The “SFCitizen” blog has some first day of school photos from the “Chinese Immersion School at DeAvila”, San Francisco’s newest Chinese immersion program. Like Alice Fong Yu and West Portal, this school will be Cantonese immersion. As the children move to second grade, the plan is to also introduce Mandarin, with the goal of gaining proficiency in three languages: English, Cantonese, and Mandarin.
The Chinese Immersion School at DeAvila: http://cisdeavila.com
The San Francisco Examiner also published a nice story about the school…
New year brings new immersion school
By: Will Reisman
Examiner Staff Writer, August 25, 2009
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| Off and teaching: The new immersion school will initially offer instruction to kindergartners and first-graders, but hopes to expand. (Mike Koozmin/Special to the Examiner) |
SAN FRANCISCO — Some four-plus decades separate the two, but Carlos Garcia and Emma Hsieh displayed much of the same reactions Monday on the first day of school.
San Francisco’s public schools superintendent and the 5-year-old Hsieh were both celebrating the inauguration of the district’s new Chinese immersion school at DeAvila Elementary on Haight Street.
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