Two Cave Creek Schools will accept Confucius Classroom designation from ASU Confucius Institute, Thursday, September 25, 2014. This designation has gone to 646 schools in 130 countries with exemplary Mandarin Chinese programs.
Student and professional artist performances begin at 5:00 pm at Sonoran Trails Middle School and 6:30 pm at Cactus Shadows High School.
Share the Art, an International, Interdisciplinary Chinese Calligraphy Project was made possible by a grant from the Cave Creek Unified Education Foundation.This exciting project brought together the Art and Chinese Departments at Sonoran Trails Middle School in Cave Creek, Arizona with our overseas sister school, No. Six School in Ychang, Hubei Province, China.
A formal document signing ceremony will also take place between the school principals and the director of ASU’s Confucius
Institute.
Sonoran Trails Middle School and Cactus Shadows High School have been building their Mandarin Chinese programs after two Cave Creek Unified School District elementary schools began their programs four years ago.
With 1700 students enrolled in Mandarin Chinese programs, Cave Creek Unified School District is one of the only Arizona districts with a
kindergarten through 12th grade pipeline for this globally-required language.
For more information please contact Cave Creek Unified School District’s World Language Coordinator, Cristina Ladas, at 480-518-4289 or cladas@ccusd93.org.
