Maple Leaf World School Program

Introduction & Significance

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The World's First International Curriculum with Chinese Characteristics

Maple Leaf World School Program (MLWSP)

On May 28, 2024, when Maple Leaf Educational Systems celebrated its 29th anniversary, we held a grand press conference and were honored to announce that after five years of thorough research and development and four years of rigorous benchmarking evaluation, Ecctis has completed the comprehensive benchmarking of Maple Leaf World School Program. The authoritative evaluation results of Ecctis clearly pointed out that Maple Leaf World School Program and its high school diploma are of the same level and effectiveness as UK General Certificate of Education Advanced Level, Canadian British Columbia curriculum and the US New York Regents curriculum and high school diploma.

This major achievement marks that Maple Leaf World School Program has successfully achieved full integration with global universities in countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and Australia. Maple Leaf World School Program has become a new choice for mainstream international courses such as IB and A Level. As a representative of China's solutions and wisdom in participating in global education governance , this not only promotes the realization of China's goal of becoming one of the world's international curriculum key players, but also provides a demonstration and leading role in the establishment of China's international education curriculum standards. It is an important contribution of Maple Leaf Educational Systems to the country's education cause, and a strong impetus for the development of global education diversity and international education.

Maple Leaf World School Program was developed over five years by organizing Chinese and foreign curriculum experts and front-line teachers based on Maple Leaf’s 20 years of international school management practice, targeting the learning characteristics and realities of non-English speaking students, especially Chinese students. It is the world’s first internationally certified curriculum with Chinese characteristics.

Maple Leaf World School Program was officially implemented in September 2020, including English academic courses, Chinese academic courses, English language courses and Chinese language courses. Its three major features are: independent intellectual property rights, international authoritative certification, and distinctive Chinese characteristics. Maple Leaf World School Program has created a new model of "one diploma, international accreditation, and global recognition", that is, the high school diploma is issued by Maple Leaf Educational Systems, and is dual-certified by the international education authority Ecctis. It is benchmarked against international courses such as A-Level. Students can directly apply for English-speaking universities around the world, including international course programs in Chinese universities, based on their academic performance.

The Significance of Maple Leaf World School Program

New Maple Leaf Model

One diploma refers to a Maple Leaf World School course graduation certificate and transcript issued by Maple Leaf Educational Systems after students complete the Maple Leaf World School course and meet the graduation credit requirements.

International accreditation refers to the international benchmarking certification of curriculum and diploma standards provided by Ecctis.

Global recognition refers to that Maple Leaf's nearly 30 years of successful schooling and official certification by major international education evaluation agency, Ecctis, has contributed to the global credibility and recognition of Maple Leaf World School Program. Maple Leaf graduates can directly apply for English-speaking universities around the world, including international programs at Chinese universities, with their Maple Leaf World School diploma and transcripts.

Significance of Program Implementing and Promoting

Groundbreaking

As the world's first international curriculum with Chinese characteristics, Maple Leaf World School Program fills the gap in the Chinese solution in the field of international education, breaks the monopoly of imported courses from abroad, and is more suitable for non-English speaking students, especially Chinese students. This is a concrete manifestation of Maple Leaf's response to the country's overall strategy and its active actions .

Necessity

Through the integration of Chinese and Western courses, we cultivate bilingual and bi-thinking talents with both national confidence and global competence, tell Chinese stories well, and spread Chinese culture. This is a necessary supplement to the national general high school system. Maple Leaf World School Program will surely play a unique and important role in promoting the opening up of national education in the new era, jointly building the "Belt and Road Initiative", and building a "community with a shared future for mankind".

Conclusion

Maple Leaf Education has been practicing international education innovation for 29 years, and has embarked on a path of continuous innovation and struggle, from "introducing foreign courses" to "integrating innovative models" to "establishing Maple Leaf standards". Short-term school-running behavior can be explained by economic logic; long-term school-running behavior must be explained by cultural logic. Looking forward to the future of Maple Leaf Education from its history, we can clearly outline a development path and contribute a worthwhile experience to the development of China's international education . The Maple Leaf curriculum standard fills a gap in China's international schools.

Over the years, Maple Leafers have adhered to the philosophy of "blending the best of China and the West in education and implementing quality education", cultivating international elites, serving local investment promotion and the construction of a soft economic environment, expanding the global influence of Chinese education, and serving the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Maple Leafers insist on the unity of international school-running positioning and localized practice, and have the courage to develop international courses and standards with Chinese characteristics, and build a curriculum system that is rooted in China and draws on foreign experience. On the basis of cultural integration, it highlights the advantages of Chinese cultural characteristics while achieving international standards. In the future, Maple Leafers are confident that they will move forward steadily, rely on the advantages of Maple Leaf World School Program, promote China's international courses, become a carrier for the development of Chinese culture throughout the world, and become a bridge for the mutual communication and integration of Chinese and foreign civilizations!