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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Anne Pinkerton,
Communications Director
413.774.2711 x277 | apinkerton@sbschool.org
Stoneleigh-Burnham
School Receives Prestigious International Baccalaureate Designation
Greenfield,
MA – March 29, 2011: Stoneleigh-Burnham School has received
official authorization to open as an International Baccalaureate (IB)
World School.® The school will offer the internationally acclaimed,
comprehensive, academically-rigorous IB Diploma Program starting this
fall.
Coming after an in-depth, multi-year accreditation process,
the designation means that Stoneleigh-Burnham School is now the third
girls’ school in the United States, the only girls’ school in New
England and one of only three boarding schools in New England to offer
this prestigious program of study.
“The IB Diploma Program will
complement not only our dedication to preparing girls for collegiate
success, but also our commitment to multicultural education,” said Head
of School, Sally Mixsell. “The IB impels us to offer a more global,
interdisciplinary curriculum, opening doors for our students to attend
universities around the world and to graduate with critical thinking
skills that will set them apart from their peers.”
Students who
choose to enroll in the optional IB program will spend their junior and
senior years studying high-level material in six subject areas. As part
of the curriculum, students will also complete an extended essay, take
an integrative Theory of Knowledge course and work to achieve self-set
goals focused on creativity, athletic pursuit and community service.
Alternatively, students will be able to take single or multiple IB
courses to earn individual certificates of study without completing the
entire IB Diploma Program.
Unlike the Advanced Placement (AP)
program, student access to the IB Program is based on motivation to
work, not grades. “The IB is available to any student,” said Academic
Dean, Natalie Demers. “It encourages interdisciplinary thinking,
approaches subjects from an international perspective, teaches for
understanding and self-reflection, and affords students a balanced view
of themselves in the larger world. Most importantly, the IB Diploma
signifies that the student has taken an active role in her own
intellectual and personal development.” As in the AP program, students
may earn college credit for their IB work. For more information on the
IB, visit ibo.org.
Since 1869, Stoneleigh-Burnham School has been
preparing girls grades 7-12 for college and the world.
Stoneleigh-Burnham School is an academic community that inspires girls
to pursue meaningful lives based on honor, respect and intellectual
curiosity. Each student is challenged to discover her best self and
graduate with the confidence to think independently and act ethically,
secure in the knowledge that her voice will be heard. For more
information on the school, visit sbschool.org.
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