SCHOOL NEWS – New principal takes over at Barnard Mandarin Magnet Elementary School   by San Diego NEWS staff  September 29, 2022 Kinglsey Chao moved from New York to San Diego in August to become the principal of Barnard Mandarin Magnet Elementary School. Chao said he and his older brother are “first generation Chinese Americans.” His…

Students at Orion Alternative School (formerly John Gill Elementary) in Redwood City, California took home prizes in this year’s Chinese Bridge Competition. The speech, poetry reading and talent competition is sponsored by the Chinese Consulate of San Francisco and took place in June. You can see some of the award-winning performances here.

As school district fight post-COVID student losses, dual language immersion programs can be a powerful force to attract families, even from other districts. According to the article below: From the very beginning, the program began to attract students from outside the district. This year, 39 students from outside the district are enrolled in the Vietnamese…

The Music, Math Multilingual Christian Academy opened in Greenville, South Carolina this year, offering Mandarin immersion for Kindergarten through 5th grade. The school’s website says “We equip students to become competent global leaders who strive for academic excellence, moral character, community involvement, and love for Christ.” This makes it only the second Christian, Bible-based Mandarin…

Located in a suburb of Kansas City, the Blue Valley Schools’ inaugural language immersion program began in the 2017-18 school year at Wolf Springs Elementary. A second Chinese Immersion site, Valley Park Elementary, welcomed its inaugural class during the 2018-19 school year. The district has said there was strong community interest in Chinese, it’s a…

A nice essay about one northern California family’s first five years in Mandarin immersion. Thanks to Devra for allowing me to repost her essay. When we enrolled our daughter in a Mandarin immersion charter school five years ago, no one in our family could speak a word of Chinese. We have no family connections or…

新年快乐! 春节快乐! Happy year of the Rabbit. Lunar New Year is a time to visit family, eat special foods, make dumplings, hand out red envelopes or see a special program at your Mandarin immersion school. Here in San Francisco, where 33% of students are Asian, it’s also an official school holiday The glory of Chinese New Year…