Dual Language Immersion Thrives in SP School District Say District Officials Published: October 22, 2015 09:18:21 AM Twenty-four kindergarten students begin their school day at Monterey Hills Elementary School like others on campus – reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and singing the days of the week. Yet, what sounds different, is the tiny group of…

CLEARFIELD, UTAH —Speaking in Mandarin Chinese, Lisa Reed asked her fourth graders to calculate what to charge their customers for a bottle of Ramune soda. And they answered in Mandarin. Reed’s students are just a few of the 2,000 students in Davis School District learning the challenging language. In four elementary immersion schools, four junior…

From our friends at the Asian Society. Seattle Mandarin Immersion Programs include programs at Beacon Hill International School, Dearborn Park International School, Mercer International Middle School Seattle, Washington. These programs are serving students in grades K-7 (and expanding), In 1995, a visionary leader, General John Stanford, took the helm of Seattle Public Schools. As he became…

Startup Oakland charter Yu Ming is flourishing By Maya Mirsky OAKLAND — What started as a simple phone call has now turned into a new job for Sue Park, the new head of school at Yu Ming, an Oakland elementary charter school. It’s exciting times for the Mandarin immersion school as it welcomes a new…

Dual-Language Programs Are on the Rise, Even for Native English Speakers By ELIZABETH A. HARRISOCT. 8, 2015 On one of the first days of class at Dos Puentes Elementary School in Upper Manhattan last month, a new student named Michelle peered up through pale blue glasses and took a deep breath. “Can I drink water?”…

I’m looking forward to speaking at Washington Yu Ying in Washington D.C. on October 7.  I had the pleasure of touring the school several years ago during the Asia Society’s National Chinese Language Conference and then wrote about it in my book, A Parent’s Guide to Mandarin Immersion. Tonight I’ll be reading from my book and talking…

This is great research to support and I highly encourage families to take Ted’s survey (it took me all of 6 minutes.) Send it out to your schools, put it in your school newsletter and on your blog, get the word out. We need more data about family motivation’s and here we’ve got a motivated young Ph.D. student to…