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The Renaissance International School
Our preschool (known as “Primary”) is for children age 3-to-6-years old. Our Montessori program’s core curriculum includes practical life, sensorial, language, literature, art, music, mathematics and French/English or Spanish/English language immersion. We provide students with a high-quality education designed to create compassionate, capable, confident, creative individuals who are prepared for life.
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY Central to the school’s philosophy is to provide children with an international center of learning and culture that is open, supportive, and multidisciplinary where they develop and achieve their highest potential. Faculty and students represent an international community with more than 30 countries and nearly every ethnic group and major world religion represented. We welcome all families and work closely with parents to foster our view of school as an extension of home.
EACH STUDENT IS UNIQUE The basis of our approach is that children learn most effectively though direct experience and the process of investigation and discovery. No two students learn at the same pace, nor do they necessarily learn best from the same methods. We are flexible and creative in addressing each student as a unique individual. Students develop a strong sense of independence, self-confidence, and self-discipline. Our education is of the heart as much as an education of the mind. LANGUAGE IMMERSION The curriculum is delivered in the languages present in each classroom (French/English or Spanish/ English). At least one of the two classroom teachers speaks to the children in the second language at all times.
FOLLOWING COVID-19 PROTOCOLS We take proactive measures to protect our school community by following COVID-19 protocols and guidelines, including maintaining the highest cleanliness standards. We have built small cohorts of students who have ample space indoors and outdoors. We offer in-person classes and an online curriculum with live lessons.
INFORMATION SESSIONS Enrolling now for Spring and Fall 2021. Check our website for virtual information sessions or call or email us.
Lic# 010214382
Oakland Campus: 3650 Dimond Avenue / Piedmont Campus: 5201 Park Boulevard 510-531-8566 | www.therenaissanceschool.org
The East Bay German International School (EBGIS) is a dual-language immersion school offering preschool through ninth-grade programs. Its integrated curriculum features project-based learning and an international perspective. Small class sizes allow EBGIS teachers to nurture and support each student based on their unique needs. The EBGIS Early Childhood Program employs a play-based and project-oriented approach widely used in Germany. The highly trained and experienced international faculty uses early immersion principles to expand children’s communicative competencies in German and English. In-class projects are developed by an interdisciplinary team based on seasonal rhythms and students’ interests. A pre-academic curriculum including language, intercultural studies, science, mathematics, music, movement and art is taught in an engaging and developmentally appropriate way. Social and emotional skills development infuses every school day. EBGIS prioritizes in-person instruction with rigorous health and safety measures. Touchless check-in/check-out, regular handwashing at newly installed touchless sinks, and frequent access to an array of outdoor play spaces are just some of the adaptations maximizing the safety of students, staff and families. No prior knowledge of German is needed for admission to EBGIS Preschool or Kindergarten. Students acquire German by immersion through daily routines, activities and interactions. Teachers nurture language development through intentional conversations, visual materials,
gestures and modeling. EBGIS preschoolers and kindergarteners – more than half of whom do not speak German at home – transition successfully to the EBGIS grades program. EBGIS accepts preschool students beginning at 24 months of age. The regular school day runs from 8:30am to 2pm with drop-off beginning at 8am. Extended day options are available until 6pm. The spacious and centrally located campus features large modern classrooms with ample natural light, a bilingual library, and generous indoor and outdoor play spaces. The preschool program includes a dedicated mini-campus adjacent to the main school campus. Private tours are available now. Contact admissions@ebgis.org.
Choice in Learning Montessori
Pleasant Hill's first intergenerational preschool using the Montessori philosophy to educate the whole child from ages two through six. We further encourage our children to respect the dignity of all people by sharing in activities with our elderly friends next door at Choice in Aging.
Our Site Director has worked with children for 26 years. She started out as a substitute teacher, earned her AMS credential, and was head teacher for the 3-6 year old program working at the same school for 23 years before coming to Choice in Learning. Through the years she has had the opportunity to mentor numerous teachers. She has 14 years of experience working as a site director.
