Rio International School is a candidate school for ACSI accreditation. A joint AdvancED/ACSI accreditation team will visit RIS in the Spring of 2013 to review the school’s capability to become accredited through ACSI.
AdvancED
Accreditation is designed to help educational institutions boost their ongoing performance efforts for the benefit of their students. AdvancED insists on a relentless pursuit of excellence – for itself and for the institutions it accredits. This ethic of excellence ensures that institutions will find rich benefits from accreditation and that parents can confidently make informed decisions about their children’s education, knowing their child’s school is accredited. Accreditation matters because our students deserve the highest level of educational excellence possible.
Educational institutions that engage in AdvancED Accreditation will:
Unite with a global network committed to standards of educational excellence.
Earn the distinction of quality through the recognized seal of AdvancED accreditation.
Experience a unified, clear, and powerful accreditation process with a scalable and sustainable evaluation of education quality.
Receive external and objective validation of the areas in which they’re doing well, and the areas for continuous improvement.
Benefit from AdvancED research that shapes educational policy and improves learning practices.
Experience a state-of-the-art web-based accreditation system that is continuously being upgraded and improved.
Hear the best available ideas and thinking on education practices and trends through innovative products, educational technologies, and the collective knowledge of peers.
Benefit from shared expertise and powerful professional learning through local and global workshops, training, conferences, and personalized service.
Students and their parents will:
Experience ease in transferring credits from one school to another.
Gain greater access to federal loans, scholarships, postsecondary education and military programs that require students attend an accredited institution.
Benefit from their institution or educational system’s commitment to raising student performance and accountability.
Ministry of Education (Brazil)
Rio International School is also locally accredited by the Brazilian Department of Education. This accreditation ensures that our students credits will transfer to local Brazilian schools as well as allows RIS to confer the Brazilian High School Diploma, recognized throughout Brazil. Local Brazilian accreditation is yet another level of check and balances that allow our school to maintain high standards across educational standards.
ACSI:
‘The Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI) is a Christian educational organization. Since 1978, ACSI has advanced excellence in Christian schools by enhancing the professional and personal development of Christian educators and providing support functions for Christian schools.
Through a host of services, including teacher and administrator certification, school accreditation, legal/legislative help, and curriculum publishing, the association touches the lives of more than 3.9 million students worldwide. Along with a headquarters facility, ACSI has 27 regional offices in North America and around the globe. Nearly 23,000 schools from more than 100 countries are members.
