Follow Mandarin Immersion Parents Council, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/mandarin-immersion-parents-council Tue, 07 Feb 2023 09:27:56 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOzC9vUEGlKxSUGT5aWO9DEx Located in a suburb of Kansas City, the Blue Valley Schools’ inaugural language immersion program began in the 2017-18 school year at Wolf Springs Elementary. A second Chinese Immersion site, Valley Park Elementary, welcomed its inaugural class during the 2018-19 school year. The district has said there was strong community interest in Chinese, it’s a […]]]> Fri, 03 Feb 2023 18:44:41 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOzC9vUEGlKxSUGT5aWO9DEx https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOzrD5_c7tBr5M4HQhe4ZUzd A nice essay about one northern California family’s first five years in Mandarin immersion. Thanks to Devra for allowing me to repost her essay. When we enrolled our daughter in a Mandarin immersion charter school five years ago, no one in our family could speak a word of Chinese. We have no family connections or […]]]> Wed, 01 Feb 2023 03:47:41 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOzrD5_c7tBr5M4HQhe4ZUzd https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOwf0bwv23pbT84HQhe4ZUzd 新年快乐! 春节快乐! Happy year of the Rabbit. Lunar New Year is a time to visit family, eat special foods, make dumplings, hand out red envelopes or see a special program at your Mandarin immersion school. Here in San Francisco, where 33% of students are Asian, it’s also an official school holiday The glory of Chinese New Year […]]]> Mon, 23 Jan 2023 00:21:42 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOwf0bwv23pbT84HQhe4ZUzd https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOxKW5tHzploazRQaTQYXBS9 Out of 356 California Distinguished Schools announced this month by State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, nine were either Mandarin or Cantonese immersion. They include: Alameda Yu Ming Charter, K – 8 Alameda County Office of Education El Dorado Hills Buckeye Union Mandarin Immersion Charter, K – 8 Buckeye Union School District Palo Alto Ohlone […]]]> Fri, 13 Jan 2023 19:44:37 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOxKW5tHzploazRQaTQYXBS9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOxzkStGmB_YLWw5Ur-z5Bww Note that the Red Clay Consolidated School District has had a Mandarin immersion program for several years, but has chosen to phase it out due to low enrollment, according to the District. It appears enough parents want to continue to have Mandarin immersion available in the district that they’re trying to get a charter school […]]]> Sat, 07 Jan 2023 20:33:55 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOxzkStGmB_YLWw5Ur-z5Bww https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOzZu5xnBsQYfETXPGaG87AR This is a post from MassINC, a Massachusetts non-profit made up of civic and business leaders seeking to provide “accurate, thorough, and unbiased data to inform policymaking.” Their goal is to produce public policy research focused on building ladders to the middle class for all Massachusetts residents They define “gateway cities” as “Gateway Cities as […]]]> Wed, 21 Dec 2022 18:51:49 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOzZu5xnBsQYfETXPGaG87AR https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOxX0O-Wm5oWZEZPHFZJLI3I Anchorage School Board says immersion programs will not be cut to save money By Lex Yelverton, Anchorage Daily News Published: Nov. 16, 2022 ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – In a major update on the budget cuts that the Anchorage School District is considering, the Anchorage School Board announced that the district’s language immersion programs will not be axed. […]]]> Mon, 05 Dec 2022 01:03:33 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOxX0O-Wm5oWZEZPHFZJLI3I https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOxd7F1QkUWdFLmyhX6zo8SW I’ve just updated my Mandarin Immersion school list, which you can click on here. Below please find the most recent updates to the list, including additions, changes and deletions. As always, if you find an error, please contact me so I can correct it. School changes November 2022 update: Additions California: Hidden Valley Elementary in […]]]> Wed, 23 Nov 2022 03:22:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOxd7F1QkUWdFLmyhX6zo8SW https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOzusxyOOW7xGnKSkciKEY1s Learning another language at a young age in eastern Idaho Carly Flandro, IdahoEdNews.org RIGBY (IdahoEdNews.org) – Lorena Reyes remembers feeling different when she was a kindergartner. The daughter of Mexican immigrants, she only spoke Spanish, and there weren’t many other kids like her. “I felt like the odd duck out, like I didn’t belong,” she said. That […]]]> Tue, 22 Nov 2022 23:16:29 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOzusxyOOW7xGnKSkciKEY1s https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOw2RdOsXbf7heQEmsPXZ5C9 Anyone in my house knows there will be fun Christmas presents under the tree, but that also, hiding somewhere in all that wrapping paper, there will be at least one book for each person. Because books matter and can change your life. Plus they’re fun. Talk to me about science fiction sometime and how it […]]]> Mon, 14 Nov 2022 03:19:09 