Dear SIS Parents:
In the interest of enhancing student learning, stressing balanced development, and motivating students to higher achievement, SIS has committed itself to enrich its curriculums (written, delivered, & learned) with varied activities that are aligned with best practices and develop new areas of challenges for our students. Some of these include the following: cultural programs, field trips, educational tours (local and international), debating teams, extemporaneous speech competition, school band, the establishment of a TOEFL center which is now under application process, the affiliation to be an Adobe Digital School, Year-end Celebrations, Talents show, more external assessment tools,etc.
On local educational tour, the Grade 6 to Grade 12 summer students will take a trip to Chiang Mai from July 22 to July 24 of next month. This will be part of the culminating activity which will expose the students to some of the best tourist centers in Thailand such as: Thailand’s biggest dam, the “Guinness" elephants, pandas in Chiang Mai Zoo, and the World Botanical Garden. One objective is to provide students with authentic experiences that may lead them to develop intense hunger for more learning. Moreover, travel has personal and medical benefits. It recharges batteries, creates good memories and awareness, and builds relationships.
Through our concerted efforts (teachers, parents, board members & administrators), we can fulfill the school mission and bring the school with its students to higher level of excellence. To pursue a tradition and culture of excellence, SIS has set five signposts such as follows:
1st stage: MOE accreditation- This had been achieved readily in the last four years.
2nd stage: WASC candidacy status- SIS got this about two years ago.
3rd stage: WASC full-accreditation status- Finally, we got it last March 2009 despite giant obstacles.
4th stage & 5th stage: Re-accreditation for 6 years- To achieve these may take a lot of time but we will be getting there in the future.
We need to have clear-cut financial victory and organizational performance victory (academic administration, resources & development, student administration, organization & governance, and other sub-systems). The multifarious facets of our school must continue to be fine-tuned for continuous improvement such as: student GPAs, superb after-school program, professional developments, AP training for teachers, AP courses being offered with students passing AP exams, highly qualified/experienced teachers and administrators in the right positions (SIS has it now), many student test-takers are high performers in TOEFL, SAT, ISA, IOWA, Stanford Achievement Test, etc. The SIS reputation will invite more students on the "waiting list" and its graduates will impact universities and the society. We’ll keep you updated on the details at the right time.
Let’s dream big dreams together for the sake of our children and collaborate to fulfill them!
Kindest regards,
RN & ATL
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