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  • Spanish at home, Mandarin at school

    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…

  • Phoenix, Arizona getting a Mandarin immersion public school

    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…

  • Lafayette, Louisiana Mandarin immersion program moves to new school

    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…

  • Tips for taking your Mandarin immersion kids to China

      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…

  • A lovely piece about how Hawai’ian immersion grew in Hawai’i

    Please read the full article here.

  • Issues faced by students in a still-building Spanish immersion program in Louisiana

    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…

  • Barrington, Illinois parents form Chinese Immersion Council

    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…