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Eastwood International School was founded in 1973 with the vision of Mr. Amine Michel Khoury to provide an equitable educational community for all learners. The board of advisors has since been in effect, overseeing major curriculum and policy decisions. Its facility is located in Mansourieh el Metn, a district within Beirut, Lebanon. Since its foundation, Eastwood International School has kept abreast with best pedagogical practices. A holistic approach to education distinguishes us from other schools our focus is on the social, emotional, and academic nurturing of our learners. Our goal to recruit a highly qualified, diverse teaching workforce supports the effort to maintain internationally recognized standards in curriculum and teaching. Small class sizes ensure that students with distinct educational competencies’ and backgrounds receive the individual attention and care they require. The school’s curriculum is based on the active construction of meaning through rigorous coursework that is intellectually challenging and culturally appropriate. Students explore topics in-depth through a method of inquiry, which allows them to ask and tackle meaningful questions. There is great attention to social interactions within the curriculum, such as conversations, discussions, joint work, and debate. Such interactions provide opportunities for students to learn through observing the performance of others, receiving feedback about their performance, hearing alternative points of view, and engaging in the exchange of ideas. There is a periodic review of the curriculum to ensure that high standards are maintained. Eastwood International School commits to positively impacting the world by teaching students to be driven by a balance of mind, body, and soul, and to couple knowledge with compassion, ambition with integrity, and achievement with service. Eastwood International School strives to be a leading educational community in the Middle East for students of all nationalities and religions. The success of our vision depends on the commitment of all members of the school community to take an active part in its effort to provide an instructional system that conforms to the high standards of international education. Eastwood International School is committed to a program of continuous improvement and development. At Eastwood International School, our goal is to change the world through education by creating leaders of the future thoughtful leaders with integrity and be able to serve the greater good of the planet. This is what motivates the work of everyone at EIS. We are driving by the conviction that every child deserves a quality education and that education is a basic human right. We are witnessing an incredible change in education, globally, and at Eastwood International School, we are keeping up with that change. Our classrooms are designed for 21st-century learning and as technology changes the face of the world we live in, we have kept abreast with the latest pedagogical changes education has to offer. We have tools available today that were unimaginable a generation ago, in the form of learning technologies that could, in turn, change the nature of teaching and learning. At Eastwood International School, we have strong leaders that have a globally-minded view of education and see the possibilities of how education can help with creative solutions to long-standing problems, to enact transformational change in thinking on how to better this world. Our International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme coupled with the Primary Years Programme has elevated the educational standards of Eastwood International School, while instilling a sense of globally-minded students to be able to make a positive change that will benefit society as a whole through community outreach programs, environmentally sustainable approaches to curricula development, to ask forward-thinking questions to see how to make this world a better place for future generations. A lot of educational institutions and authorities talk about what is wrong in education we like to focus on what is right in education. Our tradition of innovation has poised Eastwood International School as a leading institution in the Middle East and our student body and alumni are a testament to our educational commitment. Eastwood International School is poised to make a difference in the world and we will, with your help every student, teacher, parent, faculty member, administrator, and stakeholder needs to share in our vision that education is the single most important variable to make the world a better place and it starts with you and us. The value of quality, developmentally appropriate early childhood education cannot be overstated. Children who receive a high-quality education in their early years reap benefits in their cognitive and social development, in the development of their language skills and thinking skills in both the short-term and the long term. At the heart of programs that produce such exceptional results, of developmentally appropriate programs, for children in their earliest years is play. Eastwood International School is officially an International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme candidate school. The International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (PYP) is designed for students between the ages of 3-12 years, and it focuses on the learning and development of the whole child. The child is encouraged to inquire into real-life matters in local and international communities and to take meaningful action based on what he or she has learned. This approach and these explorations, quite naturally, are transdisciplinary through powerful integration and an emphasis on inquiry, the boundaries between subject areas become bridged, with children using knowledge beyond and between those boundaries to solve problems and answer the questions they have developed that drive their inquiry. We are here to guide our early adolescents through three exciting years of change and development and to prepare them to be independent, knowledgeable thinkers who can succeed with the vigorous academic courses ahead of them. The Middle School team achieves this by providing a wide range of challenging programs, by giving a variety of opportunities to explore, discover and develop individual activities and by nurturing each student emotionally, spiritually, and physically. High School is designed to provide ample opportunity for students to develop the talents and interests of which they are aware and to discover and develop previously unrecognized ones. Our graduation requirements are designed to ensure that each Eastwood International School graduate is well prepared both for college and for a lifetime of service and learning. They reflect our belief that students become creative, reflective, open, disciplined, productive, compassionate, and passionate adults by engaging in a broad range of learning opportunities, both in and out of the classroom. View full school

Eastwood College was founded in 1973 with the vision to provide an equitable educational community for all learners. Since its foundation, Eastwood College has kept abreast with best pedagogical practices. A holistic approach to education distinguishes us from other schools our focus is on the social, emotional, and academic nurturing of our learners. Our goal to recruit a highly qualified, diverse teaching workforce supports the effort to maintain internationally recognized standards in curriculum and teaching. Small class sizes ensure that students with distinct educational competencies’ and backgrounds receive the individual attention and care they require. The school’s curriculum is based on the active construction of meaning through rigorous coursework that is intellectually challenging and culturally appropriate. Students explore topics in-depth through a method of inquiry, which allows them to ask and tackle meaningful questions. There is great attention to social interactions within the curriculum, such as conversations, discussions, joint work, and debate. Such interactions provide opportunities for students to learn through observing the performance of others, receiving feedback about their performance, hearing alternative points of view, and engaging in the exchange of ideas. Eastwood College commits to positively impacting the world by teaching students to be driven by a balance of mind, body, and soul, and to couple knowledge with compassion, ambition with integrity, and achievement with service. Eastwood College strives to be a leading educational community in the Middle East for students of all nationalities and religions. The success of our vision depends on the commitment of all members of the school community to take an active part in its effort to provide an instructional system that conforms to the high standards of international education. Eastwood College is committed to a program of continuous improvement and development. High School is designed to provide ample opportunity for students to develop the talents and interests of which they are aware and to discover and develop previously unrecognized ones. Our graduation requirements are designed to ensure that each Eastwood College graduate is well prepared both for college and for a lifetime of service and learning. They reflect our belief that students become creative, reflective, open, disciplined, productive, compassionate, and passionate adults by engaging in a broad range of learning opportunities, both in and out of the classroom. The International Baccalaureate Programme (IB) is a course of study designed to meet the educational requirements of students aged between 16 and 18 years. The IB Diploma Programme (DP) is a well-rounded, rigorous course of study, devised to develop students with skills for the 21st Century, who are informed, global citizens. It aims to help students to develop the knowledge, attitudes, and skills they need to participate actively and responsibly in a changing and increasingly interrelated world. The program reflects the IB commitment to internationalism through second language learning and some literature requirements in English. The program includes learning outside the classroom through the extended essay and the community, and independent learning through research. Eastwood College received its IB Authorization in early 2018 and has started accepting students for the IBDP1 class starting in the 2018-2019 academic year. View full school