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Cheyanne Yao

New Upper School Mandarin teacher Cheyanne Yao joins the Poly community with an adoration of teaching, coming from diverse career experiences after years of traveling the world and living in Spain.

Creating and building meaningful interactions with students is a focal point of Yao’s teaching philosophy. Watching students grow throughout their high school years and extending that contact into their future ventures fuels her passion for teaching. She also loves getting to know students through their extracurricular interests.

“Outside the class I really enjoy seeing them, for example in the theater, playing jazz in the jazz band or classical. I think that that’s something I really look forward to, getting to know them in different ways, not only as a student in Chinese class,” Yao shared.

Yao hopes to impress a thoughtful depth and understanding of the Chinese language and aims to impart critical thinking skills that students can exercise throughout their academic journey.

“Something I enjoy about Yao Lao Shi’s approach to teaching is her enthusiasm and open mindedness to all levels of Mandarin students. She truly cares about each individual student and always tries to make class interesting,” said freshman Caralee Wang, a student in Yao’s Mandarin II class. 




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