Quality Schools International
Quality Schools International | |
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Information | |
Type | Non-profit school organization |
Motto | Success for All |
Established | 1971 |
President | H. Duane Root and Jim Gilson |
Language | English |
Newspaper | Quintile |
Website | https://www.qsi.org/ |
Quality Schools International (QSI), founded by Jim Gilson and Duane Root, is a group of non-profit international schools offering education in the English language, in a number of countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas. The first school was founded in 1971. The organization's world headquarters is in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Associations
QSI schools are accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools (MSA).[1] The chain is a member of CEESA, the Central and Eastern European Schools Association for US Overseas schools.[2]
QSI schools serve as Collegeboard Advanced Placement and/or SAT testing centers.;[3] they participate in the National Honor Society and the National Junior Honor Society.
QSI offers an International Baccalaureate diploma at some of its larger schools.[4]
QSI is a partner organization with NWEA and offers the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) computerized adaptive standardized test at all school locations. The United States government U.S. Department of State Office of Overseas Schools provides funding and assistance to QSI schools[5]
History
Quality Schools International is an outgrowth of Sanaa International School, founded in Yemen in 1971 by James E. Gilson. Two decades later, in 1991 James E. Gilson and Duane H. Root, founded Quality Schools International.
Philosophy
Teachers and students at Quality Schools International share a common motto: Success For All. Maintaining high expectations, differentiating to meet individual needs, and integrating social Success Orientations into the school day combine to fulfill the belief that each student can and will succeed. Quality Schools International offers academic curriculum[6] for students in the 3-year-old through Secondary IV (Grade 12) classes[7].
Individual schools
As of 2017, QSI operates 36 schools in 30 countries.[8]
Europe
- Tirana International School in Tirana, Albania
- QSI International School of Minsk in Minsk, Belarus
- QSI International School of Sarajevo in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina
- QSI International School of Pápa in Pápa, Hungary
- QSI International School of Brindisi in Brindisi, Italy
- QSI International School of Kosovo in Pristina, Kosovo
- QSI International School of Skopje in Skopje, Macedonia
- QSI International School of Malta in Mosta, Malta
- QSI International School of Chisinau in Chisinau, Moldova
- QSI International School of Montenegro in Podgorica, Montenegro
- QSI International School of Bratislava in Bratislava, Slovakia
- QSI International School of Ljubljana in Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Kyiv International School in Kiev, Ukraine
- QSI International School of Münster in Münster, Germany
Former:
- QSI International School of Novosibirsk in Novosibirsk, Russia
- QSI International School of Vladivostok in Vladivostok, Russia
- QSI International School of Yekaterinburg in Yekaterinburg, Russia
- QSI International School of Kosice in Košice, Slovakia
Asia
- QSI International School of Chengdu in Chengdu, China
- QSI International School of Dongguan in Dongguan, China
- QSI International School of Shenyang in Shenyang, China
- QSI International School of Shenzhen in Shenzhen, China
- QSI International School of Zhuhai in Zhuhai, China
- QSI International School of Dili in Dili, East Timor
- QSI International School of Atyrau in Atyrau, Kazakhstan
- Almaty International School in Almaty, Kazakhstan
- QSI International School of Astana in Astana, Kazakhstan
- QSI International School of Bishkek in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
- QSI International School of Dushanbe in Dushanbe, Tajikistan
- QSI International School of Phuket in Phuket, Thailand
- Ashgabat International School in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan
- QSI International School of Haiphong in Haiphong, Vietnam
Former:
- QSI International School of Aktau in Aktau, Kazakhstan
- QSI International School of Kabul in Kabul, Afghanistan
- QSI International School of Chongqing in Chongqing, China
- QSI International School of Suzhou in Suzhou, China[9]
- QSI International School of Hanoi in Hanoi, Vietnam
- Sana'a International School in Sanaa, Yemen
Caucasus
Africa
The Americas
- QSI International School of Belize in Belize
- QSI International School of Trinidad in Trinidad and Tobago
- QSI International School of El Tigre in El Tigre, Venezuela
Former:
- QSI International School of Puerto La Cruz in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela[10]
References
- ↑ MSA CESS list of schools
- ↑ CEESA list of members
- ↑ College Board SAT test centers 2012–13
- ↑ IBO list of schools
- ↑ U.S. Department of State Office of Overseas Schools.
- ↑ "Curriculum". Wikipedia. 2018-02-02.
- ↑ "Class (education)". Wikipedia. 2017-12-01.
- ↑ QSI official website, retrieved 13 April 2016
- ↑ "."
- ↑ Home. QSI International School of Puerto La Cruz. June 1, 2009. Retrieved on September 23, 2016.