These photos were taken during a site visit to Star King Elementary School from the Chinese Education Conference in San Francisco. Star King was a formerly failing elementary school in the Portero District which is now one third Mandarin Bilingual Immersion, one third Spanish Bilingual Immersion and one third normal. It's quite an impressive elementary school and much better than I expected.
The school is bright, airy and has high ceiling. It sits on the top of the hill is 270 degree panoramic views.The Mandarin Immersion program started three years ago so the first class is only now in third grade. Because the large variance in the student population and the lack of native Mandarin speakers, the actual language absorption seems a little slower than other immersion programs. But the students and the faculty seems enthusiastic and it's showing definite improvement.
No faces of either the students or conference participants in these public photos.
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