Middle, high school and college students from 15 states took part in the Sing With Me Chinese Lyric Competition last year, with nine videos being chosen as the final winners. In an effort to get students engaged with Mandarin through modern music, the contest challenged students to first write lyrics and the set them to…

From the Financial Times JUNE 16, 2023, By Christina Lu Inside a sunny classroom in northeast Washington, D.C., Baby Snoopy, Thing One, Spiderman, and other children in costume are busy tucking into lunch when three visitors—including me—disrupt the feast. As I wave, awkwardly, one of the students offers a shy greeting: Ni hao.  That could be because…

Oil City News June 10, 2023 By RHONDA SCHULTE CASPER, Wyo. — Chinese ethnic groups, traditional games and food were the focus of a school-year-end Culture Day celebration among CY Middle School students. Culture Day on Thursday, June 8, honored nine years that the CY eighth graders in the Natrona County School District Mandarin Chinese…

Daily Hampshire Gazette By MERCEDES LINGLE 6/1/2023 HADLEY, Mass. — There are few graduations like the one that takes place at the Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School, where the student speakers kick off their talks in Mandarin. It’s fitting, of course, as they’ve been immersed in the language for which their school is named…

Please see a lovely photo spread here from the Mandarin immersion program at Paradise Valley Elementary School in Casper, Wyoming.

The Los Angeles Times BY JEONG PARK, ANH DO MAY 5, 2023 5 AM PT In the relaxed cadences of her native Taiwan, Kelly Chuang instructed her students to repeat after her. “Wo bu shi taiwan ren. Wo shi meiguo ren” — “I’m not Taiwanese. I’m American.” She projected the written Chinese for the phrases onto a whiteboard. “Taiwan”…

Every once in a while a new school pops up on my radar and I think, wait, what? Wasn’t there another school in that same location? Then I check my list and realize there was. I’m grateful to the Silicon Valley International School for having such a nice history section on its website to make…