January 27, 2022
Happy Lunar Year of Tiger
Wishes and Prospects for the Chinese Program
By Chinese Program Director Cindy Chiang
This year, the first day of the Lunar New Year falls on Tuesday, February 1, 2022. For those of you who did not grow up in Taiwan or China, you may find it hard to...
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January 13, 2022
CAIS is accepting applications for school year 2022-2023. Complete the application form here.
Eligibility information is listed below. For more details about the Admission Process, click here.
Preschool: Children must be three or four years old on or before September 1, 2022. We have a...
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January 06, 2022
At the height of the pandemic in 2020, I recall joking with my friends and family (on a new technology called “Zoom,” naturally) about what it would be like if the pandemic ended with a hard stop. As in, one day, the sirens would blare and we would pour into the streets, rip off...
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December 10, 2021
We are deeply saddened to share that one of CAIS’s founders and San Francisco’s first Asian American judge, Harry Low, has passed. The SF Standard reports that his family confirmed he died Thursday at 90 in San Francisco (see the in memoriam article at this link). Justice Low had...
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November 15, 2021
Athletic Director Hart Eddy exults, “HUGE CONGRATS ON AN EPIC SEASON!” as Girls Varsity Cross Country Firedragons repeat as SFAL Champs and Poppy B. ’23 and Liv A. ’25 win their individual races!
Coach Eddy also shares, “Thank you to everyone who participated this year!...
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November 05, 2021
[excerpt from Bissell’s Brief — November 5, 2021]
As you no doubt know, the FDA recently gave emergency use authorization (EUA) to the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for 5- to 11-year old children. Shortly after, the CDC recommended the vaccine for all eligible children. ...
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October 27, 2021
It’s been years in the making—and it’s going to take a few more years of work to fully realize the dream—but today CAIS took an enormous step toward creating a forever home for Chinese immersion education as we transferred ownership of the 19th Avenue Campus at the closing with the Sisters of Mercy...
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September 28, 2021
We’re celebrating CAIS faculty (shown above gathered in Golden Gate Park for Launch Week before school started) on the birthday of the great teacher, Confucius. In honor of this two-part holiday, we have a word “duet” of thoughtful pieces from Head of School Jeff Bissell and...
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September 21, 2021
In September we celebrate one of the most important festivals in Asian countries, 中秋节 (zhōng qiū jié), the Mid-Autumn Festival. When life threw us a curveball last year, our whole school demonstrated perseverance, courage and resilience by working hand in hand (though socially distanced, of...
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September 12, 2021
We celebrated the milestone of completing the school’s 40th year of operation this spring at ShowCAIS 2021. By conventional reckoning in the US, the celebration of our actual “birthday” falls today, September 12, which is 40 years to the day of the first opening bell for the Chinese American...
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