My pleas for information about Mandarin immersion schools in New York have been answered by some helpful parents — thanks all. It’s helpful because finding information about Mandarin immersion schools in New York City isn’t easy. School web sites don’t offer up much and even schools where I’ve talked to parents and know there’s a…

Mind you, a few of them don’t launch until next academic year, but every one on my newly-updated list seems very likely to start. The ones I’m not sure of I don’t include until they’re actually off the ground. Here’s the full list: MIP list 2018-08-30. August 28, 2018    Additions and changes. ADDITIONS East Light…

August 23, 2018 From: CBS2 Live On Wednesday night, the board of trustees for the Partnerships to Uplift Communities (PUC Schools), voted to close PUC International Preparatory Academy (iPrep), located at 1800 Colorado Blvd. The closure took effect immediately Thursday. The new school year had just started up two days ago. “Where am I going…

From Global California 2030, a report written by the Communications and English Learner Support Divisions, California Department of Education. Dual-language immersion programs most frequently use English and Spanish. But California also has programs that offer English/ Mandarin, English/Korean, English/Vietnamese, and English/ Portuguese, to name a few. These programs, beginning in kindergarten, deliver instruction in both English…

This sounds like a wonderful program in Boston. Though I have to point out that it isn’t immersion. Chinese is being taught as a foreign language, for one hour a day, according to the school’s website. Which counts as what educators call FLES (Foreign Language in Elementary School.) Immersion requires that at least half the…

from our friends at CELIN, the Chinese Early Language & Immersion Network, at the Asia Society. Global Ambassadors Language Academy (GALA) Previous Kindergarten student. Celebrating Chinese New Year. Kindergarten and first grade students celebrate the last day of school at field day. 2018 Ohio Chinese speech and essay contest winners. A beautiful school mural painted…

My favorite city in North America (and that’s saying a lot as I come from Seattle) is Vancouver, B.C. Would that I spoke Mandarin, was a teacher and had a work visa. Given as none of those things are true, I put this out to the universe of Mandarin-speaking teachers who might have (or know…