Maria Astaburuaga
Third Grade Homeroom Teacher at Santiago College - Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
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Santiago College is a community of tradition, innovation and an education based on values that for 140 years has been forming proactive, tolerant students, able to create deep bonds that hold the different generations together through lifetime. This educational foundation, multicultural, bilingual and co-educational, has high academic standards and encourages each student to face new challenges. Its goal is to form caring, solidary, well informed and eager for knowledge young people, who are able to contribute to create a world framed within respect and understanding. Santiago College teachers team is well known for its proximity, being near the student during all the steps of new learning processes, virtual or on-site. It’s a flexible school, which adapts quickly to changes, as it has happened in the Covid-19 pandemic context, with the technology needed for simultaneous online and on-site teaching. The school is member of the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) from Geneva, since 1981. Its accredited and a member of European Council of International Schools, CIS & NEASC (Council of International Schools & New England Association of Schools and Colleges), International Schools Association and is also part of the Association of British Schools (ABS) and of the Association of IB (International Baccalaureate) Schools in Chile. 140 years ago, Ira and Adelaide La Fetra undertook the challenge of founding SC. Despite all the experiences of the country, SC continues with its standards of innovation and excellence in academics and human resources. The passing of the years and the development of a more globalized, competitive and technological world have not been obstacles to continue delivering the highest ideals of education. At the core of this education is a non-denominational Christian formation, together with bilingualism and firm values and principles.