SCHOOL TO SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP

The U.S. school partner of choice will also work closely with the school abroad to ensure accurate reporting, curriculum implementation, and record-keeping of enrolled students. This type of partnership seeks to integrate elements of the U.S. school’s curriculum, pedagogy, course/credit alignment, and/or graduation standards while allowing the school abroad to maintain its identity and core program.

Types of Programs:

• Single Course

• Single Academic Department / International Track

• Dual-Diploma

• Branch Campus

DIGITAL CURRICULUM PARTNERSHIP

Through ACP’s digital curriculum catalog of over 200 courses, schools in the U.S. and abroad can integrate and expand both their course and credential offerings. Through a blended model of synchronous and asynchronous learning formats, a partnership program will allow schools and partners to integrate a U.S. school curriculum and brand seamlessly into their core program.

Types of Programs:

• Single Course

• Dual-Diploma

• Branch / Micro-Campus (Virtual or Physical)

ACCREDITATION SERVICES

We can provide accreditation of our partner schools abroad, which offers concrete evidence to families and educational associations of voluntary accountability, documented school credibility, democratic practices, and assurance of national and international standards of education.

• Accreditation enlists in its performance strategies:

• National and International Standards with Quality Indicators

• Institutional Self Studies

• Evaluation and Opinion Surveys of Students, Parents, Teachers, Administrators, Staff, Board, and Community.

• Site Visits for Review Evaluation, and Monitoring.

• Transparency of its Publications, Standards, Policies, and Procedures.

• Annual Reports, Monitoring, and Re-evaluation Cycles

If a school meets the initial standards of accreditation, the school is immediately moved to the status of Candidate for Accreditation. This provides the school community with immediate recognition of the high quality and integrity of the school. Two site visits will follow before full international accreditation is granted.

TEACHER TRAINING & Development Programs

The purpose of the Pedagogy/Teaching course is to provide international partnership schools with an introductory examination of key practices teachers must know to be effective in their unique learning environments. In addition, this course is to bring about a greater awareness of evidence-based practices of effective teaching and learning, as well as to get the participants thinking about applying each of these practices within their own settings.

There are six interconnected progams:

1. Effective Teaching and Learning: General overview for the course, defining characteristics of effective teaching with a focus on dispositions of effective teachers.

2. Developing Positive Relationships Between Teacher and Student: Examples of best practices in engaging with and helping students succeed.

3. Lesson Design: Design provides a brief yet thorough introduction to backwards design (specifically Understanding by Design), with supplemental templates to assist new teachers with this process.

4. Assessments:  provides an overview of current assessment strategies that will assist both teachers and students understand where they are in the learning process, provide ways in which teachers can interact with assessment data to better restructure their learning environments to address students’ learning needs, and provide strategies for creating assessments that allow students to “show what they know.”

5. Personalized Learning: introduces differentiated instruction, and applies this educational strategy to the unique learning needs of the 21 st  century learner.

6. Models of Teaching: discusses the role of a teacher as educational designer, and provides an in-depth look at two commonly used instructional strategies: direct instruction and cooperative learning.

COLLEGE counseling PROGRAM

Students from partnership programs gain access to our FREE, streamlined and easy-to-use online application specifically designed to assist students in improving admission and placement outcomes for participating students - particularly those seeking entrance into US, UK, New Zealand, and Australian colleges and universities.

• Over 350 university partnerships

• Smartphone app with the online scheduling system, allowing students to meet when it’s most convenient for them.

• Ability to apply to multiple universities.

• Faster application turn-around for all partner universities.

• Access to unique academic scholarships

• A dedicated academic advisor from ACP for each university application

• 7 days a week and 365 days of support.