Show caption BY MARSHA SILLS msills@theadvocate.com May 10, 2014 The Lafayette Parish School System announced Friday that some foreign immersion programs at Alice Boucher and S.J. Montgomery Elementary schools will move to other schools in the coming school year. Chinese immersion classes offered at Boucher will move to Plantation Elementary and French immersion offered at…

  By Kendall Goh Introduction I went through the processes of planning and taking several trips[1] to China and thought I’d share what I learned in case other Mandarin immersion families could benefit from our experiences and mistakes. When to plan Start early For the first trip with kids, I started planning in January for…

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Spanish immersion students talk of future plans with new language skills 7 students first class of 9-year program BY MARSHA SILLS msills@theadvocate.com May 15, 2014 For one group of Paul Breaux Middle School eighth-graders, the bilingual advantage received as part of the school district’s Spanish immersion program is one that has prepared them for a…

B220 parents form Chinese Immersion Council Published: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 1:04 p.m. CDT By SUBURBAN LIFE MEDIA BARRINGTON – A group of Barrington 220 School District parents announced May 13 the formation of the Barrington Chinese Immersion Council (BCIC). While the council will work with and support the school district, it will be run independently…

  Language immersion expansion could become law  May 13, 2014 10:29 PM   | Sen. Barrow Peacock voted a language immersion bill. / File photo Written by Mike Hasten BATON ROUGE — School systems that currently offer language immersion will have to offer it to all kindergarten and first-grade children whose parents want them enrolled if Gov. Bobby…

Natasha Heller, a parent at Broadway Elementary in Venice, Calif., attended the National Chinese Language Conference in Los Angeles May 9 – 10, 2014, and sends these notes. Kudos for making this available to parents nationally. Plenary Sessions The morning at NCLC began with a discussion of California’s special role in Sino-American relations. David Pierson of the…