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Organizational structure - many layers. Senior admin team. Department meetings.  Have some training on leadership strategies. MOE school wide meeting. PD for leaders provided.
Empowered leadership structure, wit consensus with the senior management team.

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Q7 Decision making and budgetary processes. 

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Q7 Decision making and budgetary processes. 

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No donations except for the Chairman.
Directors develop a budget, in consultation with faculty.
Director of Accounting Department and Superintendent meet with each Director to discuss the budget.
Once drafted, the Principal reports budget plan to the Board.

Decision making: senior management team make recommendations. In group meetings to discuss. Administration meeting. Academic Directors meeting. Input from faculty brought to the admin meetings. Teachers/staff share with Directors.

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On the school website. Board of Trustees audit yearly. Board of trustees monthly check for specific items. Auditing plan released in the previous year. Will ask for specific items to provide information for. Not only focus on financial management, but are we following our internal control processes.

Outside auditing follows MOE regulation. Yearly.

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Exists but is in Chinese. Private schol law, must have. Internal control policy also.

Contains legal and ethical practices

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Q4 Educational plans well advertised.  Action plan written and reviewed. Initiatives well advertised in school

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Q4 Educational plans well advertised.  Action plan written and reviewed. Initiatives well advertised in school

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MOE policy:
Financial report on the website every month. Government get a financial report every month.
Auditor reports also on the website.

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Chairs leadership team meetings that work on policies. Has overall reposibility for ratifying policies prior to being sent to the Board.

Documented in job description and MOE regulations

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Q2 Direction of the school at the Board level

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Q2 Direction of the school at the Board level

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Principal attends Board meetings. Chair of the Board hosts the meeting. Regular procedure for the meeting. Legal decisions are made which must be submitted to the MOE as an official record. Board meets twice a year, but when necessary another meeting wil be arranged. 9 people on the board. Accounting Director also attends.

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Representation across the school. Chosen by steering committee

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Admission policies have been reviewed to align with school mission, vision and guiding statements. Review was lead by school leadership in particular head of school and admissions director. The school has limitations on enrolment based on the support the school is able to provide. All students are considered regardless of race, gender, or other factors.

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Yes. Promotional literature shows snapshots of school life through such avenues as: Website, social media, Inquirer, brochures, etc.

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The review cycle was implemented last year and has come into effect. There is a twice annual review cycle. Note: See this for more context.

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The mission statement is expanded upon by the international mindedness guiding statement.

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Yes as also is the mission statements. The child protection, boarding house, learning support statements in particular.

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The guiding statements are core to teaching and learning and the identity of the school. The guiding statements are aligned to the students and school identity.

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The guiding statements are core to the recruitment of new teachers, part of leadership discussion, marketing to prospective families.

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Guiding statements are displayed: On the school website, on posters around the school, & all policy documents.

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The guiding statements have not changed but have been reviewed as part of a new ongoing cyclical review.

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How often do management and staff meet with student and parents to share information and ideas about issues and concerns relating to operational systems and facilities? Have these meetings been helpful?All major measures will be sent to parents before the implementation, and homeroom teachers will talk to the students.

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How often do management and staff meet with student and parents to share information and ideas about issues and concerns relating to operational systems and facilities? Have these meetings been helpful?All major measures will be sent to parents before the implementation, and homeroom teachers will talk to the students.

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Have any aspects of the premises and physical accommodation changed in any significant ways since the Self-Study Report was submitted?Significant changes for child protection

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Have any aspects of the premises and physical accommodation changed in any significant ways since the Self-Study Report was submitted?Significant changes for child protection

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Hale may want to join our meeting time!

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Is the student advisory council the same as our prefect group? Should we expand to include grade level representatives?

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Is the student advisory council the same as our prefect group? Should we expand to include grade level representatives?

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Do the building and grounds allow for efficient movement of people?There is no problem in MC. It takes some time from MC to IC

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Do the building and grounds allow for efficient movement of people?There is no problem in MC. It takes some time from MC to IC

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What training programs are provided for student leaders?

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What training programs are provided for student leaders?

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How do we enroll students for the boarding house what is the process. If students move from another school, does the school do a background check on the student?

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How do we enroll students for the boarding house what is the process. If students move from another school, does the school do a background check on the student?

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Must be enrolled by the school before they are able to be accepted into the boarding house.

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How are written student health policies and procedures distributed to parents and guardians?  This is an area which we could likely think on more. For now we send home informative letters to and announce school health checks via managebac.

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Do all school programmes that you observe have dedicated areas? Are they adequate and fit for purpose?The indoor space is sufficient, and the outdoor space has been shared with the university to maximize the benefits.

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Do all school programmes that you observe have dedicated areas? Are they adequate and fit for purpose?The indoor space is sufficient, and the outdoor space has been shared with the university to maximize the benefits.

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CAL
EAL
LS push in (Peggy or Ava)
Caroline
A lot of growth has happened this year to formalize student support through goals

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Personnel policies are available in hard copy and on-line database which are for faculty to check. 

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Personnel policies are available in hard copy and on-line database which are for faculty to check. 

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Domain D may want to have a look at questions 1-3 on page 177

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Domain D may want to have a look at questions 1-3 on page 177

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 Are there areas of the school that are not accessible to students and adults with mobilitychallenges and other physical disabilities?

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 Are there areas of the school that are not accessible to students and adults with mobilitychallenges and other physical disabilities?

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We have enough.

