Mandarin in Minnetonka By Elizabeth Weise Minnetonka, Minnesota is an excellent example of how a school district used language immersion to fill seats that otherwise would have been empty, in a state where every student has the right to apply to any public school. In addition students in the district’s immersion programs show higher test…

Mandarin Institute and the University of Utah Confucius Institute invite you to the Chinese Education Conference 2013 Empowering Chinese Language Teachers March 2-3, 2013 Salt Lake City, Utah Utah State Office of Education invites you to preconference school visits and workshops Friday March 1, 2013. CEC is the premier conference dedicated to Chinese Language Teachers…

I’d love to know if the placement of the MI program at Gordon Elementary kept the school open. –Beth Posted: Friday, December 7, 2012 4:00 am | Updated: 8:46 am, Fri Dec 7, 2012. By Examiner staff Condit Elementary, Mandarin Chinese Language Immersion School at Gordon and Grady Middle School are among the first 17 of 40 schools scheduled…

Demand for French education surges in Louisiana By Stacey Plaisance Associated Press / November 16, 2011  NEW ORLEANS—The wave of Hispanics who flooded the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina doesn’t appear to have dampened Louisiana families’ demand for their children to get a French education. There’s a waiting list at all 29 of the state’s public French…

Lingo’s Market is a one-of-a-kind app that transforms mundane shopping excursions into multi-lingual, educational experiences. Lingo the Dragon goes shopping along with your child teaching vocabulary and word recognition for over 100 words as he eats his way through the market. Parents can control the language that their children view and hear as the app…

How teaching world languages can help meet the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). by Heather Singmaster “I have two long antennae,” the student at the front of the class said, in Chinese. “Are you a snail?” asked another student, also in Chinese. “No! I have three body parts and six thin legs.” “An ant?” quipped…

Carla Summer Institutes 2013 The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) at the University of Minnesota has sponsored a summer institute program for second language teachers since 1996. This internationally known program reflects CARLA’s commitment to link research and theory with practical applications for the classroom. Each institute is highly interactive and includes…