About Us
About Moonshot Academy
What is Moonshot Academy?
Moonshot Academy is a 12-year innovative school rooted in China and oriented to the world. It is dedicated to cultivating “fulfilled individuals, and active, compassionate citizens”.
Our campus is located in the National Tennis Center in Chaoyang District, Beijing, close to the Olympic Forest Park. The location and the strategic cooperation with the National Tennis Center allow us to have state-level facilities and resources. This environment with a forest coverage rate of up to 95% has brought unlimited energy and imagination to the innovation of education.
Based on the Chinese Natinal Curriculum Standards, we have integrated the world's top curriculum systems and resources to build an international education and teaching system rooted in China and facing the world. This system is characterized by competency-based education, bilingual teaching, and the concept of sustainable development. It has been certified as a member school by the Council of International Schools (CIS) and certified by Cognia, the world's largest school certification institute.
As of June 2023, six classes of graduates have graduated from MSA, and they have gone to a bigger and farther world, including but not limited to: comprehensive universities and art colleges such as Emory University, Rice University, Washington St. Louis University, New York University, Columbia University (Trinity College dual degree program), UCLA, University of Minerva, Rhode Island School of Design, Berklee College of Music in the USA; Imperial College London, University College London, University of Edinburgh in the UK; University of Toronto in Canada, Emlyon Business School in France, University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, University of Sydney in Australia etc., as well as top American liberal arts colleges such as St. John's College, Reed College, University of Richmond, Macalester College, etc.
School Value
Vision
Develop fulfilled individuals, and active, compassionate citizens to support the sustainability of human civilization.
Mission
Rooted in China and oriented to the World, Moonshot Academy aims to build a learning community providing competency-based education that cultivates learners' cognitive skills, self-direction, and social responsibility.
Values
- Merciful to all beings
- Seek for truth
- Act with perseverance
History
At a Glance
Our Team
Weicong Chen
Head of the School
Jason Wang
Executive Head of School
Ryan Yang
Deputy Head of the School and Principal of Secondary School
Jie Wu
Deputy Head of the School and Principal of Primary School
Chaya Chen
PS Dean of Academics
Sibyl Jia
Coordinator of Academic
Ignacio Cao
Deputy Principal of Secondary School
Jennifer Bian
Math Teacher
School Affairs Committee
Weicong Chen
- Head of the School
- Served as the Vice Principal of The Affiliated High School of Peking University and
the Executive Principal of the Beida Resources Middle School
Jason Wang
- Executive Head of School
- Founder & CEO of Moonshot Academy
- Board Member of The Chinese Society of Education
- Formerly served as a consultant to the head school of Peking University Affiliated High School Education Group and director of the school management department
杨博宇
- Deputy Head of the School and Principal of Secondary School
- Master, Brown University
- Bachelor, The University of Hong Kong
- Certified Cognia Evaluator, Certified CIS Evaluator
- Served as the Data Specialist at Mount Pleasant High School, USA
Jie Wu
- Deputy Head of the School and Principal of Primary School
- Doctor of Education, Vanderbilt University
- Served as the Founding Principal of Yi Hwang Academy of Language Excellence in Georgia, USA
- Served as the Chinese Department Head & Founding Team Leader of the Primary School Chinese-English Track at the Atlanta International School
Hans Zhang
- Deputy Head of operations
- Co-founder & COO of Moonshot Education
- Served as the Assistant to the Chairman & Investment Manager of Origo Partners PLC.
Advisory Board
Yongxin Zhu
- Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference(CPPCC)
- Executive Vice Chairman of The China Democratic League Central Committee
- President of Chinese Society for Tao Xingzhi Studies
Dongping Yang
- Honorary President of the 21st Century Education Research Institute
- Member of the National Education Advisory Committee
- Vice President of Chinese Society for Tao Xingzhi Studies
Zheng Wang
- Head of School of Beijing Agricultural Zhongguancun School
- National Special Education Supervisor
- Member of Beijing CPPCC
- Served as the Principal of the Affiliated High School of Peking University, and the Principal of Shenzhen Middle School
Jian Liu
- National Inspector of Education
Director of the Education and Culture Special Commission of the Central Committee of the China Association for Promoting Democracy (CAPD)
- Dean of China Education Innovation Institute of Beijing Normal University
Ti Hua
- Board Member of Chinese International School
Consultant to the Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on Contemporary China at Princeton University
- Asia Consultant of Middlebury College
Zuyun Shen
Vice President of Ideal School Society
Deputy Director of Shanghai New School Research Institute
Curriculum Director of the Pilot Project of Beijing Leading Principals
Xingchen Zhang
- Managing Director of Source Code Capital
- Board Member of Mech-Mind, Taichi Graphics, Baibu
Yanmei Zhu
- Vice Dean of the School of Public Policy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
- Board member, BGI Group
- Former Vice Dean of the School of Economics and Management, Tongji University
Achievements
We firmly believe that competency-based education and good grades do not conflict. Good grades should not be seen as a goal, but a natural result of the education.
Accreditation
MSA has been recognized by two major international authoritative organizations, CIS and Cognia. It has officially become a Cognia-certified school, and has successfully passed the most important Preparatory Evaluation certification stage of CIS.
Council of International Schools (CIS) is currently the most influential and authoritative accreditation body for international school accreditation. The CIS certification demonstrates to the world the high quality of MSA, and the potential for professional performance and continuity in international education.
Cognia, formerly known as AdvancED, is the world's largest non-profit international school accreditation authority. Cognia certification will allow graduates of MSA to apply to universities in most countries and regions around the world except mainland China, and apply as an American school without being restricted by their student status.
Graduates
178 students have graduated from MSA in the past 5 years, and 55 graduates will enter their dream universities for further study in June this year.
They went to a bigger and farther world, including comprehensive universities and art colleges such as Emory University, Rice University, Washington University St. Louis, New York University, Columbia University (Trinity College dual degree program), University of California, Berkeley, UCLA, University of Minerva, Rhode Island School of Design, Berklee College of Music, in the USA; Imperial College London, University College London, University of Edinburgh, in the UK; University of Toronto, in Canada, Emlyon Business School, in France, University of Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, and University of Sydney, in Australia. Graduates also matriculated into top American liberal arts colleges such as St. John's College, Reed College, University of Richmond and Macalester College.
Competition Results
Outside the classroom, learners have achieved excellent results in 22 international competitions across categories and themes since 2019, proving that good grades are a natural result of literacy education.