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Market Expansion Webinar Series: Part 4 International School
November 10, 2022 | 4 PM (in English)
November 17, 2022 | 4 PM (in Japanese)
In November 2023, FSA, Tricor Japan, the eduJUMP! Editorial Department, and the International School Times Editorial Department held a joint webinar regarding international schools and boarding schools in Japan. The article below, written by the eduJUMP! Editorial Department, provides an overview of the contents of the webinar.
1. The Appeal of the International Baccalaureate
Speaker
Mr. Paul Fradale
Aoba Japan International School Hikarigaoka Campus, Head
Mr. Fradale has been an educator for 31 years and has worked in both state and private schools in Hawai’i and Japan. He is currently the Head of Hikarigaoka Campus for Aoba-Japan International School, an IB World School with over 700 students. A former lecturer for International Christian University, he has published several peer-reviewed journal articles, a book with Routledge released in 2021, and is completing his doctoral thesis, all on Blended Learning. Paul is an expatriate American; he has lived in Japan for 21 years and is now a permanent resident. In his spare time he is renovating a 132 year old farmhouse in rural Japan with his wife, also an expatriate American, and their story has been covered by CNN.
2. What is the Appeal of the Cambridge International Curriculum?
Speaker
Mr. Stephen Bailey
Principal, Laurus International School of Science
Mr. Bailey comes from a family of teachers and was educated in Canada, the United Kingdom, and The Republic of Ireland. He has a passion for education, business, and science and took those passions to Laurus International School of Science in Tokyo where he has been both a teacher, curriculum coordinator and recently the Principal, over the past two years.
Apart from his position at Laurus, Mr. Bailey owns several companies that operate around the world. This business acumen serves his position at Laurus by bringing real-world business experience to the classroom. Mr. Bailey upholds the Laurus mission statement of “creating innovators to change the world for the better.” Creating these innovators and entrepreneurs is what drives us to do our best every day.
3. How to Choose a Best Fit School
Let’s take a general look at what kind of international schools and boarding schools exist in Japan and where they are located.
Speaker
Michio Montgomery
The Representative Director & CEO of Global Step Academy Group
Mr. Montgomery currently is the Representative Director & CEO of Global Step Academy Group, an international education-focused company that provides international education services, both online and offline, for students around the world.
He was also the former Representative Director & CEO of ABC Cooking Studio, the largest cooking school business in Japan and one of the largest in the world. He left after the sale of the company to NTT Docomo in January 2014. Before that, he was an M&A associate at Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML). He supported the team in numerous billion-dollar domestic and cross-border M&A deals. He graduated from Babson College with a BA in business administration with a concentration in Entrepreneurship and Economics.
The webinar is available on YouTube, linked below, for those who would like to watch it.
Webinar Recording (in Japanese)
Webinar Recording (in English)
Also, the eduJUMP! Editorial Department has compiled and provided a list of major international and boarding schools in Japan (current as of November 2022). Please feel free to use this list as a reference.