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  • Mandarin in San Francisco Schools

    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…

  • A Morning of Mandarin

    What goes in on your child’s classroom? If you don’t speak Mandarin, it’s a little hard to know. What follows is a pretty direct transcription of a morning Mandarin class for second graders, to give you an idea.   A fall morning in Mrs. Chau’s 2nd grade Mandarin class, Starr King Elementary School,San Francisco  …

  • 沉浸式教育 – 一位家長的觀點

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  • English at Home – Chinese at School

    Signing your kids up for language immersion education is a leap of faith, especially if you don’t understand the language they’re going to be spending the better part of the day speaking at school. Read the whole article by Beth Weise here… http://portal.sfusd.edu/data/news/pdf/School%20Times%20-%20Winter%2009%20ENGLISH%20final.pdf

  • Read First, Write Later

    I was reading the newsletter from the CAIS (Chinese American International School) Institute, which is the non profit that CAIS put together to support Mandarin programs around the country.  There are some interesting articles in here.  I’m especially intrigued by the “Read First, Write Later” article by the head of CAIS, Andrew W. Corcoran. It’s an interesting concept.  Basically, he’s saying that…

  • U.S. Mandarin immersion programs

    This is an obsolete blog post.  We now have two entire pages dedicated to this topic.   Visit these pages for the latest information on Mandarin Immersion programs in the Bay Area and the United States… San Francisco Bay Area:  https://miparentscouncil.org/schools/ United States:  https://miparentscouncil.org/us-schools/

  • Some Chinese Factoids

    Chinese facts: Worldwide, about 40 million people are learning Mandarin, China’s official spoken language and its most common dialect. http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/24/business/yuan.php Nearly 100,000 foreigners went to China to study Mandarin in 2006, more than twice the number five years earlier. http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/24/business/yuan.php