Mission & Vision
Our mission is to prepare students for successful, self-directed study in excellent universities and for the complexities of life and work beyond. Our students will view their time with us as a rigorous but nurturing preparation for a life-long journey of discovery.
Objectives
At ZIS, we challenge our students to become:
Multitalented: Well-prepared in all of the academic disciplines as well as in the arts and athletics.
Skilled: Proficient in the essential skills of effective reading, writing, computing, researching, and collaborating.
Bilingual: Able to communicate with others in their native language and at least one other language.
Strategic: Able to generate key questions and create strategies to answer them.
Resourceful: Able to find reliable information and solve problems intuitively and analytically.
Passionate: Aware, through experience, of what it means to be committed to the pursuit of excellence in a significant endeavor.
Compassionate: Aware of the responsibility to contribute locally and globally.
Ethical : Aware of the world¡¯s great ethical and philosophical traditions and the importance of ethical behavior for our mutual well-being and understanding.
Culturally-fluent: At home with people of many cultures of the world and in the many diverse settings of the world.
Grateful: Appreciative of their personal gifts, of their environment, and of the wonderful richness of life.
Flexible: Adaptable to the challenges of the 21 st century
School Values
Zeal ÈȳÀ
Integrity ÕýÖ±
Seeking ̽Ë÷
Caring ¹Ø»³
At ZIS, we believe that education is not just about learning from books. We develop our students to embody the qualities of the ZIS motto:
Zeal ¡ªto become individuals who have no fear difficult and setback and full of enthusiasm, sincerity and persistence.
Integrity ¡ªto become individuals who conduct themselves honestly, ethically, and responsibly.
Seeking ¡ªto become individuals who are curious about the world in which they live; who seek important questions and strive to discover solutions.
Caring- to become individuals who are caring and responsible family members, friends and citizens of the world
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