I recently spoke to parents at Hudson Way Immersion School in New York City and at their campus in Stirling, New Jersey. One question that came up from several families where at least one parent speaks another language was the value of raising bilingual children. There is a great deal of research showing it’s excellent…

Update: I’ll be meeting in San Francisco with the owner of the SkyKids Taiwan camp this weekend. If anyone has questions, please send them on to me. Beth ==== Sky Kids is a Taiwanese-run summer program that takes place in San Francisco for  students from China and Taiwan.  Several high school students from the San…

From our friends at The Asia Society’s Chinese Early Learning and Immersion Network Barnard Asian Pacific Language Academy San Diego, California Serves students in grades K-5 www.barnardelementary.com Barnard Asian Pacific Language Academy, located in beautiful San Diego, California, is the only public school in the San Diego Unified School District that offers Mandarin immersion. In…

Greenville Public Schools Chinese Immersion Program From our friends at The Asia Society’s Chinese Early Learning and Immersion Network Greenville Public Schools Chinese Immersion Program http://www.gpsjackets.org/academics/chinese-immersion-program Greenville Public Schools is located in one of Michigan’s prime living areas, between Grand Rapids and Lansing. The district includes the city of Greenville and parts of seven townships…

Unlike even a few years ago, more and more books are becoming available that are both readable by Mandarin immersion students and also age-appropriate. That’s great news, because reading has long been the downfall of MI kids, there just wasn’t anything they could read that was also fun to read. I call it the Captain…

I’ll admit to getting almost misty-eyed about this one. I first talked to the fantastic principal at Broadway Elementary in Los Angeles not long after their program began. And now those little first graders are heading to high school next year. Kudos to Susan Wang for her foresight all those years ago and her perseverance…

There’s only one other Mandarin immersion school in the state of Florida right now, in Palm Bay, about half way between Orlando and Miami. It’s the Palm Bay Academy, a charter school. This would be the second. Pinellas Park is on the Gulf side of Florida, near Tampa.  Fundraiser set for new tri-lingual immersion school…