School Consultancy Solutions

School Consultancy Solutions are experts in developing curriculum, policies and teaching practices to enable international schools to achieve the standards and practices for programme authorization by various educational authorities and school accreditation organizations

Consultancy for accreditation and authorization

If you are an IB candidate school looking to be accredited as an authorized school for the Primary Years Programme (PYP), the Middle Years Programme (PYP), the Diploma Programme (DP), or Careers Programme (CP) we can help to guide your teaching, curriculum and programme practices to align with those of the International Baccalaureate. If you have already been assigned an IB-specific consultant, we can work with them directly to take the burden off your teachers and to ease the workload of your administration. For schools seeking additional authorization by the Council of International Schools (CIS), New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) or other accrediting agencies talk to us, and we can assign you an independent consultant who will help to ease your school’s transition and ensure a successful school inspection.

Consultancy for programme development and evaluation

If you are already an IB-authorised or other accredited school looking to improve the learning environment of your students, we can conduct a school visit with our expert consultants and report ways to develop your programme to improve teaching and the opportunity for your students to excel. If you are anticipating an evaluation of your school by an authorization agency (IB, CIS, NEASC), our consultants can assess where you are now and where you need to be by the end of the evaluation cycle. Whether your evaluation cycle is one, three or five years, we can provide an interim report that will set the milestones that you need to reach for any programme development and evaluatio

Advisory for school improvement

Our Advisory service is for both new and established school looking to enhance the teaching and learning environment for your students, we can help you in your journey of school improvement. Educational institutions that stand still in their pedagogy, resources and infrastructure begin to stagnate and the rich experience for learners will soon plateau. Our consultants can advise where changes in curriculum, teaching practices, assessment models and school design will accelerate the improvement objectives of your school. We can work with specific subject departments or look at whole-school improvements. With our expertise ranging from design thinking to curricular remodelling, we can help you become the school that sets new bars in education.

Professional development and teacher training

Our professional development service will help you to breathe new energy into your teaching staff, engage your teachers in the learning environment, bring new pedagogical developments into your classrooms then our consultants can design training workshops as professional development opportunities. We can deliver subject-specific training in most subject areas or cross-curricular workshops designed to highlight specific teaching strategies such as student-centred pedagogy, inquiry-based learning, teaching to big ideas, concept-based learning, service as action or assessment for learning. Tell us what you need and let our experts design the training programme best suited to your context. Our consultants can work with your whole staff, or specific departments to develop the teaching capacity at your school.

20 + years senior level international school experience

Expert consultants

Global experience

About us

SCS are experts in developing curriculum, policies and teaching practices to enable international schools to achieve the standards and practices for programme authorization by various educational authorities and school accreditation organizations, such as the International Baccalaureate (IB), Council of International Schools (CIS), New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC), KHDA and ADEK Working with your school, we can help you deliver the teaching and the learning environment to meet the requirements and specifications for excellence at authorization and evaluation. Our consultants are school managers, educators and trainers experienced in evolving the purpose environment, culture and learning in international schools on their journey of programme improvement.

Our Consultants

Our consultants can inspect the pedagogical systems, curriculum articulation, and the quality of teaching and learning in your school. We are experienced school inspectors who will work with your programme coordinators to observe and feedback on all aspects of your school. We will provide advice for policy implementation and deliver professional development that your school leaders and teachers need. Our comprehensive reports will provide the observations necessary for you to improve the purpose, environment, culture and learning in classroom environments. The first report will set the stage for what aspects of your programme need improvement, and the end consultancy report will provide the next steps forward to ease the journey to accreditation, authorization or evaluation.

What our experienced consultants can do for your school

School Consultancy Solutions can help you achieve the school improvement that your school community desires. We can help you create the teaching and learning environment that your administrators, teachers, parents and, most of all, students need so that each child can become life-long learners able to achieve the best that they can in this competitive world. Our professional consultants are experienced senior school leaders, educators and teacher trainers who can provide guidance to candidate schools rolling out the implementation of a new programme, new schools seeking authorization, or veteran schools looking for programme evaluation and improvement. Working with your staff and behind the scenes, we can make the difficult journey of school improvement run more effectively and efficiently for the entire school community. Let us come into your school to be the eyes and ears reporting where your school is presently, and the mentors guiding your programme development to be the best that it can be.

Profiles of a few of our outstanding consultants

KB brings over twenty-five years of experience and doctoral research in teaching, curriculum development and education leadership in international schools. He has directed professional development programmes as part of pre-teacher training for UK certification, and spoken at conferences on engaging learners through inquiry and student-centred classroom practice. His extensive experience in consultation and programme evaluation as a site visitor for IB schools enables him to accurate assess the learning environment at your school, provide the PD, curriculum and policy development that is needed, and to guide your programme implementation to be the best that it can be. KB specializes at the secondary/middle school level for School Consultancy Solutions.

RS is an experienced school visit leader for international school accrediting agencies including CIS, IB, KHDA and NEASC. He has thirty years of experience in school leadership that gives him extensive experience in guiding schools through their authorization journeys. He can give your school a thorough report of where it is in terms of current programme implementation and where you want it to go. His guidance for your school in the teaching and learning environment, and the development of school policy and classroom curriculum will match the top requirements of any authorizing agency. RS specializes at the secondary/upper secondary school level for School Consultancy Solutions.

JB is award winning teacher who brings twenty years of classroom practice and school leadership. She has guided the transition of schools between British and IB curriculum, and American schools in an international context. She is an experienced school visitor for many school accreditations and her insight into the teaching and learning at your school will provide a platform for you to enhance the experience of each student through improvements in pedagogy, infrastructure and curriculum. She can provide the guidance that you need to bring about the school improvement that you desire. JB specializes at the primary/middle school level for School Consultancy Solutions.

Experience

Africa (Angola)

Whole school consultancy to improve teaching and learning in the secondary school before IB evaluation visit

Middle East (Dubai)

Middle School consultancy for MYP implementation before verification visit by the IB

North Africa (Egypt)

Professional development workshops in student centered education and inquiry based learning

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