Mission, Vision and Values

Our drive to instill bold curiosity and diligent effort is the hallmark of American International School. Our coursework, from Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 12, provides meaningful and challenging opportunities for both individual and collective achievement. We strive to promote our students’ desire to pursue their highest potential, and to empower them with the means to achieve it. We want students to take a question that’s really compelling in the world or in their lives and have many tools with which to help them answer it.

With local and global contexts integrated into learning opportunities, American International School's students appreciate their position in a global classroom, learning the values of tolerance, open-mindedness, acceptance and respectful dialogue.

Our students are driven by their pledge to make the world a better, more peaceful place. American International School in Egypt offers a broad range of opportunities to make a meaningful impact, both locally and globally.

From the early years, curiosity and imaginative thinking are cultivated as the building blocks to innovation, and AIS West’s project-based approach encourages students to actively pursue creative solutions throughout their learning journey.

AIS West students learn how to access the psychological, social, cultural and physical resources required to sustain their wellbeing, developing their resilience and ethics, building essential life skills, and responding positively to adversity.

Students and teachers need time alone to explore their own thoughts, make their own connections, and create their own ideas. They also need to exchange their reflections with other students and with adults. We must ask our students what they believe in so they can know themselves in the world. We must give our students the tools of rigorous and passionate intellectual inquiry and self-expression so they can grow. Every aspect of AIS West encourages both children and adults to become increasingly more responsible for directing their own personal and collective learning.

Learning is embraced when it is personalized, when the learner’s interests, preferences, strengths, contributions, and prior knowledge are sufficiently honored. Dunecrest American School fosters curiosity about the world by creating learning situations that provide something important to think about, time to experiment, and time to make sense of what is observed. Learning is both a personal process of discovery and a social activity. Everyone learns both individually and as part of a group.