What is Scuola Marco Polo?

Scuola Marco Polo is a non-profit school for children established in 2000 created in response to the need of Italian citizens and residents in the Tri-State area (PA, NJ, and DE) to pass on the Italian culture and language to their families and kids. Our goal is to educate families and students on the importance of Italian language, traditions, music, and culture to create a strong community to celebrate Italian and American holidays with family through Scuola Marco Polo.

What is Scuola Marco Polo's mission?

Embrace the Italian culture and traditions creating strong community among families through teaching Italian language and arts to children from Pre-K to 12th grade.

What do you do at Scuola Marco Polo?

We teach Italian classes for bilingual and non-bilingual kids in a full immersion setting.

Three good reasons to choose the Scuola Marco Polo:

1. Play-Based Program: our curriculum offers playful, age-appropriate learning opportunities for children of all level of Italian from beginners to advanced.

2. Community: Scuola Marco Polo believes that Italian language, traditions, music and culture are essential tools to create a unified community. We are happy to celebrate Italian and American feasts with families of diverse background and culture.

3. Safety: we do everything to make children safe and secure all the time paying attention to every detail of our classroom design and standards of cleanliness.

What are advantages of being bilingual?

Bilingual education provides cognitive advantages:

• Developing a very active and flexible brain

• Developing more flexible approaches because of the ability to switch between languages

• Developing ability to ignore irrelevant information

• Focusing, remembering, and making decisions

and social-emotional advantages:

• Maintain strong ties with their entire family, culture, and community: social identity

• Make new friends and create strong relationships in their second language: social diversity

• Children show better self-control

Other scientifically proven benefits of bilingualism are:

• Bilingualism may delay the onset of Alzheimer’s disease

• Bilingual adults have more job opportunities around the world than monolingual adults

• Bilingual employees earn an average of $7,000 more per year than their monolingual peers

• Bilingual citizens are active members of the global community, due to their multi-language knowledge

• Bilingualism frees people from biases and limited thinking.