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 Francisco Public Schools Mandarin immersion program work there as counselors, so I’ve been hearing about it for a few years now. Local Mandarin immersion families also sometimes host kids…

For those near San Francisco, this is a helpful workshop for administrators and teachers. Saturday, March 30, 2019 888 Turk Street, San Francisco 94102 Early childhood is an especially critical time for language learning, giving even more urgency for Chinese immersion educators to access one another and the collective wisdom of practictioners in this exciting, developing…

A new book by Dr. Chan Lü, a professor at the University of Washington (my alma mater and where I learned whatever small bit of Chinese still exists in my brain.) A book that explores the learning of Chinese as a non-native language among schoolchildren in Chinese immersion education This book examines one-way foreign language…

The Chinese Lunar New Year is February 5th this year, though the celebration will continue for a full two weeks in China. If your children are in a Chinese immersion school, they’ll be making pig masks and learning about the Spring Festival, as it’s sometimes called, and hopefully eating some great goodies.  Each year Jeff Bissell,…

Glenwood Elementary to become language immersion magnet school From The Tar Heel By Jake Richard Change is coming to Glenwood Elementary after the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education voted to convert Glenwood into a magnet school with an emphasis on its Mandarin language immersion program. The program, which teaches students half of their…

Chinese Immersion Program introduces ‘new worlds’ to county students From: The Cumberland Times-News JEFFREY ALDERTON  Oct 16, 2018 CUMBERLAND — Chinese educators visiting Braddock Middle School Tuesday expressed pleasant surprise that a Chinese Immersion Program is offered in the Allegany County Public Schools system. “We visit mostly charter and independent schools every month, mostly on the…

I don’t normally post job openings, partly because there would be so many and partly because Mandarin immersion teachers are so hard to find that it’s kind of evil to poach a teacher. That said, principal positions don’t come open very often, so it seems a slightly different thing and appropriate for someone looking to…