Shenzhen American International School (SAIS, ) is an American international school in

Shekou Shekou () is an area at the southern tip of Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, Guangdong Province, China. It faces Yuen Long, Hong Kong across the Deep Bay, China, Shenzhen Bay. It has been designated as a free-t ...

, Nanshan District,

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. SAIS is a PreK-8 school that uses PBL (

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) as its teaching philosophy, and is heavily influenced by the

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in San Diego, the Buck Institute for Education,

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, as well as the

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in general. SAIS hosts a school

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every November, has one of Shekou's first school

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(MakerSAIS), and mounts an Exhibition of Learning each spring. it is one of eight schools in Shenzhen designated for children of foreign workers. Initially a China campus of Lee Academy of

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, it was approved by the

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in 2005. Due to issues regarding land, by 2008 it had not yet been built. It was originally in another location in Nanshan District. The school opened in its current Shekou location in January 2014.Welcome to SAIS
" Shenzhen American International School. Retrieved on March 22, 2015.

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