The Chinese Language Association of Secondary-Elementary Schools

The Chinese Language Association of Secondary-Elementary Schools has the following as its mission:
To serve as a national nonpolitical and nonprofit professional Association of all persons interested in teaching Chinese language and cultural at Chinese at pre-collegiate levels of American schools.
Goals:
To actively promote the learning and teaching of Chinese in secondary and elementary schools in the United States.
To encourage effective articulation among Chinese Language educators across the divides of elementary, secondary, and college level instruction.
To provide a national network for the exchange of information, ideas and curricular resources related to the teaching of Chinese language and culture in the United States.
Questions about CLASS in general can be sent to: llee@ets.org.
Visit the web site at: http://www.classk12.org/.
K-12 Chinese Flagship Program

K-12 Chinese Flagship Program is a part of the National Chinese Flagship Program at OSU. The program goal is to build the infrastructure for Ohio schools to establish successful language programs leading to solid communication skills in Mandarin Chinese. The program is developing partnerships in Ohio and beyond to achieve objectives that include the following:
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Developing performance-based curriculum;
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Providing teacher training and ongoing professional development; and
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Creating a technology support system with effective Chinese language programs.
The K-12 Chinese Flagship Program is interested in supporting any school in Ohio that is offering or plans to offer Chinese language. We are building partnerships with selected schools in the 2007-08 school year to create pilot programs in Ohio, and then expanding to more schools in the following years. For more information about the program, please visit
http://k12chineseflagship.osu.edu