Mandarin charter proposal scrutinized by community, district by Barbara Wood / Almanac Community members who want to know how a proposed Mandarin immersion charter school could affect the Menlo Park City School District asked lots of questions but learned there are still a lot of unknowns involved in the answers at a meeting on Thursday (Oct.…

  Wake school plan looks to boost immersion programs at Broughton, Daniels BY T. KEUNG HUI khui@newsobserver.comOctober 12, 2014 Updated 6 hours ago Monica Arbeláez works with Sawyer Hunter in her kindergarten class at Jeffreys Grove Elementary School in Raleigh on Wednesday. Students in kindergarten and first grade at Jeffreys Grove take all of their core…

I know it can sometimes seem the only place I post about is Utah. But dear heavens, they are really the place in the country that’s doing immersion the most intensively. This is just one town, with a population of 87,461, and it’s got eight immersion elementary schools. That’s more than some states! Canyons district taking dual…

I don’t know how I missed these, but someone has finally created some interesting, age-appropriate stories for our Chinese immersion students. They’re great! Here’s their website http://mandarincompanion.com/ Check out the titles: The Secret Garden Sherlock Holmes The Monkey’s Paw The Country of the Blind The Sixty-year dream (Rip Van Winkle) As anyone who read this blog…

foreign language immersion school set to open next year in cleveland ERIN O’BRIEN | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 02, 2014 SHARE  Educational opportunities for Cleveland grade-schoolers could soon expand with the addition of a new foreign language immersion school in the 2015-16 school year. Last February, the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) gave theGlobal Ambassadors Language Academy (GALA) the thumbs…

 A Parent’s Guide to Mandarin Immersion is now available. You can order it a print book on the CreateSpace website at https://www.createspace.com/5001864 It’s also available on Amazon at http://amzn.to/1oBgloQ However, please note that Amazon takes twice the cut that CreateSpace does (though they’re the same company). So if you can, I’d ask that you buy…

Meetings set for Wedneday and Oct. 9 on proposed Mandarin immersion charter school By Rhea Mahbubani Daily News Staff Writer  The Menlo Park City School District is to hold an informational meeting this morning and on Oct. 9 regarding a proposed Mandarin immersion charter school. District Superintendent Maurice Ghysels as well as school board President…