Kumon Math and Reading Center of Woodland Hills

The Woodland Hills Kumon Center has been such a wonderful experience. My children have been attending Kumon for five years. Even with all this common core math, my kids benefit from attending Kumon. Kumon has helped both my children academically as well as teaching them responsibility, accountability and so much more.
I highly recommend the Woodland Hills Center. Barbara Lee always puts the children first.
The center is operated in a very structured & professional manner.
Thank you Woodland Hills Kumon for all you have done for my children and all you continue to do.

My two children have been attending Kumon for the past 3 years. One child went from among the lowest 5 to top 5 in his class, in two years. It was a lot of work for him, but my kid works hard to make mommy proud.
I didn’t know I’d have to be so involved in my child’s learning process but I love it. It gives me time to bond with my kids. Home grading is vital to your child’s success in the Kumon program and isn’t as hard as you may think. Ms. Lee, the director, will provide you with Kumon answer books if you want to do home grading. Home grading provides immediate feedback so my kids know where their strengths and weaknesses are.
I have a very busy schedule and I work full time, but the time I spend with my kids reviewing Kumon is priceless and I recommend this place to all. Ms. Lee is excellent and takes each individual student’s learning to heart.

Our good friend back in Cambridge, MA had mentioned Kumon to us as a way to build the strongest of strong math and reading foundations for our child without giving the fundamentals short shrift as we moved ahead in parallel to new math and reading heights. After moving across the country, I had yet to explore Kumon but it was on my short list. One day, while out grocery shopping, my daughter asked me to come and look in the window at something that looked really exciting. It was the Woodland Hills Kumon Center! We learned more!
While seeds had certainly been planted before enrolling (our friend in MA and my daughter’s own interest), it was the Center Director, Ms. Barbara Lee’s articulate clarity, passion for the Kumon method and experience as well as her promise of vigor, rigor and child-​centered learning that convinced us that enrolling was the right move. Since that time, I have been impressed by our daughter’s consistently positive experience and high regard for Kumon, Ms. Lee and her team. Our daughter has also blossomed in terms of her overall maturity as she takes increased responsibility for ensuring that her work is complete and accurate. This positive regard for Kumon has persisted for over a year even as she has received important constructive feedback about her challenge areas.
Perhaps this is all a sign of a strong Center Director leading a strong team. We have not experienced another Kumon Center anywhere but I suspect this may be the case. I am consistently impressed by the balance the Ms. Lee and the Kumon team strike between gentle respect for each child’s pacing and positive encouragement for each student to perform at their very best as they face inevitable challenges or burn-​out. I am impressed by the orderliness of a center catering to so many diverse families and so many children with their own strengths, challenges and resulting needs. I am in awe of Ms. Lee’s ability to keep her finger on the pulse of where each child is with regard to these. In my view, this is truly a testimony to her dedication to each child’s success.
This journey towards success for her involves hard work, lots of «pencil pushing» and putting children first. Ms. Lee is very serious about building confidence in each child and not skipping steps. I love this about her and truly believe she is an outstanding education expert in her important areas of expertise. I appreciate her respectful and direct style because she is so incredibly sincere, invested, experienced and well-​informed. Ms. Lee doesn’t shy away from telling me what she feels our daughter needs to be successful when she is and also when she isn’t getting that. She helps us to tweak whatever isn’t working and celebrate what is to ensure our daughter’s peak experience. Ms. Lee is generous with her time and thoughtfulness fielding our questions and any critical feedback we may have about the Kumon experience. We course correct whatever isn’t working and again, celebrate what is. This is a big breath of fresh air. We are very grateful.

A super-​solid starting point is one of the most important factors in your child’s success. Learning concepts build on each other like bricks in a wall. The whole structure can collapse from gaps or weak spots far below. If it’s rock-​solid from the very first layer, however, there’s little chance of it giving way later on. To ensure this firm foundation, we start your child only at the level in which he or she already demonstrates a thorough command of the material. Starting at this easily manageable point also helps children build confidence in their abilities and in the Kumon program, as well as self-​esteem as they cultivate study habits they’ll need throughout the program, as well as at school — habits like concentration, perseverance, and the discipline of daily practice. For these reasons, working at such an easy level in the early weeks is critical, enabling your child to progress smoothly without becoming discouraged or frustrated. Intrinsic to the Kumon method is the child’s discovery of his or her ability to succeed and experience success often. Kumon students acquire skills and gain confidence by working with material introduced when they’ve already been adequately prepared to cope with it. That’s the key to sure and steady progress.

If there were a way to leave negative stars I would. I had a horrible experience with my children here. The director of the place was rude and argumentative and totally disrespectful to the learning needs of my kids. I strongly suspected they claim your children are achieving lower than they are so that they can put fear in you as a parent and keep you there as long as possible. Example: my daughter successfully completed pre-​algebra with B in school but was rusty on some of the stuff she had done earlier in the school year. One quick reminder was all she needed but they put her in 4^th grade work and claimed she wouldn’t have forgotten anything if she had «mastered» it and needed to spend like 6 months repeating 4^th and 5^th grade math. Additionally I think the Kumon method is very old fashioned in the way they reply on speed to determine «mastery.» A student can be intelligent and have a good command of concepts but work more slowly and that’s fine… they don’t need to keep repeating the same stuff until they can do it quickly. Don’t waste your time and money here!

I have had my daughter with this Kumon for sometime now so I believe that my recommendation is reliable. When you sign up with kumon you are given suggested days to come in which you pick your preference these days are put into your initial contract. If you cannot make it to your day Barbara will make arrangements with you so our times never were an issue.
I guess Kumon in general constantly works on the childs fundamentals of every subject so once your child completes their chapter and has mastered those fundamentals they are allowed to move to more challenging topics. The thing about kumon is that it requires homework so if study habits or homework time is a problem this may not be an easy transition for the parent to adapt their child to. Learning takes discipline and parents are required to encourage commitment in this process so I can understand why a place such as this would recieve bad marks if you think your dropping your child off at a tutors that will do the work for you this is not the right educational intervention.
What I like about this particular Kumon is that Barbara (owner) is serious about learning some may find this intimidating however I find this exciting. Barbara often hires former students (now college students) that have completed her program and throughout the day you will find her walking around checking papers and checking on her tutors. Barbara not only has helped me with my child who is dyslexic but also understands the parent that is focused on college prep. This program is progressive and takes the child who is struggling and brings them to a college bound level if your are willing to invest in your child but remember this take commitment from the parent as well!

I ordered some of their workbooks online to see their methodologies for myself, and I was so impressed I enrolled my children there. To me, it all seems very repetitive but my son in particular for some reason LOVES doing the exercises over and over again.
It IS a little bit of extra work to keep on the kids to have them do the assignments, etc. but it really does seem to be helping their development.
So far, so good!