ILA, the International Leadership Academy, will open its doors on September 6th, at 1040 C Avenue in Lake Oswego, to students from pre-school through fifth grade.
ILA will be offering a world-class international education to the area’s children, harmonizing the best of the French educational system with the best of the American educational system. It is a French immersion school, with the basic curriculum being taught in French. A formal English program is included, and Arabic, Spanish, and Chinese will be offered in the near future as third language choices.
Young children can learn a second or even a third language with surprising ease. Studies continue to show that students who learn multiple languages perform better in school in every way. Early second language learners excel not only in language-related skills and self-confidence, but also in math, memory, spatial abilities, abstract and creative thinking, complex problem-solving, and, in fact, all major areas of cognitive and intellectual development. Young second language learners also get an important head start in international studies and in career opportunities in today’s fast-changing world.
ILA will further prepare students for the future with cutting-edge programs in technology, logic and philosophy for children, and with Body-in-Motion: a fitness, wellness, and nutrition program designed to help children stay healthy and energetic for life.
ILA will be offering a world-class international education to the area’s children, harmonizing the best of the French educational system with the best of the American educational system. It is a French immersion school, with the basic curriculum being taught in French. A formal English program is included, and Arabic, Spanish, and Chinese will be offered in the near future as third language choices.
Young children can learn a second or even a third language with surprising ease. Studies continue to show that students who learn multiple languages perform better in school in every way. Early second language learners excel not only in language-related skills and self-confidence, but also in math, memory, spatial abilities, abstract and creative thinking, complex problem-solving, and, in fact, all major areas of cognitive and intellectual development. Young second language learners also get an important head start in international studies and in career opportunities in today’s fast-changing world.
ILA will further prepare students for the future with cutting-edge programs in technology, logic and philosophy for children, and with Body-in-Motion: a fitness, wellness, and nutrition program designed to help children stay healthy and energetic for life.
ILA’s experienced and multicultural staff will be headed by School Director, Massene Mboup, and Director of Pedagogy, Patricia Raclot.
Mboup, who comes from Senegal, has a teaching degree from the Ecole Normale Superieure of Dakar, a B.A in Linguistics and in American Literature and Civilization from the University of Dakar. a solid administrative background, and 25 years of successful teaching in Senegal and in the U.S. (Mboup’s students consistently score higher that their counterparts in Paris, and, since the beginning of the French Ministry’s testing of American students of French, Mboup’s students have achieved some of the highest scores in the nation). He has also been coaching youth soccer for the past 11 years.
Raclot, a native of France’s Lorraine area, has degrees from France in Education, in English, and in French as a Foreign Language. She has been successfully teaching for the last 22 years, in France and in the U.S., at both the Elementary and the Middle School levels.
The first day of school for ILA is less than two weeks away, and the staff is setting up the classrooms to make them fun, inspiring, and challenging. Parents and children are invited to visit ILA for one of its Thursday evening summer presentations (6:30 p.m., at the school, childcare provided) or to come by the school, weekdays during August, to tour toand meet the staff. ILA’s back-to-school open house takes place on Monday, September 6th: its first day of regular classes will be Tuesday, September 7th.
For more information, contact ILA at phone #503-662-8452. Or, view their website at: info@ila-pdx.org
