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, 07 Oct 2022 00:42:54 +0200 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 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOyXhUEWXMetuSRFMxTa8z4W Verona Area School District Infusing culture into education: Mandarin language program at high school aims to grow while igniting passion for China Neal Patten, Staff reporter Published on Aug 6, 2022 From: The Verona Press For programming to be successful in a community, it requires some marketing and advertising. That is just as true for school […]]]> Sun, 14 Aug 2022 01:43:07 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOyXhUEWXMetuSRFMxTa8z4W https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOzuVPT2ohcHrGw5Ur-z5Bww According to the website The Hill: A 2020 Council on Foreign Relations report notes that at the State Department, “language-designated positions overseas are 15 percent vacant, and 24 percent of those staffed are filled by officers who do not meet the minimum language requirement.” The Defense Department has over 30,000 language positions, many of which it cannot fill. This  […]]]> Mon, 01 Aug 2022 20:57:36 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOzuVPT2ohcHrGw5Ur-z5Bww https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOxKJP1biJKgHsqq6eZJzUh9 By DR. BRIAN McDONALD, PUSD Superintendent   JUNE 2, 2022 Pasadena Unified is getting ready to say farewell in multiple languages to the founding class of students who began the Dual Language Immersion Program in kindergarten. The program, started in the 2009-2010 school year has enabled students to master academic subjects in both English and a target […]]]> Sun, 24 Jul 2022 01:36:53 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOxKJP1biJKgHsqq6eZJzUh9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOxcefjoTpl6pa7VFky8BpXO The Park Record Letter to the Editor: May 1, 2022 From a student in the district Utah is the leader in Dual Language Immersion (DLI) and secondary language learning programs in the United States. Utah currently offers DLI and secondary language programs in the public school system in six different languages. Park City School District […]]]> Wed, 13 Jul 2022 18:23:39 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOxcefjoTpl6pa7VFky8BpXO https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOz6gh7jyQ2gDMfGo0LrnZNO From: WFAE | By Ann Doss Helms Published April 13, 2022 at 5:44 AM EDT Inside a newly-renovated building in a Pineville shopping center, you’ll hear young children learning in Mandarin, Arabic, Spanish and English. ILIM School, short for the International Language Immersion Montessori School, offers a new twist on a growing educational option. Language immersion means […]]]> Sat, 02 Jul 2022 21:39:13 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOz6gh7jyQ2gDMfGo0LrnZNO https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOxKI1nb3QDODtaXKMm36c-X It’s a little off-topic, but interesting that Stanford has dropped Cantonese, spoken by 70 million people in China. It’s also closer to classical Chinese, T’ang dynasty poems that don’t rhyme in Mandarin do rhyme in Cantonese, for example. Los Angeles Times April 17, 2022 BY ANH DO STAFF WRITER  APRIL 17, 2022 5:30 AM PT Laura Ng […]]]> Sun, 26 Jun 2022 07:49:21 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOxKI1nb3QDODtaXKMm36c-X 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