Author: Elizabeth Weise

Nathan Yeung has updated his map and it’s way cool. Please check out his site.

Parents urge board to consider middle school Mandarin immersion program Group hopes to bridge gap between Ohlone program and high school courses by Elena Kadvany / Palo Alto Weekly Then first-grader Kira Sterling reads a book in Mandarin at Ohlone Elementary School in 2009. Photo by Shawn Fender/Palo Alto Online. A group of six Palo Alto…

Bringing the state’s Mandarin immersion programs up to 33, as well as 14 French immersion, 2 German, 6 Portuguese and 63 Spanish. They don’t do anything by halves in Utah. I’ve updated the full school list to include these, as well as Frontiers Academy, a new private Mandarin immersion school opening this fall in Anaheim, Calif.…

Yay! The next set of Utah’s Step-by-Step readers is out. As we all know, reading more is key to increasing vocabulary and language ability. And these are one of the few series specifically created for kids in immersion. And what’s so great is that these are linked to the types of topics that U.S. students in elementary…

Check out their video and web page for the Ayaprun Elitnaurvik Yup’ik immersion school in the Lower Kuskokwim School District in Bethel, Alaska.

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…