Educalion is a continuously updaled underlaking, As an inlernational school educator for more than lwenty years, compe-tent in top-eve design and school management i always seriously think about tne relevant issues of schoor-runninomodel and practice whenl start a new international school and face the develcprnent of international schools in cvery newperiod. Each new context gives me a new understanding of education and life.

lalent is the foundation of good governance for countries Three years ago,l started to fathom a new kind of internationaschool lhal "awakens beauty wilh beauty, cultivales truly internalional lalents for the local communily and the countryand serves as the dream hometown of educators of our generation.

The smooth start of Hainan international F ducation innovative is and provices the right time for a new schoo, Riding thewave of intemational innovation education,  would like to establish along with like-minded founders a new era of invest-ment to understand life and carry out international education well.

Teaching is always new. As il is expressed in Chinese: we are like an old hourse, thal knos its way around, and also a blackhourse to become a flagship. Education shapes the future of countless families. The road of education is never easy, it'song and diff cult, but as long as we walk together with comrades, we will get further.

A good education is much more than academic achievement and employment opportunities via top universities, t is the process that shapes humandevelopment and creates the society in which we lve. A great schol with oreat teachers is a transfomative place, All who come in contact with itaculty, staff students and parents, are influenced by the cukure of the school, Education is holistic, it attempts to transform minds.bodies and sous

tteaches students a deep understanding of academics, while also inspiring and equipoing them with a range of interests and passions that wil lasta lifetime. Most importantly, it embeds a set of values that wil frame the behaviour of students.A good education beg ins with knowledge. Wel-educated students have culurally and academically relevant inlormaion deeply embedded in their long-term memory and learn lo access thicnowledne to develop complex understandinas and aoolications

The best education lakes into account both he ocal context -a fim grasp of the language, iteralure, history gegraphy and culture of the countrand the internat ona context t ensures that students have a soid understandina ot the wider world they wil explore - the anquage technologtscience. economics and politics that are products of its history and geography

A good Chinese school must therefore be closely connected to China, while also embracing a global consciousness.Covid's pandemnic has increasetcvery schools abity to offer onine prarams, but it has aso tauohtus the central moortance of human interaction A omat odunation can nouoaynass the madica connacton between sudents and teachers breat schoo s oace a hion va ue on the we -dina. mentaheal'h and hapoiness oeach child.

For any school to ensure that children are sale in every way is, first and foremos, a duty of care and a fundamental commitment but second y,it is arecognition that only happy and engaged children can reach their potential in and out of the classroom.