Activity Center 1 does not have wheelchair access to the second floor.

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Do the building and grounds allow for efficient movement of people?

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Do the building and grounds allow for efficient movement of people?

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In most cases, yes. However having two separate  campuses with a university between them causes inefficiency for individuals who need to move between the two.

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All teaching document should be prepared prior to the evaluation in case of any abrupt class observation.

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this question " 4. Does the description of the English Language Support accurately reflect current services that are available at the school? " This question was not directly related our domain. We will check with Domain D so we can be ready to field questions about this.

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Student agency
Student assemblies, sharing of learning...
Reading Month
Earth Month
Diversity Month
Caring Month
*Teachers are always having a something cool happening
*Maker Monthly Challenge
*Chinese Culture Day
Ninja challenge
Yard games
Life Skills challenge
G5 Camping Trip

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Do all school programs that you observe have dedicated areas? Are they adequate and fit for purpose?

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Do all school programs that you observe have dedicated areas? Are they adequate and fit for purpose?

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Indoor, yes.  However the school is lacking large indoor space for sports/PE/dance type activities.

The school is lacking in enough outdoor space to properly accommodate all desired activities and programs.  This results in needing to share university space which results in financial, scheduling and safety difficulties.

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Assessment policy, types of assessment, pre-, formative, summative... adding challenges

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Communications with school and parents need to be monitored to ensure it meets the CP standards.

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They may ask about the school-wide committees (Differentiation & Language, Data Deep Dive) English, math, and Chinese

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What changes have you made to the recruitment process to ensure candidates are qualified and suitable to work with children?

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What changes have you made to the recruitment process to ensure candidates are qualified and suitable to work with children?

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Looking at these questions we see there have been many changes with regards to student services. We will have to all be aware of these changes.

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Every year.

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For confidential collection and storage of student data for sharing between depts. and parents.

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They may ask about the transitions and where we are with updating.

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Possible question: Do you think appraisal process for support staff is adequate for determining professional development needs?

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Possible question: Do you think appraisal process for support staff is adequate for determining professional development needs?

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We are working on and have continued plans for growth on differentiation.

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We feel very proud of our department and the growth we have made over the last few years.

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We feel very proud of our department and the growth we have made over the last few years.

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We anticipate more detailed questions about collaboration with specialist.

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The New MOE Curriculum strives to structure more school-based curriculum which provides flexibility for students' learning. It is the great opportunity that we can consolidate National Curriculum and IB Curriculum.

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The New MOE Curriculum strives to structure more school-based curriculum which provides flexibility for students' learning. It is the great opportunity that we can consolidate National Curriculum and IB Curriculum.

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"appreciates
the implementation of expanded teaching practices,"
- specific examples
- inquiry learning
- tech integration, maker
- constructivist, situationist pedagogy

"Students have access to language learning
assistance, both in the target language of instruction as well as in the mother
tongue."
- Yes, but additional accommodation for English phases 1 and 2 (Math, Humanities, and Science in Mandarin).

Differentiation
-  Additional expansion activities for accelerated learners
-  Mixed-skill groupings
-  Language support in bilingual classes
-  Chinese classes divided into LA and LAL
-  Formative and summative assessments targeted towards subjects that engage student interests and inclinations
-  Maybe our weakest area
-  Changing group arrangements

How do we address performance when some classes aren't reaching the learning targets?
-  Teachers support in class, tutorial outside of class, teachers outside of class during break time as well

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Design: being good digital citizens. ATL skills

Review Guiding statements

Technology used throughout, standardised testing such as MAP. Students choosing the technology they are using to show their learning.

Inquiry based approach and collaboration. Own questions asked and explored. Unit reflections. Align with IB policies re assessment.

Inquiry assessments

Definition of learning:
Appraisal policy, guiding statements, learning policy.... how we define quiality teaching

Support to access curriculum:
BYOD policy. MB portal for students and parents. Learning support policy - students identified and referred to the LST. Dictionaries provided for assessments. Information shared via counselling department, diploma vs courses. tarnsfer between departments is possible.

Engaged with learning:
Enthusiasm in class, units with currency for kids. Humour and communication, lots of activities. Labs in Science, self designed and guided. Use of technology. Maker activities.

Mentors:
PP, EE, CAS advisors, IAs, sports coach, activities in general.

Responsibility for own learning:
Promote active learners. IAs, EE, PP,  choice in formative assessment, DP choices HL or SL,

Clear learning objectives: Calrifications and rubrics. Not always visible in classes. Emphasis on command terms.

Analysis of data:
Formative assessments, reflections on MB in units plans. Now part of the subject meeting agenda. Standardization. Data committee looking for ways to improve use of data across the school. Technology to get better data. Have MAP testing information. Formative assessment regularly used to refelect on his things are going. Google suite useful for that. Read Theory. Exit tickets. Khan academy.

Technology integration:
Responsible behaviour, Maker, use of GDC, create videos of GDC, QR codes, logger pro (probes), MB and Google Classroom.

Digital citizenship:
Advisory, week, digital literacy, Plaigiarism discussions.

Reflection on learning:
Pre, mid and end of unit reflections.
EE viva voce and criterion E. Course choices, and college counselling.

Tracking achievement: MB, DP report,

Professional Development: needs based, whole school workshops, Child protection, Tech coaches, weekkly notes, Wednesday meetings, appraisal process

Resources
Well resourced. Materials and infrastructure provided.

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The additional questions in the report need to be addressed.