International School Connection

Step A: ISC School Registration

• The school registers with ISC as an ISC School Partner (the “get acquainted” stage);
• The school registers with ISC and the local HUB demonstrating interest in the global aspects of schooling and learning;
• The School Principal and Assistant Principal or Lead Teacher Register as a Member School in the ISC;
• Fee paid: $100 for both the ISC and a local Hub;
• Post school website to the ISC website;
• Prepare and submit (to ISC Leadership Team and local Hub Coordinator) a general “School Vision” for becoming an ISC school;
• Identify the type of school partners wanted and post on ISC website;

Ten Descriptive Benchmarks for a School as a Global Learning Center

The emerging world community is dramatically reshaping how families, businesses and local school communities live and work.  There is an urgent need right now for schools to develop programs and systems that prepare students for success in life in a rapidly changing global work environment, and in a general approach to living in the new millennium world as well as in a specific local itself.

As an international community, the ISC began noticing patterns in some schools around the world that reflected global perspectives in their curricula and in their overall approach to school culture and community.  The ISC suggested that we ought to build upon these emerging globally focused schooling patterns.  As an organization, we decided to devise and shape some standards around what we considered to be the characteristics of the school as a Global Learning Center (GLC), and did so through an international community validation process.  A set of research validated ISC global school benchmarks were approved at our Madrid Summit Conference in 2004.  The Ottawa ISC Hub group went beyond this, and developed further descriptors or characteristics, related to each Benchmark about what a Global Learning Center actually should look, and feel like.  In the fall of 2006, the AY Jackson Secondary School in Ottawa, Canada was recognized by the ISC as the first school in our world organization to become a Global Learning Center. “AY” continued its school development quest and in 2007, in Beijing were recognized as having achieved “full certification” as a G.L.C. The School’s many different “global” activities, led by both faculty and students are both curricular and, extra-curricular.  The global atmosphere at the school sets the pace for schools that are developing their expertise at designing global perspectives across their local curricular and school-wide programs. AY Jackson affirms a school community culture which is not only multi-national and multi-cultural, but one that permeates how this school’s family operates, cooperates and collaborates on a daily basis with a global view to the future of its students and its community.