Strategic Plan

The American International School of Rome

AOSR MISSION

AOSR offers the best of an American-International education. We inspire our diverse student body to courageously meet the demands of a changing world.

Strategic Pillars for Excellence

Personalized Learning

Inspire, challenge and nurture each student to achieve individual academic excellence.

We will implement learning programs that challenge and empower each student to succeed.
We will attract and retain highly skilled, internationally experienced teachers who build relationships that inspire students to ask tough questions, try harder, and believe in their own potential.
We will use Data to inform instruction for optimal student growth.

Active Learning

Develop partnerships to engage students to learn from and care for our local and global community.

We will develop partnerships with parents, businesses and NGOs to create learning experiences that extend beyond our campus.
We will expand experiential learning trips in Rome, Italy, and Europe as a component of our curricular and co-curricular program.
We will engage student voice and agency for sustainability and service opportunities in our actions and decision-making.

Future Ready Learning

Ensure an international and diverse community, with state-of-the-art facilities and sustainable resources for future-ready learning.

We will continue to actively promote AOSR to ensure diversity and internationalism in enrollment and faculty recruitment.
We will develop the Campus Master Plan to offer 21st century teaching and learning.
We will create a financial plan that optimizes our financial resources and creates long term financial stability.

AOSR's Internship Program

AOSR's Strategic plan is composed of three pillars for excellence:

Personalized Learning
Active Learning
Future Ready Learning

The second pillar talks about Active learning and one of our goals here is to "develop partnerships with parents, businesses and NGOs to create learning experiences that extend beyond our campus."

Gustav successfully combined the winter break and a school week, which gave him 2 weeks of work experience. This was long enough for him to get a good idea of worklife, collaboration with colleagues and the core values of IKEA. We hope that Gustav's experience will inspire more of our students to take on an internship during the academic year.

We strongly believe that internships will give:

Extra curricular engagement
Change-maker of tomorrow
Help build a network

What did Gustav's mom have to say?

'In Sweden, where we are from, all students complete a 2-week internship in grade 9 and 1 week in 11th grade. It is mandatory. The students (and their parents) are responsible for finding a workplace for the internship. My husband, his older brother and I, and all his friends have done internships while in high school. So for Gustav, this was a natural thing to do. And he was excited about it. (As a mom, I would say that he has grown in confidence). In Sweden, these internships often lead to summer jobs for students.

Collaboration between AOSR and IKEA?

Yes, we have a written contract between the school and IKEA, which stipulates responsibilities and expectations for the internship. IKEA as a Swedish company are used to internships and have a routine for how this is being done. Gustav was given a letter of recommendation/certificate of his internship, which will fit well in his CV.

Gustav, our grade 11 student, is a pioneer of our ambitions internship program, since this is the first of its kind during a semester. He filmed, edited and scripted this entire video.