“I look forward to working closely with everyone to build Huayao Collegiate into a truly outstanding internationalized school that fuses the best of Chinese and Western education, preserves the excellence of Chinese culture, and nurtures students with exceptional skills and qualities to adapt to the uncertain future.”
-- Principal Cai Fang
In March, where the south winds gently sigh, tall grasses sway, as warblers grace the sky. Dipont Education has successfully invited Ms. Cai Fang, a seasoned education expert in China, to join Dipont Education Group as General Principal of Dipont Huayao Collegiate School Kunshan, Center Principal of Society for Cultivating Innovators and Director of the International Talent Development Program at Dipont.
Ms. Cai Fang
General Principal of Huayao Collegiate
Principal Cai Fang is a distinguished Senior English Teacher and was conferred the title of ‘Professor-level Master Teacher’. Ms. Cai is the former vice principal of the High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China (RDFZ), and once served as the director of RDFZ’s Program for the Development of Young and Gifted Students. She also assumed the role of the leader of homeroom teachers and subject teachers in Haidian District, as well as an adjunct teaching researcher and member of the master teacher workshop. With over 30 years of experience in frontline education, she taught high school English at RDFZ for 16 years, among which she also served as a homeroom teacher for 15 years, and was honored with the 'Zijin Cup' for Outstanding Homeroom Teacher in Beijing. The classes under her guidance have repeatedly been recognized as Outstanding Class Collectives in Beijing.
Principal Cai Fang is not only an excellent teacher, an outstanding homeroom teacher and an accomplished principal, but also a rare expert in fostering top-tier innovative talents in the country. During her 16 years of leading the Early Development Program, a national key project, she oversaw the successful education of 430 outstanding students who made it to Tsinghua University and Peking University. She also sent a considerable number of elite students to world-renowned universities including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford and MIT. Her brilliant work set examples and pioneered successful models for talent development, which were emulated in many places in China.
Principal Cai's years of leadership and experience in the early development program at RDFZ will take root, blossom, and yield fruit at Dipont Huayao Collegiate School Kunshan, embodying her vision of “creating a home outside home, a paradise for learning, a field for innovation, and an orchard for harvest for the students of Huayao Collegiate”. In essence, a truly world school.
As the General Principal of Dipont Huayao Collegiate School Kunshan, Principal Cai Fang, along with the entire faculty and students, will join hands to build Huayao Collegiate into a truly outstanding internationalized school that integrates high-quality education from both the East and the West, and nurtures students with exceptional skills and qualities to adapt to the uncertain future.
In light of this, Principal Cai Fang has proposed the "Seven Key Elements of Success":
1. Embrace the philosophy of holistic education
2. Integrate the essence of Chinese and international education
3. Cultivate talents through “identification, discovery, and development”.
4. Embody the pursuit of excellence as a shared value by great schools in the world
5. Advocate the value of liberal and personalized education
6. Uphold the tradition of diligence valued by Chinese families
7. Advocate the value of collaboration between families and the school in education.
Dipont Huayao Collegiate School Kunshan is the third highly international bilingual school jointly established by Dipont Education Group in collaboration with renowned schools both in China and abroad. Inheriting the spirit of Dipont's nearly three decades of blending Eastern and Western influences to serve China, the school adheres to the principles of holistic education and personalized development. It embraces global best practices in education, integrates distinctive Chinese educational features, and explores an educational model tailored to the development and needs of Chinese students. In less than four years since its establishment, the school has been guided by a dedicated international management team. They have overcome challenges and paved the way for a distinctive and diverse approach to education, achieving inspiring educational milestones. These accomplishments have laid a solid foundation for the school's continued development.
As the school progresses with time, it remains a constant challenge for both the school community and Dipont to conceive ways of continuously improve and enrich what we offer as a school. While we change for the better, we are mindful the course we set forth will not deviate from Dipont’s long-held vision of Chinese heritage and global perspective. We are as committed as ever to the nurturing of an open school culture, a transparent management environment and a holistic approach to education. We look forward to a more exciting future as the school community work together to make everything we imaged in the blueprint four years ago happen, under the leadership of Ms. Cai and Ms. Carol Santos.
