Le Jardin Des Enfants

Specialties

We offer small, play-​based «mommy-​and-​me» style classes for children and their caregivers, as well as a preschool with our exclusive Families First Steps in French program, all taught exclusively in French. We look forward to serving you and broadening your families horizons through the creative exploration of a foreign language!

Le Jardin des Enfants is the first expansion of the incredibly successful language programs created by Pascale Setbon at the Language and Laughter Studio (LLS) in Brooklyn, NY (www​.the​lan​guage​and​laugh​ter​stu​dio​.com). We promote the social, emotional and cognitive well-​being of children through play, art, music, hands-​on learning and social interaction. Taught exclusively in French, our integrated approach seeks to stimulate a child’s natural impulse to learn and explore through play while meeting the educational standards of France’s Curriculum nationale.

History

Established in 2014.

Ali Keech and Pascale Setbon, both educators, met in Brooklyn in 2010 when French bilingual education was taking hold in the Big Apple. A year after Pascale and Ali met, Ali moved to Los Angeles and upon arriving on the West Coast, found many communities full of progressive, like-​minded parents seeking a strong bilingual preschool program that would give their child a solid foundation for a curiosity-​filled life. Knowing of Pascale’s immense success in Brooklyn with her educational program The Language and Laughter Studio, the two decide to export the progressive, experiential and French language immersion philosophy that had become a rock in New York French education, to the sunny streets of Los Angeles. And this is how Le Jardin des Enfants was born.

Meet the Manager

Ali K.

Manager

Ali is a certified preschool and elementary school teacher in California and New York State and holds a bilingual teaching credential for French. She graduated with a Master’s of Arts in Bilingual/​Bicultural Childhood Education from Columbia University in New York City and has worked in various multilingual and educational settings. Her proudest moments yet, however, have been the births of her children, Cecily and Spencer, who, together with her husband and family and friends, are being raised to be multilingual global citizens.