Eugene School District 4J’s Mandarin Chinese immersion program is the district’s fifth language immersion program and the first to be located in the Churchill region. The Chinese Immersion school opened in 2017 with grades K–1, one classroom for each grade, and is growing by one grade each year to become a K–12 program.
Chinese Immersion Program Move News (Click to expand)
Chinese Immersion Elementary School Settles Into New Home (09.22.21)
Chinese Immersion Preparing to Move in Fall 2021 (03.11.21)
Chinese Immersion has relocated its elementary grades to Kennedy Middle School, where the program will continue to grow to grades K–8. When the program grows to the high school level, grades 9–12 will be located at nearby Churchill High School.
The elementary classrooms will be grouped in one area of the Kennedy school building, with appropriately sized restroom facilities and a new playground.
Background
The Chinese Immersion Elementary School had been co-located with Family School at the former Crest Drive school site for its first few years, with a plan to later move some or all of the elementary grades to another site (either Kennedy or Bailey Hill), and continue the language immersion program through middle and high school at Kennedy Middle School and Churchill High School.
To help plan for the program’s future, the school district held preliminary discussions with Chinese Immersion and Kennedy staff and parents starting in 2018, and later surveyed location preferences with parents of Chinese Immersion students. The majority of Chinese Immersion parents identified moving the full program to Kennedy Middle School as the preferred location for the school.
After requesting and considering input from staff and parents, the determination was made in spring 2020 that the elementary school would relocate to the Kennedy building the following year. The schools’ transition teams are planning for the relocation now and periodic updates are being communicated to other staff and parents at Kennedy and Chinese Immersion.
Timeline
The elementary school program will move to its new location in summer 2021.
Spring 2020: Locations determined for relocating Chinese ImmersionCompletedSummer 2020: Preliminary discussions with staff and parents about next stepsCompletedFall 2020: Determination of locations within host buildingCompleted2020–21: Planning and preparation for school movesCompletedSpring 2021: Updates and discussion with staff and parents about next stepsCompletedSummer 2021: Renovations at KennedyCompletedSummer 2021: Relocation of Chinese Immersion and Kennedy to new spacesCompletedFall 2021: Chinese Immersion and Kennedy begin the school yearCompletedSpring 2022:Chinese Immersion at KennedyCompleted- Summer 2022: In Progress
Transition Team Updates
Transition leadership teams have been formed to coordinate the move and integration of Chinese Immersion into the Kennedy building in 2021. The teams are working in collaboration with school and district leadership to ensure that planning needs are addressed, the transition process is smooth, and the program co-location is a positive educational environment for students for many years to come.
During the year leading up to the move, the schools’ transition teams are engaging in detailed operational and facilities planning and will provide updates to school staff and parents at least monthly (during the school year) as planning progresses.
10/27/2020 Chinese Immersion and Kennedy Joint Transition Team Summary
The joint Chinese Immersion and Kennedy transition team met on October 27 to continue co-location planning. Identifying program events that could be shared between the two programs in the fall was the main topic of the meeting. The team will review the identified events to find overlapping activities that could be adopted as co-school events. The team will meet on November 24 to continue the planning process.
10/06/2020 Chinese Immersion and Kennedy Joint Transition Team Summary
The joint Chinese Immersion and Kennedy transition team met for their first 2020–21 meeting on October 6. This check-in meeting allowed the two programs to introduce new team members and review the latest space map from the district. After a brief question and answer period, the team was invited to review the map for the next meeting on October 27, and find any possible program overlaps or considerations the district might not already have identified.
6/29/2020 Chinese Immersion and Kennedy Joint Transition Team Summary
The Chinese Immersion and Kennedy transition teams met jointly for the first time on June 29. This meeting allowed the two programs to introduce their respective members and to jointly consider a new space plan put forward by the district’s facilities team in response to earlier feedback. The joint transition team reviewed the proposed space plan and had a discussion around the choice of that particular space, the needs of the schools moving forward, and how to honor spaces and classes that will need to move for the incoming program. The joint transition team resoundingly chose the new space plan, with Chinese Immersion’s elementary grades primarily housed in Building F, as their preferred option for co-locating Chinese Immersion at Kennedy. Further meetings of the transition leadership team are being scheduled starting in September.
6/3/2020 Chinese Immersion Transition Team Summary
The Chinese Immersion transition team met for the first time on June 3 regarding the move of the program to Kennedy Middle School. The team reviewed the proposed space map and discussed some operational issues, space allocation, and the identity of Chinese Immersion moving forward. Several Chinese Immersion staff were interested in reviewing the proposed space and proposed moving the space to another wing of the building. Further meetings of the transition leadership team are being scheduled for the summer and throughout the next school year.
6/3/2020 Kennedy Transition Team Summary
The Kennedy transition team met for the first time on June 3 regarding the move and program integration of Chinese Immersion in the Kennedy Middle School building. The team reviewed the proposed space map and discussed some operational issues, space allocation, funding, facility improvements and other day-to-day concerns. Several Kennedy staff spoke of the possibility of moving the proposed space to another wing of the building. The next meeting of the transition leadership team is being scheduled for the summer with a full meeting schedule to be determined in the coming days.
