Primrose School of West Pearland

Amanda Kirk is the Operations Director for our schools. She graduated in 2000 with a Bachelor’s degree from Texas Lutheran University and moved to Austin. She began her Early Childhood journey as a 3-4 year old teacher and worked her way up in that company to School Age Manager. In 2009, Ms. Kirk decided to move back to Houston. She began at the Primrose School of Pearland Parkway as the Private Pre-Kindergarten 1 teacher in October of that year. Since then, she has moved up as Administrative Assistant for that school and then as Area Curriculum Coordinator for the Primrose Schools under the franchise owners.

During her time as an Area Curriculum Coordinator, she helped train teachers on how to implement the Primrose curriculum. Now as Operations Director, she travel the schools helping in all aspects of the building. Ms. Kirk loves the journey that she is still on with Early Childhood and hopes to be with Primrose for many more years to come.

Mrs. Sanderson began working for Primrose in August of 2012. She is a certified Texas teacher and holds a Master's Degree in Education from the University of St. Thomas. She taught in both the Private Pre-Kindergarten and Private Kindergarten classrooms prior to moving into the position of Curriculum Coordinator. Mrs. Sanderson is passionate about the Primrose Balanced Learning approach as it encourages children to explore and learn on their own while providing that nurturing guidance that young children need. Her educational background, experience, and her passion is what makes her an effective role model to our teachers.

Now as the Director of Education, Mrs. Sanderson serves as the education coach for all new and current teachers. She leads by example and works closely with our teachers to ensure the highest of standards in our classrooms. In her free time, Mrs. Sanderson enjoys reading with her two sons and watching movies.

Ms. Vanessa is our school’s Business Administrator. She holds her industrial engineering degree and has joined our Primrose team having ten years of experience at her previous company. Ms. Vanessa is in charge of the day-to-day aspects of Primrose that go on behind the scenes. Her responsibilities include billing and taking care of our financial accounts, maintenance, and the daily operations that ensures our school is running smoothly. With Ms. Vanessa’s experience, commitment, and dedication, our school stands strong and is maintained inside and out to the utmost quality. Not only does she do this for our school, but also five more schools under our franchise owners in the greater Houston area. She holds quite the critical role here at Primrose! We are so lucky to have her.

Mrs. Lopez is one of our school’s leadership team members. The year 2020 marked her 10th anniversary at Primrose with our team! Back in October of 2010, Mrs. Lopez joined our school as a Pre-Kindergarten teacher for at least eight years. In August of 2018, she became a valuable member of our leadership team. Her care, warmth, and grace is the epitome of what we strive for in our school’s culture and we are very lucky to have her in the position that she is in. Mrs. Lopez has worked very hard all of these years with us and we are so proud of all that she has accomplished. Her dedication is unmatched and in everything she does, the children in our care is at the forefront of her mind. Mrs. Lopez takes pride in creating and maintaining a caring and nurturing environment for our children and their families. Her favorite part about working at Primrose has been welcoming our wonderful students every morning! We are very excited for the future with Mrs. Lopez continuing to be an integral part of our Primrose School.

Ms. Madison Longoria is one of our school’s leadership team members. She graduated from Texas State University with a degree in Occupational Education. Ms. Madison has really enjoyed being part of our Primrose team so far as she is looking forward to the future with our Primrose family. She believes that what separates Primrose Schools from other childcare centers is our Balanced Learning curriculum used in every single one of our programs. Her favorite part about our teaching approach is how we emphasize “purposeful play” meaning that there are always moments of learning in the classroom happening for our students throughout the day. Ms. Madison feels motivated about her work and her position with us when she gets to speak to all of our Primrose families at pick-up and drop-off time. She finds so much joy in telling our parents what their child learned, made, or accomplished on any given day!

A fun fact about Ms. Madison is that she has always known that she wanted to be a teacher, and hopes to one day obtain the position of Principal at an elementary school.

Mrs. Stephanie McPike is one of our school’s leadership team members. She joins our team having studied Pediatric Psychology at Sam Houston State University, and has always enjoyed taking care of children. As soon as she turned 18 years old, she began working at her first childcare center. Mrs. McPike has fallen in love with teaching children and it has become a passion of hers. During her college studies, she taught at a local childcare center and eventually moved up to member of the leadership team. Mrs. McPike has two children, Brooklynn and Jackson. Prior to applying to the team because of the amazing program provided, she and her husband knew that Primrose was the only childcare center that they wanted their daughter Brooklynn to attend. Brooklynn attended Private Kindergarten at the time and they noticed that she had learned so much! Mrs. McPike moved up having experience as Assistant Director at her previous Primrose School location and later obtained her Director’s certification in 2019. She has been working for Primrose Schools since 2012 and she truly believes in our Balanced Learning approach. As excited as she is to be part of our Primrose School of West Pearland family, we too are very excited to have her on our team!

A fun act about Mrs. McPike is that her favorite Primrose character is Erwin the Dog as she loves meeting new friends!