Mandarin Immersion Parents Council
Information for parents of kids in Mandarin immersion education
Tag: Immersion Programs
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The MIPC maintains two Yahoo groups: one for San Francisco topics, and one for topics of national interest. We have started to see more activity on the national group and recently Michele from St. Paul, Minnesota posted a very nice description of her school. I thought it would be interesting to start a blog…
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Order t-shirts and sweatshirts with the cool new SFUSD Mandarin Immersion logo! Each t-shirt purchased contributes $5 toward Mandarin Immersion Parents Council projects, such as providing Chinese books for the classrooms. Click on the image to order. NOTE: Only t-shirts are available right now. Sweatshirts will hopefully be added in March. Notes on sizing: According…
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The “SFCitizen” blog has some first day of school photos from the “Chinese Immersion School at DeAvila”, San Francisco’s newest Chinese immersion program. Like Alice Fong Yu and West Portal, this school will be Cantonese immersion. As the children move to second grade, the plan is to also introduce Mandarin, with the goal of gaining…
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Check out this article from Scholastic Administrators magazine from 2007, then take a look at the list of Mandarin immersion schools under our U.S. and Bay area tabs. We’ve come a long way in just two years. www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3746848 Year of the Chinese Language Is your district or school considering Mandarin instruction? These five early adopters…
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Our Mandarin Immersion Programs: How are they Organized? By Elizabeth Weise Wendy Cheong is the Mandarin curriculum coordinator for the San Francisco Unified School District. A classroom teacher for 20 years, she was born and raised in Taiwan before moving to the United States in middle school. Together with the Mandarin teachers at Starr King…
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A reader of the MIPC blog recently told me she was interested in Mandarin education for her daughter. She is willing to consider either private or public school and is willing to move to a district if it offers a Mandarin immersion program. She asked for information about all the Mandarin programs in the…
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Rachel Norton’s Blog on the March 24th school board meeting covered (among other things) whether the immersion program at De Avila will be Cantonese, Mandarin, or a combination of both. You can tune into parent discussions on this topic by subscribing to the De Avila google group. All of this is very interesting to San…
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