XinXing School Announcement in StarTribune

This article from StarTribune.com

Inside Your Schools: Chinese immersion program to begin in Hopkins schools
Patrice Relerford,

XinXing Academy, Hopkins School District's new Chinese immersion program, will hold an information session for parents at 6:30 p.m. today at Eisenhower Community Center, 1001 Hwy. 7, Hopkins.

Hopkins School District spokesperson Eileen Harvala said the district has hired two teachers and two teaching assistants for the program, which will open with two kindergarten sections in the fall. The program has 44 students registered and can handle up to 50.

The instructors, Dong Hong Wang and Qiuyue Wang, and teaching assistants Lijung Fang and Qin Meyer, are all native speakers from China with extensive backgrounds in ed! ucation, music and the arts, the district said.

XinXing staff members and Hopkins foreign language coordinator Molly Wieland have been working as a team since mid-June and will receive instruction from the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition, or CARLA. The program is run by the federal Department of Education and seeks to improve the United States' capacity to teach and learn foreign languages effectively.

For more information on the Chinese immersion program or to request an information and registration packet, call 952-988-4000 or e-mail rosemary_lawrence@hopkins.k12.mn.us.