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOw2RdOsXbf7heQEmsPXZ5C9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOyHGTHWqEKPqIMOI2eu70Rg By David Whisenant Published: Aug. 21, 2022 WBTV CABARRUS COUNTY, N.C. (WBTV) – Cabarrus County Schools (CCS) will open their ninth middle school to the public on Monday, Aug. 22nd, with a 2pm dedication ceremony at Roberta Road Middle School. Public tours of the new facility, located at 4850 Roberta Rd, Concord, North Carolina will begin at […]]]> Sun, 06 Nov 2022 22:09:12 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOyHGTHWqEKPqIMOI2eu70Rg https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOygflrfb7FJDVT72x6uxjiK [Note: This is the school featured in the New Yorker article that was published last week.] Yu Ming Charter School was founded in 2011 in Oakland, California and was the first Mandarin immersion charter in the state. The tuition-free public charter school is open to all residents of California and serves students from Kindergarten through […]]]> Thu, 27 Oct 2022 02:58:18 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOygflrfb7FJDVT72x6uxjiK https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOyTPeWAJdHJbWZMehmtHS8- The New Yorker on Mandarin immersion: Why Oakland Parents Are Flocking to a Chinese-Immersion School The success of Yu Ming Charter School shows how our usual ways of thinking about diversity and equity in American schools are becoming outmoded. The New Yorker By Jay Caspian Kang October 18, 2022 It’s a long and fascinating article that […]]]> Wed, 19 Oct 2022 20:22:10 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOyTPeWAJdHJbWZMehmtHS8- https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOwXLx5CRW3C9UTXPGaG87AR SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Three decades ago, finding opportunities to learn Cantonese in San Francisco wasn’t hard. But today in the city that’s drawn Cantonese speakers from South China for over 150 years, there’s fear that political and social upheaval are diminishing a language that is a cultural touchstone. The Chinese government’s push for wider […]]]> Sun, 16 Oct 2022 00:38:24 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOwXLx5CRW3C9UTXPGaG87AR https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOzA6j0RogxU2WsGk81fO-bN San Diego News, Sept. 16, 2022 Students in the Mandarin language programs at PBMS had a taste of the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival on Sept. 7 and 8 as they prepared and then feasted upon their own mooncakes. A rich pastry typically filled with sweet beans, egg yolk, or custard, mooncakes are traditionally eaten throughout the […]]]> Tue, 04 Oct 2022 18:24:16 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOzA6j0RogxU2WsGk81fO-bN https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOw49oCYhOEXb1e5jCclomp- Sept. 13, 2022 By Jillian Atelsek AP In the spacious basement of her Urbana home, Li Zhou commanded rapt attention from the preschoolers sprawled on the carpet before her. She read to them from a picture book about kindness. The book was written in English, but before turning each page, Zhou would speak to the […]]]> Sun, 25 Sep 2022 15:51:32 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOw49oCYhOEXb1e5jCclomp- https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOzsqFgJgSKrmMfGo0LrnZNO Pasadena’s Mandarin immersion program launched in 2010 at Eugene Field Elementary. By the In the 2019 -2020 school year, it served students from Kindergarten through fifth grade with 484 students enrolled. The district also offers Spanish and French immersion. And because Pasadena has a significant Armenian community, it has recently added Armenian immersion.  Pasadena Unified […]]]> Mon, 19 Sep 2022 05:31:28 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOzsqFgJgSKrmMfGo0LrnZNO https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOy4HDZSwn3-MSVCAQLB0bf5 If your kids start bringing home drawings of lanterns, talking about the Goddess of the Moon or describing lotus seed cakes in class, then you know it’s time for the Mid-Autumn Festival. For folks who didn’t grow up in families that celebrated what’s also known as the Moon Festival, here’s a little background. The holiday […]]]> Mon, 12 Sep 2022 19:51:40 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOy4HDZSwn3-MSVCAQLB0bf5 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOzFHtD3eqte57kdRKkm2PJP While most American parents probably wouldn’t want to send their kids to boarding school in Malaysia, it’s interesting to see what’s popular with parents on the other side of the globe. Epsom International School is a “British-inspired” boarding school in Malaysia, founded in 2014 by a Malaysian businessman who had been educated at Epsom College […]]]> Fri, 09 Sep 2022 02:28:33 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOzFHtD3eqte57kdRKkm2PJP https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOxcsPFvAz7hdcfGo0LrnZNO Mandarin immersion program opens at Hidden Trails Elementary By Josh Thompson, The China Champion August 27, 2022 Forty-eight kindergarten students and their families attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday afternoon for the Chino Valley Unified School District’s first Mandarin Dual Language Immersion (DLI) program at Hidden Trails Elementary School in Chino Hills.  “This is the first […]]]> Sat, 27 Aug 2022 18:19:52 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOxcsPFvAz7hdcfGo0LrnZNO