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French Progressive Pre-School - Nature School
Cultural Center in Brooklyn, NY in partnership with @lallianceny

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🐥 Less than 1 week until Mille Secrets de Poussins @ PS 58 ⭐️ Sunday October 25 @ 11 AM 🐥

A narrator begins reading Claude Ponti’s beloved book, Mille secrets de poussins, but things don’t go as planned… Full of mischief, the poussins (chicks) have hidden themselves in the library and start popping out of the books to play tricks on him—especially Blaise, who wears a funny red mask.

Accompanied by animated videos and multimedia effects, the performer, who acts as both storyteller and puppeteer, leads the audience into a playful world. Designed for audiences 3 and up, the show draws on the playful, poetic, and bizarre questions and answers that fill Claude Ponti’s work. Everyone is invited to travel freely to the other side of the pages and discover the magical world of the chicks.

🎟️ Tickets can be purchased at the link in our bio 🎟️

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🐟 Mille Secrets de Poussins 🐟

Get your tickets and join us on Sunday Oct 25 at 11AM for the North American Premier of Mille Secrets de Poussins. This is a dynamic multimedia production presented by The Language and Laughter Studio in partnership with PS 58 with the support of L’Alliance New York. Performed by Collectif Quatre Ailes, this event is perfect for children 3+.

Workshops will follow – and they’re selling out! Want to volunteer? There are several volunteer opportunities available, including a need for DLP alumni to read the books of Claude Ponti in English and in French to younger students.

Kids must be accompanied by an adult; this is not a drop-off event.

🎟️ Tickets and volunteer opportunities are linked in our bio ⭐️

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SUMMER READS, PREMA STYLE

For the dog days of summer: a few books our Prema teachers are reading, loving, and recommending.

A new Prema series — with more reads to come.

Send us your recommendations! And should we bring back our book club? 🤔
Remember we have a free library outside our Fulton location! Drop one (or many), take one 📕

#readinglove

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This is my advanced PD Training called “Between Motion and Emotion.”
Its focus is exploring the connection between #movement and autonomous social-emotional learning.

With the wonderful team of educators at Language and Laughter Studio in Brooklyn, NY, we used this practical approach to research the origin of ideas, initiative, invention, and independence in today’s young children.

We identified co-dependence, control, and permission as the hurdles to children’s decreasing self-guided, independent, natural drive for discovery, curiosity, and play.
We then did some research on how to create an educators’ culture and school environment that offers space, time, and tools for children to grow and develop away from adults’ anxiety, direction, and instruction.

Thank you to the school’s founder, @pascalesetbon, for this huge opportunity for collective growth in early childhood education!

#ECE #SEL #PD

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Here are all the Q3 New Clients! 🙌 Thank you for the courage and trust to book dynamic, hands-on trainings that can be brought back into the classroom for a rewarding and authentic child-centered work. Every PD session has been a unique opportunity for me to learn more in detail about the new needs, patterns, and challenges young children have been experiencing inside and outside schools. Your stories and observations are fueling the research for new ideas and solutions to make the services for early childhood more meaningful and purposeful every day. I look forward to continuing the work and the research with each of you! Always believe in children. 🙏
#pd #clients #Preschool

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Mission accomplished! 🌞
The Back-to-school Professional Development Tour is in the books.
 📈 Between 8/14 and 9/5, I had the joy and pleasure of delivering 16 epic PD training sessions to 707 early childhood educators, administrators, occupational therapists, and speech pathologists in FL, MD, VA, DC, NJ, CT, and NY.
 🎈 We worked intensively on the contrast between control (direct instruction) and contemporary young children’s needs for space, time, and freedom to make autonomous discoveries and build competence and confidence in independent and collaborative learning.
 🥇 Thank you to all the participants and clients, old and new, for your smiles and dedicated engagement!
 📣 Bookings for 2026 are now open! Check the link in the comments for inquiries and reservations.
 Always trust children.
Have a great school year! 🌺
#ece #ProfessionalDevelopment #backtoschool

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Back to School! Teachers and staff prepping for the new school year at @languageandlaughterstudio (462 Vanderbilt), participating in collaborative grounding exercises with @embodiedlearning!
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#backtoschool #newschoolyear #teachers #faculty #learning #prep #fabfulton #languageandlaughterstudio #fortgreene #brooklyn #nyc

