Casa de Corazón – Rochester recently celebrated their one-year anniversary. In this interview with KTTC, Wendy and Alex Letran discuss Casa’s unique Spanish immersion program and go over the details of the special anniversary event.
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Spanish blossoms at immersive child care
A new Spanish immersion day care and preschool has opened on Madison’s West Side, offering children the chance to learn Spanish at the same time as English, starting when they’re infants and toddlers. At Casa de Corazón, children are immersed in a Spanish-speaking environment and have extended contact with a community of fluent speakers. According…
Rochester Open House
Casa de Corazón is a Day Care & Preschool with a mission to provide inclusive, diverse daycare services in the Rochester area. The curriculum infuses the Spanish language, cultural learning, and social responsibility, creating an immersion environment for dual-language learners. Alex and Wendy Letran were our guests on Midwest Access to discuss their upcoming open…
New Spanish immersion child care center to open in Rochester soon
A new Spanish immersion early learning center will soon open its doors in northwest Rochester and start caring for infants up to preschool age children. Casa de Corazón, which has five centers in the Twin Cities and two Wisconsin locations, has been busy for the past several months building a new Rochester location at 970…
Podcast with Mary Ann O’Connell about Influence & Franchising
Influence takes different forms and has many applications. Founder and CEO of Casa de Corazón, Natalie Standridge, talks about developing a franchise program that has lasting positive effects that influence children’s development and franchisees’ lives slowly and methodically with good results for the franchisees and don’t vary from the brand values. Mary Ann and Natalie focused on…
NEW Communication Resource Available!
Communication is a very important part of a great child care center. With good communication, teachers can do their jobs better, directors can create transparency, owners can establish trust, and relationships can be built. It is known that when parents and teachers form partnerships, children are more successful in their educational careers. One of the…
Best Franchises in 2020
We are honored to be a part of Aspioneer’s Best Franchises in 2020! We just opened our third franchise and are excited to expand into more communities to build brighter futures for children. “I love partnering with other entrepreneurial spirits who want to be in business for themselves, but not by themselves. I share what…
An Overview of a Spanish Immersion Daycare
Marissa, a current Casa parent, shares an overview about choosing the right daycare for your family, important items to consider, and the experience she has had with her own children at Casa De Corazon.
Learning Foreign Language for Life: An Interview with Natalie Standridge
“Twenty years ago, people questioned if exposing children to a second language would delay verbal development. No one believes that now. Most of the world’s developed countries incorporate bilingual education. In fact, more than half of the world’s population is bilingual. Research shows that bilingualism increases mental flexibility, giving kids better imaginations, and that math…