La Playa Cooperative Nursery School was recently named the BEST PRIVATE SCHOOL in Culver City/West Los Angeles! The awards program hosted by Westside Today garnered more than 27,000 votes from around the community. La Playa was listed among some wonderful schools in the Los Angeles area and we’re so grateful to be nominated along with […]

Empathy is a very important topic of development at La Playa. We talk about it during our “parent talkovers.” And we practice it daily with the preschoolers. Empathy is our ability to imagine how another person is feeling in a specific situation and respond to them with care.  This takes a while for young children […]