Mandarin Immersion Parents Council

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  • A Request from Tammy Radmer, SFAME

    From Tammy Radmer, SF/Advocates for Multilingual Excellence, Monroe Elementary and James Lick Middle School Spanish Immersion Parent To my listservs & blind carbon copied folks, Okay, I know some of you are flinching at the thought of yet another evening meeting, and have no tolerance for another dry presentation on the merits of immersion, but you…

  • Immersion Night with Dr. Met

    Monday, March 16, 2009 – 6:00-7:30pm James Lick Middle School 1220 Noe Street, 25th Street and Noe Street An interactive and inspirational evening with Dr. Myriam Met Dr. Myriam Met, an international speaker and educator, is a renowned expert on foreign language programs with an emphasis on immersion programs. How fluent do students become? Does…

  • MIPC Meeting Notes

    Items discussed at the meeting of February 20, 2009 1) We have a website: Miparentscouncil.org 2) Summer Camps offering Mandarin 3) Mandarin Immersion Parents Council committees 4) CAIS Chinese Education Conference March 13th- 15th 5) Next Meeting: An evening with Mimi Met, March 16th , time and location TBD 6) Summer trips to China Website…

  • Next Meeting – Friday February 20 at 5:30

    The San Francisco Mandarin Immersion Parents Council will be meeting on Friday, February 20, 2009 from 5:30 to 7:30. Where Starr King Elementary School 1215 Carolina St, San Francisco, CA 94107 Bungalow B (in the playground) Childcare Childcare and dinner for children provided via a generous grant from  the Mayor’s Office Agenda Summer Activities How do you…

  • MIPC Becomes Official

    In the MIP Parents workshop at Jose Ortega on January 23rd, several parents stepped forward to propose that we form a slightly more organized group dedicated to promoting Mandarin education in the San Francisco public schools.  This was the genesis of the Mandarin Immersion Parents Council.  At that meeting, the group chose a president (Beth…

  • New Multilingual Master Plan

    Imagine San Francisco with a public French immersion school. A public Russian immersion school. Spanish and Chinese immersion schools in each quadrant of the City, with enough seats for all comers. Imagine every elementary school in the district offering at least 30 minutes per day of a second language to every student whose family chooses…