Adams & Haack Studio
Welcome!
Join our fall 2027 class!
Preschool for ages 2 - 4
September 2026 - June 2027
currently full - please email us to be updated on spot availability
Creating an intimate community means a lot to us. With a maximum of 10 children with 3 teachers, we are able to foster deep relationships with each child. Adams & Haack Studio is a nature based program, spending at least half of our day adventuring in Prospect Park. Explore our philosophy page to learn more about our program.
Location: 10th St, between 7th and 8th Ave.
Time: 9 - 2
Email: kaelynn@adamsandhaack.com
Our Team
Kaelynn Haack (she/her)
Lead Teacher & Founder
Kaelynn believes we are all born with an innate curiosity and abundant creativity, and through others' compassion and loving guidance, we can discover ourselves and our world. She is thrilled to be able to walk alongside children as they discover their world, providing the nurturing support needed for them to brightly shine as their own, unique, fully capable selves. She learns so much from children, and is delighted to take her experience and passion for teaching, especially with the early childhood age group, to her own program. Read more here about how Adams & Haack came to be.
She received her Bachelor of Arts in Spanish and Iberian Studies, with a minor in Portuguese, from The University of Texas at Austin. She is fascinated by languages and other cultures, with traveling being one of her greatest joys. She is also a trained Doula in both postpartum and birth. In her free time, she enjoys painting, listening to podcasts, going to farmers markets, spending quality time with friends & family, listening to live music, and reading about childhood development. The amount of joy working with children brings her is boundless. She cannot believe her job is to play, create art, practice mindfulness, and explore nature with these magical beings!
Ruby Harrison (they/them)
Teacher
Ruby is a playworker and youth advocate, artist and musician, baker, bookmaker, and bicycle adventurer born and raised in New York City. Their work with children is rooted in relationship-building as a means of cultivating a more compassionate, collaborative, and creative world.
They join the Adams & Haack Studio team with a deep love for the outdoors, nurtured during their time living amongst rainforests, mountains, redwoods, and ocean in Washington and California. Ruby’s work has ranged from facilitating project-based and exploratory afterschool programs to co-directing an LGBTQ+ teen-led community organization, to romping around the outdoors year-round as a forest school preschool teacher. Some of their favorite adventures with young people have included building a 30-ft tall wooden marionette, making forts out of foraged branches, slinging homemade pizzas during snack time, carving out a mountain bike route on the grassy hill next to school, and (attempting to) furnish a rudimentary metal-smithing forge. Ruby graduated from The Evergreen State College in 2017.
Lauren Graham (she/her)
Teacher
From a young age, Lauren has had a nurturing personality and has always been involved in child care work environments. From swim instructor, daycare, full-time nanny, and more recently in a preschool setting.
She is naturally creative and enjoys helping children with art projects and co-creating other fun activities.
Her life journey has taken her to some fantastic places, including living and traveling in Europe for almost 10 years. During this time, she gave birth to her beautiful daughter who inspires her daily. Parenthood sparked even more interest in childhood development and inspired her to become a postpartum doula as well.
This is Lauren's fourth year with Adams & Haack.
Ila Astin (she/her)
Teacher
Ila grew up in Topanga, California, surrounded by the Santa Monica Mountains and the state park just up the street from her house. As a founding student at a nature-based high school in Topanga, she developed a strong connection with the outdoors. After graduating high school, she earned her BA in Studio Art from Oberlin College.
Ila loves working with children and has experience as a nanny and teacher, both in the classroom and as a teacher at a forest preschool. Since moving to Brooklyn two years ago, she has enjoyed exploring Prospect Park by foot and bike! In her spare time, Ila likes listening to audiobooks, going on walks, spending time with friends, and painting.
