Note the bit about creating a curriculum. Presumably it’s not focused on K-12 immersion but rather high school, but even so, perhaps some will trickle down to our Mandarin immersion programs. – Beth Beth When U.S. President Barack Obama announced the 100,000 Strong Initiative in November 2009, setting the goal of sending 100,000 American students…

Interview: Schoolyard Scuffles Posted September 16, 2015 by The Argonaut in News LAUSD Board of Education President Steve Zimmer on the winner-take-all attitudes that are hurting public schools Steve Zimmer, who represents the Westside on the LAUSD board and is now its president, says the California Charter Schools Association has taken “a combat approach” to…

I love it that the school’s name is 景美, which means Beautiful View in Mandarin. And of course the city it’s located in, Bellevue, also means Beautiful View. -Beth   == A new “beautiful view” — Jing Mei School starts off the school year in a new space Posted on 10 September 2015. Jing Mei, the only…

Federal official tours addition at Chinese Immersion school By DAVE EISENSTADTER HADLEY — Lian Duan, a middle school math teacher at the Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School, has a large classroom on the fourth floor of the school’s new addition — but it wasn’t always that way. Her situation when she started teaching for…

Pomona Unified launches Mandarin-English language immersion class for kindergartners Kindergarten teacher Jie Gao, right, helps Gabriella Carrillo, of Pomona, with her class work in the new English-Mandarin Dual-Language Immersion program at Pantera Elementary School in Diamond Bar, CA, Thursday, August 27, 2015. (Photo by Jennifer Cappuccio Maher/Inland Valley Daily Bulletin) By Monica Rodriguez, Inland Valley…

I’m giving a talk for parents tonight for the Friends of Mandarin Scholars. They’re the parent group for College Park Elementary School, the Mandarin immersion program in San Mateo County, south of San Francisco. Looking forward to it – I spoke at their Gala fundraiser in the spring and it was *quite* the party I was…

Please excuse an earlier version of this post, in which I said the charter had been rejected. Someone had sent me the older articles saying it had been rejected and as I was searching San Jose and not WeiYu, it didn’t immediately pop up. Sorry for the confusion. Yes, there IS a Mandarin immersion charter opening in…