As our school song says in two languages, “We come from the East, we come from the West, we learn from each other, and that way is best.
These words from our modest, but well-loved school song remind us daily that we are first and foremost a community of learners and that all learning at CIS is woven from cross-cultural and dual-language strands.
This was the vision put in place some thirty-five years ago by the three forward-looking women who founded CIS. In their vision, we continue to find the qualities of both stability and innovation that are the hallmarks of CIS:
- We take pride in our stable student and teacher body. One-third of each graduating cohort has in recent years been at CIS since the age of four, while the average tenure of teachers and support staff is nine years.
- We take pride in our ground-breaking dual-language curriculum, which in recent years we have enriched with Hangzhou CIS, Positive Education, CIS-MIT STEAM camp, a program of financial aid, and a range of Connected Learning initiatives.
- We take pride in the generous support we can extend our staff so that they may continually seek professional growth and in turn nurture students to strive for the lofty ideals expressed in CIS’s mission statement.
- We take pride in our alumni whose trajectories beyond CIS demonstrate again and again that CIS has prepared them to make a difference in the world. Regularly, they also return to school to share their wisdom with the latest generation of students.
Chinese International School is committed to the achievement of academic excellence and is characterized and enriched by its dual-language program in Chinese and English. The mission of Chinese International School is to inspire students to a lifelong love of learning.
The school encourages intellectual curiosity and independent, critical and creative thinking which will maximize students’ potential and promote the growth of the whole person. The school prepares its students to be compassionate, ethical, and responsible individuals, contributing to local and global communities, respectful of other views, beliefs, and cultures, and concerned to make a difference in the world.
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