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  • Middle school is often a language desert for immersion students.

    Like many Mandarin immersion programs (and immersion programs overall), Sacramento, California’s seven dual-language immersion programs do a great job through fifth grade. The district offers one Mandarin program, one in Cantonese, one in Hmong and four in Spanish. As this Sacramento Bee article says, everything stops in middle school: “While the elementary school programs are…

  • Two big immersion conferences coming, one in May and one in October

    There are two national conferences of interest to Mandarin immersion teachers and administrators and both are taking place this year. One is the Asia Society’s National Chinese Language Conference, which this year is happening on May 2, 2024, in Mountain View, California. It’s the 17th annual conference this year and registration is open. The other…

  • Oregon’s Palisades World Language School opens new public Mandarin Chinese program

    Lake Oswego Review, By Mia Ryder-Marks, Jan. 7, 2023 Starting in September 2023, students at Palisades World Language School will be walking the hallways and chatting with their friends in English, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese. This fall, Palisades will add a Mandarin Chinese language program to its roster, which already includes Spanish, for kindergarten and…

  • Massachusetts sister write bilingual kids mystery

    New England Public Media On a late afternoon in Hadley, Massachusetts, a small crowd of kids and their grown-ups are in the children’s room at the public library, listening to sixth grader Emma Barrett and Belley Barrett, in second grade, read from their new, bilingual book, Sister Detectives. The two sisters illustrated and wrote the…

  • ‘They can come out of school with this gift’: Utah educator makes waves in language immersion

    From: The Spectrum, St. George Utah LAURA GERSONY   USA TODAY NETWORK17 hours ago Jill Landes-Lee is one of the nominees for USA TODAY’s Women of the Year program, a recognition of women who have made a significant impact in their communities and across the country. The program launched in 2022 as a continuation of Women of the Century, which…

  • Want to fill up your school district? Add immersion!

    Like many school districts, St. Paul Public Schools in Minnesota has struggled with enrollment decline. But the addition of language immersion programs, which now include Spanish, Mandarin, French, German and Hmong, For the first time since 2018, St. Paul Public Schools’ enrollment decline was barely noticeable. The district schools that have added the most students…

  • A conference on immersion education

    This might be of interest to teachers and program administrators. The 9th International Conference on Immersion and Dual Language Education will be held October 2-5, 2024 in Salt Lake City, Utah at the Grand America Hotel. Inclusive of all languages, program models, and educational levels, the 2024 conference brings together researchers and practitioners from the U.S.…