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Latin American Montessori Bilingual Public Charter School provides a Montessori education paired with second language development. LAMB PCS currently serves approximately 475 students age 3 through 11 (5th grade). Each classroom has two instructors, one who teaches a half-day in Spanish and another who teaches a half day in English, utilizing Montessori curriculum aligned to the D. C. Standards. For the past eight years, LAMB’s waiting list has been equal to and/or vastly exceeded its total enrollment. LAMB is a member school of DC International School (DCI), an International Baccalaureate middle and high school which opened in 2014.

Key Program Componenets:

• Dual language (Spanish/English) immersion program to children beginning at 3 or 4 years of age with the goal of fluency in both languages by 5th grade.
• LAMB’s Montessori curriculum is aligned with the Common Core State Standards, adopted by the District of Columbia in 2010.
• Character and community development are an integral part of learning at LAMB. Our school holds a monthly “Peace Ceremony” and students present projects and dramatic performances to parents, staff, and peers as a demonstration of how they are connecting their academic learning with their concept of themselves as “peace ambassadors.”
• LAMB implements the Montessori Cosmic Curriculum, an integrated body of lessons designed to sow the seeds of all future learning by exposing children to history, geography, anthropology, biology, chemistry, physics, astronomy, botany, and ecology through a series of integrated Great Lessons.
• Our staff experience targeted professional development based on best practices and research that supports learning and development.
• LAMB has an active PTO which raises funds throughout the year to support various school programs.
• LAMB has a bilingual special education department and serves students with special needs in the general education classroom through the support of inclusion teachers and special service providers.
• Since its inception LAMB has supported environmental sustainability and related projects.
• LAMB has an arts education program with both visual arts and music, as well as an after school dance program.