Mandarin Immersion Parents Council
Information for parents of kids in Mandarin immersion education
recent posts
- Where Language Meets Opportunity: Inside an Arizona Mandarin Immersion Program
- California schools that need foreign workers for teacher jobs can’t afford new visa fee
- A look at an Australian Mandarin immersion school
- British Columbia’s Mandarin immersion program to be cut
- An NPR story about Yu Ying Public Charter School in Washington DC
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A new career. A new school.And a very inconvenient new crush. I’m not sure I could have envisioned, back in 2005 when I first started going to meetings with the San Francisco Unified School District about starting a Mandarin immersion programs here, that twenty years later I’d be reading a romance novel set at a…
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Dual Language Programs Empower Students with Bilingualism Seattle Public Schools: January 8, 2025 Seattle Public Schools offers K-12 dual language immersion pathways in Spanish, Japanese, and Mandarin Dual Language Programs Empower Students with Bilingualism It’s time for math at McDonald International Elementary, and Miwa Casper is breezing through her lesson with ease. The 5th-grade Japanese immersion…
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There are districts (and indeed whole states) that do K-12 language immersion well. New York City, Portland, Oregon. Minnesota. Utah (which has immersion is on steroids). And then there’s Alaska. I’m not sure how I missed just how remarkable their program is. Anchorage is a city of 286,000 and the Anchorage School District serves approximately…
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There’s a new, gaping hole in the Mandarin immersion world and an ad hoc group of educators has come together to try to fill it. Their first effort is a survey of Mandarin immersion schools – and they’re asking parents and staff in those schools to help. Shuhan Wang has been active in Chinese language…
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SOUTH PASADENA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT (SPUSD) JANUARY 3, 2025 In the past decade, research has shown that learning a second language at a young age increases cognitive flexibility and translates into higher achievement across subject areas for students. Students who participate in dual language immersion programs demonstrate grade-level academic ability, well-developed language and literacy skills in…
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The Lafayette Parish School Board voted on Wednesday to shutter the Chinese immersion program at Cpl. Michael Middlebrook Elementary School, bringing the language program to an end after 14 years. The board voted 4-3 to close the program, which will cease operation at the end of this school year. Middlebrook Elementary saw a decrease in 114 students…
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Cherrywood Elementary School in San Jose, California is recommended for closure in 2025-2026 due to declining enrollment. The school’s Mandarin Dual Immersion Program is a concern for the school district and community. It’s not entirely clear to me this is happening, not seeing any decisions but the program is accepting applications for the 2025-2026 school year. If…
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