Author: Elizabeth Weise
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What goes in on your child’s classroom? If you don’t speak Mandarin, it’s a little hard to know. What follows is a pretty direct transcription of a morning Mandarin class for second graders, to give you an idea. A fall morning in Mrs. Chau’s 2nd grade Mandarin class, Starr King Elementary School,San Francisco …
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The parents at the new Chinese School to be created at DeAvila for 2009-2010 were told last night at a Curriculum Meeting at the district office that the program has once again been changed, this time back to its original Cantonese Immersion program. The district staff recommended following: Three Kindergarten Classes, one two-way Cantonese Immersion…
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We will be having a general meeting of the Mandarin Immersion Parents Council on Thursday, April 30th from 6:00 PM until 7:30 PM at Jose Ortega Elementary School, 400 Sargent Street, San Francisco 94132. Childcare and dinner for kids provided. Please RSVP if you will be bringing children, so we know how many child care…
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The MIPC middle school committee met on March 31st. Here is a summary of that discussion. Some History The committee considered the history of the Mandarin immersion program to date, and how that’s likely to play out for middle school. Mary Jue led the discussion… The parents played a much smaller part in the decision…
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San Francisco filmmakers Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider have produced a documentary about four San Francisco language immersion students and the challenges they and their families face. It describes the programs in the SFUSD as well as the wider political landscape, including English-only issues and national security. One of the students, Durrell Laury, attends the Starr King Mandarin immersion program. The…
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Rachel Norton’s Blog on the March 24th school board meeting covered (among other things) whether the immersion program at De Avila will be Cantonese, Mandarin, or a combination of both. You can tune into parent discussions on this topic by subscribing to the De Avila google group. All of this is very interesting to San…
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Kevin Lee, the summer director at CAIS, says they have enough students who have applied from Jose Ortega and Starr King to do a summer camp strand this year using simplified characters rather than the traditional characters CAIS normally uses. CAIS has teachers and space. Based on the applications they have received to date, they…
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