Author: Elizabeth Weise
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By Katie Olson These are the notes from the middle school committee meeting #3, which was held on September 7, 2009. Spanish Immersion Middle School Mary and I were at the Spanish immersion meeting on 9/7 in which they discussed their concerns. In brief, they suspect that they will graduate at least 50 more 5th…
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By Elizabeth Weise The Chinese Immersion School at DeAvila, is off to a “rocking good start,” says Nicole Hsieh, the new school’s new PTA president. The District’s fifth Chinese immersion school opened this year. It is Cantonese-English, and will introduce Mandarin in second grade. The school has three Kindergartens and two first grade classes. The…
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Monday, Aug. 24th, marked the beginning of the fourth year of Mandarin Immersion at the San Francisco Unified School District. To help incoming students and their families, parents from Starr King and Jose Ortega offer some advice on what to expect and what to do to help your child’s first weeks of immersion go well.…
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The “SFCitizen” blog has some first day of school photos from the “Chinese Immersion School at DeAvila”, San Francisco’s newest Chinese immersion program. Like Alice Fong Yu and West Portal, this school will be Cantonese immersion. As the children move to second grade, the plan is to also introduce Mandarin, with the goal of gaining…
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Check out this article from Scholastic Administrators magazine from 2007, then take a look at the list of Mandarin immersion schools under our U.S. and Bay area tabs. We’ve come a long way in just two years. www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3746848 Year of the Chinese Language Is your district or school considering Mandarin instruction? These five early adopters…
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Principal Mr. Rosenberg was a teacher at Starr King for eight years before becoming its principal five years ago, in 2003. He speaks English and Spanish and has learned to sing Happy Birthday in Chinese. He ably guides Starr King’s four strands — English, Spanish bilingual, Mandarin immersion and Special Education. “I like helping kids…
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This is excellent news, as it means when our students graduate from high school, there will be a program right here in town that will be at their level in Chinese. One problem districts with Mandarin immersion programs have found is that their students graduate above the level of most university courses, leaving them nothing…
Mandarin Immersion Parents Council 