Khalid International Schools - Riyadh

15/04/2014

We promise all our learners:

- To develop an educational experience where they are actively engaged in a challenging curriculum that supports their holistic development as human beings.

- To refine and enhance character education, leadership training and conflict-resolution skills, encouraging knowledge discovery and investigation skills in all learners.

- To reach all learners by keeping abreast of the latest practices in instruction, differentiation and technology integration .

- To insure that the standards of our American curriculum are continuously adapted to the needs of our international community of learners.

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Core Beliefs

In fulfilling our mission, we will adhere to the following core beliefs:

The ultimate goal of education is to cultivate in each learner a lifelong passion for learning.
Each learner’s academic potential is most fully realized through a challenging and varied multilevel curriculum integrating the latest technologies combined with the appropriate support.
Learners learn best in a respectful, supportive community of trust where each learner’s learning needs and abilities are understood and accommodated as fully as possible.
Intellectual growth requires not only the acquisition of knowledge but also its application in analytical, creative and expressive ways that make learning meaningful to the learner.
Physical and emotional health is critical to the development of each learner’s personal potential.
Each learner’s life is enriched in a diverse community where differences among people are accepted, recognized and celebrated.
The school shares with families the responsibility for fostering in each learner strength of character, a sense of personal responsibility and an attitude of faith, reverence and acceptance of others.


The development of moral leadership in each learner should include instilling a commitment to use one’s knowledge, skills and resources in the service of others within the community in order to promote and foster positive change.
The transformation of teaching institutions into active and cooperative learning environments.
Developing the schools to serve as hubs for promoting educational, environmental, social and cultural awareness within the community at large.

15/04/2014

From the Desk of the Academic Directors

Dear KIS community,

Welcome to Khaled International Schools – Riyadh, KSA; a community of learners.

At KIS, we believe every person has the right and responsibility to learn and is capable of learning. Once a person’s needs are identified, his/her capabilities, learning styles, gifts and talents are uncovered and a positive and nurturing environment is provided, learning is certainly optimized.

With the help of all the KIS constituencies, old and new, the KIS purpose, direction and values, who we are-our purpose- what we stand for-our values- and aspire to be as a community-our direction- have been revisited to ensure the best possible positioning of KIS in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the foreseeable future.

We do hope that our motto “we measure success one learner at a time” will provide the necessary medium through which our learners will acquire the KIS traits and characteristics at a faster pace.

To help our learners become:

Caring citizens
Critical thinkers and researchers
Problem solvers
Good communicators
Team players, and
Positive change agents
We invite you all to lend a hand and join our 2013-2014 journey and experience the KIS difference.

Sincerely,

Rana Jreije (Academic Director-Girls’ School)

Aziz Khabbaz (Academic Director-Boys’ School)

15/04/2014

A Message from School Development Consultants-(SDC) Lebanon

Welcome to a school that “measures success one learner at a time”. Welcome to KIS’s 2013-2014 academic year. It still is a community of learners, child-focused, and a learner-centered school. We do believe that every child/learner can learn and will learn differently to the best of his/her ability once properly guided, respected and challenged.

School Development Consultants (SDC)-Lebanon, the managing body for KIS, has been engaged in developing a plan and processes through which it can actively plan KIS’s development. Our company’s Board of Trustees has entrusted the executive tasks at KIS to a group of experienced, qualified, and professional educators in both the Girls’ School and the Boys’ School. We have also assigned a number of our key consultants to KIS. They will be visiting the school during the course of the academic year to train, evaluate and support the new system being implemented. Naturally, our Board will be overseeing the work of both the school team and the visiting consultants through site visits to KIS and meetings that will take place at the school with representatives of all school constituencies.

Similar to the way we usually operate our other schools in Lebanon and the Gulf, our team will be concerned with questions such as: What will the character of our learners be? How will they develop as human beings? What is the evidence that all our learners have access to high quality instruction and standards? How can we differentiate instruction to meet the needs of each and every learner? How can we modify our schedule to provide all our learners with more time for learning individually and with facilitators? How can we reduce prescribing knowledge and encourage knowledge discovery? How can we encourage learners to be resources for each other in ways that enhance learners’ skills and assist all learners to build a collaborative and cooperative learning environment?

It is through attempting answers to such questions that the consultants from School Development Consultants-Lebanon govern and guide the continued development process of KIS spearheaded by KIS’s management team. It is also through such questions that we evaluate the performance of the school as a whole and in particular, the school management.

Finally, we would like to share with you the main focus areas for this academic year 2013-2014, and they are:

At KIS we strongly recognize the importance of technology and work on integrating technology in all subject areas.

At KIS we believe in partnership with the parents and parent involvement. We have an open-door policy that welcomes parents whose input is vital to our decision-making process.

At KIS, as we all are learners, we recognize the wealth of talents around us and work solidly on empowering young and adult learners. We mobilize talents to enhance our faculty and staff. The KIS teacher/facilitator is key at our school. Our teachers know and are experienced in handling situations, have mastery of content and methods of effective instruction and are life-long learners themselves. Because we all are learners at KIS, we promote induction programs, ongoing professional development, seminars, conferences, workshops, and any other high quality staff development at school or in the community at large.

The KIS teacher is involved in instructional leadership, curriculum development, strategic planning, program evaluation, team building and personal growth. The KIS teacher understands the important role he/she plays in the lives of learners both as a teacher and as an adult figure in the learners’ formative years.

At KIS we realize that building a community requires the amalgamation of all young and adult learners, academic and non-academic staff, administration and parents. We are sincerely looking forward to the unique blend of the KIS family, a family that inspires rather than coerces.

It is these beliefs that led the school to endorse the introduction of electronic beams and LCD projectors into most of our classrooms. It is these beliefs also that led us to endorse teacher training programs before the beginning of this academic year and every six weeks during the course of the year. It is precisely this kind of training that will help realize our objectives for this year and years to come.

Sincerely,

Shukri Husni

SDC Director General

15/04/2014