American Education Reaches Out (AERO) provides academic standards and professional development to help American international schools develop standards-based curricula. The document outlines AERO's 3-phase plan to implement Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) standardized tests at a school and align the curriculum to AERO standards, including an awareness phase, transition phase, and full implementation phase over 2 years with teacher training and analysis of MAP test results. AERO standards have been developed for multiple subjects and can be integrated with International Baccalaureate programs.

1. AERO Standards and MAP test
2013-2014

2. Standards Vs Curriculum
•
Standards are expectations. For instance, we expect
students to know that 2+2=4, and why. Curriculum is the
program created by school to teach students to learn that
2+2 =4, and why.
•
Standards are statements. Curriculum includes many
resources: activities, lessons, units, assessments, and can
include publisher textbooks.
•
Standards define what is to be learned by the end of a
school year. Curriculum is the detailed plan for day to day
teaching.
•
Standards are the end. Curriculum is the means.
Saint George has a Curriculum.

3. CIS ACCREDITED SCHOOLS
PYP
MYP
IBDP
IPC
PUNTA CANA INT. SCHOOL
St Andrew's School The International School of The
Bahamas
IMYC
CAMB.
PRIMAR
Y
CAMB.
SEC. 1
IGCSE
AERO
AP
X
X
X
X
Nido de Aguilas International School Chile
* Al parecer se rigen por el Plan de Chile- incorporan los libros, en LA los 6+1 Traits, usan el Rubicon para las
unidades de estudios..dan SAT y TOEFL
Escola Americana de Campinas en Brazil
National
Curriculu
m PS y
MS
X
Santiago College Providencia en Chile
X
X
X
Colegio Anglo-Colombiano
X
X
X
X
X
X
International School of Havana en Cuba
The British School Ecuador
British
National
Curriculu
m
X
X
X
X
X
Academia Británica Custacleca El Salvador
X
International School of Helsinki
X
X
X
Tokyo International School
X
X
X
Metropolitan School of Panamá
X
X
X
International School Singapore
X
X
X
Stamford International American School en Singapore *dan los
MAP
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Benjamin Franklin International School en España
Stockholm International School
X
X
United Nation International School en NY
X
British School en Uruguay
X
Candidatos al
IB
X

4. IB Schools + AERO Standards
PYP
STAMFORD INTERNATIONAL AMERICAN SCHOOL EN
SINGAPORE *DAN LOS MAP
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL EN
ESPAÑA
MYP
X
X
IBDP AERO
AP
X
X
X
X
X
X
THE AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF CONAKRY
GUINEA
X
AMERICAN SCHOOL OF DOHA QATAR
X
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF KIGALI - RWANDA
X
Modern Knowledge Schools Bahrain
X
X
X
American International School of Bamako
X
Pasir Ridge International School INDONESIA
X
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF ARUBA
X
Bahrain Bayan School
X
X
Cairo American College
X
X
American School of Paris
X
X
X
X

5. AERO Vision
American-sponsored overseas schools
will know how standards-based
education can and should strengthen a
school’s curriculum, teaching,
assessment, and, most importantly,
student learning. These schools will
develop and sustain a program of
standards-based learning in their
schools.

6. Mission
• Provide challenging, professionally-validated,
voluntary academic standards for use as a
foundation for curriculum in Americansponsored schools overseas
• Assist overseas schools to develop their own
K-12 curricula that are grounded in standards
• Train teachers to use the AERO standards as
the basis for assessing their students’
progress and their own instruction
• Assist schools in developing standards-based
curricula and sustaining curricula by becoming
professional communities of learners.

