Tao Xingzhi once said, “Educators do not create gods, nor do they make statues or lovers. What they must create are living people of truth, goodness, and beauty.” As the new school year opens, Dingwen Academy Hangzhou is steering by its clear founding mission — “to found, with a parent’s heart, a world-renowned school that carries on love and wisdom for a century” — and anchoring itself as a “Chinese-characteristics world school.” We are deeply integrating the Dingwen culture, creatively proposed by Board Chair Flora, with the “New Nine Strengths” strategy, fully committed to advancing high-quality educational practice.
Dingwen culture, the foundation of our school, has long provided a clear direction: guided by the principle “rooted in China, globally competent, and compassionate to the world,” committed to the mission “to pursue academic excellence, develop whole-person education, and cultivate new forces that propel global progress,” and upheld by the values “investigate things to attain knowledge; be sincere and correct the mind.” The Dingwen spirit — dream, passion, inquiry, responsibility — forms the backdrop for teacher and student growth, ensuring our education retains Chinese roots while embracing a global outlook.
The "New Nine Strong" policy of "strong culture, strong goals, strong collaboration, strong execution, strong middle management, strong communication, strong faculty, strong academia, and strong experience" is the path support for transforming original intentions and culture into practical actions.Looking ahead to the new academic year, DWA will closely adhere to the principle of "putting students at the center of everything", focus on promoting "strong faculty, strong academia, and strong experience", concentrate on "high-quality learning at DWA", and solidify the details of education - from polishing the faculty team, improving academic quality, to optimizing collaborative communication mechanisms, effectively implementing "whole person education" into classroom and campus life, and steadily moving towards the goal of "being an ideal education practitioner".
