'Shi' means giving, 'Hua' means essencesMs. Kathy Shi (Hua) brings her vision of giving the essences of Chinese and Western education to children. With over twenty years of experience in education, Ms. Shi and BIBS are committed to integrating China's education with Western education in supportive and stimulating environments.

President, Beanstalk Education Research InstituteFormer Vice-principal of RDFZSpecial Grade Teacher in Physics

Former Headmaster of RDFZ Sino-foreign cooperative education project‘China Headmaster of the Year’ award winner

Mr. Donaldson is a career educational leader from Canada, having been a principal or head of school for more than 25 years. With more than half of his career now spent in China, he feels a close connection with Chinese families and

has an understanding of the goals and aspirations that Chinese parents have for their children.

He has served as the head of school in international schools in Shanghai, Chengdu and Beijing offering IB programmes and is extremely proud of the fact that he has also invited many outstanding teachers and school leaders into China from Canada, the USA, and the UK.

Engaged in education for the past 22 years, Ms. Lisa has devoted 19 of those years toward deep cultivation of Beanstalk. In the descriptive words of principal Li Sha the educational concept is about "attentively educating along with love to accompany”. From leader of the Chinese department to the campus management, and then to the executive principal, Principal Li has led one team after another to contribute to Beanstalk; Principal Li will join hands with the professional team to inject new vitality into the campus and create greater and greater value for students and parents.

In the past 17 years of her career, Hershey has been a teacher, head of department and curriculum coordinator. She has always been an active practitioner of new educational initiatives. Her curriculum and leadership experience started right after graduation from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Soon she became an IBEN workshop leader, school visit team leader and school consultant. She co-hosted IB PYP and Chinese National Curriculum mapping conference. She joined Chinese National Curriculum mapping project as the IB Lead Educator (LE) for PYP.

She believes Education is to find students’ Elements where their passion and what they are good at meet.