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St. Louis Language Immersion Schools (SLLIS) is a non-profit organization founded in 2007 to develop and operate a network of charter schools in St. Louis. On February 20, 2009, the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Board of Commissioners granted the schools a 5-year charter sponsored by the University of Missouri–St ...
The school educates 1,257 students in grades K-8. In the 2022–23 school year, 804 students were enrolled in the elementary program (K-5) and 453 in the middle school (6–8). [1] [2] In 2011, the school moved to the former E.E. Waddell High School and changed its name to E.E. Waddell Language Academy.
In 2011, the HISD board approved the creation of a Mandarin Chinese-language immersion magnet school in the former Holden Elementary in the Houston Heights. [6] As of January 2012, the plans changed, and now the school was to open in Bellaire. [7] [8] In May 2012, the HISD board voted to spend $440,000 to renovate the Gordon campus.
Types of language immersion can be characterized by the total time students spend in the program and also by the students' age. Types that are characterized by learning time: Total immersion: In total immersion, the language of instruction is the students' L2, meaning that students spent 100% of the school day in their L2.
Dual language is a form of education in which students are taught literacy and content in two languages. Most dual language programs in the United States teach in English and Spanish, but programs increasingly use a partner language other than Spanish, such as Arabic, Chinese, French, Hawaiian, Japanese, or Korean.
Chinese American International School (CAIS) is an independent preschool through Grade 8 co-educational Chinese-English dual language immersion school located in San Francisco, California. [1] Preschool is full immersion, Kindergarten through Grade 5 are alternating days in conducted in Chinese. [ 2 ]
The Cherokee Immersion School (ᏣᎳᎩ ᏧᎾᏕᎶᏆᏍᏗ, Tsalagi Tsunadeloquasdi) is a Cherokee language immersion school in Park Hill, Oklahoma, with a Tahlequah post office address. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is for children during pre-school to grade 8.
Juneja’s youngest two girls are in third and fourth grade and are doing well in the 50:50 dual immersion school, meaning they are taught half the time in English and the other half in Spanish.