Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) teacher Tina Chan won the 2012 Teacher of the Year Award at the National Two-Way Immersion Education Conference held in Newport Beach June 27, district officials announced today. The award is conferred annually by Two-Way CABE, an association affiliated with the California Association for Bilingual Education (CABE) whose…

This is a collection of advice offered to a mom whose daughter is having trouble getting comfortable in her Mandarin immersion Kindergarten. It might be useful to other parents as well: The original request: I found your group in a desperate search for some advice of some kind.  My child just started Mandarin Immersion Kindergarten…

Interesting that they extend the school day by two hours. I wonder how they managed to pull that off, in most district you would run afoul of union rules. By MICHELLE LIU Enlarge image Credit tanlaoshi/youtube Szu-Ming Li teaches her students in the King Chinese Immersion program. 20 percent. That’s the percentage of people in the United…

St. Louis Language Immersion just opened a full Mandarin Immersion program, starting with Kindergarten and first grade.  They will add one grade each year thru 5th and then also have a SLLIS-wide middle and high school to continue Mandarin at least 20% until graduation.  They are also working on IB degree for the founding Spanish…

Compiled by awesome San Francisco dad Sebastian Courtemanche: ====  I created a compilation of free streaming videos in Mandarin which I grouped according to age and type. Feel free to add your own to the list. Please review the material to be sure that it is appropriate for your particular children as I have not reviewed…

The original request: I found your group in a desperate search for some advice of some kind.  My child just started Mandarin Immersion Kindergarten and is having a rough time with the transition.  We had a good first week but now are in the beginning of week 3 and it is getting harder instead of…

By Tara Williams Fortune Over nearly half a century, research on language immersion education has heralded benefits such as academic achievement, language and literacy development in two or more languages, and cognitive skills. This research also exposes some of the challenges that accompany the immersion model, with its multilayered agenda of language, literacy and intercultural…