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Dear parents and immersion advocates, I wanted to make sure you are aware that the school district in Burlingame, CA is actively considering implementing a Mandarin immersion program. The district recently started a Spanish immersion program that is thriving. This is the time to speak up in support of a new program. Some information is…

District shaping plans for former Burlingame school, targeting November bond to renovate it By Neil Gonzales ngonzales@bayareanewsgroup.com Posted: 02/10/2011 06:07:35 PM PST Updated: 02/10/2011 10:16:15 PM PST   The Burlingame Elementary School District has narrowed down options for the recently reacquired former Hoover School and is targeting a potential construction-bond measure for November to fund the site’s…

Are their wait pools for Mandarin immersion programs across the country? In San Francisco we’re usually able to get most families who sign up in, though they often have to wait until the actual start of school, which is pretty harrowing. Down the peninsula, the Mandarin programs are routinely full, I’m told. What happens in…

A report from the 2010 American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Conference, by the helpful folks at the Mandarin Center. This year’s ACTFL conference had a record attendance of 7,200 participants.  Only six years ago Chinese was not heavily represented, but this year Chinese presentations accounted for close to 20% of the…

American Councils for International Education is pleased to announce that the application for the Intensive Summer Language Institutes has been posted online. This program provides fully funded fellowships for U.S. classroom teachers to spend six weeks overseas studying intermediate and advanced-level Arabic and Chinese in Egypt and Mainland China. The Intensive Summer Language Institutes are…

Yu Ming Charter School is a tuition-free Mandarin immersion public charter school which will open in Fall 2011 in the East Bay. Yu Ming Charter School’s mission is to: Provide an academically rigorous college preparatory program (K-8) Graduate bilingual students via two-way dual immersion in Mandarin Chinese and English Nurture intellectual curiosity and international perspective…

  Beyond Linguistic Proficiency Students as Linguists and Ambassadors By Jeff Wang “If you want one year of prosperity, then grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, then grow trees. But if you want 100 years of prosperity, then you grow people.” Quoting a Chinese proverb, US President Barack Obama offered this toast…