Mountain View JumpStart Theatre
Mountain View K8 / JumpStart Theatre — Logan Heights, San Diego, CA
JumpStart Theatre brings theatrical literacy intervention to Mountain View K8 in Logan Heights — a school where many families speak Spanish or French at home. The site had to meet those families where they are.
2025
The challenge
A small arts education nonprofit serving a multilingual community in a Title I school needed a site that could earn the trust of families, donors, and partner institutions — in three languages, with zero translation team.
The approach
i18n was designed in from the first file, not bolted on at the end. next-intl handles routing, message loading, and locale detection. All three language sets (English, Spanish, French) were authored in parallel. Partnership attribution — La Jolla Playhouse, EdTA, iTheatrics — is surfaced prominently because credibility by association matters for grassroots nonprofits.
Notable details
- EN / ES / FR from the ground up — not a translated afterthought
- next-intl with static export: locale-aware routing, zero server
- Tailwind CSS 4 — first project on the new engine
- Partner / backer attribution as a trust signal
- Mission-forward copy: "Teaching kids to stand up. One production at a time."