Dear families and Futuro Verde supporters,
As I come into the final trimester in my third year at Futuro Verde I am rejuvenated and positively looking ahead to the coming years! Every time that our school community comes together to work through difficult decisions like those made at our assembly meeting in August, I am reminded of what an incredible honor it is to lead this educational project through so many transitions and improvements. I thank you for your commitment to Futuro Verde, your support as we continue to invest in quality infrastructure and programming for all of our students and your thoughtfulness and care as we continue to nurture our incredible teachers, of which we will have only 7% attrition from this school year to the next! These are celebratory days at Futuro Verde!
I remind you of some of our current projects and plans for the coming year:
- Continued fundraising toward our capital campaign to build our new campus in Las Delicias: this includes events like the Media and Construction Forum in San Jose on the 31st of August which highlighted the “Future of Construction through Light and Sustainable Building”. The plans for our new Futuro Verde campus were featured and all proceeds from the event will benefit our school’s capital campaign!
- If you take a Nature Air flight in the next few months, make sure to check page 9 of their in-flight magazine, Landings, for a full-page spread donated to Futuro Verde’s efforts to fund our new campus!
With the assembly approval of our funding needs for a financially healthy school and an improved educational experience for all students in 2017, we are also pleased to announce the addition to our current campus of:
- A science laboratory to be used by all Futuro Verde students and designed to meet IB* standards
- A remodeled multimedia center with a dedicated space for technology classes and another for library browsing and study space. This will come accompanied next year by a fully barcoded, inventoried and searchable database for Futuro Verde library resources!
- Dedicated classrooms spaces for all Futuro Verde subject areas!
We are also thrilled to announce that the parents of one of our preschoolers have generously offered to donate substantial improvements to our preschool facilities! Thank you Thoren and Silvia!
With further projected curricular improvements in 2017, a decisive year for us with our accreditation visit as a candidate school for IB*, and all but two of our current employees committing to another year at Futuro Verde, we are looking forward to an even brighter future at Futuro Verde!
And so, I appreciate you, the families, for your continued trust and commitment to Futuro Verde and for your belief in the high quality bilingual education our non-profit school provides to all of its students. I am so pleased to serve you on this journey!
Inspiration. Dedication. Innovation.
Lural Ramirez
Director
*Centro Educativo Futuro Verde is a candidate school* for the Diploma Programme. This school is pursuing authorization as an IB World School. These are schools that share a common philosophy- a commitment to high quality, challenging, international education that Centro Educativo Futuro Verde believes is important for our students. Only schools authorized by the IB Organization can offer any of its four academic programmes: the Primary Years Programme (PYP), the Middle Years Programme (MYP), the Diploma Programme or the Career-related Programme (CP). Candidate status gives no guarantee that authorization will be granted. For further information about the IB and its programmes, visit http://www.ibo.org
