Author: Elizabeth Weise

This is what it looks like when the district closes your immersion program – this used to be the page on the Cave Creek Unified School District that proudly proclaimed its Mandarin immersion program. By Justin Lum May 12, 2021 FOX 10 Phoenix PHOENIX – Parents of students enrolled in a special ‘Mandarin Immersion Program’ offered by the Cave…

Natalia Alamdari Delaware News Journal June 9, 2021 After successfully reversing the district’s decision to end the Chinese immersion program at Red Clay’s Linden Hill Elementary, parents are now trying to recruit enough kindergarteners to keep the program alive. In the months since the district unexpectedly cut – and then reinstated – the program, a steering committee…

The popular public school program in Minnesota draws more open-enrolled students than any other elementary school in its district. By JOSH VERGES  Pioneer Press March 9, 2021 St. Paul Public Schools is moving forward with two costly construction projects and further delaying several others following an external review of its facilities work. District leaders on Tuesday…

Most of us with students in Mandarin immersion can’t read to our kids in Chinese, or play games with them in Chinese or do much beyond making sure they do their homework. Thankfully, a whole raft of movies are now available in Mandarin, making “Mandarin movie night” a much easier thing than it was even…

As they said on their annual scholarship award ceremony site, “Who would have believed that an upstart language learning experience in a prairie city would become the “best Chinese language program outside of China”? The Edmonton Public Schools, in the Canadian province of Alberta, has 2,165 students enrolled in 14 schools, 1,923 graduates and this…

Global Village Academy in Northglenn returns to in-person learning The language immersion charter school began the school year remotely which was tough for many students. Byron Reed February 26, 2021 9News NORTHGLENN, Colo. — Global Village Academy (GVA) in Northglenn is a language immersion charter school that recently returned to in-person learning at the beginning…

By Julie Slama | j.slama@mycityjournals.com At Draper Elementary, a long-standing tradition has been gathering in the multipurpose room celebrating Chinese language and culture for Chinese New Year. This year, the school’s Chinese New Year celebration will look different. Each dual immersion classroom will still perform, but it will be recorded. Then, all the recordings will be…