Jamie Chiahui Gao
The Nueva School
Jamie Chiahui Gao is an educator and writer with over 18 years of experience teaching language arts, history, social studies, and literature in Mandarin immersion and advanced secondary classrooms on both the U.S. East Coast and in the Bay Area.
A curious learner herself, she continually iterates on her practice and designs student-centered, project-based curricula that foreground authentic materials, social-emotional learning, and equitable access for diverse learners. Her classes often invite students to notice the “social justice in the everyday,” using language and storytelling to examine power, identity, and empathy in daily life. She currently teaches Mandarin and literature at The Nueva School’s Upper School, where she established the Taiwan Exchange Program and, for the fourth consecutive year, leads language and culture trips to Taiwan twice a year, building sustained, real-world contexts for intercultural learning.
Born and raised in Taiwan, Jamie brings a global perspective shaped by travel to more than 20 countries. She is a published author of four children’s books, as well as short stories, essays, and poetry that have appeared in newspapers and magazines in Taiwan and the United States. In recent years, her perspectives on everyday DEI and social-justice themes have been featured on KQED. She has also served for over a decade as a story reader at the Burlingame Main Library, extending her passion for literacy and storytelling beyond the classroom.
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A curious learner herself, she continually iterates on her practice and designs student-centered, project-based curricula that foreground authentic materials, social-emotional learning, and equitable access for diverse learners. Her classes often invite students to notice the “social justice in the everyday,” using language and storytelling to examine power, identity, and empathy in daily life. She currently teaches Mandarin and literature at The Nueva School’s Upper School, where she established the Taiwan Exchange Program and, for the fourth consecutive year, leads language and culture trips to Taiwan twice a year, building sustained, real-world contexts for intercultural learning.
Born and raised in Taiwan, Jamie brings a global perspective shaped by travel to more than 20 countries. She is a published author of four children’s books, as well as short stories, essays, and poetry that have appeared in newspapers and magazines in Taiwan and the United States. In recent years, her perspectives on everyday DEI and social-justice themes have been featured on KQED. She has also served for over a decade as a story reader at the Burlingame Main Library, extending her passion for literacy and storytelling beyond the classroom.
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Middle School
10 Davis Drive, Belmont, CA 94002
650-645-1000
650-645-1000
Upper School
400 Uplands Drive, Hillsborough, CA 94010
650-342-4175
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