Top 10 Reasons Parents Choose Crossing Borders International Preschool
- Crossing Borders International Preschool is an elite private school where we encourage students to meet academic challenges while developing multilingual children in a nurturing environment.
- We are one of the first schools in Houston to offer immersion academic programs in Spanish, English, Mandarin, French, and Arabic!
- Our curriculum is designed to immerse children in their target language in an organic way using games, songs, activities, to help them participate, understand, and speak the new language.
- Our language immersion curriculum teaches children reading and writing skills in addition to arithmetic and science. Children develop their fine motor skills through exercises and games in addition to acquiring vital social and communication skills.
- Children expand their curiosity through fun and hands on science experiments in their target language.
- Children are surrounded by many cultures, providing them with a thorough understanding of other people, their traditions, and their countries. This helps facilitate language learning, and, for many kids, it gives them the desire and confidence to explore far-off lands and study or work abroad.
- Crossing Borders International Preschool teachers are native-speakers, some even with master’s degrees from their home country.
- Daily reports sent to you directly to your phone via our app. You can see how happy your child is and what they are learning or doing throughout the week!
- Crossing Borders students pass all assessments when evaluated to enter into private schools like Awty, St. James, St. Marks, St. Matthews, as well as Dual language schools like Wharton and Mark Twain, etc. This is an excellent success rate.
- Your child gains an experiential understanding of other people, their traditions, and their countries. This understanding facilitates language learning, and for many kids, it gives them the desire and confidence to explore other countries and study or work abroad.
“I have been giving an oral Spanish assessment for the past twenty-three years at Mark Twain Elementary School in an effort to determine if the student is a fluent Spanish speaker. For many years we have had applications from students that were attending Crossing Borders seeking entrance into the dual language program. Over the past three years, I have noticed a significant difference in the amount of Spanish that is being retained by children coming from Crossing Borders. Both orally, receptive, and expressive oral language have drastically improved. Further-more, the children are coming in to the dual language program with the ability to read in Spanish, a basic skill that is typically mastered by the end of kindergarten. From the perspective of a dual language coordinator and a kindergarten teacher at Mark Twain, Crossing Borders has proven to be an advantageous program to be a part of.”
Sincerely,
Graciela Martinez
Dual Language Coordinator
Kindergarten Dual Language Teacher
Mark Twain Elementary