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, 05 Dec 2023 09:54:13 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOwtJWbwJwX1VW0dX84dnP8Y I just heard from a teacher who had taught in the Jenks Public Schools Mandarin immersion program that the district is phasing it out and no new Kindergarten classes have begun since the 2021-2022 school year. The program was established with great fanfare in 2010. It launched at Southeast Elementary School in Jenks and fed […]]]> Sun, 19 Nov 2023 19:30:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOwtJWbwJwX1VW0dX84dnP8Y https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOzLHfgs1TXB6gC0qH-r7xlT   Lucie Krisman  Sep 13, 2023  Blue Valley task force nearly finished analyzing Chinese Immersion program A group of parents, teachers and administrators tasked with helping determine the fate of Blue Valley’s Chinese Immersion program is nearing the end of its work. For months, the group has been working toward a solution to the sustainability concerns the […]]]> Fri, 10 Nov 2023 19:05:47 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOzLHfgs1TXB6gC0qH-r7xlT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOzywUXUaurxZYvmyuk5fxzE We’re up to 389 schools. Click here to see the most recent list. Changes below: School changes: October, 2023 Additions California: Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School Anaheim Elementary School District Public, 0 – 6 Anaheim, CA Opened 2023-2024 Betty Reid Soskin Middle School West Contra Costa Unified, California Public, 6 – 8 (continuation of K – […]]]> Sun, 29 Oct 2023 18:43:28 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOzywUXUaurxZYvmyuk5fxzE https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOyUz23W2N73ne4DA87rvhPr The Verona Press, Oct. 19, 2023 Verona Area High School (VAHS) 2023 graduate Alex Prout has been studying Chinese for 12 years, and he doesn’t plan on stopping anytime soon. In kindergarten, Prout began learning at the Verona Area International School (VAIS) in the very first Two-Way Immersion Mandarin class. Through fifth grade, he spent […]]]> Mon, 23 Oct 2023 19:00:17 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOyUz23W2N73ne4DA87rvhPr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOya0cPtH2XOhe4DA87rvhPr Oil City News, Oct. 4, 2023 CASPER, Wyo. — Families from Casper’s Mandarin Dual Language Immersion program came together at Paradise Valley Park last Friday to mark the Mid-Autumn Festival, a widely celebrated occasion in many Asian countries. The Chinese government listed the festival as an intangible cultural heritage in 2006. It was made a […]]]> Mon, 09 Oct 2023 03:28:54 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOya0cPtH2XOhe4DA87rvhPr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOyosGo81SKVRe4DA87rvhPr The School District’s Mandarin immersion program is proving a help as the new students are integrated into the school system and life in America. The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. facility is expected to bring more than 1,600 new, high-tech jobs to the state. Some of the staff are coming from Taiwan though most will be […]]]> Thu, 21 Sep 2023 18:13:27 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOyosGo81SKVRe4DA87rvhPr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOy0w0x9TsRRTc4HQhe4ZUzd KSHB Kansas City Aug. 16, 2023 Parents worry about future of Blue Valley Schools Chinese Immersion Program KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Wednesday marked the first day of school for kids in Blue Valley Schools. It also marked the first time not everyone could enroll in one of the district’s unique programs. The district said it […]]]> Thu, 24 Aug 2023 01:58:52 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOy0w0x9TsRRTc4HQhe4ZUzd https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOzwpAaFcdWrLJ8v71dCn6bG I haven’t seen it yet, but it’s the kind of movie that both appeals to teens and also shows that Chinese is a real language, spoken by real people. A plus is that immersion students probably speak Mandarin better than some of the characters, so they can feel like “Well, I could do that.” ‘Love […]]]> Sun, 13 Aug 2023 19:12:47 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOzwpAaFcdWrLJ8v71dCn6bG https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOw6kU3Mjtyyi0oy9CZgXDJO Arizona has 110 dual-language immersion programs. Dual language programs for English learners are being challenged. What parents should know Daniel Gonzalez Arizona Republic, July 20, 2023 In June, Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne tried to bar students classified as English learners from enrolling in dual language programs. He sent a letter to schools threatening […]]]> Thu, 03 Aug 2023 21:45:54 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOw6kU3Mjtyyi0oy9CZgXDJO https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOz84qnJqB85Pmw5Ur-z5Bww By H.M. Cauley, June 3, 2023 Atlanta Journal-Constitution Je Yeong Yu, 52, still has vivid memories of moving to the U.S. with her Korean parents and being tossed into a first-grade classroom of where everyone, except she, spoke English. “There were no ESL programs then,” said Yu, referring to English as a Second Language classes. […]]]> Tue, 25 Jul 2023 18:26:45 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOz84qnJqB85Pmw5Ur-z5Bww https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOy02GQMFSAzqpONpYks2fGs The United States is not the only place that bans on Confucius Institutes, which often helped support Chinese teachers for immersion programs here, are going into effect. The UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has backtracked on a pledge to close down 30 Chinese state-sponsored Confucius Institutes across the country.  