AIS Vienna has been honored as the first international school in the world with the NFHS Honor Roll status!
The NFHS or National Federation of High Schools is the governing body in the United States for all high school athletics and activities.
Through their learning portal NFHS Learn they provide over 70 online courses with the majority of them being free. There are courses for; coaches, administrators, officials, students, and parents with a number of courses also about non athletic or activity topics such as Homework Help and Understanding Vaping and E-Cigarettes.
Since 2015 it has been mandatory for AIS coaches to complete the Concussion in Sport course each year but this year we have raised the expectation to include; Fundamentals of Coaching, Protecting Students from Abuse and Sudden Cardiac Arrest.
This year the NFHS has started a school ‘Honor Roll’ program where schools are honored when they have at least 90% of coaches complete these 4 courses. With their commitment to professional development for our coaches, this week AIS Vienna became the first international school in the world to be given this recognition.
Relationships and the Arts Matter at the IS Belgrade by Tracy Lord-Ryan
I would like to share with you how relationships and the arts matter in my teaching practice here at ISB under the current pandemic. There are two aspects to my experience. The first aspect is keeping the connection going in our Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) and the second how the final DP Theatre performance tasks were completed with one senior performing from their home in Canada with an audience of peers online live here in Belgrade.
Globetrottin’ ADs Online Conference
Two CEESA AD/AC have been keeping busy on a global scale while on home office. In January, Nick DeForest (AIS Vienna) and Matt Fleming (AIS Budapest) have started their own podcast for International School Athletics Directors, Activity Coordinators and Coaches called the “Globetrottin’ ADs’.
Educating children for a future that already exists
According to a recent World Economic Forum report, 65% of children currently in Primary School will enter a job that does not yet exist. The fastest growing job sector is the ‘Gig Economy’, whereby people are not employed in the traditional sense, but instead sell their skills on an open market. Some estimates indicate that around by 2022, 40% of all jobs will be in the Gig Economy.
WIDA announces events in 2019-2020
Our Associate Member - "WIDA International School Consortium" organizes a few valuable events in the next school year. You can find details via provided links:
CEESA Assessment Summit at AAS Sofia
Anglo-American School of Sofia hosted the CEESA Healthy Assessment Summit last week (Oct 3-5) in their brand new Rila Renaissance Building. Educators from the CEESA region joined some of the AAS faculty to discuss how they might assess all learners.
CEESA Teachers Softball Tournament
For the seventh straight year the first event of the CEESA Athletics year was a teachers softball tournament.
A CEESA touch at the National Athletic Directors Conference
Just before the winter holidays four current and three past CEESA AC/ADs were in San Antonio, Texas at the 49 th annual National Athletic Directors Conference.
CEESA Literacy Coach Cohort at PSI Kyiv
CEESA international Literacy Coach Cohort members led by Monica Medina, had amazing four days of learning at PSI Kyiv this November.
IB Diploma Coordinators Meeting at The International School of Belgrade
The International School of Belgrade had the pleasure of hosting the CEESA IB Diploma Coordinators for their annual job-a-like event in November 2017.