Nathan Yeung, a computer scientist and web developer, has update his most excellent program for finding where on a map the closest Mandarin immersion programs are. You can now go to MandarinTreehouse.com and type in a ZIP code and get a nice map showing you all the Mandarin immersion programs within a radius of between…

West Contra Costa Unified, a school district, based in Richmond, Calif. (just north of Berkeley) will be opening a whole-school Mandarin immersion school in the fall of 2017. The school will have a whopping 72 seats for Mandarin immersion, three full Kindergarten classes! But don’t just take my word for it. See their great press…

Marin county, just north from San Francisco across the Golden Gate bridge, doesn’t have any Mandarin immersion programs. That’s surprising, given that there are more more than a dozen in the greater San Francisco bay area. Clearly some parents would like that to change, and one Mandarin-speaker is suggesting they turn to charter schools to get on…

The Sunflower State is getting its first Mandarin immersion program. The Blue Valley School District, one of districts in the Kansas City metropolitan area, is opening an entirely new, whole-school Mandarin immersion program in the Fall of 2017. The school, for now known only known as Elementary 23, will be home to a Kindergarten through fifth…

This thoughtful take on the President’s immigration executive order comes from the head of the Chinese American International School, the nation’s oldest Chinese immersion school, based in San Francisco. Too few programs teach about the history of Chinese-Americans in the United States and the terrible racism and bigotry that the community was subject to, especially the heinous Chinese…

Wishing everyone a happy Year of the Rooster. 快乐的一年的公鸡

The folks at CARLA, the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition in Minnesota have made a great video to show how it works and why it’s important.