About Us

 

GWA inspires students to become
multilingual, lifelong learners who pursue excellence,
model integrity, and honor cultural diversity.
We educate the whole person by
equipping minds and building character,
empowering students to
serve Morocco and the global community
with wisdom and compassion.

 

School systems are composed of many different parts that seem at first to be unrelated. In schools, systems thinking is the idea that:  

1) You need to change the whole structure of the system to see change. 

2) Schools have systems of feedback loops (cause and effect) that need to be addressed for change to happen.

3) When you change a system, it has long-term impacts that are hard to see at first. 

4) You have to change ideas to change systems.

For example, this means that if we have a learning problem, we must change the whole system, address the cause and effects, try to improve the speed of the impact, and work to change minds before you can see true change.  Finally, we focus on being innovative in our learning so that our students are ready for their future and so they can make a difference in our shared future.
 

Design thinking is a process used to solve authentic challenges through a process of inquiry. The five steps of design thinking are:

1) understanding the issue

2) defining the problem

3) get input to better understand the issue

4) prototype (look at models and check with feedback) 

5) test the model or action to see if it works

Sustainability is the broad idea that we need to take particular actions to preserve resources. The four types of sustainability are:

1) human 

2) social 

3) economic

4) environmental

In addition to that, we have sustainable development and education for sustainable development. Education for sustainable development is the simple idea that we provide learners with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to create a sustainable future. 
 

High quality learning has seven principles which can be loosely described as:

1) learning comes first

2) learning is social

3) how learners feel about learning has a big impact on the ability to learn

4) all learners are different

5) we should have high standards without overworking our learners

6) feedbacks helps learners learn

7) learners need to understand how learning is connected.

Innovative learning looks at how we innovate our approaches with regard to our learners, our teachers, our content, and with our resources.  It focuses on leadership and partnerships with families as well as other institutions. 

 

GWA Core Values

Character – We believe in modeling habits of integrity, honor, and respect and encouraging service as a means to improve our world.

Excellence – We strive as a learning community to achieve high standards through hard work and critical thinking.

Language – We believe that multilingual graduates are best prepared to study and work in a global environment.

American Approach – We provide a quality education using a rigorous American core curriculum including instruction in the arts, athletics, and technology, preparing well-rounded students for success in the global community.

Innovation – We believe that the ability to learn new things is a fundamental skill for the 21st century allowing us to embrace change, move forward, and develop graduates who innovate.