{"id":4762,"date":"2023-08-10T00:45:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T18:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banglapratidin24.com\/?p=4762"},"modified":"2023-08-10T00:45:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T18:45:01","slug":"international-school-dhaka-appoints-calland-scoble-as-new-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banglapratidin24.com\/international-school-dhaka-appoints-calland-scoble-as-new-director\/","title":{"rendered":"International School Dhaka\u00a0appoints Calland-Scoble as new director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Staff Reporter, Dhaka : <\/strong>International School Dhaka (ISD) has appointed educational leader Steve Calland-Scoble as its new director.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Calland-Scoble brings a wealth of leadership and teaching experience across Europe and the Middle East to the role. He joins ISD at an exciting time, as the prestigious school is about to launch its new strategy, with an investment in campus facilities, and educational sporting partnerships that are unique to Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p>An advocate for supporting learning differences and promoting learners\u2019 wellbeing, the new educator believes in putting students at the heart of a school\u2019s approach to teaching and learning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am delighted to be in Bangladesh and\u00a0proud to join ISD as we make a step-change to transform the landscape of international education in Dhaka through our new strategy. This opens up a world of wonderful opportunities for our whole community \u2013 our students, educators, parents and people locally \u2013 to engage with exciting international partnerships in our world-class facilities,\u201d Steve commented.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is testament to the commitment of all our staff who passionately believe in the potential and possibilities for our students and continue to push boundaries to enable these world-class experiences to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These opportunities include an academic partnership with a world-leading robotics programme from Carnegie Mellon University. Also, in a first for Bangladesh, ISD has confirmed partnerships with Barcelona Soccer School and the Rohit Sharma Cricket Academy.<\/p>\n<p>ISD was the first school in Dhaka to offer the world-renowned International Baccalaureate (IB) curricula for all students, from 2-18. Many of its graduates go on to study at leading universities in the US and around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Manas Singh, CEO, STS Group, said: \u201cISD is in excellent hands with Steve\u2019s appointment. His dedication, care, passion and expertise perfectly places him to lead the school at an important and ambitious period of its development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Originally from the UK, Mr Calland-Scoble holds a BSc (Hons) degree in Geography from London School of Economics, an MA in International Education from Oxford Brookes University, and\u00a0a teaching qualification from University College London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter, Dhaka : International School Dhaka (ISD) has appointed educational leader Steve Calland-Scoble as its new director. Mr Calland-Scoble brings a wealth of leadership and teaching experience across Europe and the Middle East to the role. He joins ISD at an exciting time, as the prestigious school is about to launch its new strategy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,18,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banglapratidin24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banglapratidin24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banglapratidin24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banglapratidin24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banglapratidin24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/banglapratidin24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4764,"href":"https:\/\/banglapratidin24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762\/revisions\/4764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banglapratidin24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banglapratidin24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banglapratidin24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banglapratidin24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}