Exhibitors in San Francisco 2018

La Scuola’s mission is to inspire brave learners to shape the future. La Scuola’s vibrant and diverse international community inspires critical thinking, creative expression and fosters lifelong passion for learning. Nothing Without Joy!


ScholarShare529, which serves as California’s official state-sponsored 529 college savings plan, provides families with a valuable tool that offers a diverse set of low-cost investment options, tax-deferred growth, and withdrawals free from state and federal taxes when used for qualified higher education expenses, such as tuition and fees, books, certain room and board costs, computer equipment, and other required supplies.

SFBA (San Francisco Bay Accueil) is a non-profit association, run by volunteers. Its mission is to welcome, inform and help Francophones in their installation and to promote the creation of links between the members of the French Community.
SFBA, it’s lots of activities all year long and big events: BBQ, receptions and Children's Christmas Party. Find all our activities on our calendar www.sfbaccueil.org
SFBA, It’s also the partnerships with all the French associations and the French Consulate.
SFBA, it’s an executive team of 14 members, 300 families and 22 host managers who welcome locally new families.
SFBA is part of the FIAFE (French International Federation) with more than 100 000 members.

Saratoga French Cultural Preschool is a Waldorf inspired preschool. While we focus on French language acquisition and communication, we also believe our role as educators is to help each child to develop autonomy, self-esteem and problem solving skills in a social and enchanting classroom setting. We recognize each child is unique and value the differences that each child brings to the center in terms of development, skill levels and interests. Our daily program allows each child to develop his/her physical, social-emotional, cognitive and artistic abilities through child-initiated play and teacher-directed learning through healthy interactions with our valued staff.

At LePort Montessori Emeryville, children thrive in an authentic, nurturing Montessori environment. We welcome your entire family—from babies to toddlers through preschoolers and kindergarten students. We also offer a Mandarin Chinese immersion program in our toddler and preschool/kindergarten classrooms to foster bilingualism in children beginning at a young age. Our mission at LePort Montessori is to help children gain what we call Knowledge for Life: the essential knowledge, thinking skills and strength of character needed to flourish as joyous children today, and as successful adults tomorrow. Our team of passionate educators look forward to meeting you and sharing their passion for authentic Montessori education.

Korean Center, Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to benefiting the community of the San Francisco Bay Area by providing programs that promote Korean culture and mutual understanding within the multicultural community. By partnering with a South Korean government funded organization, King Sejong Institute(KSI), KCI provides a variety of Korean Language classes offered from Korean Alphabet to Advanced conversation. For youth, KCI provides programs that children can experience Korean culture through art, music and literature in a fun and stimulating environment. Please visit our website, www.koreancentersf.org for more information about our programs!

Au Beau Séjour Preschool provides a challenging education inspired by the Education National curriculum in France. Our children’s well-being, happiness, academic, creativity, Social Emotional Learning and language development are at the foundation of our learning model. We offer 3 tuition options: 2, 3 or 5 days a week from 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM OR 8:00 AM to 6:00PM if you need extended care. We provide homemade, “natural & organic” and wholesome meals, which we enjoy together as a community. Meals are prepared by a cantinière in our onsite kitchen. Children also prepare foods for their teachers and friends in cooking activities. We also offer other fun activities such sport activities, art, music, dance and yoga!

First, she is a French woman (Véronique Vassout) bicultural with an extensive professional experience in United States, a high level of French’s studies. Second, she has also a strong connection with the French cultural institutions which nourish her own method of teaching in continuous. Her private lessons have been starting six years ago in the United State. And because of her successful results and her number of family’s trust, she has decided to share her method and respond her increasing services’ ask in raising a new work team. She is developing her educational program combining French academic through French culture. The company’s keys of success are:

Ecole Bilingue de Berkeley is a preschool (age 2) to 8th grade French-American school. As a recognized leader in international bilingual education, EB integrates the rigor and excellence of a French curriculum into a dynamic, whole-child education, imbuing students with tenacity, cross-cultural fluency, a deep intellectual capacity and vast stores of kindness.

Intern Abroad USA with an internship organization that help french candidates connect with US companies for a first job !

The German International School of Silicon Valley (GISSV) is an independent bilingual immersion school with two locations in the Bay Area: Mountain View and San Francisco. We are accredited by WASC and the German government (Official DAS Schule,) the only such school in California. Our students graduate with dual diplomas, the California High School Diploma and the German International Abitur. We feature a strong science program and are a recognized MINT (the German equivalent to STEM) school. Our environment allows for stimulating project based learning that fosters critical and imaginative thinking as well as individualized language learning support.

The Francophone Charter School of Oakland is a tuition-free, French immersion charter school that opened its doors in Oakland in August 2015. It was approved by the Oakland Unified School District on August 13, 2014.

The mission of the Francophone Charter School of Oakland is to provide a dual-immersion curriculum to a diverse community of students. Our goal is to develop bilingual and bi-literate global citizens who are open-minded and value intellectual curiosity, personal integrity and creativity. Francophone Charter School Oakland plans to serve grades TK to 7^th in Fall 2019.

Shu Ren International School is proud to be one of only four schools in the United States to offer the unique combination of Mandarin Immersion and the world-renowned International Baccalaureate (IB) curriculum. Our students develop a genuine love of learning through a vibrant inquiry-based program. Our teachers cultivate a nurturing classroom environment that is focused on developing the whole child. Everyday our students enjoy exciting hands-on projects that build confidence in their capabilities, ignites their passions, and connects their learning to the real world. Come see for yourself how Shu Ren is preparing children with the heart and mind to thrive in an evolving global society.

Amigos Internationales for Multilingualism is a grassroots group of parents, educators and advocates who aim to start a Spanish-French-English immersive language program in the San Francisco Unified School District so our city’s children can study, work or live anywhere in North America. Spanish is the most widely taught foreign language in the United States in K-12, and French is the second, according to the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. We are in talks with SFUSD officials, civic leaders, and businesspeople to bring our vision to life.