ACS Athens awarded MSA ‘sustaining excellence’ status

ACS Athens President Dr Peggy Pelonis (left), on with schoolhouse principals Dr Matina Stergiopoulos (Middle School), Dr Harry Leonardatos (Academy/High School) and Dora Andrikopoulos (Elementary School). [ACS Athens]

ACS Athens has been recognized arsenic an exemplary schoolhouse by the US-based Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools (MSA), marking a large planetary favoritism for the school, which has operated successful Greece for 80 years.

ACS Athens is K-12 American planetary schoolhouse based successful Halandri. 

The “sustaining excellence” designation followed a two-day world league held astatine the assemblage arsenic portion of the MSA mid-year reappraisal that brought together planetary academics, researchers and educators to analyse themes of innovation, enactment and planetary citizenship successful education.

According to the school, the MSA highlighted ACS Athens’ student-centered acquisition exemplary and its committedness to maintaining world excellence. The valuation team – headed by Lina Lewis and Rose C. Puffer – described the instauration arsenic a “true learning organization” and praised its strategic leadership, multicultural situation and integration of liable artificial quality use into the classroom.

The league featured 86 presentations by 169 educators and staff members, arsenic well arsenic 9 TED-style talks and student-led projects focused connected “Conscious Global Citizenship.” Students participated alongside professionals from Europe and the United States successful discussions connected ethics, enactment and modern planetary challenges.

Speaking during the opening ceremony, ACS Athens President Peggy Pelonis described the schoolhouse assemblage arsenic dedicated to shaping “conscious planetary citizens who pb with empathy, think with purpose, and enactment with courage.”

“Behind each milestone, each success, and each beingness transformed, there is so a community. Our educators are thoughtful professionals, committed not lone to the improvement of students, but besides to the empowerment of humanity itself,” she said.

ACS Athens Board of Trustees Chairperson Pascal Apostolides said the schoolhouse was among the archetypal planetary institutions to execute MSA “sustaining excellence” status, noting that students from much than 60 nationalities be the school.

Guest speaker Adela Gondek, lecturer successful sustainability absorption and successful the ecology, improvement and biology biology astatine Columbia University School of Professional Studies, emphasized the value of combining education, enactment and ethics, arguing that modern schools indispensable hole students to code planetary challenges related to κοινωνικά equity and sustainability.