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Creating curriculum in Mandarin is a huge job for most schools. Our already overburdened teachers have to not only teach a full day but also spend their nights and weekends translating and crafting lessons. For many programs this work goes on year by year as new teachers and new programs struggle to create classroom curriculum they…

Chinese Education Conference 2013 ２０１３年汉语教学研习会  Empowering Chinese Language Teachers March 2-3, 2013 Salt Lake City, Utah   Register today and save $25!  Early bird registration ends Feb 4th. Don’t miss the best conference for K-12 Chinese language teachers!   不要错过专为Ｋ－１２中文老师设计的汉语教学研习会！请您记下会期和地点：２０１３年３月２－３日，盐湖城，犹他州。汉语教学研习会是专为中文老师举办的盛会。了解研习会如何全面提高中文老师教学能力，请查看 会议网页。   Learn from Industry Experts Richard Chi                           AP and OPI Helena Curtain                    Thematic Teaching, Integrating…

CALL FOR PAPERS EXTENDED TO JANUARY 31, 2013! 8th International Conference on Language Teacher Education Preparing Language Teacher Educators to Meet National and Global Needs        May 30–June 1, 2013 George Washington University Washington, D.C.       Designed for practitioners and researchers involved in the preparation and ongoing professional development of language teachers,…

A friend from Starr King Elementary in San Francisco, my daughters’ school, moved to Beijing at the beginning of this school year. She’s working with a school there that has a Mandarin immersion summer camp which I’ve heard great things about. The program’s meant for folks who live in Beijing, but last year several families from…

Check out their Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/PAASSC And web site http://paassc.com/ Currently PAASSC is based in the San Francisco Bay area, but wouldn’t it be great if there were chapters around the country?  

Computer scientist and web developer Nathan Yeung is a student at Brigham Young University’s Dept. of Computer Science–but more importantly a dad who was looking for a Mandarin immersion program for his own kids. What he wanted to was a nice interactive map that would let him search geographically for the programs closest to his…