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1820 Coit Rd, Plano, TX 75075Monday to Friday: 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.Applications open in January(972) 555-0107

The team

The people in the rooms

Nine adults work at Ginkgo: a director, two teachers in each room, a floating assistant and an administrator. Three of them are here.

  • Meihua Hsiao, director, kneeling in a garden bed at the school

    Meihua Hsiao

    Director and threes room teacher

    Meihua leads the school and teaches the Mandarin morning in the threes room. She speaks Mandarin and English with families, and she is at the door most mornings.

  • Zhiwei Tsao, fours room teacher, standing by a shelf of wooden animals

    Zhiwei Tsao

    Fours room teacher, Mandarin morning

    Zhiwei leads the Mandarin morning in the fours room, with songs, stories and building work. He speaks Mandarin with the children and English with parents at the door.

  • Kandace Gourdine, afternoon teacher, crouched beside a low table in a classroom

    Kandace Gourdine

    English afternoon teacher

    Kandace leads the English afternoon in the twos and threes rooms and the closing circle at the end of the day. She works beside the Mandarin teachers each morning, so the day moves from one language to the other without a break.

Languages

Who speaks what with the children

  • Languages on the team

    • Mandarin

      Meihua Hsiao, Zhiwei Tsao and the morning teacher in each room, from arrival to lunch

    • English

      Kandace Gourdine and the afternoon teacher in each room, and everyone with parents at the door

Sample credentials.

Meet the teachers on a tour

Book a tour and spend the morning in the room your child would join.