English Below ：Welcome to the Chinese School Association in
the United States (CSAUS)
全美中文学校协会(CSAUS)成立于一九九四年，是在美国的全国性非盈利教育组织。协会章程开宗明义规定，宗旨是：加强全美中文学校之间的交流与合作，促进美国的中国语言和文化的教育，推动中美两国间的文化交流与合作。
历届理事会都把协会围绕着这个宗旨的发展当成自己的使命：促进全美中文教育理论体系的开发与完善；整合全美中文教育领域的智慧和资源，为全美中文教育教师、教学管理人员和各地中文学校提供交流和相互学习的渠道；建立稳固的合作与互补平台，促进全美乃至世界中文教育培训、创新和教材完善，提供智力、技术与人才支持。进而推动全美中文学校教育的长期和正向发展，促进中美间的文化交流与合作，增进两国和平、友好。经过二十年的发展，全美中文学校协会已经跻身于美国科教文化界著名的非赢利机构的行列，其作用和影响是广大和深远的。
协会目前有四百余所会员学校，分布在美国近五十个州，涵盖几乎所有大、中城市。会员学校在校学生人数达十万人以上，教师八千余名。学生的主体为华侨华人的子弟，即“第二代移民”为主，同时也吸引了越来越多的非华裔美国学生学习中国语言和文化。各地的中文学校都跟当地的华人社团有着紧密联系，服务和影响遍及千万个华裔家庭。因为中文学校每周有固定上课时间和地点，这也为各层次华裔移民和中国留美人员提供了相聚联谊场所，协会鼓励和支持各地学校积极组织参与美国主流社会的各类国际文化交流活动。因此，全美中文学校协会在美国多元文化的环境中，也起到了凝聚华人力量、传播中华文化、促进美中友好的重要作用。 在过去的二十年发展历程中，全美中文学校协会有力地促进了各地中文学校间的横向交流和整体的运作能力。协会也一直与中国国内华文教育机构和组织保持紧密联系，加强与美国各华文教育组织的横向联系，逐步加强与美国主流社会的融合，大力推动了华文教育在华人社区以及在美国主流社会中的发展。协会每年承办和组织中国“寻根之旅”夏令营、华文教育专家巡讲团来美为华文教师培训等活动。协会还成功举办了全国性大型文化教育项目，比如推动协助适合北美的中文教材的编写和发行，组织学生中文学习程度评估考试；推动美国大学委员会增设中文AP考试，并以此而促进美国各地高中开设AP课程；组织中文SAT模拟考试；组织全国性绘画、中文作文比赛和中华文化知识竞赛；举办文艺巡回演出、国际文化艺术交流等。这些项目在各地的华人社区和美国主流社会中都产生了巨大影响。
全美中文学校协会及其会员学校以其广泛坚实的基础、多功能的社会效应和巨大的发展潜力，得到了中、美两国多方面的关注和支持。协会希望今后与更多的团体保持联系，促进中华文化在美国的弘扬与发展。
全美中文学校协会每两年召开一次全国代表大会暨华文教育研讨会。自一九九五年首届年会以来，协会已成功地在美国各地举办过十次双年会。历届大会均得到了中、美相关部门的大力支持，中国国务院侨务办公室以及相关华文教育单位、代表大会所在地辖区的中国使、领馆均有负责人亲临出席。美国总统、联邦政府官员、联邦议员及相关州市的政要、议员或他们的代表也都分别莅临大会或通过音像和贺信的方式祝贺大会。历次大会中，协会都组织老师们和教学管理人员就当前华文教育普遍关注的共同课题进行讨论；邀请一些发展比较好的学校分享他们在教学和管理方面的丰富经验；开拓思路，发掘和利用多方面的资源，大会还邀请中美两国政界和华文教育的名人大师演讲，切实推进全美国的华文教育进一步向纵深发展。
为了保持协会的活力和代表性，按照章程，每次大会期间也举行协会理事会换届选举，每一个会员学校可以推荐一位代表竞选会长、副会长和理事。再由全体与会会员学校的代表投票选出新一届理事会。协会每一届的正、副会长和理事会全体人员、执委会成员都是利用业余时间义务工作。他们在业余时间，以自己的敬业精神和专业技能，为推动华文教育和发展做出了坚持不懈的努力，得到了卓有成效的成果。
全美中文学校协会地址
CSAUS
145 E Algonquin Rd, Arlington Heights, IL. 60005
CSAUS 第12届理事会(Board)
会长：刘申 圣路易现代中文学校
副会长：胡国荣 希望中文学校
理事：
黎博 克利夫兰当代中文学校
李华志 明华中文学
梁辉 哈维中文学校
潘建荣 底特律中文学校
唐艺杰 休斯顿华夏中文学校
邢彬 圣地亚哥华夏中文学校
熊亚林 凯瑞中文学校
许兰薇 新泽西华夏中文学校
展望 瑞华中文学校
历任会长：倪涛、王建军、李允晨、郑良根、何振宇、马京升、李功赋、汤年发、廖启红、帅致若、张星钰
The
Chinese School Association of the United States (CSAUS) was founded in 1994.
