(October 2005 - September 2010)

Vision

Adma International School (AIS), Home of Peace Education, will continue to inspire and guide learners to embrace the future and reach their full potential in a creative, safe and supportive atmosphere. We will serve as a model for national and international education through a holistic Learner-Centered Environment. We will empower our students to lead, excel and become active change agents in a global community through innovative learning experiences.

Mission

Adma International School (AIS) promotes life-long learning through a nurturing environment where students, parents, staff and community members work together to develop academic excellence, ethical behavior and personal growth.

We honor the special gift in each child and support all learners within a physically and psychologically safe, healthy and flexible learning environment. AIS empowers its learners through all aspects of peace education and guides them toward becoming active contributors to an ever diverse international society.

Values

• 1. Honesty
• 2. Motivation
• 3. Perseverance
• 4. Equality
• 5. Empathy
• 6. Respect
• 7. Responsibility
  
  

Goals and Subgoals

• 1. Ensure holistic development for all learners.
  
  
• a. Enhance the library to function as a center for integrated learning
• b. Redesign the curriculum to ensure utilization of technology and library resources in promoting integrated learning.
• c. Complete a vertical review of the curriculum, and make the necessary changes to ensure a seamless transition.
• d. Complete a horizontal review of the curriculum, and make necessary changes to ensure proper integration between and among different disciplines
• e. Identify and purchase resources needed to support the revised curriculum.
• f. Introduce and utilize "student's" portfolio as one assessment and evaluation tool that promotes the learning process.
• g. Develop a new lesson plan reflective of holistic development.
• h. Enhance the multilevel system to create opportunities that cater for needs and interests of all students.
• i. Enhance the individual learning progress for challenged students
• j. Include Peace Education within all aspects of school life.
• k. Develop diagnostic procedures to identify gifted and talented students to address giftedness within the classroom.
• l. Establish a procedure to cater for individual difficulties between and among students in Arabic classes pursuing the Lebanese program.
• m. Ensure coordination between and among student services.
• n. Enhance the development of the psychomotor and aesthetic domains in all aspects of the school.
• o. Develop the Art and Music curriculum.
• p. Enhance the Personal and Social Development curriculum.

• 2. Enhance the learning environment by further developing the physical plant to become comfortable, safe and supportive of learners' needs.
  
  
• a. Build a covered gymnasium.
• b. Design and construct a new building for preschool and lower elementary students.
• c. Add a multi-purpose hall on top of the preschool building to accommodate playtime, meetings and events.
• d. Expand the boarding house to include the third part of the current building.
• e. Create a recreational area on the ground floor of the boarding house.
• f. Expand and redesign the cafeteria.
• g. Upgrade the Science lab to enhance safety and functionality.
• h. Create an outdoor grass mini-soccer field.
• i. Study the use of space on the upper campus, and make the necessary adjustments.

• 3. Increase public awareness of the school's uniqueness.
  
  
• a. Create a school advisory board.
• b. Develop an enrollment management plan.
• c. Host a conference on Peace Education.
• d. Investigate and establish the foundation for offering the International Baccalaureate diploma.
  
  
• 4. Maintain the school's position as a leading local and regional resource.
  
  
• a. Create a school advisory board.
• b. Secure accreditation status from NEASC.
• c. Create at least two opportunities per year for teachers to meet with other teachers from different schools within their discipline.
• d. Identify and utilize more standardized tests that help the school compare AIS students to other compatible schools.
• e. Host a conference on Peace Education.
• f. Investigate and establish the foundation for offering the International Baccalaureate diploma.
  
  
• 5. Restructure the responsibilities of members in governance, leadership/management and advisory groups
  
  
• a. Create a leadership manual with redefined responsibilities
• b. Communicate the changes to the AIS constituencies
  
  
• 6. Establish a new evaluation system and ensure consistent and timely implementation
  
  
• a. Enhance and redesign a comprehensive student's evaluation system.
• b. Enhance and redesign a comprehensive teacher's evaluation system.
• c. Enhance and redesign a comprehensive administrator's evaluation system.
• d. Design a comprehensive non-teaching staff evaluation system.
• e. Design a system to evaluate the advisory board.

Revised February 2008