KEIS uses its specially-made planning tools to consolidate your shipments for the fastest, most economical delivery, navigating complex customs requirements and paperwork. KEIS’s unique systems and human-oversight allows you to track your orders, address vendor backorders, and follow up to ensure a 72 complete and on-time delivery of your shipment. Procure School Supplies at a Savings from A-Z, we can source school equipment and classroom supplies based on your international school’s needs. Take a look at just some of the areas we can help you with your school supply list:
• Playground Equipment From play systems, to slides and swings, and even playground balls, you can keep your students active.
• Technology & Digital Equipment from laptops and tablets to scientific calculators and digital cameras, you can support innovation and inquiry.
• Musical Instruments From band instruments to orchestra instruments, including recorders, percussion sets, violins, trumpets, cellos, and everything to create a full musical ensemble.
• Textbooks from textbooks to libraries, you can outfit the school for reading minds. • Science Laboratory Equipment From beakers and test tubes, to microscopes, safety equipment and measurement devices, the list covers the progressive materials needed for inquiry-based classrooms from K12- levels.
• Furniture From desks to lab benches, to even boarding school dorm room supplies, we have full furniture to support 21st century education design.
• Sports Equipment & Uniforms From soccer balls and cleats to swimsuits and goggles, plus basketballs, cricket bat, volleyballs and an array of sports equipment to support all levels of physical education programs and sports teams.
• Art Supplies From painting and sculpting, to general art supplies, you can spark creativity and even outfit maker spaces.
• General Stationery & Supplies Outfit a classroom to ensure daily pencils, crayons, notebooks and more are on hand to help learners. And More From lockers to risers to bleachers we can help you with custom items to finish a space, whether you are embarking on a new building project or replacing old items.
We can also help with building and maintenance materials and new campus furniture and fixtures. It’s Easy to Place Your Order Ordering Supplies via A KEIS Representative You can use the KEIS Purchase Order Template to order from any vendor. 73 The simple form allows you to choose vendor, item, and quantity as well as assign a unique Purchase Order number to help with delivery and distribution. Your KEIS Representative will guide you through the order process.
Ordering School Specialty Items KEIS developed a deep relationship with School Specialty as a result of our high-volume ordering. These savings are directly passed along to you for thousands of items. To streamline your shopping, you can go directly to the School Specialty/KEIS Portal for many different K12- school supplies. Create your order directly through the portal and skip the step of submitting a Purchase Order on the KEIS template.
As an added benefit, you can create an account with multi-level approval capabilities at your school. That means your teachers can enter their own orders using the portal and the designated supervisor at your school can simply approve. Ordering supplies for schools has never been easier! Teacher recruitment NEW! The revolutionary, smart recruiting experience for international education where you see and share what really matters. Built on the latest technologies to deliver high impact, easy-to-access results for international school recruiters and job-seeking candidates, here to meet today’s needs and to keep listening and growing for the future.
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• Streamline Accounting & Finance Functions Reduce the complexity of your international school’s accounting and finance operations. Your school’s business office works incredibly hard backstage to keep the school’s finances running smoothly. As a school already balancing overseas staff and vendors, find support coordinating your international finances with the help of our trained accounting staff. Having to manage payroll, financial transactions, and capital projects with a blend of local and global staff in an international school setting is complex. Our trained accounting staff can alleviate local pressure while providing cost-effective processes, streamlining procedures, and recommendations to maximize your overall budget. KEIS can help you operate global transactions with the ease of US-centric accounting processes and management, oversee critical capital projects, safeguard proper donation documents, reduce unnecessary expenditures, and enhance your school’s overall financial management.
Our strategy is driven by the goal of seeing every school’s time, resources, and revenue having the biggest possible impact in their student’s lives.
• Added Payroll and Accounts Payable Support KEIS can conduct your entire payroll processing function, including safe and reliable US-based Direct Deposit payroll processing, as well as local payments, reducing your bookkeeping time. KEIS can globally execute your vendor payments, minimizing significant processing time by staff or local providers; and also conduct routine audit and monitoring functions, reviewing your accounts daily to keep information real time and helping to prevent fraudulent activities. KEIS can process and receipt all donations for your capital fundraising campaign, reducing paperwork and giving you assurance that you are in full regulatory compliance.