About the School Bond Measure
In November 2018, voters in Eugene School District 4J resoundingly passed a $319.3 million school bond measure to replace three aging school buildings, provide for program moves, and fund improvements at every 4J school, including new student technology, updated instructional materials, accessibility and equitability enhancements, security upgrades, and building repairs.
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El programa se muda: Inmersión en chino para la Kennedy
El programa del Distrito Escolar de Eugene 4J de inmersión en chino mandarín es el quinto programa de inmersión en un idioma del distrito y el primero en estar ubicado en la región de Churchill. La escuela de inmersión en chino abrió en el 2017 con los grados K-1, un salón de clases para cada grado, y está creciendo un grado cada año para convertirse en un programa K-12.
Noticias de 9/21 sobre la mudanza del programa de inmersión en chino
Noticias de 3/21 sobre la mudanza del programa de inmersión en chino
La inmersión en chino trasladó sus grados de primaria a la Secundaria Kennedy, donde el programa seguirá creciendo hasta los grados K–8. Cuando el programa alcance el nivel de preparatoria, los grados 9 a 12 estarán ubicados en la cercana Preparatoria Churchill.
Las aulas de primaria se agruparán en un área del edificio de la escuela Kennedy, con baños de tamaño adecuado y un nuevo patio de recreo.
Antecedentes
La Escuela Primaria de Inmersión en Chino había estado ubicada junto con la Escuela Family en el antiguo sitio escolar de Crest Drive durante sus primeros años, con un plan para trasladar, más tarde, algunos o todos los grados de primaria a otro sitio (ya fuese a la Kennedy o Bailey Hill), y continuar el programa de inmersión lingüística en la Secundaria Kennedy y luego en la preparatoria Churchill.
Para ayudar a planificar el futuro del programa, el distrito escolar sostuvo conversaciones preliminares con el personal y los padres de Chinese Immersion y de la Kennedy a partir del 2018, y luego encuestó las preferencias de ubicación con los padres de los estudiantes de Chinese Immersion. La mayoría de los padres de inmersión en chino identificaron trasladar el programa completo a la Escuela Secundaria Kennedy como la ubicación preferida para su escuela.
Después de solicitar y considerar los aportes del personal y los padres, en la primavera de 2020 se tomó la determinación de que la escuela primaria se trasladaría al edificio Kennedy al año siguiente. Los equipos de transición de las escuelas están planeando la reubicación ahora y se comunican actualizaciones periódicas a otros miembros del personal y padres en Kennedy y Chinese Immersion.
Cronograma
El programa de la primaria de inmersión en chino se trasladará a su nueva ubicación en el verano de 2021.
- Primavera de 2020:
Ubicaciones determinadas para la reubicación de la inmersión en chinoCompletada - Verano de 2020:
Discusiones preliminares con el personal y los padres sobre los próximos pasosCompletadas - Otoño de 2020:
Determinación de ubicaciones dentro del edificio anfitriónCompletada - 2020– 21:
Planificación y preparación para mudanzas escolaresCompletada - Primavera de 2021:
Actualizaciones y discusión con el personal y los padres sobre los próximos pasosCompletados - Verano de 2021:
Renovaciones en la KennedyCompletadas - Verano de 2021:
Reubicación de la escuela de inmersión en chino y Kennedy a nuevos espaciosCompletada - Otoño de 2021:
La Inmersión en chino en la Kennedy comienza el año escolarCompletada - Primavera de 2022:
La Inmersión en chino en la KennedyCompletada - Verano de 2022: En progreso
Actualizaciones del equipo de transición
Se formaron equipos de liderazgo de transición para coordinar el traslado y la integración de Chinese Immersion en el edificio Kennedy en 2021. Los equipos están trabajando en colaboración con el liderazgo de la escuela y el distrito para garantizar que se aborden las necesidades de planificación, que el proceso de transición sea fácil y la co-ubicación del programa tenga un entorno educativo positivo para los estudiantes durante muchos años.
Durante el año previo a la mudanza, los equipos de transición de las escuelas estuvieron participando en una planificación operativa y de instalaciones detallada y proporcionaron actualizaciones al personal de la escuela y a los padres al menos una vez al mes (durante el año escolar) a medida que avanzaba la planificación.
27/10/2020 Inmersión en chino y resumen de transición con la Kennedy
06/10/2020 Inmersión en chino y resumen del equipo de transición con la Kennedy
29/6/2020 Inmersión en chino y resumen del equipo de transición con la Kennedy
3/6/2020 Inmersión en chino resumen del equipo de transición
6 /3/2020 Resumen del equipo de transición de la Kennedy
Sobre la medida del bono escolar
En noviembre del 2018, los votantes del Distrito Escolar de Eugene 4J aprobaron rotundamente una medida de bonos escolares de $319,3 millones para reemplazar tres edificios escolares envejecidos, proporcionar cambios en los programas y financiar mejoras en cada escuela 4J, incluyendo nueva tecnología para los estudiantes, materiales de instrucción actualizados, mejoras de accesibilidad y equidad, actualizaciones de seguridad y reparaciones de edificios.
