Letter: Mandarin Immersion Program Not Centrally Located by Dana Point Times on July 1, 2016 Susanne Dachgruber, Capistrano Beach  There have been troubling developments for families in the southern part of the district that have their children enrolled in the Mandarin Immersion Program (MIP) at Bergeson Elementary School in Laguna Niguel. MIP was founded by a San…

As incoming Kinder parents begin to think about how this Mandarin immersion thing they’ve signed up for is actually going to work, many programs around the nation are getting them a copy of A Parent’s Guide to Mandarin Immersion as a one-stop reading guide to language immersion. Both schools and parent associations have purchased copies for their new…

I got an email a bit ago from a writer who’s also the adoptive mother of a Chinese son. She’s got a young adult novel out that might be of interest to Mandarin immersion students. From the book blurb: Thirteen-year-old Chinese adoptee Cal Vandiver resides in California with his adoptive parents, plagued with an ever-present fear…

Public language immersion school set for August opening DOUGLAS J. GUTH | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 08, 2016 A bilingual dream five years in the making is about to become reality for Global Ambassadors Language Academy (GALA) founding director Meran Rogers. Rogers’s new foreign language immersion school will open its doors on August 3, welcoming approximately 100 kindergarten and first-grade students…

The San Francisco Unified School District Mandarin programs is in four schools. The two elementary schools are Starr King and Jose Ortega. Starr King has two MI classes per grade, Jose Ortega one. Both feed to Aptos Middle School which in turn feeds to Lincoln High School. With the growing popularity of Mandarin immersion preschools…

July 23, 2016 PLEASE NOTE THAT THE SURVEY IS NOW CLOSED. Thanks to everyone who took part! =====   We invite you to take ten minutes to take the first-ever national survey of Mandarin immersion families. Our goal is to help programs nationwide better understand what parents want out of these programs and how they’re…

World language immersion program expands in Delaware By Jobina Fortson  May 24, 2016 WYOMING, Del. – Elementary school students in the Caesar Rodney District sang songs in English, Spanish and Mandarin on Tuesday. They were all in grades K- through fourth. Each of the students began Delaware’s world language immersion program in kindergarten. It started four years ago. Dr.…