How are English and Mandarin curriculum introduced to students at College Park and at Bayside Academy?

All students receive a differentiated, standards based, academically enriched and challenging education. Students in grades K-5 receive content-based, thematic Mandarin immersion instruction in at least half of their classes. This means that students learn to understand, speak, read, and write Mandarin and they use Mandarin to learn other subjects such as math, social studies, and science.  Students have both English and Mandarin teachers, materials, textbooks, and classrooms.  More information about the school’s Mandarin immersion program is available on the school’s website.

At Bayside Academy, the students in the Mandarin program receive two periods of instruction in Mandarin.  They then continue the rest of their classes with the other students at Bayside Academy.