Mandarin Immersion Parents Council
Information for parents of kids in Mandarin immersion education
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Broadway Elementary school, in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles, launched its Mandarin immersion program in Sept. of 2010 with two Kindergarten classes.
For the 2011-2012 year, the program has been so successful that they’re adding two more, for a total of four Mandarin immersion Kindergartens and two first grade classes.
“The Mandarin immersion program is going very, very well,” says Broadway principal Susan Wang. “It’s brought in a bunch of the most wonderful parents on Earth, they help out on everything. Broadway has been here since 1924 and now with the new parents coming in we have a booster club for the first time in its history.”
This year the school was able to raise a stunning $20,000 to support school programs, in just the organization’s first year. Its Spring Festival alone raised $13,000.
All four Kindergarten’s for next year are filled, with a total of 96 students, says Wang. But she’s creating a waiting list for families who may not be able to take their place. For more info about the school, go to its website here.
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The school district in Orinda, Calif (a northern suburb of San Francisco) is exploring the possibility of starting a Mandarin immersion program in one of its elementary schools. The School Board has opened the discussion but doesn’t necessarily believe there will be be 20 students who want to start a kindergarten class there in the fall of 2011.
The Board is also concerned it may be difficult to find a Mandarin teacher with qualified CA credentials.
If you are have a preschool aged child(ren) and interested with the program, or, a qualified Mandarin teacher to teach K-8th grade, looking for a job, please email the parent spearheading the new program, Sufei Liew, at info@OrindaMIP.org
You can check out their website-in-progress at
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UPDATE: Based on available funds, tuition assistance consideration will be given to all applicants. Please distribute this message to colleagues and friends? Ask them to register online ASAP to reserve a seat before it’s too late.
Dear Friends,
The Mandarin Institute in conjunction with STARTALK will offer a K-12 Chinese Teacher Preparation Program to teachers from the U.S. and the Greater China area. It is an unparalleled opportunity for new Chinese language teachers and teachers who are new to teaching in US classrooms, to gain concrete classroom experience teaching American students. For qualifying teachers, the tuition fee ($1600) will be waived. Please help us spreading the word.Teachers will learn the critical skills they need to be innovative and successful in the classroom and to facilitate high quality Chinese language programming in their schools. This training enables participants to practice what they have learned in authentic American classrooms with real students at the same level as they are going to teach. This program emphasizes “hands-on” training, ensuring that theory is presented in collaboration with the application for a comprehensive training experience. Critical communication skills will be learned through interacting with real school administrators, teacher peers and parents.
Dates: August 1 – August 5, 2011
Location: Chinese American International School
150 Oak Street, San Francisco, CA 94102Application Deadline: June 24, 2011
Register at http://www.mandarininstitute.org/STARTALK2011_Teacher today!
Contact Benson Zhao bzhao@MandarinInstitute.org (415)861-0966 for more information.Benson Zhao
Program Manager, Mandarin Institute
44 Page Street, Suite 403
San Francisco, CA 94102
Tel: 415-861-0966
Fax: 415-861-0266
http://www.MandarinInstitute.org
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The Capistrano Unified School District (CUSD) in Orange County, California is interested in starting a Dual Language Mandarin Chinese Immersion Program and would like to start it for the kindergarten class of 2012-2013.
That means the District is recruiting students. Please forward this to anyone you know who may be interested.
Capistrano Unified School District is considered South Orange County. They will accept students from outside the district.
Interested families may contact cicusd@hotmail.com if interested or have any questions.
For future updates:
Online Yahoo Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OC_Mandarin_Immersion/Or their web site at
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From the sound of it, St. Paul will be getting a new Mandarin immersion Kindergarten class added into an already existing Spanish immersion school. Is this correct? Just checking.
From MinnPost.com
St. Paul’s Spanish immersion school celebrates 25 years
By Joe Kimball | Published Fri, Jun 3 2011 7:18 am
It was 25 years ago that the St. Paul school district opened its Spanish immersion school in the old Webster Elementary building. Students at the Adams Spanish Immersion Magnet School have been speaking Spanish all day, in all of their subjects, ever since.
Today the district celebrates the quarter-century anniversary of the program with a 5:30 p.m. event at the school, 615 S. Chatsworth St.
District Superintendent Valeria Silva will be there; she was once principal of the school and is a big fan of the immersion programs:
“I am proud of our tradition of immersion programs in St. Paul Public Schools,” Superintendent Silva said. “Immersion programs give students a global perspective and have proven to help students succeed. And we are excited to expand immersion programs as we introduce a Kindergarten Mandarin immersion program this coming school year. ”
The Spanish program started with two grades in the old Webster School, now known as the Barack and Michelle Obama Service Learning Elementary School. Today, the Adams program has 728 students, who can move from the elementary program into Spanish immersion programs at Highland Junior High and Highland Senior High.
And since the opening of Adams, the district has added dual-language programs in French, Hmong and Mandarin.
Article here.
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From CentralJersey.com
The controversial Princeton International Charter School will have to wait until at least next month for the zoning Board of Adjustment to make a decision on their its application.
According to members of the zoning board, the meeting will tentatively take place July 7 at the Senior Center at the Municipal Complex on Route 522.
”There is no way we are coming to a conclusion (on the application) tonight,” zoning board chairman Martin Hammer said during the June 2 meeting.
More than 200 people attended the meeting, which took place at the Senior Center because more than 300 people attended the April 14 meeting, causing the crowd to spill out into the foyer and outside the Municipal Building.
Although there was a large crowd to hear the application Thursday night, during the meeting those gathered were mostly silent and attentive to the testimony presented by the applicant, 12 P & Associates, LLC. 12 P & Associates LLC, who will lease space in the former liquor warehouse to both the PIACS charter school and a private school, own the 11-12 Perrine Road building.
PIACS is a Mandarin immersion school where 170 K-2 students from the South Brunswick, Princeton, and West Windsor-Plainsboro districts are planned plan to attend.
The private school sharing the Perrine Road facility, YingHua Language School, is also a Mandarin immersion school, according to the PIACS website.
Please read more here.
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