2024-2025 ACADEMIC YEAR
SUSTAINABILITY YEAR AT HISAR SCHOOL
We are raising individuals who are inquisitive, confident, ethical, and highly aware with the country’s leading academic staff.
Together with our 1,329 graduates and 1,667 students, we are working to build a sustainable future.
Information Strategies Center
As Information Strategies Center, we continue our efforts to ensure that information and communication technologies are included as a natural part of the education process.
Writing Center
In Writing Center, there is a friendly and comfortable environment where visitors are interested in their author identities and talked about writing. Educators aim to help develop ideas and express them in the most clear and effective way possible.
Innovation Center
Innovation Center is designed as an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary platform to teach and learn with STEAM-oriented programs that support interaction with the technology community and the effort to achieve excellence in K-12 education.
University Counseling and Career Center
In our Career Center in accordance with the mission and vision definition of Hisar School, our primary goal is to guide and support our students in course selection, career orientation, university preparation-application and selection processes.
Fab Academy
We are proud to announce that Hisar School has become the first and only Fab Academy Node in Turkey, and the second at the K-12 level worldwide, as a testament to our ongoing commitment to excellence in computer science education.
Professional Learning Center
It is the first and only ESO (Educational Service Organization) accredited by NEASC in Türkiye.
PÖMER provides a system of innovative, creative, participatory opportunities and research environments by offering professional learning programs on national and international platforms that will support and develop the knowledge and skills of all School staff.
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The Sustainable Roundtable Meetings
The first of the Sustainable Roundtable Meetings, jointly initiated by Özge Aydemir Kaya from our school and Brandon Van Bibber from Robert College, was held on Saturday, May 3, 2025, at Robert College with the participation of 10 different schools from Istanbul. During the meeting, participants shared their work on sustainability in education in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and discussed opportunities for collaboration. Our school was represented by Middle School Vice Principal Nihan Şehsuvaroğlu and Innovation Center Coordinator Utku Öztekin. The event also featured Permatürk Chairman Taner Aksel as the guest speaker.
Learning Together Training Series
In line with our goal of further strengthening professional learning communities, we have continued our Learning Together training series for the past four years. Over the first three years, 29 sessions were delivered with the voluntary contributions of 46 educators, reaching more than 500 teachers from various regions of Türkiye. Now in its fourth year, the program brought together 169 educators from across the country. We extend our sincere thanks to the 13 teachers who generously shared their time and expertise through the following sessions:
- Adult-Child Interaction in Early Years Classrooms: Tuğba Ucuzcu
- Artificial Intelligence for Educators: Dilara Vardar
- Creative Thinking and Creative Classrooms: Funda Belsu
- Creative Writing for Children – Magic Pens: Derya İlhan
- Designing Learning Plans with AI Support: Emine Sürmeli Engin
- Education for Sustainability – A Whole School Approach: Utku Öztekin
- Empowered Classrooms and Instructional Decision-Making: Nilüfer Çağın
- Material Development: Merve Vural
- Negotiation for Educators: Barış Has, Sezin Fins
- Nonviolent Communication: Banu Aldemir
- Philosophy for Children (P4C): Can Yasa
- Sustainability Policy and Governance – A School Case: Utku Öztekin
- Universal Design for Learning (UDL): Nilüfer Çağın
- What is Creative Drama?: Nebi Aydın
Our High School Administrators Presented at the EdCrunch Academy Educational Leadership Conference
Our High School Principal Okan Uzelli and Assistant Principal Göker Avcı attended the EdCrunch Academy Educational Leadership Conference held in Atyrau, Kazakhstan, from April 15–19, 2025, as invited speakers.
At this international conference—which aims to support the professional development of educational administrators and brings together school leaders from various educational institutions across Central Asia—our administrators conducted a workshop titled “Instructional Supervision.”
The workshop covered topics such as structured observation processes supporting teachers’ professional growth, feedback culture, criteria for assessing classroom instructional quality, strategies to enhance collaboration among colleagues, and guidance approaches for identifying areas open to improvement.
ECIS 2025 Leadership Conference
At the ECIS (European Council of International Schools) Conference—held under the theme “Human Flourishing” and hosted by the International School of Stuttgart in celebration of ECIS’s 60th anniversary—our Deputy General Director, Gülçin Cırık Doğramacı, and our Information Technology Strategies Center Coordinator, Dilara Vardar, led a session titled “Empowering Teachers with AI: Crafting AI Policies and Enhancing Efficiency in the Classroom.”
In this session, they shared Hisar School’s practices on developing policies to support the effective use of AI in the classroom, fostering professional development for teachers, and enhancing the efficiency of teaching and learning processes.
6th-grade English Classes’ Performances on Poetry
As the culminating assignment of 6th grade’s unit on poetry, the students chose, analysed and choreographed small group recitals of two poems of their choosing. They thoroughly entertained and entranced their peer audience in KSM hall, reflecting both the depth of their understanding of poetry as well as a solid awareness of presentation and performance skills.
Great Success in the UK British Biology Olympiad
We are proud to announce the success of our high school students in the UK British Biology Olympiad exam.
Competing with students from around the world, our students achieved significant rankings.
Silver Medal – Berk K., Ela Doruk K.
Bronze Medal – Dila B., İrem K.
Highly Commended – Ece A., Efe Emre A.
Commended – Su K., Han F., Demir A.
Participation – Çisem Duru G., Allegra Dora A., Lea F., Elis K., Leyla M., Selim K., Oria A., Selen B., Ada Ö.
We congratulate all our students and the teachers who contributed to their success.
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