Bissell's Blog

The other day I was scrolling through photos of our campus from around this time one year ago. As I look back now on where the campus project stood just…

There are more children in day care and preschool learning Mandarin than in college and graduate school. So you’d think there would be more research on Mandarin language acquisition in…

Regardless of their politics, all CAIS families willingly enroll their children in this school community with full knowledge of our Mission and Core Values. Our school’s five core values—Perseverance, Curiosity, Inclusion, Courage, and Kindness—were adopted…

With Head of School Jeff Bissell and Chinese Program Director Cindy Chiang deep in preparations for our BIGGEST EVER Mid-Autumn Moon Festival (and Campus Grand Opening) this Saturday, September 21,…

We are thrilled to share some exciting updates about our new campus. The transformation of our new space has been moving swiftly, with classroom walls going up rapidly and the…

A quiet has settled over the campuses as faculty continue the task of packing up years of accumulated “stuff” from Waller, Oak, and Turk in preparation for our move to…

At CAIS, we have four fundamental resources at our disposal to support us in our mission to embrace Chinese, become our best selves, and contribute to a better world. Those…

In the Long Term — Strategy Our current strategic vision, “Reimagining CAIS” was intended to extend to 2025. We experienced some zigs and zags with the pandemic, but we have…

In the Medium Term—2025, 2026… Our new facilities offer programming opportunities that we will not be designing immediately. Part of the reason is bandwidth as we contend with the exciting…

Whenever I walk around the 19th Avenue campus, I am flooded with ideas for what CAIS could become. Expansive outdoor spaces, the theater and arts building, the gym, the learning…