Minnesota Mandarin Immersion Collaborative (MMIC)
Engineering is Elementary® Units

MMIC Curriculum Development Project (2009-2012)

Project Leaders
	Tara Fortune Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA)
	Tara Fortune earned her Ph.D. in the University of Minnesota's Second Languages and Cultures Program in Curriculum & Instruction. Today she works as an immersion curriculum and instruction specialist and coordinator of the Immersion Research and Professional Development Project at the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) at the University of Minnesota. In partnership with Molly Wieland, Tara developed the vision for the Global Literacy through Mandarin Immersion and STEM Project and led the work of the curriculum and assessment teams.  Dr. Fortune's recent publications include "What the Research Says About Immersion," a chapter in Chinese Language Learning in the Early Grades (2012, Asia Society), a co-edited volume on immersion research, Immersion Education: Practices, Policies, Possibilities (2011, Multilingual Matters Ltd.),  and Struggling Learners & Language Immersion Education (2010, University of Minnesota). Tara is also on the editorial board of the new Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education (John Benjamins Publishing).
	Molly Wieland Hopkins Public Schools
	Molly Wieland received her Pd.D. in French Linguistics from Indiana University in 1990, specializing in second language acquisition and cross-cultural communication. She has been working in the Hopkins Public Schools since 1995. During her tenure as World Language Coordinator, she was instrumental in bringing the XinXing Chinese immersion program to the district in 2007. She is currently the Chinese immersion program coordinator and high school French teacher. She served as project director for the Global Literacy Through Mandarin Immersion and STEM project.

MMIC Core Team of University of Minnesota Graduate Students (2009–2012)

Ka Po Chow,Second Languages and Cultures Program, University of Minnesota
Kaishan Kong, Second Languages and Cultures Program, University of Minnesota
Jing-Huey Lin, Instructional Technology Program, University of Minnesota
Kathleen Mitchell, Second Languages and Cultures Program, University of Minnesota
Yuanjing Wilcox, Organizational Leadership, Policy and Development, University of Minnesota

MMIC Curriculum Team

Xian He, Madison Elementary, St. Cloud
Ping Peng, Scenic Heights Elementary, Minnetonka
Donghong Wang, XinXing Academy, Hopkins
Ming Yan, Excelsior Elementary, Minnetonka

Support Personnel

Immersion Teacher Support

Project Consultants

Elementary Teacher Support

Mandarin Language Support