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Atlanta International School is a private primary and secondary school located in Atlanta, Georgia. The more common name for Atlanta International School is AIS. AIS is based on the International Baccalaureate Programme. The school has about 14 acres (57,000 m²) of land and has all of its 4K (pre-kindergarten) to 12th grade buildings on one campus. The school is on the former North Fulton High School campus. Private schools, or independent schools, are schools not administered by local, state, or national government, which retain the right to select their student body and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition rather than with public (state) funds. ...
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History
An outline of the school's history is as follows:[1]
1984 AIS was founded by a group of parents, international educators and members of the business community. They sought to create a school in Atlanta which would give students the opportunities found in major cities throughout the world. The school obtained financial support from several corporations.
1985 The school opened in September in a schoolhouse rented from Sardis United Methodist Church in Buckhead with 51 students in pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and first grade. Buckhead is a community within the city of Atlanta, comprising over 100,000 residents, forming approximately the northern one-fifth of Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Buckhead is legally defined as that portion of the city of Atlanta northwest of I-85 and northeast of I-75. ...
1987 In July, AIS moved into facilities located on Long Island Drive, acquired from the Fulton County Board of Education. By September the roll had grown to 193 students in four-year-old kindergarten through eighth grade. Grades 9, 10, 11 and 12 were added in subsequent years, with the first graduates receiving their high school diploma in June 1992. Enrollment increased throughout, exceeding 780 students in 2000. The Fulton County School System serves the area of Fulton County outside the Atlanta city limits. ...
1995 Under a long-term agreement with the Atlanta Board of Education, AIS moved its campus to its current location, site of the former North Fulton High School. Its address is now 2890 North Fulton Dr. Atlanta, GA 30305. The campus offers a full range of modern educational facilities, including science laboratories, campus-wide fiber-optic data wiring, a large library with computer facilities, an auditorium, a performing arts center, fine arts areas and an athletic complex including a gymnasium, and a soccer and baseball field. Atlanta Public Schools Atlanta Public Schools is a school district based in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. ...
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2001 As part of the school's master plan, AIS secured a 50-year lease of the North Fulton Drive campus and purchased contiguous area. we celebrate our victory by eating a baby!
AIS principals The former principal at AIS before Dr. Robert Brindley was Dr. David Hawley. Before Dr. David Hawley, AIS's principal was Dr. Alex Horsley. The Primary, Middle, and Upper schools also have their own individual heads.
School administration
Headmaster Dr. Robert Brindley - Dr. Robert Brindley has been the headmaster at AIS since 2005. He replaced the former headmaster, Dr. David Hawley, who recently moved to Canada with his family. Dr. Brindley has contributed significantly to the math department at AIS, and stresses the fact that AIS should not be seen just as a "language school" but as an international school where all subjects are valued and taught with excellence. Dr. Brindley also continues to work as a math teacher at AIS. His wife, Jann Brindley, works at AIS as well as a geography teacher. Dr. Brindley’s two sons graduated from AIS.
Head of the Primary School Mr. Dal Sohi - The Primary School includes 4-5 year old kindergarten and grades 1 through 5. It operates using the Primary Years Programme. The IB World School logo The International Baccalaureate (IB) Primary Years Programme (PYP) is an educational programme created and managed by the International Baccalaureate Organisation (IBO) for students aged 3 to 12. ...
Head of the Middle School Mrs. Marsha Huitt - The Middle School includes grades 6 through 8. It operates using the Middle Years Programme. The IB World School logo The International Baccalaureate (IB) Middle Years Programme (MYP) is a five-year educational programme intended for students aged approximately 11 to 16 (grades 6-10 in the United States). ...
Head of the Upper School Mrs. Suzanna Jemsby - The Upper School includes grades 9 through 12. It operates using the Middle Years Programme and the Diploma Programme. The International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme, often colloquially referred to simply as IB[1], is an educational programme taught in one of three languages (English, French or Spanish) and is intended for students in their final two years of secondary school, often before entering university. ...
Heads of Year Each grade level at AIS also has a head of year. The head of year tends to work together with other teachers of the same grade level to organize activities and events throughout the school year.
Accreditation AIS is accredited wholly or in part by four distinct accrediting bodies. AIS is fully accredited by the Council of International Schools (CIS), the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), and the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO). The Primary School has also been recognized by the French Ministry of Education as having programs equivalent to those in French schools.
By the end of the fifth grade, more than 4 percent of AIS students achieve an "intermediate-high" level in French, German, or Spanish on the American Council of Teachers of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) proficiency exam. This is the same level of proficiency required by most states to become a certified high school teacher of a foreign language.
The Campus The AIS campus is located on the former North Fulton High School campus, which was designed by Phillip Trammel Shutze. There are three buildings on the campus: The SAC, or Sports & Ativities Center, the Primary School building, and the Secondary School building. The SAC contains the Welcome Cafe, the music department, and the P.E. department. Both gymnasiums and the locker rooms are also located in the SAC. Thre is also a slightly smaller building in between the Primary School Building and the Secondary School Building. This building includes the library on the top floor and the 4K kindergarten rooms in the boiler room. North Fulton High School was a public school located in Atlanta, Georgia. ...
