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(This essay first appeared in the newsletter of the Advocates for Mandarin Education three years ago.) Immersion Program Insight 普通话沉浸式教育家长之体验 – by Renee Tan You’re in! That crucial letter from the District has arrived and …..your child will be entering a Mandarin Immersion program in the fall. You’ve toured the schools, done the research, looked…
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Nice article in the Seattle Times about their Mandarin immersion school – Beth Math lessons in Mandarin? Local schools go global In a growing number of Seattle-area classrooms, students spend half their school day immersed in a language other than English. One example is Beacon Hill International School in Seattle, where kindergartners can study in…
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The International School of Indiana plans to expand its Mandarin Chinese program. The private school started a Chinese immersion program for kindergarten students in 2009 and had plans to eventually expand it throughout the school, which teaches students in prekindergarten through grade 12 on two campuses on the Northside. Starting in 2010, students can take…
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http://www.piacs.org The mission of the Princeton International Academy Charter School is to nurture and enable young people to acquire dual language fluency in Mandarin Chinese and English within the International Baccalaureate curriculum framework. The vision of Princeton International Academy Charter School (PIACS) is to educate young people of all backgrounds consistent with the highest ideals…
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Written by Elizabeth Olson In March 2009, I went to the Chinese Language Bridge Cup Contest in San Francisco to watch my first grader participate in a poetry recital. He was contestant #478 – I couldn’t believe so many kids would show up on a Saturday morning to recite poetry! I saw a friend there…
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Congratulations to all our Jose Ortega and Starr King students who participated in the 6th Annual Confucius Institute Chinese Language Bridge Cup Competition. The names of winning Starr King and Jose Ortega students appear in the Painting/Drawing results for kindergarten and the Poetry Recital results for both native and non-native speakers. This year marks the…
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Using the last of the money from the Mayor’s Office, which was designated specifically for outreach to Mandarin-speaking families, the MIPC launched an ad this week that will run in SingTao Daily for the next two weeks, encouraging Mandarin-speaking families to consider Starr King and Jose Ortega. The purpose of the ad is also to…
