Welcome to Yinghua Academy

Thank you for visiting our website.  Yinghua Academy is the first Chinese immersion school in the Midwest – and the first Chinese immersion charter public school in the U.S.  We are located in St. Paul, Minnesota, at 1355 Pierce Butler Route.

Exciting News about the Yinghua Academy Building

We are delighted to announce that Yinghua Academy will be moving to the former Putnam School building at 1616 Buchanan Street NE in Minneapolis for the 2009-2010 school year and beyond!

After considerable work over the past seven months, we now have a number of legal agreements that ensure that we will be moving to the New Yinghua Building this summer.

More detailed information will be provided to Yinghua families, as it becomes available.

Curriculum Conference and Teacher Professional Training

Join the administrators and experienced immersion teachers at Yinghua Academy, the first Chinese immersion charter public school in the U.S., for two days of practical training and discussions on topics such as teaching in U.S. culture, designing curriculum maps and developing concise lesson plans, applying teaching strategies, managing your classroom and commincating with parents.

If you would like to register for this conference, or would like more information, please contact Jennifer at (651) 379-4112 or jennifer@yinghuaacademy.org or click on this link. --> "Curriculum Conference and Teacher Professional Training"   


Summer Camp

Explore Chinese culture and language through Yinghua Academy's "Math, Movement and Music" summer camps. Please contact Rebecca if you have any questions about the camp at (651) 379-4112 or rebecca@yinghuaacademy.org. If you would like to register for any of the summer camps or would like more information, please click on this link. --> "Summer Camp 2009 Brochure"   


Our Mission

The mission of Yinghua Academy is to provide a challenging and comprehensive learning environment that will nurture our students' natural inquisitiveness and will prepare them to be engaged and productive global citizens.   

Our students will develop intellectual curiosity and critical-thinking skills as well as broad and deep knowledge in language arts, mathematics, world and American history and culture, science, and fine arts.


A “Snapshot” of Yinghua Academy

We are a tuition-free public elementary school serving K-5th grade in the 2008-2009 school year.  The Yinghua Academy Board is working to ensure that our students have an excellent option when they continue to 6th grade and beyond.

During the 2008-2009 school year our program will include:

• Kindergarten and 1st grade – Full immersion in Mandarin Chinese;
  
  
• 2nd and 3rd grade – Full immersion in Mandarin Chinese + 45-60 minutes of English Language Arts every day;
  
  
• 4th and 5th grade – Academic content taught primarily in English + 45-60 minutes every day of instruction in the Mandarin Chinese language;
  
  
• A wide range of Chinese cultural experiences for all students.

Our school day is 9:00 AM to 3:30 PM.  We also offer a fee-based before-school program from 7:00 -8:30AM and a fee-based after-school program from 3:30 – 6:00 PM.  The after-school program offers music, art, and physical education as well as time to work on homework.

Yinghua Academy has adopted the Core Knowledge Sequence, in conjunction with the Minnesota State Academic Standards, as the foundation for our curriculum.  Our teachers have developed many of our lesson plans and materials that we can offer strong academic content, while teaching primarily in Mandarin Chinese in grades K-2nd.  We have also implemented Singapore Math in all grades.

Overall, the goal of Yinghua Academy is to help our students to:

• Do well in all academic subjects, including English Language Arts;
  
  
• Perform well on state-mandated standardized tests administered in English;
  
  
• Be able to speak, read, and write in Mandarin Chinese appropriate to their age level and instruction model;
  
  
• Acquire an acute cultural understanding of China and other countries of the world for more effective participation as global citizens.

We will continue to accept applications for students who are in grades kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th grades during the 2008-2009 school year.  Kindergarten students must be 5 years of age on or before 9/01/08.  If we do not have space available, we will put a prospective student on our waiting list.  We accept students without regard to religion, ethnicity, race, intellectual or athletic ability.

Thank you for your interest in Yinghua Academy!