Academic Programs offered at the French American International School / International High School in San Francisco. For more information go to www.

1. ONE OF THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, CHALLENGING AND INTELLECTUALLY STIMULATING COURSES OF STUDY AVAILABLE

2. INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE PROGRAM www.internationalsf.org/IB TRIPS & EXCHANGES PROGRAM www.internationalsf.org/TRAVEL CONTACT Antoine Delaitre IB Coordinator – Director of Exchanges antoined@frenchamericansf.org (415) 558 2074

3. MAIN HIGH SCHOOL TRACKS IN THE U.S. UNIVERSITY IB DIPLOMA HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA IB DIPLOMA PROGRAM 12TH GRADE AP AP 11TH GRADE 11TH GRADE AP STUDENT RETREAT 10TH GRADE 10TH GRADE 10TH GRADE 9TH GRADE 9TH GRADE 9TH GRADE STUDENT RETREAT “REGULAR” HIGH SCHOOLS AP COURSES IB DIPLOMA

4. PRE-IB COURSES IN GRADE 9-10 Community Service Selection of IB courses at the end of Grade 10

6. Inspired by best European pedagogical practices

7. Offers a balanced, multicultural, coherent curriculum

8. Promotes international understanding, social responsibility, critical thinking and independent learning

10. International is the 91st of 2,000 “IB World Schools”

14. Literature and Language

17. Criteria-based assessment

18. Emphasis on critical thinking and research, not on Multiple-Choice Questionnaires

19. Common expectations worldwideINTERNAL Independent Projects graded by our teachers (e.g. Orals, Lab Reports, Fieldwork) + Moderation of samples by IB examiners EXTERNAL Assignments and Projects graded by outside IB examiners (e.g. Extended Essay, Literature Essays, IB Exams)

21. INDIVIDUALIZED

22. BILINGUAL (optional)LANGUAGES ART EE TOK CAS EE TOK CAS

23. 3 CORE REQUIREMENTS COLLEGE-LEVEL RESEARCH PAPER (4000 words max) EXTENDED ESSAY THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE CREATIVITY-ACTION-SERVICE EPISTEMOLOGY COURSE (2 hrs/wk) OUTSIDE OF THE CLASSROOM: ARTS, SPORTS AND COMMUNITY SERVICE (minimum 50 hrs of each over 2 years)

25. COLLEGE ADMISSION Cumulative data since 2008 Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Brown, MIT, Cornell, Columbia, Brown (admission rate < 10%) UC Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, Boston Univ., USF, Univ. of Washington, City College (admission rate > 50%) UC Berkeley, UCLA, USC NYU, Northwestern, McGill (admission rate 10-25%) UC Davis, UC San Diego, Oberlin, UC Santa Barbara, Skidmore, GWU (admission rate 25-50%) 13

27. BALANCED CURRICULUM

28. CUSTOMIZABLE AND INDIVIDUALIZED PROGRAM

29. CLEAR LEARNING OUTCOMES (LEARNER PROFILE)

30. INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

31. BILINGUAL DIPLOMA (OPTIONAL)

32. EMPHASIS ON SKILLS & CRITICAL THINKING

33. 30% INDEPENDENT RESEARCH IN EVERY SUBJECT

34. COLLEGE-LEVEL RESEARCH PAPER (EXTENDED ESSAY)

35. CREATIVITY-ACTION-SERVICE PROGRAM

36. HIGHLY REGARDED BY UNIVERSITIES (COLLEGE CREDIT)“Many schools (…) prefer the IB approach: IB students are ''more authentically educated'' than their AP counterparts, who use ''brute memory, not thinking'' to get through exams that are generally half multiple choice.” “Diploma for the 'Top of the Top'; International Baccalaureate Gains Favor in Region”, , 6/21/03

37. www.internationalsf.org/IB antoined@frenchamericansf.org