Language Immersion Elementary School Fostering Young Global Ambassadors By Taylor Bruck Cleveland March 16, 2021 CLEVELAND — Some native English-speaking children in northeast Ohio have the unique experience of attending school where all their work is in another language, and they absolutely love it.  What You Need To Know According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in the…

I’ve updated my list of Mandarin immersion schools in the United States. We’re now up to 343 schools that are either open now or will open by fall of next year. You can click this link to see the full list. Here are school changes on the list, which I last updated in July: October…

For folks who didn’t grow up in families that celebrated what’s properly called the Mid-Autumn Festival, here’s a little background. It’s that time of year again, when hockey-puck but delicious cakes appear in shops, students learn poems and people gaze at the moon and think of far-away loved ones. It’s a traditional celebration held on…

The Portland, Oregon area is a hotbed of Mandarin immersion. It’s got the storied Mandarin immersion program in the Portland Public Schools as well as the International School, which offers Spanish, Mandarin and Japanese immersion, Hope Chinese Charter School. Oh, and the German International School. Die Deutsche Internationale Schule? Yes, and therein lies a tale.…

Oil City News By Brendan LaChance on June 15, 2021 CASPER, Wyo. — 45 fifth grade students at Park and Paradise Valley Elementary Schools in Casper have earned the “Pathway Award” for the Seal of Biliteracy, the Natrona County School District announced Tuesday. The awards are given for students who have demonstrated excellence in multiple languages. Park…

NJ.com May 23, 2021 “Shēng rì kuài lè, Shēng rì kuài lè,” a chorus of about 20 elementary and middle school age students sang in Mandarin. They were lined up in the hallway of the YingHua International School on a recent weekday, holding candles. Chinese lanterns hung above as kids fidgeted around, eyeing an ice cream cake…

A Ph.D. student named Ji Ma in Language and Literacy at Georgia State University is doing a research project on how it works and is looking for teachers to interview. If your school does, perhaps you might want to forward this along to your teachers? Here’s to more research into how Mandarin immersion works best,…