Our Mission

We empower our students to be creative, critical, and inclusive thinkers who pursue lifelong learning and contribute to the global community.

Like many schools, our mission and objectives are what guides every facet of our school community.  Created by the community for the community, NIS first utilized the transformative power of developing and implementing a collective mission through “Strategic Planning” in 1995. The current mission was revised in 2022 after a similar lengthy, collaborative process by a team of over 25 parents, staff, students and board members.

In order to make the mission and objectives come alive in the classroom, with the help of our community, the mission and objectives have been distilled into three words - which, together, form a blueprint for the ever richer and deeper attainment of the mission for all NIS learners: Inquire, Inspire & Impact. 

Our community aims to make our mission the reality for all students, regardless of their age, nationality, academic need or length of enrollment.  

We conceive of classrooms in which students are taught to habitually question and puzzle over the world around them; classrooms which encourage students not merely to ‘answer the questions’ but rather to ‘question the answers’. We do this because we know that it is only by truly questioning their world that young people can come to fully understand their world – and since none of us can connect to something we do not understand, we know that it is only through developing this understanding that students can meaningfully connect to - and contribute to - the communities around them. At NIS we understand that it is these contributions, these real-world interactions, that create the ‘crisis of engagement’ necessary for students to develop the sense of ‘self’ and ‘other’ so critical to the formation of a child’s personal identity as a citizen of the world. Ultimately, it is through this process that NIS students come to understand themselves and their world, develop confidence as learners and thinkers - and so embrace a personal dream for their future beyond NIS.  

 

Our Mission

We empower our students to be creative, critical, and inclusive thinkers who pursue lifelong learning and contribute to the global community.

Our Objectives

Each student will… 

• Articulate their dreams and creatively engage in activities toward achieving them.   
• Demonstrate the confidence and desire to continually question and expand their knowledge, skills, and understanding.
• Choose to consistently contribute to their communities.

Our Strategies

We will…

• Nurture our values and strengthen our culture to successfully deliver our Mission.
• Be a financially stable, mission-driven international school as a two class per grade school.
• Ensure fidelity to the Mission and Guiding Statements as demonstrated by the outcomes achieved by all students.