Early Steps Bilingual Preschool

Early Steps Bilingual Preschool at 3222 O Street NW is a bilingual early childhood education center in Georgetown’s residential neighborhood, providing the English and Spanish dual-language immersion program that the Georgetown family uses to give the Georgetown child the bilingual linguistic foundation that the contemporary professional and the academic world increasingly values. The O Street Georgetown residential address at 3222 NW, in the Georgetown residential neighborhood above the M Street commercial corridor, provides the preschool with the neighborhood educational setting appropriate to the early childhood program.

The dual-language immersion program at Early Steps provides the Georgetown preschool child with the simultaneous acquisition of the English and the Spanish language through the classroom instruction, the daily routine, and the social interaction that the bilingual classroom environment provides. The research on the dual-language immersion programs, which is now substantial, consistently shows that the child who receives the bilingual education during the early childhood period develops the cognitive flexibility, the phonological awareness, and the language processing skills that the bilingual experience produces, in addition to the practical bilingual proficiency that the Georgetown professional family values for the child’s future academic and professional opportunities.

The Georgetown family market for the bilingual preschool reflects the neighborhood’s specific demographic: the Georgetown diplomatic family that wants the Spanish language education alongside the English, the Georgetown professional family with the international connections that make the Spanish language proficiency professionally valuable, and the Georgetown family that simply values the cognitive and the cultural enrichment that the bilingual education provides.

Hours run from 8am Monday through Friday. The bilingual preschool program at 3222 O Street NW Georgetown provides the Georgetown child with the daily English and Spanish language exposure that the dual-language immersion approach uses to develop the simultaneous bilingual proficiency. The Georgetown bilingual preschool classroom, which the trained bilingual teacher leads in the Montessori-influenced or the traditional early childhood education format, provides the Georgetown child with the language-rich environment in both the English and the Spanish that the natural language acquisition process uses to develop the bilingual brain.

The Georgetown family that values the Spanish language education for the Georgetown child has the specific professional context that the Washington international environment provides: the Georgetown diplomat who wants the Spanish-speaking child for the next Latin American posting, the Georgetown international lawyer whose clients are the Spanish-speaking business community, and the Georgetown family that simply values the bilingual cognitive and cultural advantage all use the Early Steps Bilingual Preschool for the Georgetown child’s language development. Hours run from 8am Monday through Friday. Early Steps Bilingual Preschool at 3222 O Street NW Georgetown is open Monday through Friday from 8am for the bilingual English and Spanish early childhood education that the Georgetown family uses for the dual-language immersion program. The Georgetown bilingual preschool serves the Georgetown child with the Spanish language education in the residential neighborhood setting.