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 Fri, 17 Sep 2021 08:07:07 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOypoR_Uja5zcyxhxzpi7FpJ The Portland, Oregon area is a hotbed of Mandarin immersion. It’s got the storied Mandarin immersion program in the Portland Public Schools as well as the International School, which offers Spanish, Mandarin and Japanese immersion, Hope Chinese Charter School. Oh, and the German International School. Die Deutsche Internationale Schule? Yes, and therein lies a tale. […]]]> Fri, 17 Sep 2021 01:37:43 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOypoR_Uja5zcyxhxzpi7FpJ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOwvYUQkvopLewaB2UxGNFpJ Oil City News By Brendan LaChance on June 15, 2021 CASPER, Wyo. — 45 fifth grade students at Park and Paradise Valley Elementary Schools in Casper have earned the “Pathway Award” for the Seal of Biliteracy, the Natrona County School District announced Tuesday. The awards are given for students who have demonstrated excellence in multiple languages. Park […]]]> Mon, 13 Sep 2021 15:52:52 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOwvYUQkvopLewaB2UxGNFpJ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOwkrJk4qzZEoCuZukmJ4mr4 NJ.com May 23, 2021 “Shēng rì kuài lè, Shēng rì kuài lè,” a chorus of about 20 elementary and middle school age students sang in Mandarin. They were lined up in the hallway of the YingHua International School on a recent weekday, holding candles. Chinese lanterns hung above as kids fidgeted around, eyeing an ice cream cake […]]]> Sat, 04 Sep 2021 14:50:43 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOwkrJk4qzZEoCuZukmJ4mr4 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOxaS--qHeTNnM4HQhe4ZUzd A Ph.D. student named Ji Ma in Language and Literacy at Georgia State University is doing a research project on how it works and is looking for teachers to interview. If your school does, perhaps you might want to forward this along to your teachers? Here’s to more research into how Mandarin immersion works best, […]]]> Wed, 25 Aug 2021 02:49:31 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOxaS--qHeTNnM4HQhe4ZUzd https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOzW1mTZisagS5JTpfXVttXD KHOU May 21, 2021 Watch video here.]]> Sun, 22 Aug 2021 04:55:45 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOzW1mTZisagS5JTpfXVttXD https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOxC4r_WkXEFTum6srrLMsqK St. Michael’s Academy Battles Hate and Fosters Healing Through Asian Studies  June 23, 2021By Paula Katinas The Tablet WINDSOR TERRACE — At a time when attacks against Asian-Americans have risen more than 300% in New York, educators at one Queens Catholic school are using Asian-themed curricula to help students learn not to hate. Administrators in some […]]]> Thu, 19 Aug 2021 00:15:25 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOxC4r_WkXEFTum6srrLMsqK https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOwcKg_KOcAqEMlTP0vptTFR This is what it looks like when the district closes your immersion program – this used to be the page on the Cave Creek Unified School District that proudly proclaimed its Mandarin immersion program. By Justin Lum May 12, 2021 FOX 10 Phoenix PHOENIX – Parents of students enrolled in a special ‘Mandarin Immersion Program’ offered by the Cave […]]]> Sat, 07 Aug 2021 21:33:32 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOwcKg_KOcAqEMlTP0vptTFR https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOysafizu91DkM4HQhe4ZUzd Natalia Alamdari Delaware News Journal June 9, 2021 After successfully reversing the district’s decision to end the Chinese immersion program at Red Clay’s Linden Hill Elementary, parents are now trying to recruit enough kindergarteners to keep the program alive. In the months since the district unexpectedly cut – and then reinstated – the program, a steering committee […]]]> Sat, 24 Jul 2021 21:47:01 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOysafizu91DkM4HQhe4ZUzd https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOx2n9gfuNaM1wp41t9tiERU The popular public school program in Minnesota draws more open-enrolled students than any other elementary school in its district. By JOSH VERGES  Pioneer Press March 9, 2021 St. Paul Public Schools is moving forward with two costly construction projects and further delaying several others following an external review of its facilities work. District leaders on Tuesday […]]]> Thu, 22 Jul 2021 01:13:04 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOx2n9gfuNaM1wp41t9tiERU https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOwz0EqhHYPBzPdczOo_8W9B Most of us with students in Mandarin immersion can’t read to our kids in Chinese, or play games with them in Chinese or do much beyond making sure they do their homework. Thankfully, a whole raft of movies are now available in Mandarin, making “Mandarin movie night” a much easier thing than it was even […]]]> Mon, 12 Jul 2021 04:49:31 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOwz0EqhHYPBzPdczOo_8W9B https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOyDkSI_98hreCxhxzpi7FpJ As they said on their annual scholarship award ceremony site, “Who