It is a national non-profit of Chinese language education in the United States
of America. The mission of the organization is to maximize cooperation
and exchange between all Chinese schools in the nation, promote the Chinese
language and culture education in the United States and contribute to the
overall China-America cultural exchange and cooperation.
With the
mission in mind, CSAUS led by her Board of Directors have been working
diligently on the following, promoting development and improvement in the
Chinese language educational frameworks and systems, coordinating knowledge and
resources in the Chinese language and culture education nationwide, providing
support and platforms for teaching staff and school management to exchange and
learn from each other, enhancing educational training and innovation and
improving learning materials, and finally providing support in terms of
knowledge, technology as well as human resources. By doing all that
stated above, the CSAUS is able to help promote the long-term and positive
development of the Chinese language and culture education in the U.S. Not
only that, but it also contributes to the overall cultural exchange and
cooperation between China and United States and impacts positively on the
harmonious relationship between the two countries. Like many other
well-reputed cultural and educational organizations, the influence of the CSAUS
and the role the organization plays in the field are significant and
far-reaching since it was founded 20 years ago.
The CSAUS
is composed of over 400 Chinese schools in 44 major or medium-size cities in
the United States. There are over 100,000 students and over 8,000 teachers at
these member schools. Life of thousands of families of Chinese immigrants
has been impacted by the service provided by the organization and its member
schools over the years and the influence of the organization is tremendous. The
fact that all member schools provide relatively stable course offerings at
stable locations provides not only a social and communicative setting for
Chinese immigrants and visitors, but also attracts more and more non-inherit
age population to Chinese language and culture learning/education. The
Organization promotes active involvement in various mainstream cultural events
and activities by its member schools. As the largest Grass-root
organization for Chinese Americans, CSAUS has been playing an important role in
uniting Chinese Americans, disseminating Chinese culture and promoting China-US
friendship.
In the
past twenty-year growth of the Organization, CSAUS has been effectively
promoting operational coordination and exchange between its member
schools. The Organization not only has been maintaining close contact
with major Chinese language educational organizations in China, but also
keeping a strong cooperative relationship with similar organizations in the
U.S. Such efforts have strengthened the merging force of the Chinese community
into the mainstream culture. In the meanwhile, it has contributed to the
increasing interest in Chinese language in both Chinese communities but also in
the overall mainstream culture.
CSAUS has
been well-known and greatly supported by various organizations in both China
and United States due to the fact that the Organization with its member schools
has solid population base, multi-facet social impact as well as the growth
potential. CSAUS sincerely hope to maintain such strength and keep up the
cooperation between various organizations to continue its promotion of Chinese
culture in the U.S.
CSAUS’
by-law regulates that the Organization hosts a member conference every other
year to keep the dialogue going and maintain active representation. Next
conference will be held at the end of 2016 and a new board of directors will be
selected then. Member schools will vote for the new board of
directors. Since 1994, CSAUS has successfully hosted such bi-annual
conference 10 times. CSAUS has received tremendous support from various
organizations and governmental offices. Officials from the Overseas
Chinese Office under the Chinese Internal Affairs Ministry and other Chinese
language educational organizations, Officials from the Chinese Counsels, and
last but not least, Congressmen and Congresswomen and their representatives of
the United States have attended the conference and showed their support.
All board members, including President and Vice President and their staff of
the CSAUS are volunteers. They dedicate their time, expertise and skills
to help promote the Chinese language education and have by far achieved what
the Organization visioned to achieve.
Mailing address of CSAUS:
CSAUS
145 E Algonquin Rd, Arlington Heights, IL. 60005
Current President and Directors (12th):
President: Shen Liu St. Louis Morden Chinese
School (MO)
Vice President: Roger
Hu Hope Chinese School (DC)
Director：
Bo Li Cleveland
Contemporary Chinese School (OH)
Simon Li Minghua Chinese School (MN)
Hui Liang Howard County Chinese
School (MD)
Jianrong Pan American Chinese School of Greater
Detroit (MI)
Mary Yijie Tang Huaxia Chinese School (TX)
Lorna Xing San Diego Huaxia
Chinese School (CA)
Yalin Xiong Cary
Chinese School (NC)
Lanwei Xu Huaxia Chinese School (NJ)
Wang Zhan Ray Chinese School (IL)
Honorary
President: Antony Ni, Jianjun Wang, Grace Li, Jeff L. Zheng,
Norman Ho, Jason Ma, Frank Lee, Nianfa
Tang, Kay Q. Liao, Mary Z. Shuai, Xingyu Zhang
For more
information, please visit the CSAUS web site at: http://www.csaus.org