Section+A+(Philosophy+&+Objectives)

Members of the TEAM:
STAFF: Josianne Fitzgerald, Michael Conway, Theresa Werner, Mu Rong, Christina Song, Louisa Wang, Angela Diao STUDENTS: Sye Lin Kim, Ha Yeon Lee BOARD: Bernie Delaney PARENT : So Young Yoo

Calendar for accreditation meetings:

18 November meeting
**Attendance**: Christina, Angela, Mu Rong, So Young, Sye Lin, Ha Yeon, Josianna, Michael, Teresa, Louisa, and David Today we will discuss two documents sent via email by Josianne: 1. Document 1:  2. Document 2:  **//__Document 1__// A2** Steve Moody is heading a committee that would be able to develop procedures, which will enable the school to determine the degree of success in putting its philosophy into practice. We discussed terminology regarding EAP, ELL, ESL. Louisa will send an email to clarify. Michael – we need to keep in mind that we are talking about philosophical issue not curricular issue? We discussed terminology also marked it as completed because IST has met the points discussed such as, //**__Document 2__**// Section 1: Christina, Sye Lin, and Ha Yeon. Section 2/3: Angela, So Young, Josianne, Louisa, and David. Section 4/5: Mu Rong, Michael, Teresa.
 * Minutes**:
 * A4**
 * A7**
 * The IST school philosophy places great emphasis on the importance of our local and global community. In addition, as part of the IB curriculum, all students are regularly involved in a range of community and service activities which are coordinated by the NPK-12 Community and Service Coordinator.
 * The school has built-in one period block each week for student initiated community and service groups for MYP.
 * Maintained a quality CAS program for DP.
 * Has also supported outreach programs such as Guide, AOI Festival, ACAMIS, ISAC, WWW, MUN, GIN… and many others.
 * Update on last week’s meeting: //Mission and Philosophy statement should be out to community next week and presented to board soon.//
 * //CIS – Standard A Indicators//**

2 December 2009
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 * 1) Met briefly to go over Section A ratings template (emailed previously.)
 * 2) Apologies: Bernie, Theresa. Absence: Mu Rong
 * 3) Sub-groups:
 * 4) Standard One: Sye Lin, Ha Yeon, Christina
 * 5) Standard Two and Three: Louisa, Angela, Josianne, So Young, Dave.
 * 6) Standard Four and Five: Michael, Teresa, Mu Rong
 * 1) Clarifications: (I double-checked with Bill yesterday.)
 * 1) Philosophy and Objectives (as stated in the Section A document) refers to IST philosophy statement and IB Learner Profile.
 * 2) No printed evidence is needed at this point. If you are referring to a particular school document, please cite with page number. Any other document (the UN Declaration of Human Rights, for example) can be submitted electronically.
 * 3) Deadline: January 20 for the ratings document.
 * 1) **Next meeting: 9 December. Agenda: review sub-group ratings and revise comments.**

Ratings document from 3 December 2009:

9 December 2009
Attendance: Josianne Fitzgerald, Mu Rong, So Young, Dave, Michael, Theresa, Louisa

Apologies: Sye Lin, Ha Yeon, Christina Song

Agenda: >
 * 1) Revise ratings document for section. **Done.**
 * 2) Complete standard 5 and indicators. **Done.**
 * 3)  Prepare statement of conclusions for section. (Strengths: standards with E, weaknesses: standards with D) **Done. See below.**
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">Start work on action plan. **Not needed as we have no factors in need of strengthening.**

Component 2 - Statement of conclusions:

Section A Ratings document from 9 December 2009:

20 January 2010
Met to revise the following documents. All changes approved by committee.

[[file:101219 A Self-Study - 20 Jan.docx]]