For more than 40 years, Oyster-Adams Bilingual Education Campus has served as a model for dual-language education in the District of Columbia and nationwide.
Oyster-Adams offers after-school programs created to meet the needs of working parents, and provides athletic opportunities for students in grades 4-8.
Welcome to this amazing academic community! O-A is truly a unique educational experience. Our school depends on your involvement and engagement, and we look forward to getting to know your family !
We believe that Dual-Language immersion works for every student
We believe that any content can be taught effectively in any language and we are confident in our experience and capabilities to adapt our instruction style, applying the appropriate strategies to make content comprehensible to all of our students in order to achieve our goals.
As teachers at Oyster-Adams, we are all language teachers.
A dual language community is a culturally rich environment and all members of the community—staff, parents and student— are expected to embrace the richness and complexities that such an environment provides.
The atmosphere of the classroom must promote cooperation, risk-taking, and mutual respect.
Translation is not an effective approach to learning a second language or to teaching content.
All staff must be good models of bilingual individuals or learners of second language;
Latin-American/Hispanic culture should not be the sole responsibility of the Spanish teachers but should be supported school-wide—specials, English teachers, school-wide programs.
We are a multicultural community and that diversity provides many opportunities to expand our curriculum.
