What is YCID?

YCID is a cross-cultural education program within YuCai High School in Shenzhen, China that prepares Chinese students for fully active engagement and leadership in American universities and beyond.  
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Our Mission

The mission of YCID is to help all students to develop their skills, knowledge, character and well-being to thrive at American universities and beyond as leaders in the global community. To meet this objective we employ several pedagogical, structural and staffing approaches that set us apart from other schools in China that serve Chinese students aspiring to attend universities outside of China.

How We Got Started

After several years of planning, with the full support of the Nanshan Education Bureau and YuCai Education Group, and in partnership with Shenzhen City College and American company, InterLangua LLC, YCID was launched at the start of the second semester in February of 2012 with an inaugural class of sophomores. The YCID program serves between 22-28 students at each grade level. Notable designers of the program include: Liu Gen Ping, head of Nanshan Education Bureau and renowned educational innovator in Shenzhen; Elisabeth Montgomery, PhD, who has a long record of successful educational programming in China; and Chris Young, Stanford Teacher Education Program MA Ed and Fulbright Distinguished Award in Teaching recipient.
"Greatness through knowledge, integrity and innovation."
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Great Books & Shared Inquiry™
A rigorous, college preparatory core curriculum rooted in the discussion based Shared Inquiry™ methods and content of the Great Books Foundation.  Currently, we are the only designated partner of Great Books in China.

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Immersive English Environment
A 100% English environment in courses developed and taught by Great Books certified and US-certificated teachers emphasizing independent, critical thinking and comparative analysis of Western themes, values and ideas, multiple perspectives, and a balance of lecture with student-centered activities.

Meet the team in the Staff section.
Collaborative Approach
Project-based learning in our Integrated Studies courses, and throughout our program, that leads to YCID students becoming effective collaborators and innovators of original products and ideas.

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Action • Creativity  • Training  • Service  (ACTS)
Experiential, holistic, and service-learning values promoted in our 120-hour Action, Creativity, Training, Service (ACTS) requirement.
Work Experience Abroad
A growing internship program with Chinese and US partners. Most of our students complete internships, summer study tours or educational enrichment programs within or outside of China.

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Student Development Counseling 
An advisory program that equips students with the ability to self-advocate, further develop emotional intelligence, and other practical and character-building skills that will empower them to healthily and effectively navigate college life and US culture.
Global Problem Solving
An annual “Dragon and Eagle Dialogue,” wherein a salient current issue is discussed in-depth amongst YCID students and American or other non-Chinese students.

Learn more in the Activities section.
Bringing American Culture to the Students
Typical American holiday celebrations and a physical education course that expose students to these fundamental elements of American culture they will inevitably encounter while in the US.

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Innovative Frontiers
YCID incorporates experiential educational programs with a proven record of success in American education. We have incorporated Roots and Shoots Community Gardens which is Jane Goodall's international movement for food safety and conscious eating and in Fall of 2014 we will launch a high school STEM education program using tools and curriculum developed for  FabLabs@School, at the Transformative Technologies Lab at Stanford University Graduate School of Education.