About me

This is Xiaoling (Lynn) Mo — educator, trainer, presenter, and community leader.

Xiaoling Mo is an experienced language teacher and the founding teacher of the K-8 Mandarin Chinese program at Seattle Country Day School. She received her doctoral degree in Philosophy from Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou, China, and studied at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. Xiaoling has taught Japanese in a Chinese college and Mandarin and Cantonese in Japan. After moving to the United States, she received her Master’s degree and Teacher Certificate in teaching Mandarin Chinese as a second language from Hunter College in New York. She has taught Mandarin in public schools, private schools, Chinese weekend schools, and online classes in New York and Pittsburgh before moving to Seattle in 2019.

As a teacher trainer and frequent presenter, Xiaoling is passionate about empowering young students to become lifelong language learners and interculturally competent world citizens. She has developed innovative and effective strategies for advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion while facilitating language acquisition in the world language classroom. Xiaoling has given several presentations on how to integrate social-emotional learning and “Social Justice” standards into world language teaching at a variety of regional and national language teaching conferences. Her dedication to language teaching has been recognized by the Washington Association for Language Teaching, who awarded her the Creative Innovation Award in 2022.

In addition to her dedication to language teaching, Xiaoling has organized field trips for her Mandarin learning students to communicate and connect with local Chinatown residents and community leaders. Her commitment to promoting language learning and intercultural competence extends beyond the classroom and into the local community.

As the President of CLTA-WA (2024-2025), Xiaoling Mo has diligently fulfilled all duties and responsibilities expected of the position. Additionally, she has actively coordinated workshops and networking events, such as the special panel on How to Engage Local Communities in Understanding and Appreciating Chinese American History, in January, 2024. She has demonstrated excellent communication skills while collaborating with other board members and a strong commitment to advancing the group’s goals and objectives.

Xiaoling is a multicultural educator and a lifelong language learner herself. In addition to speaking Hakka as her mother tongue, she is fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese Chinese. Her Japanese language proficiency is rated as Advanced-high, and she is currently actively learning Spanish and Korean.