In a little over two months, we reach one of the most important parts of our application for authorization to offer the IB* Diploma Program at Futuro Verde. Two inspectors from IB* will come on May 29th and 30th to conduct a verification visit. They will inspect the school, the infrastructure and resources, and interview administration, teachers, board members, parents, and students. The outcome of this visit will be that our application is accepted, denied or pending with “matters to be addressed”. Obviously, everyone is working hard to make sure that we are successful and are approved to start offering IB* classes in 2018 in 11th grade.
Over the next two months our preparation will include:
- Monthly information events for parents.
- Information meetings for students in 8th, 9th and 10th grades.
- Teachers will continue to attend IB* workshops.
- Necessary resources will be purchased or built into the budget for purchase in the future.
During the vacation and first few weeks of school there were some large-scale building projects. These projects benefit all students in the school, but are also vital to ensure that our application and future students stand the best chance of success. The art room has been enlarged and renovated, there is now a designated music room with plans in place to develop it further, the science lab has been completed, and the new preschool classrooms have made space for a multi-media lab and library.
With so much work done already, it is really important that we keep momentum, push forward, and all play a role, preparing as best we can for a successful verification visit and authorization.
*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
