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 Sat, 25 Jun 2022 12:11:57 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOxBTKkKyvepFcfGo0LrnZNO Fox Carolina By Brookley Cromer Published: Mar. 22, 2022 at 4:25 PM PDT GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) – Is your child interested in learning a second language? A Greenville charter school is offering something that’s rare in South Carolina and enrollment is open for next year. Speaking a second language is second nature for students at East […]]]> Sun, 19 Jun 2022 22:58:48 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOxBTKkKyvepFcfGo0LrnZNO https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOzhk8lqcYoyn-GrEXdXG_66 LAist, by Josie Huang, June 6, 2022 Chinese and Vietnamese are, after Spanish, the most commonly spoken non-English languages in California, but they’re rarely taught in public schools because there’s not enough teachers to do the job. The state issued nearly 1,200 bilingual accreditations in the 2020-2021 school year, but only 63 were for Mandarin […]]]> Fri, 10 Jun 2022 23:56:51 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOzhk8lqcYoyn-GrEXdXG_66 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOyspukZuzCn2pu9CxXrVx4c Some highlights: Delaware now offers Chinese immersion in 13 schools to 1,300 students. In the Mandarin program, students take the AP exam in 9th grade and then can take college-level Chinese classes in high school, allowing them to graduate one course short of a Chinese minor. Of the 100 students who began in the first […]]]> Tue, 31 May 2022 21:59:34 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOyspukZuzCn2pu9CxXrVx4c https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOxCq8HlIubQcAm0QkxGtqLL A Whole Site Modernization project is underway for Barnard Mandarin Magnet Elementary School at 2445 Fogg St. The school offers a Mandarin Chinese immersion program giving students from K-5 instruction in core academics in both English and Mandarin Chinese. The cost of Whole Site Modernization is projected to exceed $15 million with an anticipated construction […]]]> Mon, 23 May 2022 21:51:12 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOxCq8HlIubQcAm0QkxGtqLL https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOzZ6stpMvlvEwp41t9tiERU Remaining monolingual is a surefire way for America to fall behind BY GLENN C. ALTSCHULER AND DAVID WIPPMAN, OPINION CONTRIBUTORS 05/15/22 8:30 In a multilingual world, the United States remains a mostly monolingual country. Even though roughly 70 million Americans speak a language other than English at home, almost 80 percent speak English only. In Europe, […]]]> Tue, 17 May 2022 03:57:22 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOzZ6stpMvlvEwp41t9tiERU https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOxLKezPmoRbXm0dX84dnP8Y The article below says All Souls is the only Catholic elementary school in the country offering a dual-language immersion program featuring Spanish and Mandarin. That’s indeed true. There are however two other Mandarin immersion Catholic schools, St. Michael’s Catholic Acadamy in Flushing, New York and Maryknoll School in Honolulu. — Dual language immersion program brings […]]]> Sat, 07 May 2022 20:38:14 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOxLKezPmoRbXm0dX84dnP8Y https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOxAJLawqg0lYhhSCv31NykC O.B. Gates Elementary School in Chesterfield County, Virginia, launched its Mandarin immersion program in the fall of last year, making it the first program in the state. That brings us up to 68% of states having at least one Mandarin immersion program. These are the 16 states that still don’t have one: AlabamaArkansasConnecticutIowaKentuckyMaineMississippiMontanaNebraskaNew MexicoNorth DakotaPennsylvaniaSouth […]]]> Wed, 04 May 2022 04:16:07 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOxAJLawqg0lYhhSCv31NykC https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOwFIVRIYAitSe4DA87rvhPr This coming weekend the National Chinese Language Conference will take place virtually. Hundreds of Chinese teachers and school staff will be in attendance – it’s not too late to sign up, so if you were wondering what to get your Mandarin immersion teacher as a year-end present, well, it’s one possibility beyond yet another Target […]]]> Thu, 21 Apr 2022 01:22:53 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOwFIVRIYAitSe4DA87rvhPr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOyR6b5f1gGj9-4sICfMfkNm Not only does Minnesota have some of the oldest public Mandarin immersion programs in the country, it’s also got a ton of other immersion programs. Plus the excellent Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) at the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota Advocates for Immersion Network (MAIN) at http://www.mnimmersion.org. I count twelve Mandarin […]]]> Mon, 11 Apr 2022 20:34:24 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOyR6b5f1gGj9-4sICfMfkNm https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOyxD2xGkwtc9kQqW5gBv7mX For Mandarin immersion families in the San Francisco Bay area, College Park Elementary School in the San Mateo-Foster City School District is a storied program. Founded in 2007 as a way to draw families into an under-enrolled school, the program was