greenway, Fairmont Park and the El Cerrito Plaza train station. North Fork Cerrito Creek runs close by, and MTEAM Fencing East Bay is about 0.2 miles away.

Families who have reviewed Oceanview Montessori give it a 5.00 rating, and the school has served El Cerrito families since 1999.