Annual Report - Griggs International Academy

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2018 ANNUAL REPORT

At the end of the day, as an SDA institution, committed to the mission of the church, what gives us the greatest joy and satisfaction is that the GIA High School program has proven to be an evangelistic tool in groups that are hard to reach. There are families who will not send their child to a regular Adventist school, but choose to do so because of the High School program! And that is when we have the opportunity to share not only a great academic program, but also our Christian faith.

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Summary Academic events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Community Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Intensives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Yearbook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 UN Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Affiliate Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Resources for Affiliate Administration office and others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Marketing support for affiliates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Entry adventisingment campaign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Handbooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Restricted Access Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Internal Marketing Campaigns Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Advertisement pieces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Outdoors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 E-mail marketing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Classroom ambience and decoration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Magazine Ads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Faculty and Staff ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Souvenirs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

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Academic events

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competitions, poetry shows and others, which serve not only to create a memorable event in the minds of students and community but also to accrue benefits such as: critical thinking and academic skills, mental and emotional maturity and academic achievement.

e strive to provide a rich academic and cultural experience to all students in our High School program. This includes yearly extracurricular events, such as school debates, fieldtrips, United Nations Model sessions, essay

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Community Service As a faith - affirming Christian institution, UNASP provides plenty of opportunities for our students to develop a richer perspective of the world they live in by engaging in various forms of Community Service.

Students grow in their understanding of what it means to be disciples of Christ by working in nursing homes, orphanages, health fairs, and lending a hand to the needy.

Several of our students participate in our life-changing, 2 week-long mission trips to the Amazon and other places, where they help build schools, aid in medical assistance, and teach children.

We’ve found that students benefit greatly—both academically and emotionally—from volunteering their time to make the community and world a better place.

When students get involved in community service, they not only help others — they expand their worldview, develop empathy and leadership skills, and realize how their actions can have a positive impact. They also return to the classroom realizing how what they’re learning applies to the real world, which reinvigorates their passion for learning.

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Intensives Eligible students are able to get ahead in the program by enrolling in one of our Winter or Summer Intensives. These take place either abroad (in the US or England), or at one of our SDA school campuses in Brazil.

Students work hard to complete the required 120-hour requisite to earn a High School credit, while still enjoying some time to get to know each other, and have fun as they learn.

We have successfully completed 5 different Intensive Courses with a high rate of satisfaction among students, their families and host schools.

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Yearbook Clearly, a yearbook captures memories that are the essence of High School life. However, considering yearbooks are not known in Brazilian culture, as partial requirement for their Computer class, our students had to learn that a yearbook is more than a publication that reflects the events and lives of people involved with a school during that given year. They had to learn how to produce it.

In these ways, the yearbook still fulfills some standard roles: it is a memory book, a history book, a record book, and/or a reference book. We also believe that it is a public relations tool for our school.

While a yearbook should be all of the above, we would like to add three adjectives to the list of things a yearbook should be: honest, thorough and accurate. We had the joy to have our first yearbook completely produced by students.

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UN Model During the American Government course, students participate in a United Nations model with emphasis on the role of the General Assembly or on the dynamics of its Security Council.

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Affiliate Schools

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he Griggs American High School is currently operated in 10 SDA schools in different parts of the country. Through a well-established system of academic support, constant monitoring and the strengthening of long lasting partnerships with SDA schools in the country, we are proud to say that the program has developed from a group of 25 students in 2016 to a family of 171 high schoolers, in 10 different schools, in 2018; and the growth continues due to the trust we’ve built with our solid academics, efficient support, and in our partnership with Andrews University.

Instituto Adventista Paranaense Ivatuba, PR 4 students

ColĂŠgio Curitibano Adventista Bom Retiro Curituba, PR 7 students

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Instituto Adventista de Ensino de Santa Catarina Araquari, SC 5 students

Instituto Adventista Brasil Central Abadiânia, GO 18 students

Colégio Unasp Hortolândia Hortolândia, SP 54 students

Colégio Adventista de Americana Americana, SP 19 students

Colégio Unasp Engenheiro Coelho Engenheiro Coelho, SP 30 students

Colégio Adventista de Santo André Santo André, SP 11 students

Instituto Adventista Cruzeiro do Sul Taquara, RS 13 students

Colégio Adventista Portão Curitiba, PR 10 students

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Resources for Affiliate Administration office and others

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n order to streamline the admission process, document uploading and retrieval, and to provide customized stationary that is just a click away, affiliates can easily access all this by entering into our website’s restricted area and download and print what they need at any time.

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Our Affiliates can easily access all office and administrative material available for download through our website’s Restricted Area. (http:// www.ec.unasp.br/griggs)

Registration form

Consent form

Customized stationary in MicrosoftÂŽ Word templates

Affiliate handbook

Enrollment report

Grade report

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Marketing support for affiliates

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answer to the affiliates needs in a timesaving, cost - effective manner. School secretaries and coordinators can retrieve forms and other documents through their personal login in this restricted area as well.

We provide marketing support and consulting services to each Affiliate Unit, with graphic art varying from a single social media post, to a complete offline media campaign proposal including orientation and art for printed matter such as: posters, folders, banners, outdoors, souvenir and gift creation, room decoration, entryway projects. Also, TV insertions, website development, photography, etc. in other words an advertisement agency to their disposal.

art of what we offer as Griggs American High School is a complete Marketing and Communication support for all our affiliates. We understand the importance of maintaining a consistent visual identity throughout the network, so we provide standardized quality material to all schools in our program.

This department is prepared to serve each Affiliate unit in various areas of communication, offering customized material according to their specific marketing needs.

This is done through a specific Restricted Area within our website, especially designed to respond to school officials and administrators’ inquiries. This resource has enabled us to

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Initial advertisement campaign Entry Folder Designed to provide the Education Official or school Administrator a summarized first glance of our program and basic implementation information.

Download QR code reader and access the Company’s Folder

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Handbooks Uniform Handbook Provides information on the type of fabric, application of logos and colors.

Download the QR Code reader and access the Uniform Manual

Outdoors/Billboards Ads Campaign Administrators have in theirs hands a reference for applying the arts that are available in the website’s Restricted Area.

Download the QR Code reader and access this manual

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Potential Student Flyer Relevant information for parents and students regarding our program in a summarized way.

Download the QR code reader here to access the Marketing Material Manual

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Website The Griggs American High School website is designed to provide school officials and administrators with useful information for schools who would like to join us.

Download the QR code reader here to access our website

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Restricted Access Area School officials and administrators have exclusive access to the following material: Varied documents such as customized Registration Forms, Consent forms, Contract, Permission slips, etc.

Internal Marketing Campaigns Communication High School Implementation Time Line detailing what needs to happen and when, for successful implementation during the months previous to the First Day of school, along with all the documents and marketing materials needed.

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Advertisement pieces Exclusive access to our affiliates: available for download in our website’s restricted area, marketing pieces with customized graphic art.

Outdoors

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Folder

Download the QR code reader here to access the Welcome Folder

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Banners

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Posters

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E-mail marketing

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Customized classroom ambience and decoration

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Magazine Ads

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Faculty and Staff ID

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Student uniforms

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Teacher uniforms

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Souvenirs An array of customized souvenir products help to strengthen our much valued client-customer relationship, and also serves as key element in advertising the brand and program.

Mugs

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Promotional T-shirts

Notebooks

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Sweatshirts

Water bottles

ec.unasp.br/griggs