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It will be interesting to track what happens in Colorado Springs. I’ve been curious to know whether the immersion preschools come first, and create demand for immersion schools, or whether they can exist independently. Does anyone know of places where it’s gone one way or the other? Here are two immersion preschools, one in Seattle,…

Peter Kuitenbrouwer, National Post · Monday, Sept. 13, 2010 Tucked behind Toronto’s big University Avenue hospitals, Orde Street Junior Public School bustles in a four-storey red-brick schoolhouse built in 1914, boasting tall wood frame windows with solid stone sills. A beatific coronation portrait of Queen Elizabeth II hangs in the lobby, bookended by four flags…

By Elizabeth Weise, MIPC The Denver Language School has cojones. There’s just no other way to put it. On August 12 they started an entirely new school with 240 students, a little more than half in Spanish immersion and a little less than half in Mandarin immersion. And no English during the school day. None.…

The first meeting of the MIPC for the 2010-2011 school year went very well indeed. It began with a brisk sale of MIPC character placemats, t-shirts and hoodies created by JOES parent Elizabeth Olson (all available on our website as well.) Jose Ortega Elementary hosted our meeting – special thanks to principal JoLynn Washington who…

This is from a parent at Lincoln High School in San Francisco. Lincoln has long had Cantonese immersion students from Alice Fong Yu (K-8) and West Portal (K-5) feeding into it. Here are some of what they learned worked and didn’t work. It’s a useful bit of information as the newer (read: most of us)…

Another look at one of two new Mandarin immersion schools in British Columbia. This in the fun-to-say town of Coquitlam (Co-kwheet-lum), Coast Salish for “red fish up the river” (ie salmon.) ======== The Tri-City News – News Back to school, plenty of change Maillard middle school principal Andrew Graham welcomes back students Tuesday morning to…

Mandarin programs grow in B.C. schools Last Updated: Tuesday, September 7, 2010 | 11:41 AM PT B.C.’s first Mandarin language programs for kindergarten and Grade 1 students are being launched in Coquitlam and Burnaby, adding to the range of programs offered in the Vancouver area. Walton Elementary School in the Coquitlam School District launched its…