Seashore Academy
Preparing Bright Minds for a Changing FutureWant a customized education for your child?
Want your child to love learning?
We can help.
Tours by Appointment Only
Newport Beach: 9:15 AM Tuesdays or Thursdays
Anaheim: 10:15 on Wednesdays
Mission Viejo: 10:00 on Fridays
Custom Schooling
Education by design:
1. Pick your day(s).
2. Customize your child’s daily schedule.
3. Sign up with one of our charter school partners to receive educational funds, which may be used towards Seashore’s fees.
CAMPS
Want a fun, educational day camp your children will love? Want quality activities for all your children in one drop off location? Your children are guaranteed to love coming to our week-long spring break & summer camps.
Location: Temple Bat Yahm 1011 Camelback St., Newport Beach, CA 92660.
Spring break: Any week(s) between March 22-April 19
Summer Camp: June 3- Aug. 30
TUTORING & After School
- STEM
- Semi-private tutoring
- Math Enrichment
- Foreign Languages
Mandarin Immersion
Want your child to be fluent in oral and written Mandarin Chinese? Our Mandarin Immersion program does just that.
Your child will not just scratch the surface, but delve into a deep level of fluency. Your child will be speaking, reading, writing, and playing in Chinese.
Our Benefits
Customization & Acceleration
We offer families the opportunity to choose the classes to best suit the needs, interests
Academic Excellence
Our structured, high-quality academic program is focused on fostering intellectual curiosity as well as on building a
Joy and Intellectual Curiosity
Our goal is to create JOY at
Structure
Upon choosing classes, students and families are provided a strict, structured curriculum with specific objectives of each topic covered, including homework assignments.
Values
We infuse our curriculum and culture with old-fashioned values, including kindness, respect, gratitude, humility, hard work, forgiveness, discipline and fortitude.
Nurturing Setting
We provide a physically & emotionally safe, structured, disciplined environment focused on kindness & respect for all.
About Our Founder
Marlene Sheehan Dandler graduated from the Lakeside School in Seattle, WA in 1994 and Dartmouth College in 1998. During her time at Dartmouth, she studied at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany as well as at the Beijing Normal University in Beijing, China.
While at Dartmouth, Marlene worked as a German language instructor for Professor John Rassias, the creator of the Rassias Method, a unique, intensive language immersion technique used by the Peace Corps to learn a foreign language in 10 days’ time.
This revolutionary method of rapid, effective language acquisition impressed Marlene greatly and became the foundation of Seashore Academy’s language immersion philosophy.
When her own three children were ready to start school, Marlene visited over 2 dozen public, charter and private schools searching for an academically intensive, nurturing school in which her children would be immersed in a foreign language.
She and her husband decided to immerse their three children in Mandarin Chinese to best prepare them for future business and work opportunities. As there were no Mandarin immersion programs in Orange County at the time, Marlene spearheaded a successful effort to launch a public Mandarin immersion district school in Orange, CA, which operates to this day. While building the program, she homeschooled her children with a private Mandarin tutor.
Today, all of the children at the Seashore Mandarin program, including Marlene’s own three children, speak, read and write Mandarin Chinese in traditional characters. They work in an academically accelerated environment and enjoy plenty of free time to read and play as they have no homework.
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Facilities and Organizations
Seashore Academy has campuses in Newport Beach and Anaheim. Our Newport Beach location borders Irvine & Costa