I spent some time last week going through all the emails and updates that have come in about various schools and input them all in to the master Mandarin immersion school list. I also spoke with several people in New York City about what schools there do and don’t offer Mandarin immersion and updated that…

A guest post by Mary Field in San Antonio, Texas.* I did a little bit of or back of the envelope math the other day, and I found that about half of my current Mandarin students speak Spanish at home with at least one parent. When I worked in Austin, I noticed a similar trend.…

It is not easy to figure out which New York City public schools offer Mandarin immersion, as it’s a big district with a lot of schools and a lot going on. Also, the district lists programs as dual-language immersion which are primarily aimed at students who come into the district speaking Mandarin and who are…

Every year the Asia Society holds its annual National Chinese Language Conference. It’s the go-to conference for Chinese teaching and has become a hotspot of Mandarin immersion information. I’ve only gotten to attend one but I learned a ton and for anyone in the field it’s truly not to be missed. This year it’s in…

Please find below a lovely essay on Chinese New Year by Jeff Bissell, the head of the Chinese American International School in San Francisco, the country’s oldest Mandarin immersion program. If you have thoughts on Chinese New Year, your school or Mandarin Immersion in general, please send them along. I am eager to run guest…

Mandarin Chinese language immersion school now enrolling for fall 2018 in Charleston area By Paul Bowers pbowers@postandcourier.com Feb 8, 2018 At East Point Academy in West Columbia, students raise their hands to answer a question. A similar public charter school, East Light Academy, is set to open in Berkeley County in the fall of 2018…

Whittle launched Avenues: The World School in New York a few years ago. It’s billed as having two programs, one Mandarin immersion and one Spanish immersion. I can’t speak to the Spanish immersion side, but I’ve heard from some parents that it’s debatable whether the Mandarin immersion side is, in fact, immersion. The website says…