During his unsuccessful bid last year […]]]> Tue, 18 Jul 2023 05:03:52 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOy02GQMFSAzqpONpYks2fGs https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOy5djHxNRyUv_9M7fKGWt0o Many Chinese students will be familiar with Minnesota’s Concordia Language Villages summer immersion program. The Maplelag Resort in Callaway, Minn. was home to 森林湖・Sēn Lín Hú, Concordia’s home for the past 10 summers. By Reid Forgrave, Minneapolis Star Tribune JUNE 12, 2023 Students study Chinese at Sēn Lín Hú, Concordia Language Villages’ Chinese village, at […]]]> Mon, 03 Jul 2023 13:42:19 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOy5djHxNRyUv_9M7fKGWt0o https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOwUUhZCoyeNbABC78OgjhDM By Cory Smith | on March 22, 2023 GREENVILLE — In the wake of a large showing of community support after facing a decision to be phased out, it appears the Chinese Immersion program at Greenville Public Schools is now here to stay.  On Tuesday, Greenville Public Schools Superintendent Wayne Roedel emailed families of the […]]]> Sun, 25 Jun 2023 18:25:14 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOwUUhZCoyeNbABC78OgjhDM https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOyMPPM1iXjUFW0dX84dnP8Y Middle, high school and college students from 15 states took part in the Sing With Me Chinese Lyric Competition last year, with nine videos being chosen as the final winners. In an effort to get students engaged with Mandarin through modern music, the contest challenged students to first write lyrics and the set them to […]]]> Fri, 23 Jun 2023 03:53:50 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOyMPPM1iXjUFW0dX84dnP8Y https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOx2y1-v0ct3IJONpYks2fGs From the Financial Times JUNE 16, 2023, By Christina Lu Inside a sunny classroom in northeast Washington, D.C., Baby Snoopy, Thing One, Spiderman, and other children in costume are busy tucking into lunch when three visitors—including me—disrupt the feast. As I wave, awkwardly, one of the students offers a shy greeting: Ni hao.  That could be because […]]]> Fri, 16 Jun 2023 22:56:21 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOx2y1-v0ct3IJONpYks2fGs https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOxmuJT6TRJSITRQaTQYXBS9 Oil City News June 10, 2023 By RHONDA SCHULTE CASPER, Wyo. — Chinese ethnic groups, traditional games and food were the focus of a school-year-end Culture Day celebration among CY Middle School students. Culture Day on Thursday, June 8, honored nine years that the CY eighth graders in the Natrona County School District Mandarin Chinese […]]]> Mon, 12 Jun 2023 02:37:16 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOxmuJT6TRJSITRQaTQYXBS9 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOz_xb_LDhULKVT72x6uxjiK Daily Hampshire Gazette By MERCEDES LINGLE 6/1/2023 HADLEY, Mass. — There are few graduations like the one that takes place at the Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School, where the student speakers kick off their talks in Mandarin. It’s fitting, of course, as they’ve been immersed in the language for which their school is named […]]]> Sun, 04 Jun 2023 19:42:37 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOz_xb_LDhULKVT72x6uxjiK https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOxxQ8NR2erL9Gw5Ur-z5Bww Please see a lovely photo spread here from the Mandarin immersion program at Paradise Valley Elementary School in Casper, Wyoming.]]> Wed, 24 May 2023 15:25:50 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOxxQ8NR2erL9Gw5Ur-z5Bww https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOzgD8yuDTZtpJNaYRWadcX6 The Los Angeles Times BY JEONG PARK, ANH DO MAY 5, 2023 5 AM PT In the relaxed cadences of her native Taiwan, Kelly Chuang instructed her students to repeat after her. “Wo bu shi taiwan ren. Wo shi meiguo ren” — “I’m not Taiwanese. I’m American.” She projected the written Chinese for the phrases onto a whiteboard. “Taiwan” […]]]> Tue, 16 May 2023 05:21:49 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOzgD8yuDTZtpJNaYRWadcX6 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOw-zkXSQpzL2WW0GqTRQSgk Every once in a while a new school pops up on my radar and I think, wait, what? Wasn’t there another school in that same location? Then I check my list and realize there was. I’m grateful to the Silicon Valley International School for having such a nice history section on its website to make […]]]> Fri, 05 May 2023 21:43:20 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/3BETxahxUOw-zkXSQpzL2WW0GqTRQSgk