Millions of parents across the United States find themselves effectively homeschooling their children during the shelter in place orders necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s doubly hard for parents whose native language isn’t English, of course, and much has been written on that. But for parents with children in Mandarin immersion who don’t themselves speak…

  From The Lexington Ledger April 6, 2020 East Point Academy P.E. Teacher surprises students during time of social distancing West Columbia, SC – Wearing a panda onesie, and playing upbeat music from a speaker, East Point Academy P.E.Coach, Elease Anderson, surprises students from a safe distance on their birthdays. One such student was 10-year old…

  As we’re all sheltering in place and trying to tele-school our kids, here’s a story from a few months ago about what Mandarin immersion looks like in Singapore. While students who come from Mandarin-speaking families study Mandarin in school as a class, but the kind of immersion we have in the U.S. isn’t a…

It’s hard enough for parents who are suddenly in charge of their kid’s education at home. Even harder when that education is in a language they don’t necessarily speak. By Blythe Bernhard St. Louis Post-Dispatch  Millions of parents started new jobs last month — as substitute teachers. When schools shut down in mid-March to help…

From Patch, Nov. 1, 2019 HOBOKEN, NJ — An international school in Hoboken where 80 percent of the daily lessons are taught in a foreign language recently gave a big shout-out to diversity, peace and justice at an on-campus event. On Oct. 24, Tessa International School celebrated United Nations Day, which acknowledges the U.N. charter…

Argh. Yet another headline that misses the distinction between dual-language immersion and bilingual programs. Thankfully the article itself is much more nuanced than the headline [And note that it’s from 2017, but it seems to suddenly have popped back up in Facebook so I’m seeing discussion of it on several immersion lists.] Bilingual programs are…

I wrote previously this school year about the San Francisco Unified School District’s decision to end true immersion past 5th grade by no longer offering content courses taught in Mandarin (or Spanish or Cantonese) in middle school. But there’s good news in that at least for this year and next year, SFUSD will continue to…