Accredited teachers Lena Powers and Stina Cowan founded the Swedish School Association in Seattle in the summer of 1998. The school offers complementary Swedish education according to the Swedish Board of Education's curriculum to children who speak Swedish. All education takes place at The Swedish Cultural Center in Seattle once a week for 2.5 hours.

Curriculum in Swedish
The purpose of association’s curriculum is to provide support for the organized education in Swedish of Swedish children living in the Seattle area. The focus of the instruction is to strengthen the students’ understanding of Swedish heritage, culture and language. This is achieved by creating an environment supportive of the student's language development, which is our primary goal.
The curriculum is comparable to the Swedish National Elementary School standards.

Objectives
Our objectives for the students are as follows:
- To develop imagination and desire to learn through the reading of Swedish literature and other activities.
- To develop the ability to understand and express oneself both in writing and verbally in a variety of different contexts.
- To develop reading comprehension and conceptual understanding.
- To expose the children to Swedish culture and heritage: songs, traditions, geography, history and literature.
- To inform about current events in Sweden.

The following objectives compare with the completion of the 5th year in Swedish Elementary School.
The students should in accordance with their age, be able to:
- Participate actively in discussion
- Demonstrate reading comprehension
- Maintain focused conversation
- Read clearly and fluidly aloud
- Demonstrate writing skills.

Children Teachers and Parents
During the School year 2004-2005 there are four groups enrolled:

Preschool  3-5 years old

Elementary School  
- Blue group, 5-7 years old
- Yellow group, 8-10 years old
- Orange group, 11 years old and up

The Swedish School Association in Seattle is a non-profit organization. To ensure quality education, parents play an important role by volunteering as educational assistants, librarians, Webmaster to www.skolforeningen.org, editors to "Skolbladet," and as board of directors.

For more information, send an email to info@skolforeningen.org.