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Parents Who Left ISB
by Bill Gerritz 9 February, 2009
When you boil down ISB’s Vision for Learning it has 3 big learning ideas:
Achieving Academic Potential + Metacognition + International Mindedness.
Please note that the word Academic includes the whole range of our students’ learning – PE, art, music, science, math and so on.
ISB promises to achieve these through: great teaching in a nurturing environment.
The Vision also includes the idea of a transportable gift. If we are all successful in our work with our students, they will leave ISB with a transportable gift of wonderful learning that prepares them very well for their next school.
Our annual leaver survey offers some of the best data on how good we are in providing these transportable gifts. Each December, we survey all families who have left ISB since the previous January and who have had a student in 11th grade or lower. I thought you might like see the most recent “hot of the presses” results. III families participated, a 76 percent response rate.
Bill
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Would you recommend ISB to another family?
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Choice |
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Yes |
95% |
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No |
5% |
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Was your child happy at ISB?
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Yes |
98% |
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No |
2% |
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Please indicate your level of agreement with the following statements about ISB. |
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Strongly Agree + Agree |
Neutral |
Disagree + Strongly Disagree |
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a) My children achieved their academic, recognizable potential at ISB. |
80% |
12% |
8% |
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b) My children learned understanding and enthusiasm for world citizenship and service to other. |
89% |
10% |
1% |
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c) My children developed understanding about their own learning strengths and weaknesses? |
78% |
17% |
5% |
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Average |
83% |
13% |
5% |
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How well did each ISB program listed below prepare your children for success in their new school? |
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Topic |
Excellent |
Average |
Poor |
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a) Literature/Reading |
88% |
11% |
1% |
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b) Writing |
81% |
17% |
2% |
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c) Math |
69% |
26% |
5% |
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d) Science |
76% |
22% |
2% |
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e) Social Studies |
78% |
20% |
2% |
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f) Foreign Language |
76% |
18% |
6% |
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Average |
78% |
19% |
3% |
About the Author
Bill received his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley. He has written over 20 journal articles and has an abiding interest in learning improvement. Prior to ISB, Bill headed schools in Holland and South America. He and his wife Marcia have 3 sons.
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