WorldSpeak School

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1639 Westwood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
Added by Jopie, at 18 June 2020

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• Anonymous

  10 January 2021

  We are so incredibly grateful for the Worldspeak Multilingual Immersion school. All 3 of our children have or are currently attending this school.
  5 years ago, when we heard about this program from a friend, we took a leap of faith and moved our middle child (who was 2 at the time) from her prior childcare to the mandarin immersion at Worldspeak. It was the best decision we have ever made. She went from speaking no Mandarin to singing songs and speaking in sentences within a few months.
  Teachers are caring, conscientious, thoughtful, dependable, reliable and wonderful with the children. Seeing such transformative results, we had our older son join the after school program and other enrichment classes and programs over the summer, winter and spring break. Our middle child thrived and advanced quickly over the years. She was academically, socially and developmentally ready and ultimately was able to accelerate to first grade after TK and join the MI program in a public elementary school. Our middle and oldest are now 7 and 9 and continue to attend their Math Circle classes, led by highly trained instructors. Both really enjoy these classes and have done well to receive national recognition in Math Kangaroo and Noetic Math competitions.
  Once our youngest son was old enough, we didn’t hesitate at all to put him in the preschool program at the Malcolm school. He is now 3, and has grown and learned so much – he loves the teachers and friends! In the midst of this pandemic, WS acted promptly with immediate changes in their health and safety practices to comply with public health and CDC guidelines. They remain very attentive and stringent with heightening precautions for hygiene and disinfection, and have reduced the capacity of children to allow adequate physical distancing. Our youngest has been able to return to the Malcolm location and we are so thankful for this opportunity. We see his eyes light up everyday when he goes to school.
  The WS team of educators are truly dedicated, caring, and willing to work with each family to help each child reach their greatest potential.
  We are blessed to have this school and entrust all of our children here. Thank you!!

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• Anonymous

  09 January 2021

  My 2 years old daughter started her day care few months ago and I cannot be happier with it. Every morning she gets extremely excited to go over there, every day they do projects and she walks out so happy and proud to show me what she has done. Also her teacher sends me photos every day of activities they have been doing and classes and meal times. As a parent I do feel that this place is safe and great for my daughters education since she has been showing big improvements from the very beginning. Love it and thankful to them.

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• Anonymous

  08 January 2021

  Our child started at age 18 months and has been at this school 4 days a week for 2 years. She is fully bilingual in Chinese and English often translating for adults who only speak one language, at age 3.5. The director is hands on and curates the programs in both locations for the preschool program. The ratio is good and my child reports back every day about her friends, and I've always been impressed with the level of personal responsibility the teachers and administrators take. Especially not knowing my child shares with us how the teachers react when she has an issue, I'm clear there is full accountability, and integrity even when no one is looking. I spend a year at Branches and other Reggio inspired programs and World Speak, from top down, follows the same atmosphere of treating the children is full adults with full talent and ideas, no lesser than an adult.
  
  My child started in diapers and we had full partnership with the staff and transitioned to potty training with no accidents at school. We have access to the teachers through daily parent conference zooms and text access to the director and teachers at any time.
  
  The Director Angelika is highly educated in education and empowering children and getting creative about it is her self expression and tireless passion. Her school was one of the first and only to be talked about when the pandemic hit, opening in May only 2 months after the Covid-19 pandemic hit the US hard. There have been 0 cases in the teachers and students. A true testament to the quick, nimble and pro-actively creative implementation of new covid-safe protocols including - spaced out stations for kids, masks required, no parents allowed past the door and the check in staff not having additional interaction with the students after that job.
  
  I have a degree in research biology and have been opinionated about what processes and viabilities we need as a community to be Covid-safe and I'm grateful that all my questions and requests have been accepted with gratitude and an open mind.
  
  From an educational perspective, we get a daily report card and I'm glad our kids are learning numbers, math, calendars, timing, letters, reading words, holidays and inclusivity, creativity and community. My daughter now even negotiates extra time or extra whatever because she has a working knowledge of numbers. World Speak is an environment where full self expression and exploration of the new world is prioritized. The meals are healthy, my child is eating more meat at school than at home. She's reading Chinese at school. She's figuring things out, asking questions, and creatively problem solving all while approaching social interactions with kindness, communication and generosity. I'm glad to be getting the Reggio inspired teaching philosophy by a highly educated and inspired director who on a human level, is a good human and surrounds herself with a solid team of people who deeply care about education, kindness, creating humans who will be well adjusted for anything our society brings, with integrity and responsibility.

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• Anonymous

  08 January 2021

  My 3 year old has been here since last year and we’ve been really happy. It’s been a really warm and caring environment. We love the small language groups for individualized learning and crafts, and all the groups together for playtime. Angelika, Jennifer and the teachers have been nothing short of wonderful with easy contact via texts, and updates with photos everyday. BC of COVID everyone including the kids wear masks- and surprisingly my 3 year old adjusted without a problem. They do an excellent job sanitizing and following safety protocols for Covid. My daughter loves it here and so do we.

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• Anonymous

  25 June 2020

  I have had my son here for 2 years and in the summer program for almost 3 consecutive years. Now that there are COVID rules, they have really pivoted and provided a safe environment for my son. It was important to me as having a only child that he gets a chance to interact with other kids often. We therefore sent him back to school as soon as we could. Great idea! Dad gets to work, but my son is learning at a high level, interacting with peers and is in a much better space mentally and physically. THe Language program is why we looked at this school. It is top notch. however, the size allows 1-1 instruction and my son is flying through the work, allowing him to get ahead of his peers. The pace is set by the student. I am very pleased with my experience at WorldSpeak

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