“Our program is based on Creative Curriculum (www.teachingstrategies.com). Students' needs are met through a comprehensive curriculum promoting social/emotional, physical, cognitive, and language development.” joelcarlo.org, July 2026
Colorado’s Department of Early Childhood lists each program’s complaints on its Colorado Shines page, with the department’s verdict on each and a report behind it, going back about three years. Older complaints are released only on request. The department does not rank complaints by severity in either place.
Supervisory visit · January 7, 2026
2.224.B.2 · Correction due January 7, 2026
One infant over the age of 6 months laying flat on the floor, holding their own bottle and eating.
Required correction: Older infants must not be allowed to hold their own bottles when lying flat. Correct by 01/07/2026
Supervisory visit · February 27, 2025
2.230.B · Correction due February 27, 2025
One large hole at the bottom of the purple double slide and one small hole near the stairs in the pour n play surfacing on the preschool playground accessible to children and posing a potential hazard.
Required correction: Immediately make all hazardous areas inaccessible to children. Submit documentation with written response to specialist. Correct by 02/27/2025
The Department of Early Childhood keeps about three years of complaints on a program’s public page. Anything older is released only on request, as a single file covering the whole state. Shortlist asked for that file under the Colorado Open Records Act and renews it yearly; it is what this page shows for complaints older than the department’s own window.
The file this page is built from arrived on September 13, 2026 and covers complaints the department publishes today, and complaints back to January 2023 obtained by records request. The next request goes in September 2027.
The department publishes a report for each of these visits. Shortlist has not read those reports yet, so this page shows when the state came and not what it found.
The department will also review one program’s complete file on request, which is more than either source above contains. Leave your email and Shortlist will ask for Childrens Garden Learning Academy’s file specifically, instead of waiting for the next one.
Ask which of these findings were serious, and what changed.Colorado Department of Early Childhood publishes a correction deadline, never whether the work was done or how serious it was.
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Not yet reported: established.
Not yet reported: children per teacher.
Not yet reported: schedule.
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