2026 Overseas Chinese School Principals' Roundtable held online

Wenzhou University's College of Overseas Chinese published a summary on 3 April: the 2026 Overseas Chinese School Principals' Roundtable was held online on 30 March (Beijing time), with more than 140 Chinese-education experts, overseas school principals and educators taking part. Discussion covered:

• Teaching: shifting from teacher-led instruction to student learning, helping young learners of Chinese heritage acquire the language naturally through multi-sensory activities, songs, games and projects;
• Distinctive courses: a martial-arts culture school in Italy described using martial arts to lead into Chinese and calligraphy;
• School leadership: new opportunities AI brings to enrolment, teaching and management, and how the principal's role is changing; operating models and strategies for Chinese education in Russia;
• Identity and localisation: nurturing cultural identity among the new generation, rooting schools in local society, standardising and professionalising school operations, and research on young people of Chinese heritage in Europe;
• Home language: intergenerational language tensions in Chinese families and ways to address them.

(This is a summary; please read the original for full details.)