would have believed that an upstart language learning experience in a prairie city would become the “best Chinese language program outside of China”? The Edmonton Public Schools, in the Canadian province of Alberta, has 2,165 students enrolled in 14 schools, 1,923 graduates and this […]]]> Sat, 03 Jul 2021 21:02:45 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOyDkSI_98hreCxhxzpi7FpJ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOwku__12G4GbkQqW5gBv7mX Global Village Academy in Northglenn returns to in-person learning The language immersion charter school began the school year remotely which was tough for many students. Byron Reed February 26, 2021 9News NORTHGLENN, Colo. — Global Village Academy (GVA) in Northglenn is a language immersion charter school that recently returned to in-person learning at the beginning […]]]> Sun, 27 Jun 2021 20:26:01 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOwku__12G4GbkQqW5gBv7mX https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOxzvTi9iT6DkZJTpfXVttXD By Julie Slama | j.slama@mycityjournals.com At Draper Elementary, a long-standing tradition has been gathering in the multipurpose room celebrating Chinese language and culture for Chinese New Year. This year, the school’s Chinese New Year celebration will look different. Each dual immersion classroom will still perform, but it will be recorded. Then, all the recordings will be […]]]> Wed, 16 Jun 2021 18:58:23 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOxzvTi9iT6DkZJTpfXVttXD https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOwT3FpVc8CNPt6jHbRcHw3s Guy Emanuele Elementary School in Union City, California has launched a Mandarin immersion program. It began in the fall of 2020. The program will use simplified characters and begin at 80 of the school day in Mandarin, 20% in English. That will gradually decline to 50/50% by 5th grade. Launching fall of 2021. Union City […]]]> Tue, 08 Jun 2021 01:26:11 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOwT3FpVc8CNPt6jHbRcHw3s https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOwSId-gjhKmygpx5_w21kha The lovely folks at Imagin8 Press have come out with a raft of new books in easy-to-read Chinese. These include some very easy books like Twenty Three Cats (二十三只猫) which has only 100 characters in it. There’s also the story of Mulan, Woman Warrior in simplified Chinese using only a 240 word vocabulary. The books […]]]> Mon, 31 May 2021 23:33:03 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOwSId-gjhKmygpx5_w21kha https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOz4rweKal79mQBC78OgjhDM A fascinating article in the Wall Street Journal from January, for those who have subscriptions. Here’s the link. For those that don’t, some highlights: As the relationship between the U.S. and China has grown more tense, the number of U.S. students studying there had declined by one-fifth since a peak in 2011-2012. The number studying […]]]> Mon, 24 May 2021 00:35:04 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOz4rweKal79mQBC78OgjhDM https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOxgwMP0TLdHjHtuT6pSmY81 In general, Mandarin immersion programs do better when they’re in a whole school environment rather than a strand within a school. That said, the Woodstock Elementary Mandarin immersion program is one of the oldest and most popular in the country and families have been moving to the Portland neighborhood for decades to take part, so […]]]> Sat, 15 May 2021 17:53:42 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOxgwMP0TLdHjHtuT6pSmY81 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOx22dH7LG2HaeGkz6RCC25z So what happens when immersion kids get to college? Here’s one pathway that’s worth knowing about. The Language Flagship is a public/private program that is an initiative of the National Security Education Program, whose mission is “to develop a pipeline of foreign language and culture expertise for the U.S. federal government workforce.” The focus has […]]]> Sat, 08 May 2021 20:21:18 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOx22dH7LG2HaeGkz6RCC25z https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOyv6RSJu5fM8UGb1Jh49AJn Centner Academy in Miami has been much in the news of late after reports surfaced that the private school refused to hire anyone who had gotten the COVID-19 vaccine, with the school’s owner falsely claiming being around vaccinated adults might harm children. That’s quite simply untrue. Unfortunately, a previous version of the Mandarin immersion school […]]]> Mon, 03 May 2021 05:53:24 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOyv6RSJu5fM8UGb1Jh49AJn https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOxeFGpYu1wSUEFW8UNEQjUn from The Daily News BATESVILLE – The Batesville Community School Corporation (BCSC) is pleased to announce it has been chosen as the 2020 recipient of the Indiana Foreign Language Teachers Association (IFLTA) Wide World Award for Distinguished Dual Language Immersion (DLI) Program, according to BCSC Assistant Superintendent Melissa Burton. “Our Mandarin dual immersion program is […]]]> Sun, 25 Apr 2021 16:29:33 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOxeFGpYu1wSUEFW8UNEQjUn