Author: Elizabeth Weise

  • Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Here’s one family’s story.

  •   Our friends at Parents of African Americans Students Studying Chinese (PAASSC) have these great posters for sale. Check their newsletter out here. Here’s their website. They go on sale Feb. 24.

  • February 11, 2014 3:19 pm  •  By Jamar Younger   Mesquite Elementary School will host an information session for its Mandarin Chinese immersion program. The session will take place at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the school, 9455 E. Rita Road. The program is open to all interested parents who have a child in kindergarten or first grade, even…

  • A wonderful video of kids who speak lots of languages proudly telling the world they speak English and another language–and they’re American! It was made after a flap over the multilingual Coke ad that aired during the SuperBowl, which featured kids singing America the Beautiful in multiple languages. This video was made by Stephanie Meade,…

  •   CHINESE IMMERSION IN NASELLE Mandarin makes its mark Chinese Immersion Damian Mulinix Naselle School kindergarteners go over Mandarin characters on a worksheet as part of a Chinese immersion class. Damian Mulinix First-graders names are spelled out in Mandarin above their backpacks in a Chinese immersion class at Naselle School. Posted: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 6:00 pm By KATIE WILSON…

  • Trustees with the Natrona County School District have unanimously approved a recommendation establishing a second dual language immersion program at a Casper elementary school. Trustees approved the new Spanish immersion program at Park Elementary School during Monday night’s regular meeting. Trustees also approved an expanded 20-1 class size radio for the program. Mark Mathern, the…

  • Tarwater Elementary school in the Chandler Unified School District will begin a Mandarin immersion program next year. They’re doing an excellent job of getting the word out. And they’ve put together one of the most comprehensive overviews of a Mandarin immersion program, what it offers students and why the district is creating the program that…