Lena Gidwani

Educator/Teacher

Our Mission: In a safe, caring and welcoming environment, our mission is to develop socially responsible, lifelong learners able to problem solve, think critically, and make positive changes in our global community. Our Motto: Learn Today, Lead Tomorrow Our Core Values: Collaborate, Innovate, Succeed Canadian International School of Guangzhou (CIS) is an Alberta Education Accredited School. Our K-12 Alberta Curriculum focuses on innovation, creativity and critical thinking skills, best preparing students for the challenges and opportunities they will face as global citizens. OUR HISTORY CIS was established in September 2012, with just a handful of students. In 2015, CIS became the first international school in China to achieve accreditation as an Alberta international school. In 2016, CIS offered its first Grade 12 courses. CIS graduates receive the Alberta High School Diploma which is recognized by universities and colleges around the world. In June 2018, our community of about 200 students and staff relocated to our brand-new, purpose- built campus at Dongyi Road in Panyu District. The campus has a capacity for 1,000 day and boarding students, with state-of-the-art facilities such as a competitive running track, STEAM/ MakerSpace labs, multi-purpose theater and drama rooms, ecologically-designed play areas and landscaped walkways, a full-service cafeteria with healthy Western and Chinese meals and plenty more. Each space has been meticulously tailored to student educational and learning needs. At CIS, we truly value the development of the whole-child through our small- class sizes, diverse programming and extensive options and extra-curricular classes. Our new campus reflects the variety of talents and dreams that our students have, from the academic or athletic to the scientific and artistic. CIS TODAY: Learning Today, Leading Tomorrow Today, CIS has an enrolment of about 600 students, representing 45 nationalities. CIS is a now a dynamic place of learning where our students learn to lead with confidence, compassion and enthusiasm. They are inspired to become resilient problem-solvers who see the world with a lens of innovation. They learn today, so that they will lead tomorrow!

Theme: Generation F. To what extent have our predecessors failed our future generation? In what ways can we mitigate the prevalent changes in our society? How should our predominantly (and perhaps toxic at times) technological society transform itself so that we can control and lead an unknown future? It is essential that we, the future generation of the world, explore how we can alter, modify and reshape advances in our society. We must ask, inquire and examine essential questions that allude to how we can withstand existing but universal changes in our world today. Our goal is to have you question your awareness and explore the many unknowns faced by Generation F, and to find a feasible and flexible way to transform our world for a better and more sustainable future. Our speakers from Canadian International School of Guangzhou will excite, enthrall and enthuse your minds with their speeches on Thursday, March 31, 2022 at 1pm. Join Henry Cross (G7), Rico Xie (G7), Joshua Cardinal (G9), Jinthe Cobbaut (G10), Juleah Francis (G11), and Mustafa Saad Mohammed Al-Joburi (G11) on a journey to explore... Generation F.

being the first and only K-12 Canadian (Alberta) International school in Guangzhou.