AISG’s Strategic Focus on Wellbeing and Inclusion

This May, as we recognize Mental Health Awareness Month, it’s a timely reminder that student wellbeing is shaped by systems, relationships, and habits we build around young people every day.

The American International School of Guangzhou (AISG), recently engaged in an inclusion audit with Next Frontier Inclusion (NFI), a not-for-profit membership organization that supports schools in becoming more inclusive at a systems level. NFI’s approach looks beyond a single program or department, reviewing how schools support neurodiverse and multilingual learners across four key areas: shared community commitment, program design, professional capacity, and ongoing improvement.

This matters because inclusion and wellbeing are connected. As NFI states in Towards Inclusion, inclusive schools make “the deliberate decision to welcome and serve students with a wide range of learning and linguistic profiles.” The framework also reminds schools that support for diverse learners is not the responsibility of one department alone, but part of a whole-school approach to building capacity across the community.

AISG’s recognition as a GSC-Endorsed School further reflects this commitment to creating a school environment where students are supported with care, intention, and shared responsibility. 

Wellbeing also extends into how students and families navigate the digital world. Alongside this work, AISG welcomed Diana Hu McDowell from East West Prevention for a caregiver session on building healthy relationships with technology.

Her message was clear: it is not about eliminating technology, but about using it with purpose and awareness. By expanding the conversation from labels to patterns of use, families and schools can begin recognizing concerning behaviors earlier and building protective factors sooner.

Together, these developments reflect AISG’s commitment to building wellbeing by design: through inclusive systems, shared community learning, and thoughtful conversations that help students feel supported in school, at home, and in the digital spaces they navigate every day.


If you know a family looking for a school where inclusion, wellbeing, and belonging are part of the everyday experience, we invite you to follow us and learn more about AISG.