Curriculum Coordinator's Welcome

             Dr. Peter Duckett

Dear Bayan School Community Members,
Welcome to the 2025-2026 academic year. I am excited to begin the year and we all look forward to seeing you on campus again. I’d like to take this opportunity to outline some of the major curricular initiatives that the school will be working on this year. 

ACCREDITATION 
This year the school is poised to engage in strategic actions guided by a variety of mechanisms including Middle States Accreditation (MSA), the Bahrain Quality Assurance, and existing Bahrain Bayan School policies and procedures.  Within the MSA protocols the school has identified three student performance objectives; Arabic Literacy, English Literacy, and Mathematics. 

CURRICULAR & INSTRUCTIONAL COHERENCE
Across this academic year the school will continue to maintain a focus on curricular and instructional coherence by emphasizing the commitment to refining alignment among learning objectives, assessment, and learning activities to the subject standards while simultaneously planning for differentiation to make learning accessible and meaningful to all students.

PROFESSIONAL LEARNING
The school will continue its longstanding tradition of supporting the professional growth of teachers in enhancing their instructional practice. The school continues to employ Erin Kent Consulting in providing on campus and online professional learning in support of the Arabic and English programs. Across the past several years, the school has invested in supporting teachers of Math to receive training from Erma Anderson in the form of a series of four institutes leading to a certificate from the USA Office of Overseas Schools named Math Specialist in International Schools. 
The school continues to maintain and actively access additional resources for professional learning through memberships with internationally respected organizations such as Near East South Asia Council of Overseas Schools, The Principals’ Training Center and regularly accesses relevant workshops through organizations such as Chapters International.  Teachers who deliver IB courses in Grades 11 and 12 regularly attend IB trainings made available through the International Baccalaureate Organization. 

Dr. Peter Duckett
Coordinator of Curriculum and Professional Learning