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    May 21, 2012
    Tang Beiyi reviews Chinese words Wednesday with one of the classes she has taught at Willmar High School during the past school year. Tribune photo by Ron Adams
    Chinese teacher enjoyed energetic students, warm welcome in Willmar
    WILLMAR -- Tang Beiyi's students are going to miss her when the school year ends in a couple weeks. For Tang, it will be hard to leave them,...
    newsMay 21, 2012 - 12:00am
    After overnight and morning rain, the sun broke through the clouds not long before the 3:30 p.m. start of Sunburg's 83-unit Syttende Mai parade on Sunday. At the front, in traditional Norwegian clothes, Sarah Olsen, 13, and younger brother Karl, 11½, lead off carrying the banner followed by military veterans from the Sunburg area. Tribune photo by Rand Middleton
    Syttende Mai at Sunburg
    newsMay 21, 2012 - 12:00am
    March 12, 2012
    Photo: Aminnesotaninchina.areavoices.com, Brandon Ferdig
    A Minnesotan in China blog: Student teaching in China provides life lessons
    lifestyleMarch 12, 2012 - 8:18am
    Chinese language teacher Tang Beiyi talks during an interview Friday about some of the things she has learned from teaching in the language program at the Willmar Senior High School. (Tribune photo by Ron Adams)
    English teacher from China impressed by her Willmar, Minn., students
    WILLMAR -- Tang Beiyi has found students at Willmar Senior High to be active and eager to participate in class activities. The English teacher...
    news/educationNovember 12, 2011 - 12:00am
    May 28, 2011
    Lynum
    Willmar Senior High to have teacher from China next school year
    WILLMAR -- The Willmar School District Mandarin Chinese program will participate in two U.S. State Department programs in the coming year. The...
    newsMay 28, 2011 - 12:00am
    May 29, 2010
    Bai Jinguo explains an assignment to Alex Grove Wednesday at Willmar High School. Tribune photo by Ron Adams
    Chinese teacher nearly done with his year at Willmar Senior High
    WILLMAR -- A picture flashed on the screen and Bai Jinguo asked, "What is this." "Egg rolls," the students answered. Bai glanced around the...
    news/educationMay 29, 2010 - 12:00am
    Chinese teacher sampled scenery and foods of America
    WILLMAR -- During his year teaching at Willmar Senior High, Chinese instructor Bai Jingo has had the opportunity to see different parts of Minnesota and the country. Bai can list a travel highlight for nearly every month he's been here: - August -- an orientation session in Washington,...
    news/educationMay 29, 2010 - 12:00am
    January 16, 2010
    Chinese teacher Bai Jinguo chats Friday at Willmar Senior High School with Eliza Doton, program officer with the American Councils for International Education in Washington, D.C. Tribune photos by Ron Adams
    Chinese teachers, program receive positive eval
    WILLMAR -- The warm welcome Willmar extended to a visiting Chinese teacher has been noticed by the Teachers of Critical Languages Program. "This...
    news/educationJanuary 16, 2010 - 12:00am
    November 19, 2009
    Maritza Ocampo, 18, a senior from Pennock, concentrates Tuesday as she works on her Chinese opera mask, a cultural activity in her Chinese I class. Tribune photo by Linda Vanderwerf
    Local Chinese classes gain from visiting teacher and 5-year grant
    WILLMAR -- The students were so intent on designing and painting their Chinese opera masks that they hardly took notice of the strangers in their...
    newsNovember 19, 2009 - 12:00am
    July 15, 2009
    Educator from China chosen to spend year in Willmar
    WILLMAR -- A teacher from Harbin, China, will work at Willmar Senior High for the coming school year. A grant from the U.S. State Department...
    newsJuly 15, 2009 - 12:00am
    June 5, 2009
    Todd Lynum teaches Chinese during class Jan. 27 at Willmar Senior High School as a camera crew, not pictured, documents the process. The footage was featured in a documentary produced by the Asia Society in New York City. Willmar's Chinese language program will see a change this year as a teacher from China will arrive here mid-August and will work side by side with Lynum. Tribune photo by Gary Miller
    Willmar's popular Chinese language class gets a major boost
    Willmar Senior High is one of 10 high schools in the nation to receive a U.S. State Department grant to host a native-speaking Chinese teacher...
    newsJune 5, 2009 - 12:00am
    March 17, 2009
    Willmar School Board starts layoff of 34 staff members
    WILLMAR -- The Willmar School Board adopted two resolutions Monday that start the process of laying off 34 tenured and non-tenured staff members. Seven are tenured staff members being laid off for financial reasons. They include a number of special education teachers. The district's...
    newsMarch 17, 2009 - 12:00am
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