Choice in Learning is fortunate to have a well rounded staff that has been in the field of Early Childhood Education for many years. Our head teachers have an average of 20 years classroom experience. The assistants in each environment have worked in the field an average of 15 years each. This staff enjoyed working with each other so much that we moved to Choice in Learning as a team.
We have built this school from the ground up, remaining true to the Montessori philosophy while adding our own touches to turn the site into a place where children and families feel welcome and supported. Our purpose is to educate the
young child in the spirit of Montessori while at the same time challenging the child to become part of a global environment governed by mindfulness toward young and aging alike.
WHERE WE ARE NOW:
We are currently open and accepting applications for school year enrollment.
Hours of operation: 7 AM - 6 PM
For Inquiries or Questions: (925) 687-5321 info@cilmontessori.org
We are proud to be a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization (Tax ID #94-2822559)
Lic# 073408243
490 Golf Club Road | Pleasant Hill, CA 94523 925-687-5321 | www.cilmontessori.org
1629 Carlson Blvd Richmond Annex, CA 94804 510.526.7847 www.nomurapreschool.com
975 North San Carlos Drive Walnut Creek, CA 94598 925-933-0666 www.sevenhillsschool.org
Parents Pr es s ’ BEST OF 2020 WINNER
Welcome to Nomura Preschool.
Nomura Preschool is a nurturing environment for children ages two to five years old, serving Albany, El Cerrito, Berkeley, Richmond, Hercules and other East Bay families since 1964. Our dedicated, experienced preschool teachers provide a balanced program that includes age-appropriate academics, enriching art and music, creative free play and stimulating physical activities. We are open year round and conveniently located near I-80, I-580 and BART Please contact us to learn more about the application process.
The Seven Hills School
Serving preschool through 8th grade in the East Bay since 1962
Our Reggio-inspired Early Childhood Education program serves the youngest learners at the school and begins the foundation for what it means to be a lifelong learner. In the ECE program, we attend to the intellectual, physical, social, and emotional needs of each child. Our focus is on the development of the whole child through an environment that encourages inquiry, within a malleable process of learning. We instill positive values from the earliest age–integrity, cooperation, respect, and responsibility–and give students the skills to thrive in an evolving world. Sign up for a tour on our website and see our community in action!
IN 1960, WHILE TEACHING In a public school, Challenger School founder and CEO Barbara Baker became alarmed that her first grade students had received no academics in kindergarten, wasting the best years for establishing a foundation for learning. Barbara decided to leave the comfort of the public schools and started her own preschool where she could teach phonics to children before they went to public school. “I figured that if they learned phonics in preschool, no one could take that away from them.”
In Barbara’s first class, there were only six paying students. Two years later the tiny preschool had grown to 100 half-day preschool students with 100 students waiting for admission. Today, Challenger School educates more than 10,000 students annually.
THINKING SKILLS Challenger School teaches students early on that they are responsible for their own learning and for their successes. Challenger’s emphasis on independent reasoning skills–so rarely practiced in today’s world–results in their students’ extraordinary academic performance.
POISE AND CONFIDENCE Challenger students regularly speak and perform before their peers, teachers, and parents from preschool on. Challenger graduates often point to these experiences as the basis for success in college and the workplace.
BREATHTAKING RESULTS Challenger students achieve scores on average well above the 90th percentile on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS). This means that Challenger’s average student outperforms nine out of ten students who take that test. Challenger School offers preschool through eighth grade and operates a total of 26 campuses in five western states. For a location near you, visit ChallengerSchool.com.
Our mission is to prepare children to become selfreliant, productive individuals; to teach them to think, speak, and write with clarity, precision, and independence; to lead them to recognize and value their individuality and unalienable rights; and to inspire them to embrace challenge and find joy and self-worth through achievement.
Ten Bay Area Locations www.challengerschool.com/
951 Dowling Blvd San Leandro, CA 94577 www.broadmoorpreschool.org
Broadmoor is a play-based, parent operated cooperative preschool in San Leandro. Since 1939 we have fostered the development of parents and children within our families, our school, and our community. We offer classes for children ages 3-5. Students engage in age-appropriate exploration of science, math, art, music, cooking, games and outdoor play. Parents also participate in the co-op and attend parent education meetings on a variety of topics. We are still enrolling for 2020/21! Visit our website for details and to download an application.
