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  • SF Middle School Language Pathways

    Yesterday we reported that we had no information about how the Mandarin immersion program would be handled within the new middle school plan.  Upon closer inspection, the school district’s presentation on the subject does give some information about this.  The answer was on the 40th slide of their giant powerpoint deck (you need to scroll…

  • SF Middle School Feeder Patterns

    Hot off the press!  Several San Francisco Mandarin immersion parents are attending the school board meeting tonight and one got a copy of the proposed middle school feeder patterns which she kindly scanned and shared with us.  Click here to see it for yourself. In summary, the document seems to contradict what we thought we…

  • Come join our team!

    The San Francisco Unified School District asked the MIPC to create an advertisement for recruiting teachers to the Mandarin Immersion program. Check out the result (click on the image for more information):

  • New Rules for our Schools

    San Francisco public schools “New Rule” #3… “Our children need to speak the language or languages of the 21st Century” So says Margaret Peterson as she and Beth Weise talk about multilingual education in this KALW public service announcement… Learn more about how you can support San Francisco’s future at yoursfpublicschools.org.

  • Mandarin in San Francisco Schools

    Our Mandarin Immersion Programs:  How are they Organized? By Elizabeth Weise Wendy Cheong is the Mandarin curriculum coordinator for the San Francisco Unified School District. A classroom teacher for 20 years, she was born and raised in Taiwan before moving to the United States in middle school. Together with the Mandarin teachers at Starr King…

  • New Multilingual Master Plan

    Imagine San Francisco with a public French immersion school. A public Russian immersion school. Spanish and Chinese immersion schools in each quadrant of the City, with enough seats for all comers. Imagine every elementary school in the district offering at least 30 minutes per day of a second language to every student whose family chooses…