Not only does Minnesota have some of the oldest public Mandarin immersion programs in the country, it’s also got a ton of other immersion programs. Plus the excellent Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) at the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota Advocates for Immersion Network (MAIN) at http://www.mnimmersion.org. I count twelve Mandarin…

For Mandarin immersion families in the San Francisco Bay area, College Park Elementary School in the San Mateo-Foster City School District is a storied program. Founded in 2007 as a way to draw families into an under-enrolled school, the program was placed at College Park Elementary School alongside the district’s Gifted and Talented Education program.…

You can find the list by clicking the Download button below. The changes over the past two years are below that in text format. March 2022 – Additions California Avenues: Silicon Valley K – 8, private. San Jose, CA. This is the first West coast outpost of New York’s Avenues: The World School, which opened…

I know of three Catholic schools that have faced closure, added Mandarin immersion and now are flourishing. They are All Souls in Los Angeles (see below), Maryknoll in Honolulu and St. Michael’s Catholic Academy in Queens, New York. Am I missing any? All Souls World Language School in Alhambra broke ground on a new campus…

My kids are prone to say things like, “Back in the 1700s, when you were in school…” and there are days when I look at the fantastic options available to learn Chinese today and it does indeed feel like I was in college hundreds of years ago. My day job is keeping me far too…

From The Newark Post By Matt Hooke mhooke@chespub.comJan 19, 2022 Plans for a two-story addition to Downes Elementary School in Newark, Deleware, which will add four classrooms to accommodate the growing Chinese immersion program, moved a bit closer to fruition last week when the Christina School Board approved construction documents for the project. Due to…

The Asia Society’s National Chinese Language Conference is the premier conference for Chinese immersion educators. While there’s a lot about teaching Chinese in general, it’s the one conference that’s got a significant K-12 immersion track. Which isn’t to diss the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, or ACTFL, which is the other big…