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Board Chair’s Introduction
Sridhar Venkatesh Board Chairperson
Dear AISC Community,
On behalf of the Board of Directors, I welcome you to AISConnect!
It has been a pleasure for me to serve as the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the American International School Chennai during the 2022-2023 School Year. I’d like to extend my appreciation to our inspiring leadership team, faculty and staff for successfully starting a new school year fully in-person for all students after a gap of two years and for ending it on a high note as well.
The Board of Directors would also like to thank our students and parents for being adaptable, resilient and courageous during times of uncertainty. We have been through so many challenges together over the last couple of years, and it is gratifying to see us back together now, flourishing as a community.
The role of the Board of Directors is to safeguard the school’s Mission by engaging in significant strategic issues relevant to the long-term well-being of the school. As a group empowered with the stewardship of the school, the annual and monthly work of the Board is highly relevant and meaningful to our current and future students, faculty, staff, and parents.
This school year, besides our fiscal and regulatory priorities, the Board focused on successfully transitioning the new Head of School for 2023-2024. The Board formed a Transition Committee that worked closely with Ms. Joelle Basnight to build a three-year transition plan and executed fruitful Fall and Spring transition visits.
On behalf of the Board, I would like to extend my appreciation to our Head of School, Ms. Joelle Basnight for her steady and thoughtful leadership and for her many unseen efforts to pave the way for our incoming Head of School, Ms. Leigh Fitzgerald. Thank you, Joelle, for your stewardship as we continue to meet important mission-aligned priorities and complete this transition year successfully.
To our AISC Community — thank you once again for an amazing school year, and I look forward to future successes with our diverse and engaged community.
