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SETTING THE PACE FOR A NEW GENERATION<br />
Frankfurt International School
“We have a unique opportunity to begin a new chapter<br />
and take our school to the next level in terms of quality, breadth of offerings and<br />
reputation.<br />
<br />
Our increasingly long waiting lists for admission are expected to become considerably<br />
longer with the influx of professionals due to Brexit.<br />
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Your Board of Trustees is acting upon our community’s high aspirations for transformative<br />
impact and will be implementing an ambitious set of school program improvements during<br />
the next two years in the strategic areas of Excellence, Opportunity and Balance.
EXCELLENCE<br />
Advance Academics<br />
•Strengthen STEM with Math and<br />
Science instructional coaches.<br />
•New Science labs and design and<br />
maker-spaces.<br />
•Reduce class sizes in impacted subject<br />
areas.<br />
•Invest in further ESL instruction delivery.<br />
•Institute visiting scholar program
OPPORTUNITY<br />
Expanded Student Choices<br />
•Implement a robust IB careers<br />
Diploma program (IBCP)<br />
•Strengthen performing arts<br />
offerings<br />
•Offer new IB and other courses to<br />
curriculum.<br />
•Develop outdoor learning<br />
experiences and curriculum.
BALANCE<br />
A Strong School Community<br />
•Increase counselling services in all<br />
divisions.<br />
•Develop new after-school options in art,<br />
languages and athletics.<br />
•Extend new professional development<br />
opportunities to empower teachers.<br />
•Institute teaching intern program<br />
•Integrate campus sustainability<br />
practices.<br />
•Bolster college placement and support.
INVESTING IN THE FUTURE<br />
•Accelerating our path to the next level will require more teachers,<br />
student-engaged staff and instructional materials.<br />
•Our tuition will increase by between 5-6% in each of the next 2 years.<br />
•Funding from our Corporate Partnership Program will also play a key<br />
role in financing our growth accelerators.<br />
•The FIS Foundation (Stroth bequest endowment fund) is expected to<br />
begin investing in programs (subject to market conditions) beginning in<br />
2020-2021.<br />
•Thereafter we expect to return to a rate of tuition increase closer<br />
historical inflation-related trend.<br />
•The TRP Financial Aid Program remains available for families<br />
experiencing extraordinary financial hardship.
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