To paraphrase a book I read recently. The wonderful parents at Broadway Elementary School in Los Angeles have made a stellar brochure about their Mandarin immersion program. Seeing as programs nationwide don’t compete, I’d like to suggest that anyone who wants to might use it as a template for a brochure at your school.  (Hope that’s…

Gov. Markell applauds growth of language immersion program in weekly message By WDDE 91.1 FM May 31, 2014 Video Governor Jack Markell’s Weekly Message In this week’s message, Gov. Jack Markell (D-Delaware) is touting the success of educating Delaware children in different languages for part of the school day. Established two years ago, the world…

Note the tidbit below in The China Daily. There’s a market for English immersion in the U.S. among Chinese families. A Mandarin immersion school could have some interesting synergies with such a program, as the folks at Avenues clearly see. They’re also opening a school in China in the next year or so. Beth ==== http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/epaper/2014-05/26/content_17540521.htm “Avenues, a New York-based…

This article is from a great blog called InCulture Parent, which I highly recommend bookmarking. How This Single Working Mom Raised a Trilingual Kid By Carmen Cordovez maria and her daughter (c) incultureparent Maria came to San Francisco from Zacatecas, Mexico as a teenager. She crossed the border illegally with the husband she married in her…

The Phoenix, Arizona school District is launching a 50.50 Mandarin immersion program in the Whispering Wind Academy. The school’s site says its  mission “is to cultivate, lead, and inspire ALL students to become innovative thinkers and life-long learners through a challenging, meaningful, and engaging curriculum emphasizing Science, Technology, Engineering, Math and Global Geography. ” The school’s…

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…