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…

This is the big one, where new data and ideas about Mandarin immersion programs are presented and discussed. The field has really matured and we know a great deal more than we did when my kids’ school first started its program  back in the Dark Ages (i.e.  2006.) It’s really one of the main go-to…

Hello to all of you who follow this blog. It’s generally directed at parents but I realize that a fair number of teachers and administrators follow it as well. I have a question for you. Is it useful for me to post information for teacher/administrator workshops? They’re not meant for parents, but as a parent…

Dr. Tara Fortune is one of the top experts in immersion and will be speaking in San Francisco on March 5th. You need to RSVP by March 4 so they know how many people are coming. Tara Williams Fortune is an immersion teaching specialist and director of the Immersion Research and Professional Development Program at…