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…
I arrived at CAIS in 2010, which means this is my second time around the 12-year Chinese zodiac cycle and my second Dragon Year at the school. To be honest,…
We’re celebrating CAIS faculty (such as our second grade team shown above co-teaching math in Chinese and English) on the birthday of the great teacher, Confucius. In honor of this…
This year, the Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋节 Zhōng qiū jié, sometimes called the Moon Festival in the West) is next Friday, September 29. It is one of the most important, family-centered holidays in…
By far the question I have been asked most often by CAIS parents in recent days (even more than “How was your summer?”) is “How are things going with the…
I am delighted to announce that we have hired Mr. Ken Su, an experienced, Mandarin-speaking Athletic Director and middle school physical education teacher for the 2023-24 school year. Among the…
Since Spring 2022 we have been working with outside consultants to plan for the best way to evolve and innovate our program on the new campus. We are particularly focused…
We’ve Moved!
