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Inside PNC's Bilingual Approach to Early Learning
Why bilingual resources are a core part of how PNC Grow Up Great supports children, families and communities. NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESS Newswire / May 13, 2026 / PNC | InsightsMore than 20% of U.S. households speak a language other than English at …
Why bilingual resources are a core part of how PNC Grow Up Great supports children, families and communities.
NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESS Newswire / May 13, 2026 / PNC | Insights
More than 20% of U.S. households speak a language other than English at home, with Spanish by far the most common. Families are also more likely to engage with educational materials when those resources are available in their first language.
That's why PNC Crezca con Éxito, the Spanish-language identity for PNC Grow Up Great, has been keeping Spanish-speaking little learners and families top of mind since the company's early childhood education initiative launched in 2004.
"PNC Grow Up Great has been a Spanish and English initiative since early on, with the reasoning that it was simply the right thing to do to help prepare children across our communities for success in school and life," said Sally McCrady, chair and president of the PNC Foundation. "Since PNC also offered its products and services in both languages, it was important to model our early education initiative this way as well."
Bilingual learning in action
Here are some examples of PNC Grow Up Great's Spanish-language offerings and initiatives:
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New educational resources are launched each year in partnership with Sesame Workshop, the creators of Sesame Street, and they're always created in English and Spanish. The latest offerings focus on sparking children's curiosity and building school-readiness skills in everyday moments outdoors.
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The PNC Grow Up Great Lesson Center offers 150+ bilingual lesson plans for pre-K teachers and families of young children.
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Since 2021, PNC Grow Up Great has collaborated with the PBS Foundation to amplify many of these lessons on PBS LearningMedia, with each of the enhanced lessons and accompanying resources available in Spanish as well as English. This has significantly expanded the Spanish resources available on PBS LearningMedia, a reputable source of educational materials for parents and educators.
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PNC has been a proud sponsor of Fred Rogers Productions' Alma's Way since the PBS KIDS series launched in 2022. The show follows Alma Rivera, a confident 6-year-old Puerto Rican girl in the Bronx who learns self-awareness, empathy, and problem-solving by sharing her "way" of figuring things out with viewers.
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