Wei Yu International Charter School is a new Mandarin immersion public charter school opening Fall 2017 with K and 1st classes in West San Jose, CA. Please visit their website at http://weiyucharter.org. The school will also hold an information on Saturday, Nov. 12. Sign up for info here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1112-wei-yu-info-session-tickets-27334712862

Chinese immersion programs aim to give students cultural, academic, job advantages By Gabriella Vukelic For the Arizona Daily Star Mamta Popat / Arizona Daily Star Kindergarten teacher Lucy Lin asks Greta Reyerson, left, a question in Mandarin during a half-day kindergarten class at Sunrise Drive Elementary School, one of two schools in the Tucson area…

Dual language immersion programs will grow at LAUSD with or without Prop. 58 LA School Report The majority of  Vista Del Valle Dual Language Academy students in San Fernando don’t have just one teacher, they have two. And they don’t have just one classroom, they have two, where they spend half their day learning in English…

From LA School Report How Prop. 58 could change California classrooms View this story in Spanish Carolyn Phenicie | October 28, 2016 Proposition 58 certainly isn’t the highest-profile among the 17 ballot questions facing California voters this fall — those would probably be the proposals to repeal the death penalty or legalize marijuana. It isn’t…

  We all know that Mandarin isn’t the only language spoken in China. And even Mandarin is composed of multiple dialects. Here’s a fun version of Let It Go done in 26 of them. The translation is … interesting … at times, not sure it’s the official version. But fascinating to hear.

If anyone in the DC or Maryland area wants to come, I’ll be talking at an event at the University of Maryland-College Park on Oct. 8th. The event is free and open to all. However the parent-specific portion will begin around 2:30. If you’re a parent and you can come, please come up afterwards and say…

Sometime last winter I conceived of a passion to send my kids to China for the summer. Okay, not the whole summer. We didn’t want to be rid of them. we just wanted to find some kind of a summer program where they’d spend a few weeks speaking only Chinese. The primary motivation was our oldest, whose…