A deeper look into the International Studies & Two- Way Immersion Program at ISB:

• Non-French speakers are enrolled in our International Studies Track. Instead of taking Advanced French, they take French 1-3 based on their level.  Once they master French Level 3, they are able to transfer if they wish to the two-way immersion track.

• Students in the International Studies Track can choose to graduate with a regular high school diploma and/or the IB diploma providing they pass the IB exam.

• Students in the two-way immersion track can choose to graduate with a regular high school diploma, the IB diploma providing they pass the IB exam, the French/American diploma or the French diploma.

• We strongly recommend the non-French speakers to take after school classes* Math and Social Science in English until they have a great command of the French Language to advance in the program.  These after school classes will be offered on campus from 3:30-4:30 Monday -Thursday or can be offered independently based on students’ needs.

* The French/American diploma referred as “Bac Franco-Americain” has been approved by the College Board and we are now waiting for approval from the French Ministry of Education.  Our students in the two-way immersion track will have the option to choose this diploma.    

* For the year 2007-2008, Math is offered in French and 2 hours of the 5 hours of instructions in Social Science are offered in French.  Once we have a large amount of students, the goal is to offer Math and Social Science classes independently in French and English for the year 2008-2009.  Students will then choose which language they want to take these classes or will be assigned to these classes depending on their fluency in French or English.