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Bosnia And Herzegovina, Sarajevo
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The counseling program is student-centered, outcomes-oriented, and collaborative, delivering a developmentally and culturally appropriate program. School counselors help students from Pre-K through secondary develop academic and social-emotional skills to be successful learners and friends. The program focuses on four domain areas: Academic Development, Post-secondary Awareness, Social/Emotional Development, and Global Perspective. Counseling services are delivered through four components: Individual Student Planning, System Support, Guidance Curriculum, and Responsive Services. The program fosters social skills, emotional regulation, collaboration, and time-management and study skills.
The Empower curriculum provides a positive, safe, and supportive environment and is inclusive regardless of disability.
The EMPOWER curriculum integrates social-emotional learning (SEL) and child protection to support mental wellbeing. It aligns with CASEL, ISCA, AISA standards, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), and ICMEC best practices for child protection. Content is delivered through a weekly EMPOWER class period each year, with age-appropriate lessons across grade levels. The program aims to equip students with lifelong skills for wellbeing and resilience.
QSI follows the CEESA Safeguarding and Child Protection Statement and Commitments, prioritizing safeguarding and cooperating with international agencies to regularly review and apply standards. Safeguarding and Child Protection policies include regular onsite training and safe recruitment practices, with education for students and adults on safeguarding. The Child Safeguarding and Protection Program establishes a handbook, guidelines for reporting concerns, a school-based Child Protection Team, and procedures for field trips and for preventing peer-on-peer abuse. Child protection instruction teaches students about their right to be safe, how to identify trusted adults, and to talk to a helper when they do not feel safe.
QSI International School of Sarajevo offers a bespoke curriculum with AP options for students aged 3 to 18. The QSI Program uses Mastery Learning with exit outcomes: Success Orientations, Knowledge, Competencies; treating time as a resource and reteaching to ensure mastery. The curriculum aligns to US standards (Common Core, NGSS, NCTM, NCSS) to prepare students for university. AP courses include Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science Principles, French Language and Culture, German Language and Culture, English Language and Composition, Human Geography, Research, Seminar, Statistics, and World History; the AP Capstone Diploma is available, with AP via QSI Virtual School. Languages offered are Bosnian, French, and German. The Alipasina Street 41 campus spans 4,000 square meters with 22 classrooms, a gym, science labs, a library of 16,000 books, Maker Space, a recording studio, an auditorium, and kitchen/cafeteria. After-school programs include CEESA sports and activities, Lego League Robotics, Mathematics Club, Model United Nations, and arts offerings.