7. About AERO
AERO is a project supported by the U.S. State Department’s
Office of Overseas Schools (A/OPR/OS) and the Overseas Schools
Advisory Council to assist schools in developing and implementing
standards-based curricula. Project faculty use the AERO
standards as the basis of the professional development they
provide.
AERO provides a framework for curriculum consistency across
grades K-12 and for stability of curriculum in overseas schools,
which typically have a high rate of teacher turnover. AERO’s
resources, workshops, and professional consultation services help
overseas schools implement and sustain standards-based
curricula. This effort is in alignment with research-based trends in
the development of curriculum worldwide, and particularly with
the Common Core initiative in the U.S.

8. What is Project AERO?
American Education Reaches Out (AERO), began as a
project to adapt the U. S. national standards in
Mathematics, Science, Language Arts and Social Studies
to serve the needs of multi-national student bodies. Over
the years, standards have also been developed in Music,
Visual Arts and World Languages. In addition, three other
components have been added: AERO:SAW, which
provides a focus on standards-based assessment,
AERO:SBC, which is a collection of week-long summer
institutes on curriculum design, and OSAC-funded AERO
mini-workshops, which are one to two-day introductions
to the principles taught more deeply in the summer
institutes.

9. AERO and IB Schools
Schools with IB programs use the AERO Standards in
various ways. Some expect students to meet the
standards by the end of grade 10 and then use the IB
as the basis for the curriculum for the last two years
of high school. Another choice is to maintain the AERO
Standards through grade 12 for students not enrolled
in the full IB program.
In schools that follow the Primary Years Program and/
or Middle Years Program, AERO provides a clear,
measurable set of expectations for content knowledge
and skills that integrate with the curriculum design
criteria for PYP and MYP.

10. Aero Standards

11. PROJECT BREAKDOWN
Description
When
Principals Meeting + decision
Nov. 2013
Head Teachers Meeting
Dec. 2013
Phase 1: Awareness Phase
Jan. 2014
MAP Implementation (8-12 weeks before)
Jan. 2014
MAP test (Pilot Group)
April 2014
Phase 2: Transition Phase
Aug. 2014
MAP Test #1 Whole School
Oct. 2014
Phase 3: Implementation Phase
Jan. 2015
MAP Test #2 Whole School
April 2015

12. MAP: MEASURES OF
ACADEMIC PROGRESS
Created by educators for educators, MAP assessments provide detailed, actionable data
about where each child is on their unique learning path. Because student engagement is
essential to any testing experience, NWEA works with educators to create test items that
interest children and help to capture detail about what they know and what they’re ready
to learn. It’s information teachers can use in the classroom to help every child, every day.
Adapting the Test to the Student
MAP dynamically adapts to a student’s responses – as they take the test.
• Answer a question correctly and the test presents a more challenging item
• Miss a question, and MAP offers a simpler item
In this way, the test narrows in on a student’s learning level, engaging them with content
that allows them to succeed.
Available Assessments
Delivered over the web or through your local network, MAP is a complete set of
assessments aligned to national and state curricula and standards:
• MAP: Reading, mathematics and language
• MAP for Primary Grades: Reading and mathematics
• Science Assessment: General science

13. Phase 1: Awareness
January
Introduction : meetings, standards inside
Rubicon, MAP test implementation
March
Planning: standards match with Maps,
workshops
April
Collaborations: Pilot MAP test, meetings
analyzing results *Head Teachers
May-June
Final Reflection Phase 1

14. Phase 2: Transition
August
Resources: meetings, workshops how to plan using
Standards *Lesson Plans at Rubicon
August
Assessments: meetings and workshops How to Assess
using Standards * Assessments at Rubicon and
PowerSchool
September
Learning: Meetings analyzing results (teaching to the
standards) *Head Teachers
October
MAP testing whole school * meetings analyzing results
*Head Teachers
December
Final Reflection Phase 2

15. Phase 3: Implementation
January
Fully Aligned Curriculum revision: Rubicon
Atlas
January
Instruction and Assessment revision: visits to
the classrooms, mettings to analyze
assessments
April
MAP testing whole school * meetings
analyzing results *Head Teachers
June
Final Reflection Phase 3