Diversity at AIS AIS has always prided itself on the national and ethnic diversity represented by its faculty and staff. Approximately 50 percent of AIS students come from families with two American parents, 20 percent from families with one American parent and one international parent, and 30 percent from families with two international parents. 60 percent of students come from families where only English is spoken at home. Students are admitted to the school without discrimination because of sex, race, ethnic background, or religion. Sixty-two countries are represented by the school's student body with 27 countries, and 12 species being represented by members of faculty and staff. [2]
CAS
CAS Overview CAS stends for Cretivity, Action, and Service. Each student must submit a required number of CAS hours by the end of each year, starting in Middle School, or complete the hours over the summer if preferred or necessary. If a student fails to complete his/her CAS hours, he/she will not be allowed to graduate to the next grade. Submitted CAS hours show that students have done extracurricular activities involving creativity, physical activity, and/or service. Students are required to complete 30 CAS hours each year in Middle School, 60 in 9th and 10th grade, and 150 hours in the IB (11th through 12th grade). Students often join 'CAS groups', which, as a group, have a common activity or goal to accomplish to receive CAS hours. For example, the Food Bank CAS group earns Service hours by going to the Atlanta Community Food Bank and sorting food. Each CAS group has an adult leader (a teacher), or an older student leader, who organizes and runs the group, and in whose room the group meets.
Student Opinions on CAS Though some students find meeting the CAS hour requirements difficult or tedious, the fact that the CAS program is an important part of the AIS curriculum is something that few would disagree with. A common issue with CAS hours is that some students may have far exceeded the requirements in terms of Action hours, for example, but still find it difficult to get Service hours. In middle school, the 30 CAS hours required are divided into 10 hours for each of the three categories of CAS. In 9th and 10th grade, the required 60 hours are divided in the same way, with 20 hours required for each CAS category, and so on in the IB. Recently, however, to make CAS easier for those sudents who experience problems like having more than enough hours in one category, yet not enough in another category, a minimum of only five hours (for the Middle School), and ten hours (for the Upper School) is required per category, but 30 hours (MS) and 60 hours (US) are still required as a sum total of the number of CAS hours needed. This allows students to compensate, for example: A Middle School student with 20 hours of Action would only need 5 Creative and 5 Service hours to reach a total of 30 CAS hours, instead of still having to acquire 10 more Creative and 10 more Service hours. Another student was quoted as saying: "In the event of my death, all my worldly possesions are to be sold, and the funds are to be used to fund the "Napalm for oppressed lemurs" program, a charity crerated by former AIS students, for the sole purpose of desroying AIS ans all it stands for, in an extremely amusing manner. Current studens however have nothing to fear, because the lemurs are trained to pull the fire alarm before deploying the napalm, and are also trained in CPR." the student was later dragged into the street and shot. The following is a quote by an 8th grader regarding CAS: "I think AIS has a great environment for us students to learn in. We have great teachers and challenging classes. The CAS concept is not very popular amongst us, but none of us want to be stuck making up the hours during our summer break, so we try to do over the required amount of hours during the school year. I think we should have winter exams because then we don't have to study so much for the summer exams. All in all, I think AIS is good for improving language skills." - AIS 8th Grader (Class of 2011)[cite this quote]
Other Information In fifth grade, students participate in an exchange trip, and depending on which language track they are enrolled in, they will go to Costa Rica (Spanish), Berlin (German), Martinique (French).
Office hours are officially from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on every day except for Friday. On Friday, office hours end at 4 p.m. The last Wednesday of every month is a half-day, due to faculty meetings.
Each year the school makes a directory for the convenience of parents, teachers, and staff. Annually, a year book is also created by the Year Book CAS group which compiles photographs of students throughout the year. The school then sells these yearbooks to its students, teachers, and other faculty members. The year book is called the Globe.
Only 17% of students have not made it to the twelth grade.
Common Abbreviations - AIS-Atlanta International School
- CAS-Creativity, Action, Service
- DP-Diploma Programme (the IB Upper School program)
- ESOL-English as a Second Language or English for Speakers of Other Languages
- FSOL-French as a Second Language or French for Speakers of Other Languages
- GSOL-German as a Second Language or German for Speakers of Other Languages
- IB-International Baccalaureate
- IBPYP-International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (IB Elementary School program)
- IHOT-International House of Technology (FIRST Team) (a CAS group)
- ISAL-International Students Against Landmines (a CAS group)
- LPAC-Lademacher Performing Arts Center
- MPR-Multi-Purpose Room
- MS-Middle School
- MYP-Middle Years Programme (IB Middle School Program)
- PSHE-Physical, Social, and Health Education
- PS-Primary School
- RAVA-Respect All Value All
- RAVA-Rape All Virgin Assholes
- SAC-Sports & Activities Center
- SSOL-Spanish as a Second Language or Spanish for Speakers of Other Languages
- US-Upper School
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Notes - ^ The school history on its web site
- ^ Students - on School web site
External links - Atlanta International School
- iHOT Robotics website
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