Jiangnan Metropolis Daily: The second report in the series "Into Xishan" - 10 years of glory

Create characteristic brands, develop high-quality education, and promote quality education——

Jiangxi Xishan School has created a classic of private education in ten years

In May this year, it won the "National Characteristic Education Demonstration Unit"

On May 30 this year, Xishan School in Jiangxi Province celebrated her 10th birthday. At the 10th anniversary celebration ceremony of the school held on the same day, Tong Xue, director of the Teacher Research Fund Management Office of the China Teacher Development Foundation of the Ministry of Education, announced that Jiangxi Xishan School in Jiangxi Province was awarded the "National Characteristic Education Demonstration Unit" and President Liu Zaiyuan was awarded the "National Education Model Unit". "Innovative Outstanding Person" decision and issue a certificate.

After ten years of running a school, Jiangxi Xishan School not only won the heavy medal of "National Characteristic Education Demonstration Unit", but also made a classic of private education. Cao Zhixiang, deputy director of the Basic Education Curriculum and Textbook Center of the Ministry of Education, who participated in the ceremony, affirmed the achievements of Jiangxi Xishan School in characteristic education. He believed that the school-running model and educational philosophy of Jiangxi Xishan School played an exemplary role in primary and secondary schools across the country.

Wild mountains and ridges have become educational hotspots

The majestic school gate, neat roads, the clear Yuexin Lake, the standard stadium with "green carpet", and dozens of high-rise buildings standing in the green mountains and clear waters... These all make people come to Jiangxi, Jiangxi Province. People from Xishan School in the province are full of praise. But few people can think that ten years ago, this place was still a barren mountain.

In 2001, a group of Xishan people with educational dreams came to this remote and barren place in Yan Township, Changshan County, Jinxian County. Building, teacher and student dormitory, cafeteria, sports ground, welcomed the first batch of more than 400 students in June 2003, and officially established Jiangxi Xishan School. The school leadership team with Principal Liu Zaiyuan as the core is skilled in management. In just a few years, the signboard of Jiangxi Xishan School has become famous, based in Nanchang, and famous both inside and outside the province.

Jiangxi Xishan School has distinctive school-running characteristics

Hu Wei, a well-known education expert, once said: "If a private school does not develop its own characteristics and standards, and become a high-end school, it will only become the tail of exam-oriented education." The idea of ​​running a school coincides. He believes that if a private school wants to survive, develop, and become strong, it must have its own distinctive school-running characteristics, and it must develop high-quality education and promote quality education by creating characteristic brands.

Jiangxi Xishan School has changed its name several times since its development. From Nanchang Xishan Civil and Martial Arts School, which was unique among the private schools in Nanchang with its "literature-based, martial-arts features", it was renamed Jiangxi Xishan International School in 2005, and then officially named "Jiangxi Province Jiangxi Province in Jiangxi Province" at the end of 2008. "Xishan School", all of which reflect the school's active exploration of the school's characteristic development and the courage to practice and innovate. Principal Liu Zaiyuan put forward very innovatively that sports should be used as a breakthrough point for the development of high-quality education and promotion of quality education in Xishan schools in Jiangxi Province, and the characteristic school-running model of "combining education with sports, cultivating talents together, balancing the body and brain, and pursuing excellence" should be fully implemented. Xishan's distinctive brand of running a school has made the development of Xishan School in Jiangxi Province embark on a "high-speed road".

Ten years have created a classic of private education

The Outline of the National Medium- and Long-Term Educational Reform and Development Plan puts forward that improving quality is the core task of educational reform and development, respecting the laws of education and the laws of students' physical and mental development, and providing each student with the most suitable education for full development. Jiangxi Xishan School has established an education quality concept centered on improving quality, shifted from focusing on hardware construction to both hardware and software, optimized resource allocation, strengthened teaching links, and focused on promoting the connotative development of the school. The comprehensive quality of students and the quality of school education and teaching have been comprehensive overall advance.

In the past ten years, Jiangxi Xishan School has unswervingly followed the road of connotative development and achieved fruitful results, creating a classic of private education. The school has won more than 300 national, provincial and municipal awards in education, teaching, moral education, sports, art, comprehensive management, safety, etc., and has been rated as a national characteristic education demonstration unit, a national advanced private education unit, and a national social satisfaction school. , Jiangxi Province Education System Advanced Collective, Mass Sports Advanced Unit, Primary and Secondary School "Quality Education Month" Advanced Unit, National Fitness Activity Advanced Unit, Four-star Labor Relations Harmonious Campus, Private Four-star School of General Academic Education, and Rule of Law Model school; and won a series of honors such as the National Advanced School of Classroom Teaching Management and the National Education Reform and Innovation Model School.

In order to allow the majority of students and parents to have the opportunity to appreciate the elegance of Xishan from a distance, this newspaper has cooperated with Xishan School in Jiangxi Province to open a "School Viewing Express", and organize students and parents to visit the Xishan campus. Interested readers can call 0791-86849690 to register.

Published in "Jiangnan Metropolis Daily" on August 14, 2013