When all the big changes came to Heber City, Utah, few people experienced them as keenly as  Eric Campbell, the principal of a local elementary school, father of four boys and pillar of his local church. Campbell and his wife Melissa had been one of the thousands of new families who’d settled here…

From Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Patch Dueling Petitions Take on Mandarin Immersion in D67 One asks that Mandarin immersion be reconsidered for incoming kindergarteners, the other that the board remove the magnet option for Cherokee School. Posted by Emily Stone (Editor) , March 18, 2014 at 06:55 PM The fate of the District 67 Mandarin immersion program and the…

By Lelan Miller 孟乐岚 One of the many challenges of being a Chinese immersion teacher is finding opportunities to observe others teaching immersion Chinese. Observations are an integral and important part of student teaching in any field and especially more so in the relatively new field of Chinese immersion teaching. Many teaching strategies and methods…

Whether to continue the program as is, create a world language program at all three kindergarten to fourth-grade elementary schools, or designate one as a magnet immersion language school is a decision that will be made in the next two months. The decision will take affect in the 2015-16 academic year. District administrators currently are…

STARTALK Summer 2014 Archives Now Open by Lelan Miller 孟樂嵐 You may now go to this site and browse for summer programs by language, state, student/teacher, and residential/non-residential. Take careful note of age and residency requirements when applying to a program as some programs will accept only those from a certain geographical area and age…

A Big Advocate of French in New York’s Schools: France By KIRK SEMPLEJAN. 30, 2014 From left, Liam Kelly, Anju Andren and Hudson Wong, students in a dual-language program at Public School 58 in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.CreditKirsten Luce for The New York Times In the fugue of tongues on New York’s streets, French has never been…

First-graders listen in a dual-immersion class last week where they are learning math, reading and other subjects in both Hmong and English at Susan B. Anthony Elementary. The program at the Sacramento City Unified campus is in its third year.MANNY CRISOSTOMO — mcrisostomo@sacbee.com ==== At the Thomas Edison Language Institute in Sacramento, kindergarteners and pre-kindergartners sang a lighthearted song…