Welcome!
Director’s Welcome
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Welcome to Brent and the Brent Education, for 2011-12! We have an exciting and busy year ahead, as we continue our school improvement efforts and look ahead to joint CIS/WASC accreditation.
Our school mission statement guides all our efforts. In particular, as a community of learners we are “committed to develop individual students… equipped for entry to colleges and universities throughout the world”. From this mission we have developed some very specific learning outcomes, called Expected School-wide Learning Results that are promoted by our academic standards and benchmarks, against which student progress is measured. This helps ensure that all students receive a high quality, balanced education that prepares them to be successful and responsible learners, communicators and leaders as they progress at Brent.
Academic Affairs serves to guide and support the ‘Brent family’ in applying educational best practices and engaging in collaborative learning processes. We regularly review our curriculum and use research-supported practices like Understanding by Design©, Common Formative Assessments and Differentiated Instruction coupled with the Atlas Rubicon curriculum mapping software to deliver a clearly articulated education. We also use a wide variety of external assessments to inform us on how are students are progressing, including the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test, Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test (PSAT), the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), and the International Baccalaureate (IB) examinations. International Baccalaureate may be one of the best indicators of student progress because IB objectives are included as many of our driving standards. Brent candidates for the IB Diploma, consistently score above the international mean on IB exams.
Please take some time to look at our Brent Education documents. In particular, the Brent Framework provides an overview of how we approach learning. It includes our Mission Statement, Goals and Philosophy and ESLRs. You can also access our Standards and Benchmarks, by Department, from a drop-down menu on this website.
Joseph Levno
Director for Academic Affairs
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