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Graduation 2022 Emcee Kelsey Rasmussen ’12 reflects on her CAIS experiences 10+ years apart.

As we work on renovating the 19th Avenue campus for our move, it has become increasingly clear that we will not be moving classes to our new campus in August of 2023. A variety of factors indicate this, including: 1) the time required for the city to grant us permits to do the work (which we do not control), 2) the lead time on ordering construction materials, and 3) the time required to raise the funds, to name just a few big reasons.

Enjoy of a recap of Session One of CAIS Immersion Summer Camp 2022.

The Class of 2022 became the first CAIS eighth grade to graduate in the theater at the new 19th Avenue campus on June 9. Alumna Kelsey Rasmussen ’12 served as emcee for program which featured six musical performances by members of the class in addition to the entire eighth grade joining together for the traditional performance of Never Say Goodbye 不说再见.

We had so much fun hosting our very own fifth-grade focused Promotion Ceremony in the 19th Avenue Theater!

On the next-to-last day of school, the entire Middle School student body went up the hill to the field to participate in something that’s become an end-of-year tradition—an all-middle school Yuki Ball championship.

Daniel Bednarczyk from Slide Ranch (site of our sixth grade outdoor ed last fall) shared an update on our story from the January 2022 Middle School Update on the Black Lives Matter signs that our students created for them. “The good news is that after your visit our BLM sign stayed up for a record amount of time! The bad news is that it has finally been torn off. Fortunately, we have an abundance of backups thanks to your school! Our first one is up right now. I hope they keep breaking the record.”

CAIS continues to accept applications for school year 2022-2023 and for our new Two-Year-Old Class (see details on the expanded Preschool program…

Our students are outperforming monolingual school peers in English, which underscores the findings that, over the course of elementary and middle school, dividing instructional time between two languages actually provides a gain in both.