Through KEIS you get access to reduced fees, bundled pricing and improved technology, so your school eliminates individualized expenses that quickly add up
. • Train Your Leadership The school leaders and Board of Directors play a critical role in a school’s success and relationship with the entire school community. KEIS’s certified trainers offer governance seminars as well as services to support leadership transition and policy development through customized, interactive workshops. We help you:
• Create efficient governance structures, including clear roles and responsibilities for fiduciary, strategic and generative roles • Make a smooth transition into new administrations
• Understand best practices and develop action plans to adopt
• Develop institutional policy • Enhance school development in areas such as long term planning, fiscal policy, endowments, strategic planning, and more.
• Supplying a School Increase the happiness factor of every supply order for your international school with top-quality K12- school supplies from around the globe. There’s a fresh joy in receiving a delivery of new school equipment and supplies. But ordering these high quality materials can be another story, since navigating customs and juggling vendors is no easy task for any 13 monitoring functions, reviewing your accounts daily to keep information real time and helping to prevent fraudulent activities. KEIS can process and receipt all donations for your capital fundraising campaign, reducing paperwork and giving you assurance that you are in full regulatory compliance. Through KEIS you get access to reduced fees, bundled pricing and improved technology, so your school eliminates individualized expenses that quickly add up
. • Train Your Leadership The school leaders and Board of Directors play a critical role in a school’s success and relationship with the entire school community. KEIS’s certified trainers offer governance seminars as well as services to support leadership transition and policy development through customized, interactive workshops. We help you
: • Create efficient governance structures, including clear roles and responsibilities for fiduciary, strategic and generative roles
• Make a smooth transition into new administrations
• Understand best practices and develop action plans to adopt • Develop institutional policy
• Enhance school development in areas such as long-term planning, fiscal policy, endowments, strategic planning, and more.
• Supplying a School Increase the happiness factor of every supply order for your international school with top-quality K-12 school supplies from around the globe. There’s a fresh joy in receiving a delivery of new school equipment and supplies. But ordering these high-quality materials can be another story, since navigating customs and juggling vendors is no easy task for any international institution.
Our School Supply team can help streamline your purchasing, save money, and equip your school with hassle-free and happily-delivered resources every academic year. Createdwith76 international institution. Our School Supply team can help streamline your purchasing, save money, and equip your school with hassle-free and happily-delivered resources every academic year.
By working with KEIS School Supply, you can dramatically streamline the process and reduce your staff ’s purchasing and accounting workload. We’re here to help simplify your purchasing, save money, and equip your teachers and students with the resources they need to succeed every day in their classrooms and other learning spaces.
Leadership Searches KEIS has a deep and long-standing commitment to the international community. We work with many schools across our suite of services and interact with tens of thousands of educators and school leaders each year. We are active and constantly involved in helping schools grow. Our Administrative Search team has conducted more than 1,000 leadership searches across 6 continents and is focused on creating positive, productive collaborations between schools and leaders.
The multidisciplinary team of former heads of school and industry recruitment professionals enables us to create effective, efficient and successful leadership searches for all involved, anchored in intercultural competency, deep understanding of international schools today, a commitment to diversity, and an emphasis on professional outcomes.
We have helped fill school administrator vacancies on six continents. Whether the school is located in North America, Europe, Asia, or any other corner of the world, we can help search committees and prospective candidates come together to successfully fill the next Head of School, Principal, or other School Administrator position! By working with KEIS School Supply, you can dramatically streamline the process and reduce your staff’s purchasing and accounting workload. We’re here to help simplify your purchasing, save money, and equip your teachers and students with the resources they need to succeed every day in their classrooms and other learning spaces.
• What is meant by the term ‘curriculum framework’ and how do you create a good one?
The term curriculum framework or progression model (both terms can be used interchangeably) provides the underlying structure of your whole school curriculum. It is a model that sets out the learning journey, from the start point to the end point, for each primary curriculum subject and the curriculum as a whole. KEIS helping you to implement an ambitious curriculum that’s right for your school. How to build an effective primary curriculum framework
• Why do primary schools need a curriculum framework?
In the not-so-distant past in nearly all primary schools, children’s progress was measured using levels, then age-related expectations or other arbitrary measures put in place by local authorities. The goal was to show the ‘expected progresses of every child and group of children, no matter how small or statistically meaningless.
