Philosophy

The ASFL Faculty and Staff have the following beliefs about teaching and learning. The statements reflect a general progressive philosophy.

• Assessments of student learning offer students a variety of opportunities to demonstrate their achievement.
• A successful student sets learning goals and monitors progress in achieving them.
• A successful student creates and uses a variety of thinking and reasoning strategies.
• Effective school leaders engage in practices that support the ongoing involvement of teaching and student performance.
• Teachers, administrators, parents and the community share the responsibility for helping students learn.
• Exceptional students need special services and resources to improve their performance.
• A student's performance is enhanced by mutual respect among students and staff.
• Interactions with adults and among other students contribute to student learning.
• Students learn more when provided with a variety of instructional approaches.

Vision Statement

ASFL students will become independent learners who will master the skills of language arts, math, and science through discovery, investigation, and exploration.

ASFL Mission Statement

The Academy for Science and Foreign Language provides an environment which models inquiring, caring, open-minded individuals.

We develop students who understand the diversity of the world and strive to make universal connections through the study of foreign languages and science.

We inspire students to achieve educational goals through holistic learning so that they may grow to be responsible, respected, and successful adults in a rapidly changing world.

IB Mission Statement

The International Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.

To this end the organization works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment.

These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.

*Only schools authorized by the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) as IBO World Schools can offer any of its three academic programmes: The Primary Years Programme (PYP), the Middle Years Programme (MYP), or the Diploma Programme. Candidate status gives no guarantee that authorization will be granted.