Les Petits Francophones
Les Petits Francophones provides a French immersion preschool experience in a safe, joyful environment that recognizes each child's uniqueness and fosters growth, exploration, movement and connection to each other and the world.
Our curriculum offers a balance of child initiated activities as well as teacher lead activities to allow each child to prosper academically and developmentally using his or her preferred styles.
"We absolutely love les Petits Francophones!! Not only is it an amazing environment, curriculum, small student to teacher ration, perfect blend of learning through creative play, and supportive community of parents.". - Mikaela T.
Multiple Locations Throughout the Bay Area www.stratfordschools.com
2226 Encinal Avenue Alameda, CA 94501 510.521.0595 x1 www.thechildunique.org Discover Stratford School When you spark imagination the extraordinary happens.
At Stratford School, high expectations yield extraordinary results. Our advanced yet intentionally balanced curriculum starts early to inspire and nurture the minds and hearts of every student. Our caring and passionate teachers cultivate a fun and nurturing classroom environment. Beginning in Preschool, Stratford’s curriculum is designed to develop the cognitive, social, emotional, and physical building blocks. Hands-on, multisensory activities, including our Imaginative STEAM – Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math – Play, encourage preschoolers to play and share with others so each child discovers the joy and excitement of learning. Stratford School prepares students to become the future generation of creative problemsolvers, imaginative innovators, and confident, insightful leaders. For more information visit www.stratfordschools.com today!
The Child Unique Montessori School
OUR MISSION is to create a warm, supportive environment, that fosters creativity, curiosity, self-confidence and independence within a diverse community. We empower students to become compassionate models of peace and advocates for social justice. We are seeking parents with a commitment to create the safest school community possible. Our school has created a nationally sought after Covid-19 precaution protocol to create the safest way to interact with our children and families. Take a virtual tour and see what we have done.
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1273 N. Livermore Avenue Livermore, California 94551 925-455-8021 www.valleymontessorischool.com E cole Bilingue de Berkeley is a preschool to 8th grade international school located in Berkeley, California. The school's immersion model means students are exposed to a foreign language, French, for the majority of the day. Students learn different subject matters in both French and English and are able to draw parallels and points of similarities learning in two languages. Students benefit from an incredibly diverse community and evolve into respectful and caring individuals.
At Ecole Bilingue de Berkeley, we believe that when students see the world without borders or barriers, they can confidently and capably seize any opportunity.
To schedule a tour, register online at www.eb.org/ visit For more information, please contact Manon Johnson, Director of Admissions, at admissions@eb.org or (510) 809-0615
Valley Montessori School
Valley Montessori School is the largest notfor-profit, and only triple accredited school in California. Established in Livermore in 1976, it is a nationally recognized, model Montessori school for children 18 months through 8th grade. Accreditation’s include: the American Montessori Society (AMS) with non-traditional age groupings in the upper elementary and middle school levels, the California Association of Independent Schools (CAIS) and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC). VMS is a certified California Green Business making it the only school in the Tri-Valley and just one of four Montessori schools in the state of California with this distinguished honor.
5633 Manila Avenue Oakland, California 94618 510-652-7021 www.rockridgemontessori.org Oak Grove Learning is an exciting new school providing a whole-child, Montessori curriculum for children 18 months through Kindergarten. Children are provided breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack to support building a strong academic foundation.
Oak Grove is set in a warm and nurturing environment that supports and encourages children to delve deep into their activities and projects throughout the day. Spanish instruction is incorporated into the weekly curriculum for each child. Oak Grove hopes to instill a spark inside of each child that will inspire a love of learning that they carry with them through life.
Rockridge Montessori School
Rockridge Montessori School is celebrating 34 years of education, community and achievement! The curriculum and teacher experience ensures each child enjoys the wonders of the specialized activities and projects at school. Set in a warm and nurturing environment that supports each child's stage of development. Our program focuses on the whole child ensuring a life long love of learning. We offer an infant/toddler program for children 12-24 months of age as well as a preschool and kindergarten program.Visit our website for a virtual tour today!
