Our friends over at Parents of African American Students Studying Chinese have been busy updating their blog. Well worth a visit. http://www.paassc.com    

[In the interests of full disclosure, I’m a parent representative to the (unpaid) advisory board for CELIN. We need More More More! immersion consortia and resources–and here’s one of them. Check out their web pages, lots of useful info.] From our friends at the Asia Society: CELIN Connection We are happy to report that in June, the CELIN resource pages were…

District 220 Brings Chinese Culture to 60010 Students A successful Chinese Cultural Summer Camp was held in collaboration with the Taipei Economic Cultural Office for over 50 students in the 60010 area. Posted on 7/27/2014 7:01:00 PM by Shefali Bhuva Barrington 220, together with the Taipei Economic Cultural Office in Chicago, hosted a Chinese Folk Arts Summer Camp…

Higley Unified New at Higley’s Coronado Elementary is a Mandarin immersion program for kindergarten and first grade. Students will spend half their day learning academics in English and half in Mandarin from a native Mandarin speaker, district spokeswoman Michelle Reese said. Reese said the program will allow the district to offer Mandarin immersion from kindergarten…

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.…