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Exploration is the right start to an education.

Balanced with the responsibilities of learning to be a part of a school and community, we believe that exploration is an essential part of a student’s long-term academic success. Discovery, play, and imagination are all key elements needed to become creative and innovative problem solvers.

“In deciding where to send your child for school, the most important thing you can think about is will the school help your child make choices that will lead to an enriching life. In that regard, this school is the absolute prize-winner.”

We teach with intent.

Students are encouraged to explore and discover the world around them, not only through play, but through curricula, activities, and methods that are designed with intent. Our dedicated Chinese, English, and French language faculty create an optimal environment for students to work on the foundations of learning, including oral language development, gross motor skills, and social emotional learning, which leads to further cognitive and social development.

Opportunities are created by taking risks.

Whether speaking French in class, writing an essay in Chinese, balancing on an outdoor ropes course, or traveling to China or France starting in 4th grade, our school provides myriad opportunities for students to try, fail, and succeed. We guide them through these experiences so that they not only build resilience and agility, but also become willing to take risks and create positive learning opportunities for themselves.

There is more than one way to solve a problem.

One of the many benefits of a bilingual education is that students develop a flexibility of mind. Research shows that bilingual children develop the capacity to see challenges from multiple perspectives and understand that there is more than one solution to a problem. Their bilingual education makes them naturally open to new experiences, thoughts, and ideas.

We prepare students for careers that do not yet exist.

Students use the skills they learned in 1st and 2nd grade to learn and comprehend more content and information. They develop the ability to understand and express increasingly complex ideas. The benefits of a bilingual education is that students are able to look at problems through different lenses and modes of thinking.

The greatest benefit to our graduates is that they have become bilingual, as well as a whole host of other advantages. They have become intellectually agile. They have a broader worldview, sharper analytical skills, and a creative approach to solving problems. They have developed a foundation for becoming visionary leaders and innovators. This kind of learning is vitally important to carving out careers and lives in the world they will soon inherit.

“We receive excellent feedback about our students from high schools. ISTP graduates are exemplary individuals who have skills that set them apart from other students: the ability to read and write in two or more languages, incredibly rigorous study habits, a global mindset, and the will to succeed.”

Office of Admissions | 151 Laura Lane • Palo Alto, CA 94303 (650) 251-8504 | www.istp.org/admissions

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“The gift of a bilingual education is a student’s ability to see the world through multiple lenses.”