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Middlebury College’s language summer camps are legendary. I still remember when a guy who was in my Mandarin class at the University of Washington disappeared over the summer and came back talking like he’d been in Beijing, but said he’d been in Vermont – I was very confused. I had no idea how old the…
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Cowboy State Daily, Dale Killingbeck January 27, 2025 Casper Elementary School Is Only Public School In State To Offer Mandarin In Dual Language Immersion Paradise Valley Elementary School in Casper is the only public school in Wyoming that offers Mandarin Chinese in a dual-language immersion setting where students spend half the day learning that language…
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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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