I hope everyone has a great Spring Festival, with lots of good food, lucky money and family time.    

This is one of the things immersion students can do when they get to college. It’s a cool program.  Associated Press Dec 4, 2019 By RIHAM FESHIR MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — When Clare Murphy mentioned the phrase “hit the hay” in her Chinese language exchange class, some were confused and others were amused. But Murphy thought…

The Language Flagship is a national program that works to design, support and implement advanced language education. It works with colleges to create advanced language treating and learning opportunities in critical languages such as Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, and Turkish. The Flagship network is made up of 31 Flagship programs at 21 institutions…

A brief from CELIN, the Chinese Early Language & Immersion Network This is an interesting paper on how schools can integrate their Chinese and English sides, Worth reading for anyone in a school that deals with these issues. It is written by Jeffrey Bissell, Head of School at Chinese American International School in San Francisco,…

  A computer science-focused early college high school could come to western Wake County From the News & Observer Nov. 26, 2019 In the face of increasing charter school competition, the Wake County school system wants to add a specialized high school in Morrisville and additional language immersion elementary schools across the district. Wake County…

  From the Fort Collins Coloradoan By Kelly Ragan Oct. 22, 2018 Kari Anne Calarco didn’t grow up learning a second language. Now, as she works to learn French as an adult, she hopes to make it easier for her two young sons. Calarco’s oldest son, 7, began learning French and some Mandarin while he…