International School Manila
About Us
IS Manila is fully committed to its mission to build a community of reflective learners who are passionate, caring and responsible contributors to the world in which we live. To this end, we provide a program that challenges our students to demonstrate their array of abilities and aptitudes and encourages them to think critically about their education. Our teachers are encouraged to cater to the individual needs of each student and class size facilitates this approach.
IS Manila was the first international school to be accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC); this year the School sought dual Accreditation with WASC and the Council of International Schools.
Mission Statement
VISION
Integrity, Service, Merit
MISSION
International School Manila is an independent international school whose structure, traditions and style emanate from the United States and whose curriculum and methodology reflect the best in worldwide educational research and practice. Our school is diverse and dynamic, and our students have the highest aspirations for their education and future lives. Our mission is to build a community of reflective learners who are passionate, caring and responsible contributors to the world in which we live.
CORE BELIEFS that bind our community of faculty, staff, parents and students.
We strive to:
- Advance the value of learning, growth and self-awareness as life-long endeavors.
- Nurture creativity and originality as precursors for critical and reflective thought and action.
- Succeed collectively as well as individually, achieving our personal best in all aspects of school life.
- Maintain a healthy balance in the time devoted to work, rest and recreation.
- Involve our community in sustaining and safeguarding our environment.
- Interact through honest, respectful and open communication.
- Acknowledge and celebrate our differences and encourage empathy, compassion, understanding and respect for human dignity.
- Live our lives positively, joyfully and ethically.
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The School of Tomorrow
Popularly known as Accelerated Christian Education, is an American educational products company that produces the ACE school curriculum - a curriculum that is being used by thousands of schools and many thousands of home schools in over 100 different countries worldwide.
Since 1970, Accelerated Christian Education has published the individualized School of Tomorrow curriculum and provided training in its implementation for Grades K-12 (See Definition of K-12). Students are tested diagnostically upon entering schools or home schools using the program. Students are then placed in the curriculum in each subject at their own performance levels determined by the results of the diagnostic tests.
An Educational Strategy Based on Tradition
In the late 1960s, Donald R. Howard, Ph.D. and his wife Esther, founders of ACE - School of Tomorrow, were troubled that many students were not performing at their grade level. Observing the same situation with their own children, they began questioning the structure of the conventional educational system.
They designed a program geared to meet the learning needs of individual children. Through the development of self-instructional, individually prescribed, continuous progress material, the School of Tomorrow program came into being. It was destined to revolutionize education worldwide. Today Mrs. Howard and more than 300 employees provide curriculum for an international network of nearly 7,000 schools in over a hundred twenty countries.
Curriculum
According to their curriculum section, the ACE “program is individualized and nongraded” and “designed to allow students to work at their own level of achievement”. They state that their “core curriculum is an individualized, Biblically-based, character-building curriculum package”. The program allows students to advance through high school.
The Accelerated Christian Education curriculum is based on a series of workbooks called PACEs, which stands for Packets of Accelerated Christian Education. Each subject has 12 PACEs per grade level. The basic subjects of ACE are Math, English, Science, Social Studies, and Word Building (spelling and word usage). Test Keys are published for corresponding PACEs.
ACE states that, “Before printing, all curriculum is checked by quality control personnel to assure the highest standard of accuracy and academic excellence. For additional verification, much of the curriculum is field tested.”
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