Our Mission
Educating for Global Fluency by developing Chinese & English dual-language skills, nurturing cultural adaptability and inspiring excellence in our students for a positive impact in our world.
The first public Chinese immersion school in the Beaverton School District.
The vision for HOPE was initiated by parents who saw their children blossom in Saturday Chinese classes and wanted more. In 2010, those parents partnered with local educators and community leaders organizations and together, they successfully opened HOPE in the Fall of 2012 with 70 students in Kinder & 1st grade.
Today, HOPE is a K-8 program that has served over 800 students and counting. With a reputation for high academic performance in Math and English Language Arts and Chinese proficiency, HOPE has been named the #1 Best Charter Elementary School for eight years running on niche.com year after year.
Principal Wu explains HOPE’s Mission Statement
and how we live that out in our community.
Community Makes HOPE Successful.
HOPE credits the passionate parents, educators, and sponsors for igniting the dream and carrying it forward. We also thank Arco Iris Spanish Immersion School for trailblazing the path as the first language immersion charter school in the Beaverton School District, and supporting our founders. We are thankful for continued collaboration with Arco Iris for school events.
Hope is proud to serve a globally diverse community with over 19 different languages spoken in student’s homes. The faculty and staff at Hope offer decades of experience in Chinese language immersion education and it is their expertise that has made Hope an internationally recognized Chinese immersion program.
What is “World Readiness”?
“The World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages define the central role of world languages in the learning career of every student. The five goal areas of the Standards establish an inextricable link between communication and culture, which is applied in making connections and comparisons and in using this competence to be part of local and global communities.
The World-Readiness Standards for Learning Languages create a roadmap to guide learners to develop competence to communicate effectively and interact with cultural competence to participate in multilingual communities at home and around the world.
Language and communication are at the heart of the human experience. The United States must educate students who are linguistically and culturally equipped to communicate successfully in a pluralistic American society and abroad. This imperative envisions a future in which ALL students will develop and maintain proficiency in English and at least one other language, modern or classical. Children who come to school from non-English backgrounds should also have opportunities to develop further proficiencies in their first language.”
—ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages).
Test Scores
In our program, students think critically and work collaboratively. Research shows that children in dual-language programs achieve higher academic outcomes than their monolingual peers (Thomas & Collier 2011), which is also reflected in our test scores.