To summarize, expected progress does not exist. Progress is not linear but is multi-faceted. Using the curriculum as a progression model simply means that we judge progress based on how much the children have learned of the curriculum. The more carefully we have specified what we intend to teach, the more easily we can assess whether children have learned it. The more carefully we have specified what we intend to teach, the more easily we can assess whether children have learned it.
How to write your curriculum framework
Knowing what a good curriculum framework looks like is one thing. Creating one that works is another. If this is a task that you are preparing to undertake, you should know that it will require lots of patience (as KEIS helping you to implement an ambitious curriculum that’s right for your school. How to build an effective primary curriculum framework • What is meant by the term ‘curriculum framework’ and how do you create a good one? The term curriculum framework or progression model (both terms can be used interchangeably) provides the underlying structure of your whole school curriculum. It is a model that sets out the learning journey, from the start point to the end point, for each primary curriculum subject and the curriculum as a whole. • Why do primary schools need a curriculum framework? In the not-so-distant past in nearly all primary schools, children’s progress was measured using levels, then age-related expectations or other arbitrary measures put in place by local authorities. The goal was to show the ‘expected progresses of every child and group of children, no matter how small or statistically meaningless. To summarise, expected progress does not exist. Progress is not linear but is multi-faceted. Using the curriculum as a progression model simply means that we judge progress based on how much the children have learned of the curriculum. The more carefully we have fdhdhhlhhhldh78 you try different combinations) and, as I mentioned earlier, excellent subject knowledge. It is also crucial that, as a curriculum leader, you don’t work in isolation. Working in isolation often leads to subject progression frameworks being written in silos, an inconsistency in style, and major disconnection from other curriculum subjects. In contrast, working on the framework in multi-disciplinary teams ensures you make the most of those subject interconnections. You’ll also provide a more rounded approach to children’s understanding of the key concepts set out in your curriculum. The following five simple steps, drawn from the experience of writing a curriculum framework.
• Step 1 Identify your overarching curriculum aims To know your curriculum aims, ask yourself, ‘What values do we hold dear at this school? What type of citizens do we want our children to be? What do we want them to know and appreciate about the world by the time they leave us?’ Asking these types of questions often help to clarify your overarching curriculum aims. If you’re wondering why this is important to your curriculum framework, in simple terms, establishing your overarching aims will help you shape everything else you include in your curriculum and may help you make tough decisions about what to prioritise in your curriculum framework.
• Step 2 Identify subject concepts Once you’ve established your overarching curriculum aims, subject leaders should consider how these aims are represented in their subjects. For example, let’s take the big idea of the environment. If we want children to become knowledgeable about environmental issues, we need to ensure these opportunities are prioritised within each subject discipline. Each subject leader should, therefore, set out which subject-specific concepts that link to that big idea. As this work is done, it will start to build your curriculum framework.
• Step 3 Map the programmes of study When we know how each big idea translates into subject specific concepts, we can begin to match national curriculum programmes of study to each strand. As mentioned, you’ll need a solid knowledge of the national curriculum to achieve maximum coverage and appropriate placement of specific programmes of study. In summary, you should plot the programs of study for each subject against your emerging framework.
• Step 4 Map out your progression statements When you have mapped out the programs of study as described above, the next task is to map out your progression statements. These statements should set out the smaller component parts or steppingstones that will help children to progress through the curriculum. Each strand of your progression framework should begin to build a robust and well connected learning narrative.
• Step 5 Common misconceptions about curriculum frameworks/progression models Disappointingly, too many people still believe that a curriculum framework should be a list of things for children to ‘do and learn’ that can be ticked off. There are many issues with the tick list approach to the curriculum framework. The first is that if a framework has thousands of very detailed objectives, there simply won’t be enough curriculum time to teach them. Having a list of very detailed smaller statements that children must ‘cover’ puts pressure on the daily timetable, teachers’ planning, and the children themselves. Giving teachers a mass of detailed statements to tick off also removes their ability to use their professional judgement in doing what is best for a child, group or cohort. By providing broader skills and knowledge statements, teachers are better placed to adapt and refine them, detailing the smaller steps an individual child or group might need to make progress.
Final word If I could give one last piece of advice about this whole process, it would be to know your school well. Know it inside out. Know it back to front. Know what your overarching curriculum aims are and how they are taught in the classroom. Make sure that every member of staff knows their part in the greater sequence of learning. Make sure that they understand how their work builds on what has gone before and prepares children for what comes next.