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  • Let Vancouver read your kids a story tonight

    The lovely folks in Vancouver Washington’s Mandarin immersion program have posted teachers reading books for kids online. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See? and other Kindergarten hits are up now. You can see their full page here.

  • Parents helping parents in Mandarin immersion

    Starr King elementary wunder-parent Judy Shei is back with her smash-hit homework help videos on YouTube. While her videos are specific to the second-grade homework done at San Francisco’s Mandarin immersion program, the model works for any Mandarin immersion school. If you’re a parent who happens to speak both languages, or even just Mandarin, this…

  • Georgia school district makes Mandarin mandatory

    Some Ga. Schools Make Mandarin Mandatory by ADAM RAGUSEA Weekend Edition Saturday EnlargeAdam Ragusea for NPRInstructor Huiling Li encourages second-grader Trinity Faulkner on the first day of Mandarin Chinese classes at Brookdale Elementary School in Macon, Ga. September 8, 2012 Public schools in Macon, Ga., and surrounding Bibb County have a lot of problems. Most of…

  • Chinese immersion school consortium gets grant

    The BYU Chinese Flagship Center is involved in various K-12 Outreach initiatives designed to create pipelines for Early and Advanced Flagship Programs. Flagship Chinese Acquisition Pipeline Project Announcing F-CAP The BYU Chinese Flagship Program in partnership with the Utah State Office of Education (USOE) has been awarded a $1million grant by the National Security Education…

  • Berkeley: Africa harvest and the Autumn Moon Festival

    Celebrating African Harvest Date: Saturday, 09/08/2012 (11:00 am – 1:00 pm) Location: Classroom Matters (2436 Sacramento, Berkeley, CA) Phone: 510-684-3827 Cost: Free for Members / $10 for non-members (cost of supplies and instructors) As the schools are preparing students for the Autumn Moon Festival PAASSC will host a Harvest event celebrating West African traditions. We…

  • Pasadena immersion teacher wins 2012 Teacher of the Year Award

        Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) teacher Tina Chan won the 2012 Teacher of the Year Award at the National Two-Way Immersion Education Conference held in Newport Beach June 27, district officials announced today. The award is conferred annually by Two-Way CABE, an association affiliated with the California Association for Bilingual Education (CABE) whose…

  • Parents’ advice on transitioning to Kindergarten

    This is a collection of advice offered to a mom whose daughter is having trouble getting comfortable in her Mandarin immersion Kindergarten. It might be useful to other parents as well: The original request: I found your group in a desperate search for some advice of some kind.  My child just started Mandarin Immersion Kindergarten…