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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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Speaking In Tongues: 4 kids, 4 languages, 1 city, 1 world Come see Starr King’s own Durrell Laury, one of the stars of this new documentary. The San Francisco Unified School District invites you to attend a special screening of the stunning documentary by San Francisco filmmakers Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider. Speaking in Tongues…
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The parents at the new Chinese School to be created at DeAvila for 2009-2010 were told last night at a Curriculum Meeting at the district office that the program has once again been changed, this time back to its original Cantonese Immersion program. The district staff recommended following: Three Kindergarten Classes, one two-way Cantonese Immersion…
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San Francisco filmmakers Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider have produced a documentary about four San Francisco language immersion students and the challenges they and their families face. It describes the programs in the SFUSD as well as the wider political landscape, including English-only issues and national security. One of the students, Durrell Laury, attends the Starr King Mandarin immersion program. 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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By Elizabeth Weise “There is no greater gift you can give your child than the gift of early bilingualism,” immersion expert Dr. Myriam Met told an audience of almost 200 parents in San Francisco on March 16. Children’s brains are pre-wired to learn language, a skill that has already begun to fade by ninth grade…
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