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back in april, i was invited by language & laughter studio (a brooklyn-based french immersion pre-school) to photograph their first ever spring farm retreat at hawthorne valley farm in upstate, new york. as someone who worked with and for children & their families for a number of years, this was an easy yes for me (i have a soft spot for the kiddos). i was given ultimate creative freedom to photograph however i wanted to, which is my favorite way of being able to document things. if you know me, you know that i love to photograph raw, honest, truthful and unbruised moments — and i did just that during this weekend. i had the absolute best time, and i’m so incredibly honored that i was given the opportunity to do this. here are a handful of some of the photographs i made 🫶🏼💕

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@languageandlaughterstudio (462 Vanderbilt) is bringing learning to life with a beautifully designed space that reflects their nature-inspired, child-centered approach! 🌿✨ Their French immersion preschool and language center was recently featured in @archpaper, highlighting how their space fosters creativity, curiosity, and exploration.

With a design inspired by nature, art, and psychology, the new location blends thoughtful architecture with vibrant colors and natural light—creating an environment where little learners thrive. 🌞🎨

Want to learn more? Visit their space and see the magic in action!
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#archpaper #languageandlaughterstudio #frenchImmersion #earlylearning #fortgreene #fabfulton #clintonHill #brooklyn #nyc

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HAPPY SPRING EQUINOX! The Architect’s Newspaper reviews Language and Laughter Studio, French immersion preschool and language center helmed by Pascale Setbon:

“…The new location can be understood as an extension of the Fort Greene Park Nature School at LLS and its pedagogy, albeit an interiorized version. Beth O’Neill and Chris McVoy, founders of O’Neill McVoy Architects, took Setbon’s interest in nature, art, and psychology and ran with it in their design for LLS…

McVoy was senior partner at Steven Holl Architects for decades before cofounding his firm, so he knows a thing or two about natural light. . . The curved, interior partition walls that delineate classrooms within LLS are as thoughtful and beautiful as the (Nelson-Atkins Museum of) Art Bloch Building, albeit in a much smaller space. The colors of the partitions change as the day transpires, animated by silhouettes of teachers and giddy children…

The architects studied the teachings of psychologist Jean Piaget, who researched how children perceive space. “Children don’t come out understanding orthogonal architecture,” McVoy said. “Having surfaces continue creates continuity, light versus dark, openness versus enclosure. Color is energy.”

… O’Neill and McVoy wanted the color to come from within the walls of Language and Laughter Studio. To that end, they opted for luminous panels shaded in violet, yellowish gold, olive green, blue satin, and lilac, a set inspired by Barragán’s work. They found 100 percent recycled acrylic, which helped them achieve the effect they wanted: Thousands of tiny straws make up the walls, creating an almost granular, stained-glass effect…

Faculty at LLS take environmental justice and antiracism seriously. The issues have become even more pronounced since COVID-19, now that young children grow up with screens in their hands. Setbon, O’Neill, and McVoy paid close attention to sensory materials to help children connect with the real world and look inward at such a formative stage in their lives.”

Daniel Jonas Roche

@archpaper
@languageandlaughterstudio
@rockhill.nyc
@chrismcvoy
photos @nicholascalcott

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The corner of Vanderbilt Avenue and Fulton Street in Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill neighborhood is a lively one. Black-and-white stencils of children by the street artist JR line the facade of Language and Laughter Studio (@languageandlaughterstudio), a French immersion preschool and language center helmed by Pascale Setbon, a progressive early-childhood education visionary. The school was founded by Setbon in 2006 but moved into its new purpose-built home designed by O’Neill McVoy Architects (@oneillmcvoyarchitects) in early 2025.

Before the new location of LLS was built, Setbon and her staff relocated the school to Fort Greene Park, where they built an outdoor classroom reminiscent of forest schools in Switzerland and the Netherlands. The new location can be understood as an extension of the Fort Greene Park Nature School at LLS and its pedagogy, albeit an interiorized version. Beth O’Neill and Chris McVoy, founders of O’Neill McVoy Architects, took Setbon’s interest in nature, art, and psychology and ran with it in their design for LLS.

Link in bio to read more.

Images: Nicholas Calcott (@nicholascalcott)

#architecture #architects #building #school #design #recycledmaterials #acrylic

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