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2 unusual facts about French immersion


Christine Cusanelli

She started her career as a teacher with the Calgary Catholic School District where she taught elementary and junior-high students in French immersion and other educational settings.

French immersion

There is also a French immersion program offered at Methodist Ladies' College and Benowa State High School teaching a variety of subjects over three years in French.


Buttonville Public School

In September 2007, the French immersion program relocated from Buttonville P.S. to a newly built French immersion school, Sir Wilfrid Laurier PS, located east of Woodbine Avenue north of Elgin Mills Road south of Major Mackenzie Drive.


see also

Action Cadienne

Action Cadienne advocates state funded French immersion courses, especially within the Parishes of Acadiana where Cajuns predominate.

Council for the Development of French in Louisiana

Today, CODOFIL's role is to promote and support French immersion and French as a second language in education; it acts as a partner to the Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE), whose role is to manage Louisiana's school districts.

Greenbank Middle School

Christina Organista-Martin's grade 7 French Immersion class decided that it wants to help prevent global warming and decided that it will make a project selling reusable bags and giving profits to the Institute of Environmental Sciences at Carleton University for research and education into reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Travis Jayner

Born to unilingual English-speaking parents, Jayner successfully completed the Early Total French Immersion Option of Frank L. Bowser Elementary School in Riverview, New Brunswick - in which only French is spoken in Grades 1,2, and 3.