中国在怀俄明州 Natrona County school board OKs dual-language immersion in one school  By ELYSIA CONNER Star-Tribune staff writer (7) Comments Dual-language immersion could start in 2014 A program to teach students for half a day in a second language is still on the table, but it would start a year later than proposed in recent…Read more Casper…

Anthony Pollreisz, K2 Radio The Natrona County School District will go forward with an optional dual-language immersion pilot program slated to be implemented next school year. The amended curriculum approved Monday night would utilize two class sections of 22 kindergarten students at Paradise Valley Elementary School. In the pilot program, participating kindergartners would spend half…

[April 9 update: Wyoming will be getting its first Mandarin immersion program in 2013-2014, at Paradise Valley Elementary School.] As educators from across the nation meet in Boston at the National Chinese Language Conference this weekend it seemed a good time to look at the current landscape of Mandarin immersion schools in the United States.…

There’s trouble in Tinseltown. Mandarin trouble. And boy am I getting emails about it. Here’s what’s up. Broadway Elementary School on Los Angels’ west side, is home to a wildly popular Mandarin immersion program, Launched in 2010 it’s proven so enticing that in the last two years they’ve enrolled FOUR classes of incoming Kindergarteners. Which was…

A program by the stellar folks at the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition in Minneapolis. Definitely a must-attend for newer programs. Immersion 101 for Chinese and Japanese An Introduction to Immersion Teaching June 24–28, 2013 (Teacher Session) June 24–25, 2013 (Admin Session) New Chinese or Japanese immersion teachers and administrators will receive a research-based introduction to the…

I won’t be attending this conference but would love to run reports from any parents, teachers or principals who are. If you’d like to be a correspondent, email me. Beth On the Main Stage April 7–9, 2013 | Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel Just confirmed for NCLC 2013: Chinese-American comedian Joe Wong (黄西)! Joe has…

I post these not to frustrate those who *don’t* live in Orange County, but rather so you can see the sorts of places that tend to put together these kinds of summer camps. For those in areas where Mandarin immersion is fairly new and summer activity camps haven’t gotten started yet, this could give you…