Mission & Strategic Priorities

The best way to predict the future is to make it.

ISB is a dynamic and exciting place. We have a legacy of being thought leaders and taking bold steps to create powerful learning experiences for our students and help shape the broader world of international education. This desire to continue to improve, combined with our internal capabilities and expertise in many areas, mean that we have many exciting possibilities in front of us as we look to the future.

Our Mission

The ISB Mission is built on ideas, principles, and values that have characterised the school throughout its long history. It also continues to inform that way in which the school is defining its future.

We can not talk about our Mission without speaking of its connection to our community. Our Mission - and its ideas, principles and values - weave and intersect in everything we do. They embrace everyone and they define who we are and who we want to be.

At ISB our Mission is to develop independent learners and international citizens in an environment where all students are included, challenged, and successful.

Our Strategic Priorities

In order to ensure that our learners are better challenged, included, and successful, we recognise a need to provide increased levels of personalisation for every child. This involves providing unique learning opportunities and creative, personalised pathways that connect the resources we offer at ISB with our students’ needs, goals, and passions.

We also know that personalisation isn’t a destination but a journey - one that is unique to who we are as a school and what we believe about learning. This is why we have identified four Strategic Priorities at ISB: Challenge, Internationalism, One School, and Wellbeing.

ONE SCHOOL

At ISB, we want to ensure an effective alignment of curriculum across the school, supporting the growth of our students and their transition between different grades. Our school-wide digital learning platform supports teachers with collecting student data, improving learning workflows, mapping out student progress, and enhancing school-wide communication around learning. We also use the data from the platform to improve our College and Counseling systems, finding new and better ways of supporting our students and meeting their needs.

INTERNATIONALISM

ISB is dedicated to fostering internationalism and building a community of linguistically diverse and independent students. We provide various opportunities for students to access at least one additional core language course, and through our bilingual strand of the programme, native or proficient French speakers in the Upper School can also access some of their core classes in French. In addition to this, we offer a co-curricular Home Language Programme for students wishing to maintain the language and culture of their home country, or the language they have become highly proficient in. ISB is committed to collaborating with families to embrace learning diversity, celebrate individual differences, and offer personalised learning experiences and programmes that respond to differing needs, interests, and goals.

WELL-BEING

At ISB, we want to ensure we are prioritising the overall wellbeing of our community. Our current on-campus resources include a Health & Safety Committee, an Employee Activity Programme, a Social Committee, and a relaxing, creative space in our ISB libraries. We also point employees to a range of spiritual, mental, and entertainment resources within the local community. In 2021-22, a group of employees took part in the Visible Wellbeing™ Pilot programme, which served as an effective launchboard to developing a more customised framework for exploring wellbeing in relation to the diverse needs and interests of our ISB community. We are also continually investing in creating safe and environmentally sustainable learning spaces at our school.

CHALLENGE

At ISB, we are committed to ensuring that every child receives the appropriate level of challenge in their learning. We provide all students with a range of personal and creative pathways that meet their needs, while continuing to offer the largest inclusive IB Diploma (IBDP) and BTEC program in Belgium. In the coming years, students will be able to choose from an even broader selection of Advanced Placement (AP) courses, all of which are also available to eligible students as early as the last year of MS. To provide further opportunities for challenge and choice, we have been building valuable external partnerships, such as our partnership with Johns Hopkins’ Centre for Talented Youth. We are also developing new pathways for excellence in STEM that will ensure we are integrating curriculum in new and better ways.

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