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…

Note: I know several school districts where families raise money to send a few teachers to this conference every year, as it’s really the home for cutting-edge Mandarin immersion information. REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN FOR THE 2019 NCLC The 12th annual NCLC will be held from May 9–11 in San Diego, California at the Sheraton…

Chinese New Year is Feb. 5, and Lego is ready. The Danish company is offering two Chinese New Year-themed sets. But parents in the United States won’t have seen them in stores because they’re sadly only available in the Asia Pacific region. If you happen to have friends heading to China et al it could…

A military spending bill signed by President Donald Trump in August limits funding from the U.S. Department of Defense for Chinese language programs at schools that also host Confucius Institutes, which are Chinese government-funded nonprofits that promote Chinese language and culture. The provision of the National Defense Authorization Act requires schools to separate  Confucius Classroom teachers,…