The Learning Experience® Opens in Bel Air

The Learning Experience, one of the country’s fastest-growing educational childcare franchises, today announced the opening of its newest Academy of Early Education center at 1221 Baltimore Pike in Bel Air.

The center provides childcare, enrichment programs and early education for children from six weeks to six years of age. Its all-inclusive curriculum and programs include phonics, mathematics, science, foreign language, yoga, and a philanthropy program that teaches children the value of kindness and generosity.

The independent franchise location in Bel Air is owned by husband and wife Nicholas and Kimberly Thompson. The first-time franchise owners will employ over 30 teachers and staff to serve upwards of 180 children in the community.

"Working with children is something that I've always had a desire to do,” said owner Kimberly Thompson. “That combined with my husband's business expertise and the support of The Learning Experience is allowing us to accomplish our goal of providing an exceptional education program to the families of Harford County."

The Learning Experience’s proprietary Learning Experience Academic Program (L.E.A.P.®) curriculum and enrichment programs were developed through more than 30 years of experience in early childhood education. Its early literacy programs have 9 out of 10 children reading before Kindergarten, and the unique philanthropy curriculum was created in partnership with Make-A-Wish®.

The center in Bel Air marks franchise’s fourth location in Maryland. The Learning Experience is ranked no. 84 on Entrepreneur’s 2019 Franchise 500 and has over 220 centers across the country serving more than 27,000 toddlers and preschoolers with childcare, enrichment programs and early education. The franchise also has over 100 locations currently in development in select markets nationwide.

For more information about The Learning Experience center in Bel Air, please visit https://www.thelearningexperience.com/our-centers/md/bel-air/bel-air,-md.

About The Learning Experience®

The Learning Experience (www.TheLearningExperience.com) is one of the nation’s fastest-growing Academies of Early Education for children ages six weeks to six years old. With a greater national emphasis on educational development during the most crucial years of a child's growth, The Learning Experience places a prominent focus on programs that advance scholastic preparation. The Learning Experience prepares children academically and socially via innovative scholastic and enrichment programs such as the L.E.A.P.® curriculum, a cutting-edge proprietary approach to learning which has 9 out of 10 of its children entering Kindergarten already reading. To complement the academic curriculum, The Learning Experience utilizes various enrichment programs crucial to advancing learning and overall balance, such as philanthropy, Yippee 4 Yoga™, Music 4 Me®, Movin’ N Groovin’®, manners and etiquette, and foreign language.