The Bridge International School at South-East Asia Center offers a cross-cultural experience for infant through 12 year-olds including daycare, pre-school and after-school programs.
Understanding the World Around Us. Connecting people and cultures by understanding and celebrating commonalities.
2024-2025 ENROLLMENT IS OPEN – Call (773) 989-7433 – COME TAKE A TOUR School Hours: Monday—Friday 7:00 a.m.—6:00 p.m.
Children of parents who work or attend school are provided with all-day all year childcare. Subsidized sliding scale fee structure. Convenient locations in 60640 zip code.
Infant care, toddler and twos daycare. Preschool for ages 3 and 4. Children ages five through twelve may attend our school-age child care program after school. Plus we are open full days on most school holidays and during summer vacation.
We know you have childcare choices and hope you will choose The Bridge International School.
What we do that is different:
Promote a Broader Global View by understanding the effect that place, resources and natural systems have on our personal lives, communities and our global interactions.
Promote Cross-Cultural Learning by understanding how the limitations and opportunities related to location influences culture, conflict and alliances.
Promote Interpersonal Relations and Self-Confidence with humility through improved communication skills, empathy, and higher-order thinking.
Provide practical geographical knowledge that promotes spatial understanding of the world including how we perceive it, how we divide it, how we navigate it and what its limitations are.
Our Bridge International School works with children from infant through 6th grade. Our teaching philosophy is rooted in the position that the biggest influences can be made at the very youngest age. It is never too early to teach skills required to interact with mutual respect and understanding.
The Bridge International School is proud to boast that we have more than 30 languages represented among the families we serve.
University of Chicago doctoral student Lauren Howard who studied 19-month-olds found that children who heard multiple languages were more receptive to people who spoke languages other than the language of their parents. The results provide novel evidence suggesting that infants’ social learning is predicted by the diversity of the communities in which they live.
The overarching mission of The Bridge International School is to promote peace and harmony through understanding of our similarities rather than emphasizing differences. The practical applications is to instill in our students the skills necessary to be better group participants through a spirit of cooperation and an ability to engage in constructive conflict resolution by identifying common objectives. Basically, we want our students to be knowledgeable about the world and be good communicators.
At the Bridge International School, we like to think of ourselves as augmenting the popular STEM curriculum. We acknowledge that that study of science, technology, engineering and mathematics are vitally important to the growth of business worldwide. However, the reality is that not all children are well suited to the “hard sciences,” many are more suited to “soft sciences” such as psychology, sociology, political science or the study of history, languages arts or what is more popularly considered communication studies.
In short, our Bridge International School uses cross-cultural learning on the community level to present a global context that advocates for world peace, promotes harmony and prepares our students to apply their exceptional interpersonal communication skills into their personal lives, education, and whatever employment they pursue.
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