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…

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…