Author: Elizabeth Weise

Growth prompts school’s planned move By Flori Meeks | February 4, 2014 When Mandarin Chinese Language Immersion Magnet School gets the new building promised to it, the new campus will be at the corner of West Alabama and Yorktown, not at the school’s current location in Bellaire. “That decision has been finalized; we will move,” Principal ChaoLin Chang said. “Now we’re…

Forest Hills Elementary to offer Chinese language immersion program By Pressley Baird Pressley.Baird@StarNewsOnline.com Published: Tuesday, February 4, 2014 at 12:05 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, February 4, 2014 at 12:05 p.m. Ni hao, Forest Hills Elementary School: You’re going to learn to speak Mandarin Chinese. Photo Galleries Forest Hills language immersion Starting this fall, Forest Hills Elementary…

Capistrano Unified School District’s Mandarin Immersion Program 2014/15 Kindergarten Enrollment School of Choice Enrollment  •  February 3-28, 2014 Bergeson Elementary School and Capistrano Unified School District are proud to provide the first publicly offered (no cost) Mandarin Chinese Immersion Program in Orange County.  It is a well-proven educational model that provides academic instruction in English…

Portland Public Schools has multiple language immerse programs. On Jan. 27 the school board voted to add four more: LANGUAGE IMMERSION: Portland Public Schools next year will see four new language immersion programs, including the state’s first Vietnamese program. Language immersion involves teaching core subjects in both English and another language to help foster bilingualism. The…

SHU REN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL AUTHORIZED BY THE INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE First Mandarin immersion school in California to be named official IB World School Berkeley/Kensington– The International Baccalaureate (IB) has authorized Shu Ren International School to offer the IB Primary Years Programme (PYP), an internationally-recognized academic framework for Pre-K and elementary level students. With this authorization, Shu Ren becomes the first Mandarin immersion IB World School in California – and one of only very few such schools in…

Exciting Opportunity for Upcoming Kindergarten Students to Enter Mandarin Chinese Immersion Program at Forest Hills Global Elementary Schools Did you know that China is the second largest economy in the world or that many U.S. companies do business in China and have long-term investments there? International businesses prefer to hire people who speak more than…

There are so few books in Chinese that middle schoolers can read and find interesting that I wanted to highlight a new one which came out recently. The Chinese Biographies series by Cheng and Tsui has just published a biography of basketball star Jeremy Lin. More about it here. The blurb reads: “Discover the story…