NOTE: THE MEETING IS JULY 27 The group will be holding a community meeting Sunday July 27 at 3pm. It will be in Q84 Mary Campbell Room, Campbell Community Center, 1 West Campbell Ave, Campbell CA 95008. Their website and Facebook information is weiyucharter@gmail.com and facebook.com/weiyucharter. Wei Yu International Charter School The Wei Yu International…

Spots still open for Lafayette language immersion programs A few kindergartners can still learn French, Spanish BY MARSHA SILLS msills@theadvocate.com July 09, 2014 “We have one teacher with fourth and fifth grade and one teacher with second and third grade. Until the numbers get bigger, we’ll continue to do that” Nicole Boudreaux, parish school system’s…

COURTESY CHRISTINE WU-DITTMAR6 hours Asian Immersion Schools Surge in Popularity to Meet Demand BY AIMEE PHAN Growing up in Palo Alto, California, Mika Tanner remembered her mother’s insistence on speaking to her exclusively in Japanese. “She’d watched so many of her friends’ children lose their Japanese and was terrified that would happen to me,” Tanner said.…

UPDATE: Some folks have asked about pre orders on Amazon. I can’t set that up until I’ve created the book on the Amazon site, which won’t happen for another month. But believe me, I’ll get the word out once it’s ready! Beth   Here’s the final cover. And I’m handing off the entire manuscript to the designer…

Chinese Charter School in Hadley celebrates start of expansion that will double the school’s size Fontaine Brothers of Springfield started buidling a 38,500-square-foot addition to the Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School in Hadley last month. State, school and United States officials celebrated the groundbreaking last week. (Diane Lederman/The Republican) Print By Diane Lederman | dlederman@repub.com  on…

Note that the title in Chinese translates as “Chinese-English bilingual education – Parent’s guide” (And as a careful (thanks!) reader notes below, the 中 in 中英双语教育-家长指南 got dropped off, I’ll make sure the designer adds it back.) That’s specifically because all two-way immersion programs in the United States are meant to teach English-speaking student Chinese and Chinese-speaking…

Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School celebrates as construction of addition begins in Hadley JERREY ROBERTS Members of The Singing Dragons sing Tuesday during a ground-breaking ceremony at the Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School in Hadley. The addition will double the size of the school. Sally Rogers, right, leads the group. Purchase photo reprints »…