Letter from our new principal

I am Xiaohe Cao, the new Principal. It is a great honor and privilege to serve Northwest Chinese School (NWCS). Sixteen years ago, a few new immigrants from mainland China founded this non-profit organization. After many years of effort from faculty, staff, board members, parents, students, volunteers, and numerous supporters, our school has become one of the best in the U.S. Today’s success of our school resulted from everyone’s hard work! While we are proud of our past accomplishments in Chinese education, we have also clearly realized that it is also our responsibility to keep working hard to enhance the success of NWCS and make it a harmonious Chinese community in the Greater Seattle Area.During the past couple of months, many parents had been actively involved in finding a new principle of Northwest Chinese School. Many great comments and suggestions were provided by NWCS parents and employees during the open hearing process. I was very pleased to see the passion, frankness, energy, and wisdom demonstrated in the NWCS community during this process. I believe that we can continuously working together to further NWCS’ success.We have many things to accomplish. Among them, improving teaching quality is definitely of common interest and is always on the top of our priority list. I am working with teachers now to make sure that we are well prepared for the new semester. A stable campus is the foundation of our community. We are used to the current school location in Kirkland. It is a great convenient and pleasant campus to have our school for now: close to freeway, large facility, good place for community gathering. The good news is that we had our next school year reserved with the Lake Washington Technical College. I am working with the school board Strategic Development Committee to plan for a longer term campus solution. We have lots of other projects to work with. I will keep you posted. If you have any suggestions or comments, please feel free to let me know. Thank you very much and I am looking forward to working with you!Xiaohe Cao