So glad you asked… The good people at Education Week recently published an article on that very topic. Response: Everything You Wanted to Know About Dual Immersion But Were Afraid to Ask By Larry Ferlazzo on February 17, 2018 8:32 AM The new “question-of-the-week” is: What does “dual-immersion” mean? Is it different from bilingual education?…

Close to 200 students to graduate from Norquay elementary program this year John Kurucz / Vancouver Courier MARCH 14, 2018 10:09 AM Norquay elementary’s Early Mandarin Bilingual Program began in 2011, and now the first students to enrol are graduating. Photo Dan Toulgoet Sashaying across an East Vancouver classroom floor, about a dozen elementary students…

Many districts are seeing enrollment dropping. It’s interesting to see how kids coming from immersion K – 8 charter school bolster enrollment in the St. Paul, Minn. schools. curious if other districts see this pattern as well.  St. Paul schools’ K-12 enrollment down slightly this year By JOSH VERGES | jverges@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer Press December…

I’m attending the Early Childhood Chinese Immersion Forum in San Francisco today. I’ll be posting throughout the day. Keynote speaker: Helena Curtain How immersion benefits preschool kids Remember that most children in the world are in immersion programs – because in two-thirds of the globe children go to school in a language different than the…

In the fall of 2018 the East Voyager Academy will open in Charlotte, N.C. It will be the first whole-school Mandarin immersion school in the state, joining eight others. The charter school is launching with Pre-K to Grade 4 for the 2018-2019 school year and will add a grade each year until Grade 8. It will…

From the fabulous LA School Report blog (and oh how I wish we had a benefactor that could create something similar in San Francisco!) The pertinent paragraph is this one: Of particular importance for a district struggling with persistent declining enrollment, 18 percent of the applications were for students not currently enrolled in LA Unified.…

Mandarin immersion programs do many things: they teach Mandarin-speaking students English, English-speaking students Mandarin, serve as magnets to bring middle class families to high-poverty or low-test score schools and in some districts entice families to the district itself to fill empty school seats. But balancing all those needs and desires is never easy. A case…