Grand Lake Montessori (GLM) is an awardwinning East Bay Independent school serving children from 18 months to 6th grade. Established in 1978, we offer a diverse, inclusive and vibrant learning community within almost 2 acres of green space and children’s play yards in the very heart of Oakland’s Grand Lake neighborhood. Montessori is a brain-based method of education and It is our strong belief at GLM to educate the whole child. This includes the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of being human in relationship to our world. At GLM we foster self-directed and experiential learning throughout our daily activities. Children are able to explore and develop their own social and emotional skills as they are intentionally guided through developmentally appropriate activities by our trained Montessori teachers. We see the results as the children respond to their natural curiosities, pursue their special interests and make their own choices as they discover learn and explore new skills and knowledge as well as collaboration with peers–all within the context of a very well prepared learning environment. Classrooms at GLM are strong working communities of children partnering with adults. Children are grouped into multi-age classrooms that provide a family-like setting where learning can take place naturally and cooperatively. These environments stimulate and encourage the development of positive self-esteem, independence, self-motivation and respect for oneself and others.
Grand Lake Montessori believes that childhood is a journey, not a race. The ultimate goal of our Montessori program is to support the natural development of children. By teaching thoughtfully and actively cultivating relationships between children, families and teachers we promote a community of lifelong learners. As GLM children engage their minds and use their hands they become creative, independent, collaborative, critical thinkers with a life-time love of learning.
925 Village Center, Suite 2 Lafayette, CA 94549 925-962-9177 www.vivaelespanol.org
Viva el Español Language Academy
Viva el Español is a national leader in early childhood Spanish language education. We believe that learning a foreign language in the pre-school and elementary school years is an essential part of a child's education and development. The Viva el Español Spanish immersion program is based on activities that encourage learning through active participation, including music, movement, role-playing, games, stories, arts and crafts, cooking and cultural activities. Students grouped by level of proficiency rather than strictly by grade level.
Happy Days Learning Center
Happy Days Learning Center is a year-round preschool and school-aged children's program. Our nurturing environment provides developmentally appropriate play and learning activities for children ages 2 to 11. At Happy Days Learning Center we have been providing a quality educational experience to the community for more than 30 years. Our goal is to provide a warm receptive learning environment, to stimulate curiosity within the younger learner, to encourage and foster each child’s uniqueness and to facilitate an acquisition of a healthy self-concept. We believe that play is a child's work.
Preschool through 8th Grade 2515 Hillegass Ave, Berkeley, CA 94704 510-859-7679 www.berkeleyrose.org
Berkeley Rose Waldorf School
Established in 2009, Berkeley Rose Waldorf School joyfully provides Waldorf Education® in the urban heart of Berkeley, bringing the ideals of a slow childhood, media-free classrooms, independent curiosity, and appreciation and respect for others to a culturally diverse body of students. Grown from a 12-student kindergarten, we have matured into a thriving school with parent-child classes, preschool, two-year kindergarten, and Grades One through Eight. We offer Mandarin, Spanish, mathematics, science, language arts, movement, music theory, voice, recorder and violin, handwork, and gardening, with fine art integrated into every subject. Financial aid is available. Learn more about our school www.berkeleyrose.org.
1335 High Street Alameda, CA 94501 510-521-0787 www.school.spnalameda.org facebook.com/saintphilipnerischool Saint Philip Neri Catholic School
Discover why families have been returning for generations: • Top-ranked, rigorous academics • Strong community • Faith-based character education • Low student-to-teacher ratio • Enrichment classes: Spanish, garden science, music, art, PE • Service learning • 21st century electives: broadcasting, web design, art, drama, music, programming, public speaking,
LEGO® robotics • Project-based learning Connected Community, Diversified learning Virtual School Tours Available INFORMATION NIGHTS • Dec 3, Jan 13 and Jan 27 RSVP: spnadmissions@csdo.org
