A Message from the School Principal
It is with great pleasure that we welcome you to the website of LWIS-Universal School of Lebanon (LWIS-USL). Should you choose our school for your children’s education, we will do our best to assist you and your children to settle quickly into our community. At our school we strive for partnership between staff, students and parents in an inclusive environment that values education.
In April 2009, LWIS-USL received official accreditation by the New England Association of schools and Colleges (NEASC) with outstanding commendations. The Visiting Team’s observation states that LWIS- USL as a “robust and enthusiastic school community” that is “highly focused on student learning”, which is guided by “visionary, skillful and distributed leadership”, and whose “teachers educate students to be critical thinkers and lifelong learners” and “students in all grade levels are fully engaged in lessons and are active participants in learning activities.”
LWIS-USL is part of the Learner’s World International Schools (LWIS) Network that was founded in 1997. The school is situated in the village of Bterram on the outskirts of the city of Tripoli. It is surrounded by olive trees, hills, valleys and mountains in a healthy, pollution –free environment.
We are committed to developing the abilities of all of our students, honoring their different learning style, individual differences, and cultural backgrounds in order to ensure a personalized educational service.
At LWIS-USL “We Measure Success One Happy Learner at a Time”!
With warm regards,
Amal Farhat
School Principal
Governance Systems
The Board of Trustees’ responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Being responsible for the institution and its purpose as a whole, and not for the separate constituencies.
Planning, developing and establishing policies.
Setting the policy of the financial condition of the school, approving budgets and monitoring them (checks and balances).
Ensuring that the physical plant of the school serves the purpose of the school.
Organizing and managing itself to fulfill its duties with bylaws, policies and procedures.
Contracting, if and when needed, educational or other consultants to oversee the school’s development, advising on the hiring criteria for the School Principal, assisting in recruitment and training, and developing the school’s improvement plans in line with the school’s purpose and direction.
Appointing the School Principal and the School Auditor.
How is the Board of Trustees appointed?
LWIS Board of Trustees is appointed by Al-Surat Educational Corporation LLC. The Board composition much include experts in education, business and public relations, with a total of 7 members. The Chairman of Al-Surat Educational Corporation LLC is required to be on the board and serves as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees. The Chairman of the LWIS Network and Director General of the international consultancy firm School Development Consultants (SDC) SAL Offshore serves as the Vice Chairman and Head of the Board’s Education Community. The Board is appointed for a 4-year term, which can be indefinitely renewed.
Current Board of Trustee Members
Mr. Shukri Husni
Chairperson – Education Committee
Mr. Rafael Khlat
Vice-Chair – Finance Committee
Dr. Nabil Husni
Member – Education Committee
Mrs. Rose El Kareh
Secretary – Education Committee
Ms. Roula Rustom
Member – Education Committee
Mr. Sleiman Nasr
Treasurer – Finance Committee
Mr. Theodore Matta
Member – Legal Council
The School Principal
Mrs. Farhat El-Hassan holds a degree in Early Childhood Education from the Grant MacEwan College, Canada. After working a few years in Edmonton, she moved to the north of Lebanon where she got actively involved in creating a Preschool program in all its aspects for a local school in the area.
In 1999, Mrs. Farhat El-Hassan was invited to join a team of dynamic educators at School Development Consultants (SDC), whose goal was to implement educational standards following the framework for 21st century learning. Mrs. Farhat El-Hassan was recruited as an SDC consultant and trainer for various schools across Lebanon and the Arab world. Her tasks included conducting needs assessments, developing school improvement plans through strategic and annual action plans, designing and delivering training programs/in set workshops for school improvement planning as well as Early Childhood Education.
From 2001 to 2003, she headed the Preschool and Elementary Sections at LWIS-USL, and continued to be the main source of educational planning for Preschool for all Learner’s World International Schools. Since 2003, Mrs. Farhat El-Hassan has been the Principal at LWIS-USL. Since most of the SDC schools have been accredited by NEASC/AdvancEd and other agencies that conduct inspection within their respective countries, Mrs. Farhat El-Hassan has had the privilege to be chosen to serve as a peer evaluator on a number of accreditation visiting teams in different countries.