International Baccalaureate

Riffenburgh will begin implementing aspects of the IB program throughout the 2010-11 school year so that our current students can benefit right away from this integrated approach that helps students to make connections across curriculum areas. With the backing of Riffenburgh’s SIT and PTO, IB training was completed this summer by the principal and a 1st and 2nd grade teacher.

We have plans to complete IB training of one teacher at each grade level by the end of the fall of 2010 to have IB experience and perspective as teachers begin to develop planners for implementation in Kindergarten through fifth grades. In addition, weekly Spanish language classes are included in each grade level, thus addressing the IB expectation that all schools offer foreign language instruction.