Principal Cheng Chuan-hsin leads Taiping Elementary School. He grew up in Yongjing, Changhua, trained first as a counsellor and then as a special-education teacher, and went on to earn a master's degree and a doctorate in environmental education — the second from National Taiwan Normal University.
太平國小由鄭權鑫校長帶領。他在彰化永靖長大，先修讀輔導、再主修特殊教育，其後取得環境教育碩士，並於國立臺灣師範大學環境教育研究所取得博士學位。
His path into school leadership ran through ten years in the classroom and eight years as a director, then the principalships of Mingsheng Elementary and Raoming Elementary. For years he has also served the county as a curriculum supervisor and as a convener of its science-curriculum and environmental-education guidance teams. He sums up the work in a line borrowed from the educator Friedrich Froebel.
他的辦學之路，歷經十年教學現場、八年主任歷練，再到明聖國小與饒明國小校長。多年來他並擔任彰化縣課程督學，以及自然領域與環境教育輔導團的輔導員與召集人。他把這份工作，濃縮成教育家福祿貝爾的一句話。
From counselling and special education to a doctorate in environmental education.
從輔導與特殊教育，到環境教育博士。
Ten years teaching, eight years as a director, three schools to lead.
十年教學，八年主任，三所學校的校長室。
The county's science curriculum, and its green schools.
縣裡的自然領域課程，和它的綠色學校。
A quarter-century of asking how schools and the environment fit together.
二十多年來，反覆追問學校與環境如何共處。
Love at the core, example as the ground.
以愛為核心，以榜樣為基礎。
Froebel wrote that education is nothing but love and example; the Book of Rites adds that setting a child right from the start is sacred work. Principal Cheng takes both seriously. In the years of compulsory education, an educator's first duty is to teach with love and to lead by their own conduct — to give children, from an early age, a model worth following, and to grow students of both spirit and character.
福祿貝爾說，教育的一切作為，首重教育愛與以身作則；《禮記》也說「童蒙養正，聖功也」。鄭校長把這兩句放在心上：在國民教育階段，教育工作者應以愛為理念、以身作則，從小給孩子正確的學習典範，培養出豪氣與品德兼備的學子。
Twenty-first-century education, he believes, has to be fitting, fair and excellent — leaving no child behind, and turning the school into a learning centre for the whole community. As the curriculum has moved from “abilities a child can carry away” to a focus on literacy and key competencies, the heart of learning has shifted from knowledge alone towards independent action, communicative interaction and social participation. A principal's job, he says, is to lift the lamp of education a little higher, so it lights the way for more teachers and more children.
他相信，二十一世紀的教育必須做到適性、均等與卓越——不讓任何一個學生落後（No child left behind），並把學校打造成社區的終身學習中心。當課程從「帶得走的能力」走向素養導向，學習的核心也從知識，轉向自主行動、溝通互動、社會參與三大面向。校長的責任，是把教育這盞明燈提高一點，照亮更多的師生。
