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Dear team,

This year we are going to receive one more year the Neasc visitors for our Abbreviated FSV-ACE accreditation visit that will take place from April 27 to 29. For those who have not been experience these visits and need to know more about Neasc I encourage to read the documents I shared as an introduction. During three days Richard Pacheco, Laetitia Catta and Sara Eskandari will experience who we are and how the children learn at VMS.

Please do not hesitate to reach out to me in case you have any questions. Please read them before March 4rd, when our next team meeting will be.

Thank you,

Sonia

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NEASC Visitor Training PPT - Part 1 slides - Fall 2019

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The visit purpose if focused in these different goals:

Foundation Standards Update

Following up the Action Plan

Learning Principles evidences (3, 5, 9)

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Workshop with the team to prepare the Internal Reflection

Confirm the timeline for the next visit

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We work to promote key elements that shape the learning process as an aid to life, where each human being builds their own values based on ethics and morals that allow them to think and feel as people in continuous learning, open to listening, able to reflect under a critical and constructive criteria, aware of their role as agents of change for a more just, supportive and connected society.

These learners, awake to life's opportunities and challenges, with a great sense of respect and responsibility, will acquire skills with creativity, and embracing curiosity, will be leaders who inspire and promote Peace.

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Our school is fully Accredited by Neasc.

We had the first Foundation Standards visit, the internal reflection and the external visit. Now, as we moved to a new location and with a new element (Secondary), after 5 years we welcome the visitors again to follow up the Foundation Standars and ACE accreditation visit.

- The school is preparing all the documentation required for the visit that has need to be shared at the end of March. We will share with you before the visit.

What do we need from you?

- Read the protocols and VMS guidelines to be aware about what the school is involve in and how it works.

- Finish the child protection certificate and the first aid course.

- Prepare your classrooms and the work you do daily because they will observe and ask the children to get the evidence of learning.

- Transparent Classroom has to be updated.

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The Foundation Standards are the compliance-oriented guidelines that indicate essential, transactional relationships, structures, policies, and systems without which a safe, effective, and sustainable learning community cannot exist. All NEASC schools must evidence strong foundations at the start of their accreditation journey and provide Annual Updates. A thorough review, supported by documentation and a Visit, is conducted every four to five years.

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for international schools - New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Inc

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for international schools - New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Inc

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJX58Z9wCyY

The ACE Learning Principles provided a framework to not just affirm the school’s practices in relation to its mission/vision, but to also provide research-based feedback to promote learning. For schools like ours, it provides research and support to change practices to better align with what we know is best for student learning.

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Here you will find resources about the ACE Learning. We focus in the Learning Principles 3,5 and 9.

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ACE Learning Resources - New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Inc

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ACE Learning Resources - New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Inc

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Learning Conversations - Teaching and Learning Curriculum