placed at College Park Elementary School alongside the district’s Gifted and Talented Education program. […]]]> Wed, 30 Mar 2022 15:15:55 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOyxD2xGkwtc9kQqW5gBv7mX https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOzjsgDhhSEZr1e5jCclomp- You can find the list by clicking the Download button below. The changes over the past two years are below that in text format. March 2022 – Additions California Avenues: Silicon Valley K – 8, private. San Jose, CA. This is the first West coast outpost of New York’s Avenues: The World School, which opened […]]]> Thu, 17 Mar 2022 01:59:32 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOzjsgDhhSEZr1e5jCclomp- https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOxLgdGfig1QQApx5_w21kha I know of three Catholic schools that have faced closure, added Mandarin immersion and now are flourishing. They are All Souls in Los Angeles (see below), Maryknoll in Honolulu and St. Michael’s Catholic Academy in Queens, New York. Am I missing any? All Souls World Language School in Alhambra broke ground on a new campus […]]]> Fri, 11 Mar 2022 20:02:53 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOxLgdGfig1QQApx5_w21kha https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOzwWTh5YWDJweGkz6RCC25z My kids are prone to say things like, “Back in the 1700s, when you were in school…” and there are days when I look at the fantastic options available to learn Chinese today and it does indeed feel like I was in college hundreds of years ago. My day job is keeping me far too […]]]> Sun, 06 Mar 2022 05:18:43 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOzwWTh5YWDJweGkz6RCC25z https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOzzJA04ggqw-hKeetMRuZbW From The Newark Post By Matt Hooke mhooke@chespub.comJan 19, 2022 Plans for a two-story addition to Downes Elementary School in Newark, New Jersey, which will add four classrooms to accommodate the growing Chinese immersion program, moved a bit closer to fruition last week when the Christina School Board approved construction documents for the project. Due […]]]> Sun, 27 Feb 2022 04:33:55 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOzzJA04ggqw-hKeetMRuZbW https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOyUc1ZzL7d83qrkJyTkC_2b The Asia Society’s National Chinese Language Conference is the premier conference for Chinese immersion educators. While there’s a lot about teaching Chinese in general, it’s the one conference that’s got a significant K-12 immersion track. Which isn’t to diss the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, or ACTFL, which is the other big […]]]> Thu, 24 Feb 2022 02:02:11 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOyUc1ZzL7d83qrkJyTkC_2b https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOwgyXxuO8cbvXtuT6pSmY81 Forest Hills Public Schools in Michigan is looking to hire an Elementary School Principal for Meadow Brook Elementary. Meadow Brook Elementary is a K-4 building that houses both traditional and Mandarin Immersion programs and classrooms in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The application deadline is the end of the month, I believe. The link to apply to […]]]> Sat, 19 Feb 2022 02:49:26 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOwgyXxuO8cbvXtuT6pSmY81 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOzXTJG0sntdbUGb1Jh49AJn The American Council on Teaching Foreign Languages has a report out,  Making Languages Our Business:  Addressing Foreign Language Demand Among U.S. Employers. It’s especially useful now, when it’s not easy to go there to work or study in China. This might make it seem as if Chinese is not useful, but it is! Note the […]]]> Wed, 16 Feb 2022 20:16:33 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOzXTJG0sntdbUGb1Jh49AJn https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOyygWRjc07q-68qfTAM-Smm One of the great things about having kids in Mandarin immersion is you get to celebrate the Spring Festival with about 2 billion people around the globe. It’s also when news sites tend to write about their local Mandarin immersion programs because adorable kids + fun costumes + “Wow, they speak Mandarin” is always a […]]]> Wed, 09 Feb 2022 21:38:04 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOyygWRjc07q-68qfTAM-Smm https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOzD5WVCcIkb13CrAHWlao0B Back in 2010, I began this blog when my daughters were in grade school. As we’re just about to Chinese New Year, here’s the first post I ever wrote. Here’s a reprint from that first post. Happy Year of the Tiger to all the Mandarin immersion parents out there. February 26, 2010 It’s a standing […]]]> Sat, 29 Jan 2022 21:21:47 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOzD5WVCcIkb13CrAHWlao0B https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOwABdfviCDu5jHgrmwRGUK6 It astounds me sometimes when I heard of people denigrating immigrants who speak their home language with their kids, or who say immersion programs keep kids from learning English. Truth be told, retaining a home language is very, very hard and requires a ton of work and persistence. The amazing thing is that second-generation children […]]]> Sat, 08 Jan 2022 03:53:50 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOwABdfviCDu5jHgrmwRGUK6