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It All Started With
One Piano Lesson.
20+ Years of Excellence | 5,000+ Children Served | Music • Learning • Fun
THE BEGINNING
One Student.
One Simple Dream.
In 2004, Rotoya Goodwin was nineteen years old and studying at Howard University. A neighbor asked whether she might teach their daughter to play piano. She said yes, cleared a corner of her family's living room, and set up a secondhand keyboard.
More than 20 years later, that single lesson has grown into Pee Wee Piano, one of Prince George's County's premier childcare and music education centers, serving more than 5,000 children.
Today, Pee Wee Piano is built on one simple belief: from inspiring music education to exceptional childcare, this is where music, learning, and fun come together to help children learn, grow, and thrive.
How We Got Here
It All Started With One Piano Lesson
While attending Howard University, founder Rotoya Goodwin began teaching piano lessons to one student with a simple dream — to help children discover the confidence, creativity, and joy that music brings.
More Than Music Lessons
What began as a passion for teaching music grew into a place where children experience so much more than childcare — a safe, encouraging environment where they build confidence, develop new skills, and discover their God-given potential.
Programs Grew With Families
As the needs of families grew, so did our programs. What started with music lessons expanded into before- and after-school childcare, summer camp, and a growing music education program that continues to inspire young learners every day.
More Than 5,000 Children
Today, Pee Wee Piano serves children ages 4–13 through exceptional childcare and engaging music education — one of Prince George's County's premier centers, trusted by families for more than 20 years.
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What I admire most about Pee Wee Piano is the caring staff and the way they nurture every child to discover their God-given gifts and talents. Pee Wee Piano truly invests in the whole child.
Ms. Cia
Pee Wee Piano parent
WHERE WE ARE NOW
Welcome to
Pee Wee Piano
Today, Pee Wee Piano serves children ages 4–13 through exceptional childcare and engaging music education. Whether a child joins us for after-school care, summer camp, or music classes, they'll experience an environment where they are encouraged to explore, create, and succeed.
Through engaging instruction and hands-on learning, children not only develop musical ability but also build confidence, discipline, creativity, focus, and a lifelong love of learning.
We're honored to continue serving the next generation and look forward to helping thousands more children discover all they're capable of becoming. Welcome to Pee Wee Piano—Prince George's County's Premier Childcare & Music Education Center.
Music. Education. Fun.
THEN & NOW
Music Inspires
Music is at the heart of everything we do — building confidence, creativity, discipline and focus, one note at a time.
THEN & NOW
Education Empowers
Homework support, enrichment activities and hands-on learning that build positive study habits and genuine curiosity.
THEN & NOW
Fun Makes It Stick
Field trips, friendships, creative projects and Bible lessons — every day designed so children want to come back.
Join the Hundreds of Families
Who Call Pee Wee Piano Home.
For over two decades we've been a place where children discover confidence, build character, develop lifelong skills, and create lasting memories. Now it's your family's turn.
PEE WEE PIANO
school of the arts